This ONE province CAN easily UNITE Italy! | EU4 Italy 2024 guide

[@MrGiamMY999]

I would recomend to form Sardinia-piedmont before italy for the 5 admin efficiency

[@lookasetbella]

I totally forgot about it! Right. Luckily I have a save before the change!

[@albertoponso5749]

I, as a Saluzzese myself (one of the last children born in Saluzzo before they mothballed the fort… ehm sorry the hospital), have just finished a Saluzzo->Sardinia-Piedmont->Italy->Rome campaign and it was crazy fun ❤❤❤

[@PandemoniumGameDev]

Would love to see this continued into a Rome run, subbed, keep up the great work!

[@CharlieKellyEsq]

Saluzzo is actually my favorite italian nation. It's just so spicy

[@rimanpele]

Meh, savoy is better. 30% improv rel + mission tree (with perma bonuses) > -15% AE impact.

[@lookasetbella]

I have campaigns where I play under Improve relations. And somehow I was slower at conquering the same things :P@@rimanpele

[@JimmyJr630]

@@rimanpeleSaluzzo has better ideas and is more fun and difficult so it’s probably a better run than savoy

[@LibertyMonk]

Improve Relations modifier is not as good as AE reduction for avoiding coalitions, because reductions stack better. Claim + prestige + Espionage + Age bonus + NIs all add up before dividing the AE. When you're at -50%, it's worth twice as much. Meanwhile, Improve Relations is a positive modifier, so it adds with other sources, then multiplies instead of dividing, and there are lots of other sources (advisor, trade nodes, prestige, NIs, etc). For a very similar reasons why siege ability is better than fort defense, AE Reduction is better than Improved Relations. The real benefit of Improve Relations is that it also impacts all the other negative opinion modifiers decay rate, like events, declared war, forced religion/vassalize/pirated etc. It's hard to hit +190 or +50 to nations that get hit by lots of crap without Improved Relations, but if it's *only* AE you care about, AE Reduction is better.

[@aio8432]

do a part 2 idc what it is conquering germany or forming the roman empire whatever u feel is the most entertaining/fun

[@lamename2010]

Province specific buffs like the unrest reduction from passing the 2nd hre reform only apply to HRE provinces. There are a bunch of other bonuses that you get over time, as you pass reforms, but that is one of the ones that I can think of the top of my head.

[@rimanpele]

3:10 The emperor don't accept to go to war with a member of the hre. You can go to war with an ally of savoy and not cobelligerate them though, this way they would help. 3:20 Gives you the province bonuses from the empire (the ones from each privilege passed by the emperor, the first one, for example, gives dev. discount) and will help the emperor to go to war with people bordering the empire borders. 9:35 Aristocrat also gives you manpower, dev reduction and buffs your cav, as well as help you siege (+1 siege to leaders). You won't have a sizeable army (low forcelimit) and having cav can counter that. This is important to fight countries like France and Ottomans, since, many times, they will try to stop you. You could go offensive and rely on mercs, if you use the codoriette gov reform, to not lose professionalism, but cav seems the most reasonable. 9:50 Yes, they do. Though the most optimal way to conquer naples as France is PUying or vassalizing provence and conquering naples as provential cores (their first mission gives all naples as cores. You could have done it as saluzzo as well, by liberating them after conquering some provinces, to keep them loyal). 15:20 Humanist + espionage is interesting, if you're not going for WC, since you wont need the CB. But I generally like the religious ideas more since you never get the dip mana penalty from conquering using deus vult. And, on top of that, Italian ideas already give +50% imp. relations, and there's no reason to keep saluzzo ideas over italian ones, you get more ccr, more manpower... Saluzzo ideas are strong but not the strongest in the game. In my last game I cored Paris for about 23 admin mana as Italy (-81% ccr)

[@lookasetbella]

Ad1. Since when has this been the case? I've played Empire dozens of times and I've never seen this modifier. I mean, it was. But he disappeared after making a territorial claim. Ad2. I see. Interesting, I always thought they already did it as soon as I belonged to the empire. Thanks Ad3. Yes i know. Nothing to ad. Ad4. I know, I didn't want to do it this way because I do it every time in my other videos :P Ad.5 I'm wondering which ideas will be better for further conquest. The problem here is not the cost ofcoring but aggressive expansion.

[@rimanpele]

@@lookasetbella 1 - IDK since when, but it appears a lot in my games. Claims stop the emperor from joining against you, but you still wont be able to call him on your side. 5- Well, in this case, religious gives more AE reduction, since it costs 75% of the usual (Only work for heretics and heathens, but considering that you'll mostly fight those on age of reformation, if you're using the -25% prov. cost thing correctly. Late game, you'll get imperialism anyways, so you could save countries with same religion to eat later - or at least after the age of reformation). -When it comes to 75% AE red., it's almost irrelevant at this point, even more while playing in Italy, because you have more expansion paths than most countries (North Africa, Germany, France, Iberia, Balkans... If you play your card right you can avoid any coalition from forming). I'd probably go for something more militaristic if it's the case (maybe -> religious -> (dip -> quantity or quantity -> dip)?). Humanist would be interesting to have less rebels and don't care about converting provinces (though it would cost you One Faith if youre going for WC), since the bigger issue with humanist is that it doesn't give you a CB, while religious and espionage, do. -It's important to remember that AE isn't the only thing that stops you from conquering; manpower, overextension and being mil tech behind, does the same. Core cost reduction, for example, also reduces core time, so youll suffer less from overextension (worst modifier in the game) and be able to keep conquering stuff.

