
u/Beneficial_Ball9893

Pictured: A meeting of every player in the entire world who likes the Italian BoP mechanics
Good news: It is hypothetically possible to make Italy capitulate without being forced to accept a puppet you don't want!
Experimental setup:
I gave myself 24 paratrooper divisions, and deleted most of the Italian army (due to more Italy bullshit you are not allowed to delete 16 of their divisions for no reason, but only 1 was in Italy and not on a victory point).
I gave myself 2000 transports and targeted 24 Italian cities.
Declared war, instantly paradropped into every single Italian VP.
RESULTS:
Italy capitulated on the same day as it was supposed to.
The war did not end like it does for any other nation. Instead the war continued for over 5 days after Italian capitulation. Likely the game trying and failing to force me to take a puppet that can not exist.
Finally the war ended, without forcing me to take a puppet, and I was able to map paint like normal.
This means that you aren't crazy: You can defeat Italy without being forced to take a puppet, but it requires you to get Italy below its surrender limit before Regio del Sud is formed. Further testing will be needed to determine this limit. Now that I have proven it is hypothetically possible to make Italy surrender before it can force a puppet, I will seek out a strategy for doing this in a practical war setting.
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