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I am a mid-sized Tuscany, I own Emilia-Romagna, Tuscany and some provinces like Mantua and Urbino. Every single neighbor I have has been allied by Spain, including the Pope and Milan. I am allied with France and Austria but I can't call neither of them because of debt. I am basically stuck. I cannot fabricate any claims anywhere since I can't declare on them. A war between Spain and the Ottomans broke out, I think they white peaced.

It has been like this for 40 years. I really don't know what to do. Any tips ?
 

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Play tall? Itally is pretty good land for stacking development cost reduction.. sooner or later they will break alliance with someone and that will give you an opening..
Every province I have is over 30 in dev. My capital, Firenze, has 60 dev. Lucca, where I get institutions since it produces cloth and is a farmlands, has 50 dev. All of my technologies have +%200. All of my ideas are done. I am waiting for an opening but it just doesn't come ! The religious war started and Spain wasn't involved ! It is becoming really boring.
 

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Declaring war without a CB is an option, provided your AE is low enough. Also, are you sure that every neighbor is allied to Spain? You can fabricate across a single sea tile. I believe you had a port on the Adriatic, so you should be able to fabricate in the Venice-Croatia area. Likewise, you should be able to fabricate across the Ligurian Sea all the way to Provence. Also, are you sure Spain is an ally, and not the defender of faith?

Failing that, you could use the "join war" tactic. Basically, you wait until a neighbor is in a war, then separate peace out. You can do this by using the enforce peace interaction, in which you will need +100 opinion with the defender, the attacker must have -25 war score or higher, and you can't have a truce with the attacker. (The last point would be moot in your case.) Also, you can directly ally the enemy, then break the alliance after the war (or not). When doing the "join war" tactic, you will need to peace out before the war leaders do. Watch the war enthusiasm, and try to take as much land as you can as fast as possible. Battles don't affect the warscore of allies. If you single-handedly win the war, but give all the provinces to other nations, you have 0% war score to negotiate with.
 
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What are the military numbers like, versus Spain? What year and what tech levels? You could be in a position to be able to deal with Spain anyway, and just yolo it?
 
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Best CB Tunis? To give you some expansion path down into Africa at least (and you can TC the whole provinces), and get to Egypt possibly? (Prince of Egypt achievement, if you would like to go after it)
 
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Best CB Tunis? To give you some expansion path down into Africa at least (and you can TC the whole provinces), and get to Egypt possibly? (Prince of Egypt achievement, if you would like to go after it)

Also, Christians won't care if you no-CB a Muslim nation. And due to your position in Italy, I assume you haven't taken land from the Ottomans, so your AE with Muslim countries should be near zero.
 
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Yeah, just no-cb someone, if you have been at peace for 40 year, shouldn't be a big problem anyway.
 
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