A place to share content, ask questions and/or talk about the grand strategy game Europa … Getting 20 aggressive expansion penalty and -2 stability hit is pretty major and can trigger a large coalition war. More than halve of my provinces are already converted to protestant and reformed faith. It is a very fun campaign in addition to role-playing as the pope, especially with new papal mechanics. The Papal State is a very interesting country to play. If you are papal curia controller, have 100 spy network in enemy, have 100 prestige and ideas/policy and fighting with excommunicate CB, you'll get like 95% discount. This item will only be visible to you, admins, and anyone marked as a creator. The Papal State gains permanent claims on the following areas: Tuscany Liguria Piedmont Crush the Italian Cities 9 Provinces in the Tuscany, Liguria, and Piedmont areas owned by you or by non-tributary subjects. You can’t take territory from them either since you can’t core it. Before doing anything immediately improve relations with Switzerland and Austria to get the swiss guard and join HRE.
They begin the game in 1444 in a personal union under Aragon. However, your catholic allies might have a -100 modifier saying ‘Accepting would destabilize the country’.