Italy does not have a lot of Army focuses, but most of them deliver multiple rather than just single rewards. The tree does constrain the player in several ways, but many a focus has a bundle of bonuses attached rather than just a single one, giving the Italian tree more more substance than may appear at first. Italy's focus tree is highly structured and canalized, and is certainly frustrating when a more agile Germany can derail Italian foreign policy. Your land research beyond Land Doctrine is meh, but Air and Naval have plenty of bonuses to keep you going.Ī good amount of Major Nations trees are rather bad, but Italy has a rather good one. Also pretty sure it one of the few trees where you can actually get free oil and rubber through focuses. However, the Industrial and research part of the tree is pretty awesome! In just 3 Focus you get 4 civillian and 6 military factories (Industrial Effort II + Army Primacy) and you get 4 Dockyards via Mare Nostrum. The lack of any additional NI also is a drag if you don't go with Germany. Along with Spain requiring you have a limited focus active while the civil war is ongoing and then requiring France to be beaten before you can pursue an alliance means that its often not feasible to ally with them and by extension, Portugal before the former gets drawn into the Axis. You only influence them to accept Fascism in which especially in Spain's case can lead them to being sniped by Germany instead of you who wasted time Befriending them. The Diplomatic part of the Focus Tree for Italy I can agree is rather underwhelming.

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