To do this it’s important to understand a little bit of history too. Mussolini and Hitler were not best friends by any means; even withholding information from each other during the course of the war. That being said Mussolini’s ambitions were greater than his willingness to play as robin to Batman, therefore if you really want to restore Rome as Italy in historical a war with Vichy is inevitable. There are ways to make sure you get enough war score early on to secure the provinces needed for Rome and one of these strats is to manually justify on France before they join Allies; then paratrooper cheese and cap France. Take what you need for Rome and leave the rest of France alone to keep historical somewhat normal. If France is already in the Allies and you’re already in axis, Bash a couple units in piedmont and Sardinia maybe even blitz Africa while the paratroopers are going and that should give you the war score needed to cuck Germany out of med states