After reading Peter Wilson's Europe's Tragedy: The history of the 30 Years War I don't understand why Gustavus Adolphus is so respected as a general. He really won one victory, at Breitenfeld, lost at Alte Veste and got killed at Luetzen. His tactics were to repeatedly send his troops in frontal attacks on Imperials. Even among the Swedish generals, Johan Baner arguably was a better commander, who with his victories allowed the Swedes to recover after Nordlingen. Yet Gustavus is the one remembered. Is it because of the Swedish and Protestant propaganda after Breitenfeld? Or are there other reasons?