Before Krakow gets some competent army, Two Sicilies' forces will be a tool for expansion.ДЄpart from that, I influence Papal States and Tuscany. The goal now is to sphere Two Sicilies, because nobody tries to influence them yet and they have rather strong army, especially compared to the rest of Italian states. Factory is bankrupt and it will stay that way for some time.ДЇew years later, thanks to romanticism and idealism discoveries Krakow is now great power. As you can see, except having a bit higher literacy, I still have shitty income and no army. The main reason of having this state is that Krakow can now become great power (you need at least two states). Here you can see Austrian army after the peace giving me East Switzerland. While first two conditions don't bother me (yet), the last one makes it a bit tricky for Krakow, because in 1-2 years after the start of the game, Russia removes Krakow from Austria SoI, which means they will no longer protect me, or help me to get another state the same way like they will do with Switzerland. Now, few important things to note with the new CB system is that you can't justify war against nation that has truce with you, relations must be under 50 and you can make only one CB at a time. East Switzerland also has 70% literacy, raising the current avarage. Other option would be Two sicilies, who are too strong for very quick land grab and montenegro, which is one province like Krakow (and it would need conquest CB that costs twice the infamy of acquire state). This mostly comes down to starting spheres of influence and while there are many countries in Europe, most of them are protected by some great power (or 'friendly', which means GP can intervene in the war). Of course, there's a reason why I 'attack' Swiss instead of any other country. That's not only the reason I can ally with them, but they are also willing to join me in war against some irrelevant nation, like Switzerland. If you asked how do i plan to attack Switzerland without any army, Krakow starts in Austria's sphere of influence.

With somewhat stable economy, I use my limited diplomatic points to ally Austria and start fabricating acquire state CB against switzerland. I should also say that Krakowian starting techs are especially shitty. Last thing is to encourage clergymen to get more research points. Justifying acquire state cb takes about 300-400 days. Note that except national stockpile, tarrifs and military spending the budget will be pretty much the same the whole AAR.Д«ecause in AHD you have to justify war and unlike in vanilla, you can't attack anyone without cb, i hold elections (Krakow starts as democracy) and make people vote reactionary party with jingoism, which speed up the cb acquisition speed (current party is pro-military). Military spending is set close to 0% because I don't really need to pay any soldiers yet. Education and Aministration is set to max, so are tarrifs. Taxes are set to 100% for poor, middle/rich is low because there aren't enough pops to provide any significant amount of money. Right from the start, I start researching romanticism as anyone who wants to become great power as soon as possible. There are only about 30 screenshots, so it won't be long, but I'll try to remember and comment stuff that happened in the meantime, hopefully providing some insight for everyone who wants to see/play/learn etc about the expansion. So, I have few screens from my playthrough as Krakow and since there doesn't seem to be any recent Vicky 2 LP (not even mentioning LP of AHD) and most people play rather CK2 anyway, might as well post it here.

War exhaustion victoria 2