Italy is an Arian Roman autocracy located in the Italy and South Germany region of the Western Europe subcontinent. Taking control from Chalcedonian West Rome on September 4, 476, gaining its cores, the autocracy borders fellow Arian Visigoths. Burgundy to the west, Rugiland to the north. Ostrogoths to the east, Chalcedonian West Rome to the southeast, Germanic Alemannia, Bavaria to the north and surrounded by the waters of the Mediterranean.
Italy will be taken over by the Ostrogoths in 493, and stays gone for hundreds of years. Breaking away from a fallen Chalcedonian Middle Francia on September 30, 855 Italy will last till it breaks apart into Catholic Lombardy, Brescia, Parma, Mantua, Modena, Ferrara , Turin, Montferrat, Genoa and Corsica on February 2, 962.
Taking over the lands of Catholic Milan and The Papal State on June 29, 1797, the newly formed Italy will be fractured again into Modena, The Papal State and Catholic Austria lands on April 11, 1814. Catholic Sardinia-Piedmont will form Italy on March 17, 1861, and is now present on-map to the present day.
Italy joins the European Union in 1958.
Called "Italy" on-file
See also: West Rome, Sardinia-Piedmont, Austria, Croatia, Switzerland, Albania, Greece, Germany, France, Vichy France, Libya, Ethiopia, Somalia
History[]
Odoacer's Roman Kingdom of Italy[]
Italy is first playable from 476 to 493 after the Fall of West Rome, under the first King of Italy, Flavius Odoacer. Interestingly enough, Odoacer's short lived Italian Kingdom is the only time where Italy has Roman as its primary culture.
Carolingian Italy[]
Italy is later playable from 855 to 950 under Francia's Carolingian Dynasty (Dynasty of Charlemagne).
Napoleonic Italy[]
Napoleon's Italy is playable from 1797 to 1805. Italy is a client state under France created by Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. Under his Italy, you will receive an incredible amount of monarch points due to Napoleon's 6/4/6 rank, as well as his god-like 6/6/6/4 general stats.
Unified Italian Kingdom[]
Italy had just been unified through the combined efforts of King Vittorio Emmanuele II's Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont in Northern Italy, and Giuseppe Garibaldi's Redshirts in Southern Italy. Emmanuele II's Kingdom of Italy is playable from 1861 to 1925.
Fascist Italy[]
Benito Mussolini's Fascist Italy is playable from 1925 to 1943. Under Mussolini's rule, your government rank gets upgrade from Kingdom to Empire. When WWII starts in 1939, Italy does not get involved and stays neutral for about half a year. In 1940, Mussolini's Fascist Italy will join the Axis Powers together with Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany against the Allies led by France, Great Britain, and Poland. In 1943, Mussolini's fascist government eventually fled to Northeast Italy when the Allies take over the bulk of Italy.
Form Italian Nation[]
- Requirment(s):
- Does not exist: Italy, Rome or West Rome
- Is not: The Papal State, European Union or Holy Roman Empire
- Culture Group is Latin
- Is not a colonial nation
- One of the following must be true:
- Administrative Technology at least 10
- Is a tributary or free
- Is not at war
- Own core province(s): Zena (101), Milano (104), Modena (106), Verona (108), Mantova (109), Firenze (116), Siena (117), Roma (118), and Ancona (119)
- Effect(s):
Decisions[]
Change to Primogeniture Succession (until 600)[]
- Requirement(s):
- Effect(s):
Restore the Roman Empire[]
- Requirement(s):
- Is not: Holy Roman Empire, West Rome, Byzantium or The Papal State
- Rome does not exist
- Religious Group is: Christian or Hellenic
- Own all provinces of region(s): Italy, France Iberia, Balkans, Anatolia and Mashriq
- Own province(s): Roma (118), Fez (343), Tunis (341), Cairo (361), London (236), Yorkshire (245), Zeeland (96) and Vienna (134)
- Is not at war
- Is a tributary or free
- Is not nomadic
- Effect(s):
- Move capital to Roma (118)
- Change country to Rome
- Every original main owner culture changes to Roman
- Country is removed from the HRE
- Change government rank to Empire
- Gain 50 prestige
- Can embrace Roman Ideas and Traditions
- Gain 'Increased Centralization' for 20 years
Strategy[]
World War 2[]
The Axis Route[]
If you wish to join WW2 on the side of The Axis, immediately get relations up with Germany in order to get an alliance. The Germans might even send you an alliance offer within the 1st week of WW2 because they need allies to help them with the war. Alternatively, you could fast forward to June 10, 1940, the date that Italy officially entered WW2. The French are very weak at that starting date so you should have no problem in finishing off the baguette
IMPORTANT NOTE: This Axis Route strategy will be based on the 1939 WW2 start, not the June 10, 1940 start.
The French Campaign[]
Once in the war, move your regiments up towards the Savoy region. With your regiments stationed in the Alpine Mountains, France will take heavy casualties trying to defeat your soldiers. By splitting France's attention in half, Germany will be winning battles and gaining ground into France; fighting this two front war will be too much for France to handle. Once Paris falls to the Axis, it's over for France in Europe.
The North African Campaign[]
France and Great Britain will have troops stationed in Africa, so following the Fall of France, you should move a big chunk of your troops into North Africa.