An Italian fully ahistorical run...

[leftkeh]

So, having played around at the ahistorical playground quite a bit (as Italy) I had the idea of starting a new game with all continents decolonised, and all countries dissolved into their (ethnic?) components.
As a result, no more yugoslavia, united kingdom, or USSR, while at the same time, France was divided into France(northern regions) /Occitania (southern regions) / Bretagne, while Spain was divided into Spain (most of the country) / Basque country / Aragon / Castille (at the NW tip).

My aim: to establish the Roman empire as quietly as possible. I.e. No rnd wars, no axis, probably a solo run the whole way...

Thinking this would be an easy run provided that I would save on pps for all those extra justifications, I started by justifying on Occitania, while annexing Albania from the focus tree. Then, while trying to keep the tension below 25% for as lonf as possible, I went on by justifying on Macedonia. And that is as far as i can get before having Canada (most of the time) guaranteeing my potential targets.
I tried:
1. exploiting the "justify on some far away country just to raise the cost of the guarantee" tactic. It works, albeit at a really slow pace...
2. Going the Occitania then Austria route (and save it from annexation), which did not work because Austria rises tension even more than Macedonia...

I am now pondering whether I should go the Libya-Austria way (and maybe Egypt if tension allows), or the more classic Austria-Switzerland route.

But what do you guys think? Any suggestions are welcomed...

 

[Cpt.Cross]

On Historical

Finish the War with Ethiopa asap

Rush down towards the focus 'Go After France'

Prior to this justify and declare on Switzerland

Because WT has gone up Frances War Support as risen to allow it to go down a rearmament path and as such delays its entry into the allies.

use the go after France focus and push from Switzerland not from the southern Italian border.

France should still be deficient in infantry Equip so you should be able to push without to much trouble head towards Paris.

After Capitualtion you are now at peace with all of the French empire at your disposal and it should be 1938 at the most with time to build up against Britain.

 

[Orku]

On Historical:

Finish Ethopia asap
Justify on france asap
Declare war, do not change your starting divisions, wait few month till they kill all their man on alps. Take france
Justify on GB, take GB with naval invasion.
boom you take allies in 37/38

 

[him_15]

Take out France before Germany is really fun.

 

[leftkeh]

Minor update #1:
On that very same ahistorical fully dissolved Italian run I tried the following conquests (in order):
Albania (from the Focus tree), then Libya, Egypt and Montenegro (at which point the world tension breached the 25% mark.
With the Anchluss having integrated Austria to Germany, I tried some random justifications in the Caribbean (enough to let Canada out of the quaranteeing game for a while) and went for Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia and Algeria.
At my current point:
1. the Germany-England Axis is fighting the Balkan Entente (Rumania-Greece-Czechoslovakia-Lithuania-France-Scotland-Switzerland) on all fronts,
2. the Germany-England Axis is fighting the Miedzymorze (Canada-South Africa-Australia-New Zealand-Occitania) in the French plains,
3. the Germany -England Axis is fighting the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Poland-Estonia-Lietuva-Finland) on the western polish border,
4. the Miedzymorze is fighting off the Comintern (USSR, Spain) at the Finnish border.
As you understand Europe is in full chaos... (also, Italy stands alone)

Possible future goals:
a. integrate Bulgaria, Macedonia, Boznia-Herzegovina
b. attack Axis on the Austrian-Swiss front in order to lower claims in the swiss and tyrol areas.
(I do not wish to invade Morocco yet so that I can put some distance at a future comintern attack on the western African front)

I will to attach an image if anyone is interested later in the day.