I save Defensive for last since it can slightly offset the price of having Star Forts as well as letting your northern mountain "wall" kill off enemy invaders slowly. You can fend off superior numbers with professional troops as well as have powerful galleys vs the Ottos. Quality is much more valuable than Quantity if you have good morale and discipline, which you can get from Religious/Econ/Quantity/Papal Ideas. Plus the bonuses of Catholic events and Devotion makes taxes a no brainer.
Econ is obvious, since you don't need ships or trade ideas if you control Genoa and Venice. Obvi Religious is good mid game when the reformation starts or for venturing outside of Italy and into Muslim lands. Aristocratic is great for boosting manpower, defensive cores, meshes well with Innovative and Economics (80% tax efficiency? Yes please). I choose Diplomatic over Influence since you don't need vassals in Italy, you need alliances and the policies that come with Diplomatic. Having Innovative with Curia Controller is quite wonderful btw. You don't really need religious early on because the reformation is quite a while away and you already have wonderful boosts to becoming Curia controller. The reason I chose these was because of Papal Ideas, the Curia bonuses and the accompanying policies (which are OP). I finished with Defensive then Influence (if at all). White peace it is, then.Personally I went Innovative, Diplomatic, Aristocratic for early game. When I thought maybe I could take my chances and fight them too, Venice joined immediately after. However, despite the warning Spain had sent me no longer being present, they immediately demanded that I call for peace. When I finally got the opportunity, I started the war, backed by Britain and Bohemia, and prepared for my patience to be rewarded. I've been planning on attacking them for decades I was always outnumbered by their allies AND warned by Spain, while my useless allies at the time didn't want to attack them (would destabilise). They own a lot of central Italy, and I'm going to need to break them down. Since the start of the game, however, the Papal State has been angrily glaring at me (converting to protestant didn't help). I have strong alliances with The Palatinate, Bohemia, and recently Britain. I've expanded a bit, taken some of the smaller Italian states.
I have plenty of EU4 hours, and I'm not new to the game, but most of it has been multiplayer and as a custom nation. I'm having my first proper playthrough, trying to form Italy as Florence.
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