[@MrFostarm]

@@lookasetbella i think that's kinda Mandela effect, cause i tried to find patchnote about this modifier and the only thing i found is 2015 paradox forum post explaining that. Apparently, it was always like that

[@christianwhite8877]

I think I'd have made the same choices with espionage (perhaps diplomatic because of the province war score cost) and aristocratic (they mix well and can save a decent amount of admin via claims, ultimately though it's because I'd consider being a theocracy or republic), though I'd probably have gone with admin as the third idea group

[@Vhailor_Mithras]

I like to take Administrative Ideas with Espionage. The cheaper advisor costs is nothing to sneeze at, allowing you to upgrade them to higher tiers. And the governing capacity goes without saying.

[@theaerohead]

"And only 2 duchies remain, mine, and the republic of Lucca" :quickly moves on from the despotism: 😂 Your content is great man!

[@gothia1715]

2:43 Wtf is this god general at the start of the game? Champion event?

[@lookasetbella]

Possible. I recorded it two months ago, so I don't really remember. But you can really have such a good one from the event or maybe I had mercenaries.

[@carltonleboss]

Make a second part!

[@lookasetbella]

It will be recorded, but it may take me longer to translate :p

[@enstatite2479]

Played saluzzo today as well. 2.8 ae to annex firenze. Had all of Italy by 1490.

[@lookasetbella]

Nice!

[@rasplay5761]

restart until savoy get excom, and you can do it much faster. also, as also like to play OPMs, you can become Provance very easy with Sal ideas and crazy mission tree

[@lookasetbella]

It's kind of funny to me. If it restarts on my video to show the ideal conditions. People write me in the comments noob scammer ect. However, if I do not do this, there is always an option. E you could have done it better, just restarted :D

[@rasplay5761]

@@lookasetbella it depends , this is pretty well known way for Saluzzo

[@lookasetbella]

@@rasplay5761 Yes i know it. Like Bohemia rival Austria in Polish game or France with friendly Burgundy.

[@Ale-uy4bm]

If you end owning rome you need to turn catholic back for the pro modifiers the monument guves you

[@alejochol9397]

i would recomment to form tuscany before italy for their great ideas tbh

[@cujla_b_npabge5504]

Imagine taking espionage ideas and not fabricating claims for entire states at once. Solid 10 years of gameplay experience

[@lookasetbella]

Because I forgot about it :P Let me remind you that this change has just been introduced to Espino. Previously, these ideas were mostly useless. And there was no claim on area.

[@cujla_b_npabge5504]

@@lookasetbella also I will be nerdy for a little bit more. Had you subjucated papal states, you would have got a double chances of becoming curia controller, which gives you plentyful of bonuses, - 20% is one of them. Plus due to being subject, he would have always had +200 opinion about you, because he can't turn hostile nor rival

[@sahilhossain8204]

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[@Mordacitas7]

If you’re playing as Italy, I also recommend culture swapping to Venetian after you form Sardinia Piedmont but before you become an Italian cultural union, their unique naval doctrine is pretty good 👍🏼

[@RyRy2057]

can't you form italy or some other tag and keep the saluzzo ideas? because they're great for just going crazy and without having to get huge coalitions

[@lookasetbella]

I might create some tags before forming Italy or the Roman Empire. Tuscany, Sardinia Piedmont.

[@carltonleboss]

Protestant Italy, now that's cursed

[@aegopodium13]

what is the standard trick for the mil advisor?

[@lookasetbella]

You are using up manpower. Then you have a chance to do missions in the agenda on the advisor for 50% of the military cost. Later. This mission requires 50% manpower reserves to complete. So you cancel the recruitment and get a good, cheap advisor during the pause.

[@Hatsuzu]

I prefer Monteferat since they they a funny idea that allows them to restore the Eastern Roman Empire

[@lookasetbella]

Ok, i checked it and they are quite amazing for conquest.

[@Hatsuzu]

@@lookasetbella their last idea lets them just form Byzantium,Aka Eastern Rome, which is dope AF, and their dynasty is even the same

[@hagymascsiposgyros5780]

omg, florius reference ?

[@lookasetbella]

????

[@Robert-xx8jx]

Awesome

[@MattiavonSigmund]

I will never become a protestant, ew heresy

[@AthosFixe]

Pls part 2

[@sahilhossain8204]

Ah yes the rise of viva la italia irredenta🇮🇹🇸🇲🇻🇦🇲🇹🇲🇨🗿👌😎👍

[@kacpergamingnikolajew468]

jestem teraz jedynym który zna twój sekret lookasHTW 😎

[@lookasetbella]

Jaki?

[@browningcm]

Part 2 part 2!

[@karolkrajewski7878]

Ty gadasz po angielsku?

[@lookasetbella]

Ich speech nicht deutch

[@michak9675]

No ci powiem po angielsku większy chyba zasięg hah

[@lookasetbella]

Jedna mają więcej inne mniej. Ogólnie ten kanał i tak ma się znacznie lepiej niż myślałem.

[@doudline2662]

Ez

[@emirkokturk1599]

We want part 2 Quick