WI: Gustav II Adof is killed at Trzciana (1629)

IOTL, During the Polish-Swedish War of 1626-29, Swedish king Gustav II Adolf, at a battle at Trzciana or Honigsfeld, was almost killed by a Cossack cavalryman while retreating from a Polish charge. He was saved at the last moment by a Swedish officer who shot the enemy. Thus, Gustav would live to fight another day, and prove his worth in Germany some two years later.
But what if Gustav II Adolf had been killed that day?
-What are the overall effects of this on the Polish-Swedish War? Could Sigismund III finally re-stake a legitimate claim on the Swedish throne that he long desired?
-Without Swedish intervention in the Thirty Years' War, will the Habsburgs fare better, perhaps even achieving a victory?
 
IOTL, During the Polish-Swedish War of 1626-29, Swedish king Gustav II Adolf, at a battle at Trzciana or Honigsfeld, was almost killed by a Cossack cavalryman while retreating from a Polish charge. He was saved at the last moment by a Swedish officer who shot the enemy. Thus, Gustav would live to fight another day, and prove his worth in Germany some two years later.
But what if Gustav II Adolf had been killed that day?
-What are the overall effects of this on the Polish-Swedish War? Could Sigismund III finally re-stake a legitimate claim on the Swedish throne that he long desired?
-Without Swedish intervention in the Thirty Years' War, will the Habsburgs fare better, perhaps even achieving a victory?

IMO, Sigismund's chances to re-take Swedish throne had been gone long before that battle: Christina was already born and Swedes did not want him, anyway. The battle itself (won by the PLC) was of a little strategic importance: Sweden already conquered Livonia and the PLC could not take it back even while keep winning the field battles: the Swedes had been happily sitting in the fortified Livonian cities (which Poles/Lithuanians could not take) while receiving the custom dues from the Lithuanian grain being exported through these ports (you need to live somehow, war or no war :cool:).

An issue of the Swedish intervention into the 30YW even without GA is an open question: Sweden had an army and France had money. In OTL Swedes had been operating in the HRE years after GA's death so it is probably a question of a leadership but the generals in charge of the Swedish forces after GA's death proved to be quite capable to keep fighting with a reasonable success.
 
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