Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Manufar Richelieu ita ce "dakatar da ci gaban Spain", da kuma "kare maƙwabtanta daga zalunci na Spain". Tare da albarkatun Faransa da aka ɗaure a Italiya, ya taimaka wajen sasanta yarjejeniyar Altmark ta Satumba 1629 tsakanin Sweden da Poland, yana 'yantar da Gustavus Adolphus don shiga yaƙin. A wani bangare na fatan gaske don tallafawa 'yan uwansa na addinin Protestant, kamar Kirista shi ma ya so ya kara yawan rabonsa na kasuwancin Baltic wanda ya samar da yawancin kudin shiga na Sweden. Ta yin amfani da Stralsund a matsayin gada, a watan Yuni na shekara ta 1630 sojojin Sweden kusan 18,000 suka sauka a Daular Pomerania. A lokaci guda, Gustavus ya sanya hannu kan yarjejeniya tare da Bogislaw XIV, Duke na Pomerania, yana tabbatar da abubuwan da yake so a Pomerania a kan Katolika Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, wani abokin hamayyar Baltic da ke da alaƙa da Ferdinand ta hanyar iyali da addini. A sakamakon haka, 'yan Poland sun mai da hankalinsu ga Rasha kuma a cikin 1632 zuwa 1634
Yaƙin Smolensk.