It feels slightly embarrassing that so long into the game I'm still only Great Power #3, as Ming is still doing well, and Poland is slightly bigger. Well, not for much longer.
First, I needed to fight Venice. They were impossible to defeat on the seas, but I could still grab some of their coastline. By the way Paradox games universally have really awful naval combat systems, which nobody really understands. EU4 and HoI4 both.
After that I got into a second big war to vassalize Milan.
I needed a bit of peace to ask Savoy and Switzerland to return Milan's cores, but instead Poland dragged me into their war against Teutonic Order and Denmark, like I can do anything about it. Once it was over, I got Milan's 3 cores from Savoy and Switzerland, the same ones I gave them first to get Milan under 100% warscore (and to save on AE).
My issue with too many diplo relations solved itself, as my ally Switzerland called me into a war that involved my other ally Savoy, so it was one down either way. Savoy has one of the provinces I need for Kingdom of God, and Switzerland doesn't, so it's a pretty obvious choice.
Once my truce with Venice ran out, I needed to attack them for Milan's cores. I also need Venice for Kingdom of God, and to get more of Venice node trade. That ends up being a surprisingly big fight, involving even England.
I wanted to do some more serious expanding, but I hit gov capacity cap. It makes sense, as I'm now finally number one Great Power, with Ming being bigger, but not having Renaissance yet. I can use the usual ways to handle it:
- finish admin ideas
- get empire rank - which for Papacy is only possible through Kingdom of God decision
- spam courthouses - fairly expensive, but with income of 80 and net profit of 30 a month, I can afford it
- monument in Naples gives +50 gov capacity on tier 2, and +100 on tier 3, that's not too significant, and there are much better monuments elsewhere but this one will need to do
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