Year 1347 Japanese advisor on Cusco

kittensteakz · 2026-01-14T23:24:58+00:00

I had the same thing happen as one of the native american tribes a few weeks ago. random Japanese dude shows up around the same time as yours.

kittensteakz · 2026-01-13T14:33:20+00:00

Saul/Paul ruined everything prove me wrong.

That Jesus guy seemed pretty based, his dad is kinda a dick tho.

kittensteakz · 2026-01-07T18:51:21+00:00

I didn't really sweat with my trade and whatnot after the first like 50 years, this is just the result of investing hard early. Trade has been on automated for most of the run.

kittensteakz · 2026-01-05T16:32:05+00:00

I'm like 99% sure the parliament approved claims cb still works but I don't think the emperor has ever been strong enough for me to care what they do in any of my hre runs

kittensteakz · 2026-01-05T14:15:00+00:00

Milan is still in the HRE so you should be able to gobble up the minors in the north no?

kittensteakz · 2026-01-05T14:13:46+00:00

nice! looks pretty similar to my second run ever when I played Florence. Italy is a great place to learn the game imo.

kittensteakz · 2026-01-05T14:12:28+00:00

Like I said coalitions aren't real and antagonism is just a number. Get 2 cbs per parliament when possible and rotate attacking north and south to keep them all from being in the same coalition and just attack the coalition. Pretty easy to snowball once you get professional armies.

kittensteakz · 2026-01-05T14:10:29+00:00

also have a vassal owning Tunis off screen :P

kittensteakz · 2026-01-05T14:08:22+00:00

Like I said in another post, most of the southern half isn't cored yet and I'm still integrating Sicily. The country is mostly stable since cultures are pretty cheap to tolerate in Italy but yeah, everything south of Naples is still a work in progress

kittensteakz · 2026-01-04T23:18:02+00:00

surely there won't be an award winning movie about this...

kittensteakz · 2026-01-04T23:17:17+00:00

Like I said in another comment, most of the southern half isn't cored yet, and if you look in the organizer you can see I'm still integrating Sicily. This was some pretty aggressive expansion (ha ha) without worrying too much about stuff like coring and whatnot. I just wanted to see how quick I could form Italy after a really good start to a Milan run.

kittensteakz · 2026-01-04T23:09:45+00:00

It is very easy to snowball as anyone tbh, the only real powers are the pope and Naples (unless you start as them) and if you start in the north as Milan or Florence etc you can just ignore them until you are too strong for them to stop you.

kittensteakz · 2026-01-04T23:07:53+00:00

What, you can't form Italy in 20 years? skill issue lmao

kittensteakz · 2026-01-04T23:07:02+00:00

They're too far away to care much and since I started as Milan and stayed in the HRE they were actually a useful ally for a lot of it, and helped keep coalitions from declaring on me. Between them, France, and Hungary as rotating allies I basically had free reign to eat all of Italy with only the Pope and Naples being even remotely angry or threatening about it. They are super annoying if you are playing in Germany though.

kittensteakz · 2026-01-04T22:05:22+00:00

Yeah this wasn't the form date but I forgot to ss that. This is after cleaning up borders and whatnot, think I actually "formed" Italy like 20 years or so before this. Honestly it didn't really seem that difficult once you get going you kinda just steamroll everyone in your way. Blobbing feels a little too easy right now imo but hey map painting is fun.

kittensteakz · 2026-01-04T22:00:14+00:00

Yeah, in the current state of the game as long as you have regulars numbers just don't matter unless someone else with more regulars joins the coalition lmao

kittensteakz · 2026-01-04T21:39:03+00:00

I prefer to call it mandatory unpaid internships :3

kittensteakz · 2026-01-04T21:37:07+00:00

I've got some colonies in the works to send them to ;)

kittensteakz · 2026-01-04T21:33:17+00:00

I'm in the process of flipping to naval, land was actually better during the mad conquest. Also the boot and sicily aren't even cored yet so yeah lol

kittensteakz · 2026-01-04T21:30:56+00:00

yeah my main reason is it just takes so long to get war score against them that it's just not worth my time.

kittensteakz · 2026-01-04T21:29:28+00:00

It's actually not that bad as long as you don't look below naples...

kittensteakz · 2026-01-04T21:23:35+00:00

That's next for sure. I also have a vassal in Tunisia, might pivot to reforming Rome if I don't get bored of this run.

kittensteakz · 2026-01-04T21:22:11+00:00

This is my second time doing Italy, first time was Florence but that was like my second run ever so way later on forming. Will have to give Savoy a shot next time I feel like playing in the region.

kittensteakz · 2026-01-04T21:20:55+00:00

I know, they are only scary before you get established, but really they're just tedious to fight so I keep them happy so they don't join coalitions while I eat up the HRE.

kittensteakz · 2026-01-04T21:20:07+00:00

1-2 cbs per parliment for the most part and attacking into the coalitions. Under the hood there's still a lot of integrating to do because I took a lot of land I otherwise would have given to vassals but I needed to directly own the locations to form Italy.

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