Enjoy easy achievements? This is the guide for you. I saw this achievement had such a low completion rate despite how easy it is to get.

In my attempt this resulted in 82 princes (Austria is included here), 12 free cities, and 7 electors. Below will be a list of provinces I used to complete the achievement. I will start with the province I used for my capital and work by region as that would be easier as guide than listing them alphabetically.

In order to get below the points cap, I had to make my leader 0/0/0 age 40 with a 0/0/0 age 0 heir. If you still have points that need to be shed, try re-balancing the ideas. There are ideas that prevent going to war, having missionaries, and prevent having merchants. These greatly reduce the points used.


Once in game, I first used the HRE interface to add all provinces to the empire and then used the Diplomacy interface to release all but one country as a vassal. To release Styria, I used the province interface to return Trieste. Just then un-pause for the tick.I will also include other provinces that can be released.

Screenshots were cropped for size limits

Gorz – Capital
Trieste (Styria)
Istria (Dalmatia
Ragusa (Do not see in HRE interface so likely isn’t being counted)
Spoleto
Perugia
Urbino
Modena
Parma
Treviso - Does not release
Ravenna - Does not release
Padova
Verona
Corsica
Avignon
Duaphine
Verdun (Bar)
Luxemburg
Artois (Picardy)
Cambray (Hainut)
Hoya (Calenburg)
Ruppin
Rugen
Gorlitz (Lusatia)
Ostrava (Moravia)

Other provinces that can be used and are already in the HRE:
Inntal/Eschtal/Lienz (Tirol)
Donauworth
Paderborn
Osnabruck

Provinces outside the HRE at start but border HRE provinces and can be released:
Fruili (Aquileia)
Bologna
Ruthel (Champagne)
East Frisia
Danzig
Pozsony