
Papal state is also locked into catholicism, but cannot get the perks other catholics get from spending papal influence and has to deal with the reformation without the ability to adopt a more tolerant religion, starts the game with the blasphemy act modifier that grants +1% missionary. +5%chinese technology groupclose foreign trade decision 4. The player can choose the direction to steer trade in using t. If the papal state is willing to pick all the reform desire lowering choices the reform can be slowed to the point of being irrelevant for most of the game. +5%revolution disaster event the revolution is here 5. Is there a second center of revolution in europa? There is no influence on the directionof trade, only the amount transferred.

The shadow empire event in 1490 may remove the italian princes from the hre (sooner with emperor's imperial incident). A little tip I found immensely useful was to release Avignon as a March and then feed them Provence, then when you get strong enough to fight France feed them a chunk of Southern France.Eu4 Revolutionary Papal State - Eu4 Development Diary 24th Of March 2020 Paradox Interactive Forums. Once you've grabbed Southern Italy you can start looking towards Balkan and Greek Lands as well as North Africa. The only people who should really care about you eating a chunk of Southern Italy are Aragon, Naples (Who will be truced out and unable to join a coalition) and some of the Northern Italian nations which you should be eyeing up next anyway. Getting an Alliance with Castile is also a very good idea because you can declare on Aragon and call them in to take lands from Naples while you wait for the Shadow Kingdom event to pop (Make sure you leave the Empire) as well as letting you AE with the HRE subside a bit. Once you've joined the Empire you can just slowly eat your way up into Northern Italy.

Yea as SPAMbuca said Excommunicating Florence ASAP then improving with Austria and joining the HRE is probably the best opening move.
