This would be a cb along the lines of imperial ban/liberation that is exclusive to the emperor. Essentially, it would allow you to forcefully add the provinces of the target to the hre.
Currently you have to either take all non-hre land in northern italy or vassal feed all of it. For Austria this isn't too bad since conquering the relevant lands is mostly in their best interests anyways, but for any other emperor this becomes a lot more troublesome. In addition to this, you have to permanently eat a major malus from rome, or you have to spend an exorbitant amount of adm coring rome in order to add it to the hre, only to return it afterwards (at an additional cost of prestige).
With this cb, instead of conquering/vassal feeding the relevant provinces you would be able to pay dip to selectively add them to the hre as your warscore allows. Using this cb would also restrict you from taking land in the same way that the coalition cb does (would probably be too strong otherwise) and adding provinces to the hre this way would be less expensive than conquering or feeding the land since you do not gain control of the land though it should still be somewhat costly to do.
I think this would provide an interesting alternative to just conquering or vassalizing all the land, make preventing Italy from leaving less painful for non-Austrian emperors, and allow for the clunky situation with rome to be avoided.
EDIT: Something else that just occurred to me, a subject interaction for adding provinces to the empire would be quite nice as well.
Currently you have to either take all non-hre land in northern italy or vassal feed all of it. For Austria this isn't too bad since conquering the relevant lands is mostly in their best interests anyways, but for any other emperor this becomes a lot more troublesome. In addition to this, you have to permanently eat a major malus from rome, or you have to spend an exorbitant amount of adm coring rome in order to add it to the hre, only to return it afterwards (at an additional cost of prestige).
With this cb, instead of conquering/vassal feeding the relevant provinces you would be able to pay dip to selectively add them to the hre as your warscore allows. Using this cb would also restrict you from taking land in the same way that the coalition cb does (would probably be too strong otherwise) and adding provinces to the hre this way would be less expensive than conquering or feeding the land since you do not gain control of the land though it should still be somewhat costly to do.
I think this would provide an interesting alternative to just conquering or vassalizing all the land, make preventing Italy from leaving less painful for non-Austrian emperors, and allow for the clunky situation with rome to be avoided.
EDIT: Something else that just occurred to me, a subject interaction for adding provinces to the empire would be quite nice as well.
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