And rinse and repeat.īeginner’s tip: The Swiss war is mostly optional. Attack your neighbor, grab a province and sit back till the AE is below 10 for all neighboring nations. Prepare to fight 5 or 6 wars to get all provinces.īeginner’s tip: If you don’t want coalitions, you can play passive. Provinces needed- Genoa, Milan, Modena, Verona, Mantua, Firenze, Siena, Roma, Ancona

Invest in becoming papal controller whenever you can.

Start building spy network on Switzerland.

Move your merchant from Genoa to Venice.

Starting improving relations with Austria and France.

Ally Savoy, Mantua and one of either Papal State or Aragon.

The reason is that you can’t have a set strategy for conquest and diplomacy when playing Milan, you will have to improvise a lot depending on alliances and rivalries around you. I intended to write this guide for beginners, but really it’s going to be for beginner-to-intermediate level players. I will divide this guide into Phase I, II and III, with each phase subdivided into conquest and diplomacy and a separate Milan or Italy specific game mechanics section in the end. Main Impediment early game- Aggressive Expansion And you are looking at a world super power from fairly early years.

Combine that with the monarch point generation of the Ambrosian republic.

Along with that you have two end trade nodes next to you, Venice and Genoa, which means you aren’t really going to have economic problems at any point. Your capital of Milan is also one of the most developed provinces at start and after a few events it becomes a province with the most development. Milan starts in one of the highest developed area of Northern Italy in game.

Eu4 papal state strategy