I'm about to start a game playing the Papal States and was wondering if anyone had any tip for unifying Italy under papal control? I'm not looking for how to unify, but mostly what you would suggest I do to be successful as the Papacy.
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One other thing, I'm sort of confused on. Does the Unification have to rely on France's support? I've been looking up articles and I think that it doesn't, but Its not really clear as it talks about a complex chain of events that France goes through for picking which state to chose for the unification.
So do I, or do I not need French support?
So do I, or do I not need French support?
If you are playing on vanilla Ricky, you don't need French support. My suggestion, would just be to build a few divisions and go for Tuscany and the surrounding smaller states. Even though you are in the middle, your territory is still easy to defend, and one of the unification Requirements (Naples) is just a hop skip and jump over the border. Fesibly, with the Italian alliance system in effect, if you can just get your troops to the required provinces and hold them until the end of the month, you can form Italy.
Excellent! I am playing Vanilla Ricky with the hotifxes. I was worried about the whole game relying on a single chance event. Thank you for your post.
It's a pain but it can be safest to look through the event files yourself, since people have different versions.
Apart from the conquest unification, there's a democratic one with the prereqs:
Apart from the conquest unification, there's a democratic one with the prereqs:
Code:
trigger = {
constitution = { country = LOM type = democracy }
constitution = { country = MOD type = democracy }
constitution = { country = PAP type = democracy }
constitution = { country = PAR type = democracy }
constitution = { country = SAR type = democracy }
constitution = { country = SIC type = democracy }
constitution = { country = TUS type = democracy }
constitution = { country = VEN type = democracy }
greater_prestige = { country = PAP country = SIC }
greater_prestige = { country = PAP country = SAR }
flag = { name = flg_AUSLeaveItaly value = 1 }
NOT = {
atwar = LOM
atwar = MOD
atwar = PAP
atwar = PAR
atwar = SAR
atwar = SIC
atwar = TUS
atwar = VEN
event = 253039 #Sardinia unifies if greater prestige
event = 262005 #Sicily unifies if greater prestige
}
}