Hold Lombardy, form Ferrara as a Merchant Republic, and hand Spoleto today a Bishop.Īssign your chancellor to fabricate on Capua. Through landing County claimants, you should acquire enough land to form Italy. When you only need one more title to form Italy, form Ferrara and press a de jure claim for that last County. At this point, use something of your saved cash to build castles or etc to land claimants. County claimants will be your easiest source of CBs today get the 17 provinces needed to form Italy. Throughout the campaign, try to be on the lookout for County claimants. Press a de jure claim for Trent on Bavaria so that you can hold all of De jure Lombardy. Your Centralization at this point should be that you do not need to give away too many titles. Hold on to Lombardy for now grant some titles in Spoleto as needed. From here, you need only a few more holdings to form Italy, which will, in turn, let you create and press titles for dukes. Declare a war with the “press all claims” CB. If this is taking too long, try to fabricate claims on at least two County claims plus the Duchy claim. Fabricate as many claims as you can on Lombardy: fabricate on the ducal title first, then try to fabricate on as many counties as you can. Press your claim for the Ferraran County, but do not create the duchy yet. Push for Low Centralization immediately bribe the Count of Corsica and Lucca into supporting you. Otherwise, grant it to a guy with high martial. Grant the mayor of your Ferraran county the County so that you have a cash republic, and grant Modena to a County claimant for a CB if you can. After doing that, give out some holdings. Fix this by marrying a guy matrilineally who has the highest stewardship you can find. On early vassal management: You immediately start over your Demesne limit. More mercs means you can fight faster and more frequent wars, as you don’t need to wait for your levy to replenish. There is no need to form Retinues or improve your holdings yet – I didn’t improve any holdings or form retinues until forming Italy spending on Retinues or holdings means less cash for Mercenaries. You need mercenaries to reliably win wars take the Business focus while you wait for your claims to fabricate. In the mean time focus on two things: vassal management and saving money. Start fabricating a claim on another county in de jure Ferrara so that you can create the Duchy for CB later. If you have lower than 16 Diplo on your chancellor, reroll. At 1066, the opportunity to expand in the HRE exists and Tuscany is the most powerful vassal in the region. The 867 start has large dukes, but you will need to fight relatively large kings and you cannot expand within the HRE. This guide assumes you have most of the major DLCs, excluding Sons of Abraham and Charlemagne.

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