"Unification of Italy" - Two Sicilies AAR

Also, can someone tell me why I don't have the event for Valley of Kings or Build Suez Canal? Usually as soon as I bring Egypt into SoI I get the event in the event list (not activated yet tho), but right now it's not even grey there - it's not even there. Same with Valley of the Kings, Russia, France & Prussia already activated it.. :/

EDIT: Nevermind about Valley of the Kings, it popped up after I researched Nationalism & Imperialism, but what about Suez canal?

EDIT2: Also, I have liberalists & conservatives in my UH, but they don't want to support political reforms, duh why?

Chapter 8a - Italian golden era.

The new conquests in Austria have brought massive military might to Italy. The newly acquired regions alone can support more brigades than Italy before the conquests could (including Tunis, Valencia and Sardegna). Soldiers in those regions vary from 5% to 10% which is impressive. The Austrians obviously didn't use this military might correctly.


Verona holds the soldier population percent record with 12%.

Another maybe even funny thing is that one of the provinces has 9% bureacraut population, it would be better if all those darn bureacrauts travel to Tunis so it can become a state of the Italian Empire, instead of low literacy colony.

Italian King requested excavation rights into Valley of the Kings to Egypt and it was immediately accepted. Italy is now amongst these few nations that are excavating in Valley of the Kings.

Peacetime has been decrasing Italian support for King, everyone in the world knows that the Italians can't live without war, they must expand and they will expand. Currently rumours go around Rome that Italy will invade Ottoman Empire to annex Cyprus into the Italian Empire, or perhaps free Greek provinces north of Greece, in honour of the first Two Sicilies ally.

To update on the situation in Asia - things are getting out of control. British are literally eating China as soon as previous truce expires and the have almost annexed all of Dai Nam. Italy literally requires a canal that connects Mediterrian and Northeast Africa.

Chapter 8b - Spain needs another lesson.


Spain again does something dumb.

Italian standing army is preparing, it's time to crush the Spaniards once again, this time it's time to take a step further and dominate them even further. Elite infantry hordes, supported by heavy artillery and cavalry is marching throught French lands towards Madrid.


The first army was stationed in Valencia to guard it, sadly it was crushed by the aggressive barbarians.

New Upper House is elected shortly after the war starts and socialism is brought into Italy. The Italian King seems to like the ideas of socialism.

Italian King once again uses the chance to add a wargoal againist the imperialistic and aggressive (oh just like Italy) Spain and this time it's Granada. It's expected that Taza in Africa will be also requested so Italy has direct access to the ocean.


King decided to sign the Geneva Convention.

The war is simple at the moment - Italians have sent in reinforcements, they're crushing any Spanish "mega" armies and are occupying Spain with the help of Belgian troops.

A year or so after the war starts, it's already over. Spain gives up and cedes Granada and Taza to Italian Empire. The next time Spanish dare to declare war on Egypt, it will be their last declaration of war because Italians will force them to cede every state around Madrid.


Spanish surrender.


Socialism ideas are slowly spreading across the Italian lands, socialists are gaining seats in the Upper House, people are getting ready to die for socialism, it's very likely that in matter of 10-20 years Italy will give up to socialism and perhaps become the first socialist nation.


Italian Empire in 1863.

Plans for an invasion into Cyprus are still going around the King's advisors. Another island for the Italian Empire wouldn't do any bad, it would be a very good naval base closer to Suez where Italians want a connection between Mediterrian and other side of Africa.

Well the Suez canal decision isn't there even untriggerable or something like that. Also I'm updating fast because I'm contiously playing and getting into a war (and if I'm not getting into a war, then I force a war by declaring one againist someone), wars are just so awesome.

Also, what about socialists? Do they support political reforms? If yes, under what conditions?

Meh then I'm gonna slow down a bit.

Oh my god... Austria has like 130 brigades right now and their brigade cap is at 200. A lot of Austrian provinces have over 5%-15% soldier population and United Kingdom is owning everything (tho to balance it out I released a few UK puppets because it's just ridicilous how huge military UK had). My game's getting screwed with hax0ring AI lawl, soon gonna do another update as I get machine gun technology.

Chapter 9 - Golden Era continues.

NOTE: UK was getting too strong by contiously eating China, so I released several nations as UK puppets, including small part of China and disbanded half of UK army (~100 brigades which were re-built in a few months).


Suez Canal is finally built.

The long awaited short sea route from Europe to Asia has been opened in Suez. This new crossing is now called the "Suez Canal", owned by Italy. Italy has gained massive prestige in the eyes of all other world nations, sadly future enemies of Italy will only suffer from this canal.

A year ago, the Italian Govrement had finally changed to Prussian Constitutionalism, this is a step closer to democratical nation, the leader of Italy will still keep the title of King, even if leaders change. Long awaited socialism has also been brought into Italy and Italy is a year away from becoming socialist state.

Italian expedition to Egypt was sent several years ago and it was re-sent after a disaster, but now... it has paid off, the investment of 2000 pounds has brought Italy fame, honor and prestige.


It has happend.. finally.

Another very important note is that Italian naval fleet is one of the strongest and most advanced navies in the world, being the only fleet to employ ironclad battleships.


Italy must expand into Asia and Suez Canal makes it easier.

War is declared againist an unprotected and weak Asian nation. Italian allies are mobilized while Italian armies are relaxing and slowly preparing for an invasion.


Great..

Italian King now officially changes the party to the Italian socialist party.


First battle of the war is Italian success.

Finally the most important and most major technology in this era has been researched - machine guns. Italian colonization of Africa has begun, long before other European powers have even waken up and realized it's colony expanding time!


Colonization has begun.

Italians will colonize a region in Africa that connects Ethiopia to Middle East and a large region under Italian Tunis.

The war quickly ended because there was no way these weak people could stand the invasion of Italian elite infantry. Thought now Jodhpur can hardly be distinguished from Italy because they're bordering eachother and have different colors, Italian King considers that as a casus belli.


Casus belli acquired.


A large war breaks out.

Further plans of the Italian Empire are to expand deeper into India, but that obviously will mean fighting the Brits which will be hard, so instead of just going to war with UK puppets in India, it would be better to expand more into Oceania, maybe Philipiness. A public vote was made in mainland Italy and 89.1% of the citizens voted for the Italian conquest of Philipiness, the poll results were secret, thought, to avoid any nation suspecting an invasion.

Things are getting worse and worse for the world as Austria has bypassed United Kingdom with the amount of brigades fielded, Austria has such a large force that it can easily beat United Kingdom, which is ridicilous. None yet knows why Bavaria, Austria and other small German states have ridicilously high soldier populations.


Is this the end to Italian golden era?

Can someone please tell me what's going on here? Austria has 291 brigades, more than UK and it doesn't even own a single colony - it even has less provinces than it had at 1836! Many regions have 15% soldier population and Austria doesn't have any soldier national focuses.....

EDIT: Doesn't matter anymore, it turns out they get 60k growth with good health care.. :/

I am just gonna do what I have to do - I will delete all Austrian armies, get rid of their healthcare reforms and try to lower their soldier population, there must be a way to do it. I don't want this massively overpowered health care monster building 100 armies every year just because they have health care..

EDIT: Most likely chapter 9 is my last chapter and I'm not gonna continue my Italy game, reason is obvious - I can't stand this health care reform bullsh**.. prolly gonna try to fix it somehow so I can write chapter 10, but that's all.

EDIT2: AAR's done, I accidently overwrote Italy save game while playing as Panjab, thinking India was written there.. I just ruined that long game. :[