HoI4 By Blood Alone Ethiopia Beats up Italy

Ethiopia is pretty difficult, so here's a guide. Should work every time, 90% of the time. No need for external support, we will beat Italy on our own.
This is a guide, but it is played in Ironman so that you know it works.
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[paradoxinteractive]

Next guide: conquer the world as Ethiopia!

[FeedbackGaming]

It is interesting to see a different approach. The militia are pretty strong. Wish I trained them now 😆

[kohencidence]

1:23 “When you abandon all hope like a little bit- *cough* like a weak person.”

That cracked me up

[poe_slaw]

I don’t know when exactly Haile Selassie learned that there was a religious movement worshiping him in Jamaica, but I like to think he got it as an aside between updates on how the war with Italy was going

[SynphulHero]

I was just playing Ethiopia in ironman to try and get some achievements, if only I knew they were adding an Ethiopian focus tree!

[dalonmaticia]

Paradox should definitely continue supporting you as you are getting the best out of HOI4

[charliemoe]

A Sultanate of Aussa run would be interesting in the future

[birbulouss]

By Blood alone looks like a really cool update! I like the new Peace Deal changes. I can steal the navy of the Greeks when i play Romania now lol!

[libatonvhs]

I'm so happy Paradox made a tree for Ethiopia, because their history is fascinating and very heroic

[tomschneider]

Hey Paradox, you better give this man a shitload of money, because he's the reason I fell in love with HOI4 differently <3 greetings from Germany

[justinchase]

taureor should do audiobooks. best voice for it.

[trygveplaustrum]

*Aksum sounds like a lot of fun.* Alternatively, anything that makes "Ethiopia" a large name on the map works for me!

[brianm]

Glad the media embargo has been lifted, just when the ingame embargo has been added.

[hkezbbpb]

Prawie dobrze przeczytałeś jego imię i nazwisko czyta się Haile Selasii (przynajmniej tak mówiła profesorka na historii etiopi na stutdiach 100% pewności nie mam ale siedziała na miejscu 8 lat więc zakładam że zna się na temacie :D )

[darkscythe]

Great video! I would be very interested to see you complete one of the new achievements with ethiopia. Crusader Kings IV I think it's called... It's the one where you need to take jerusalem. I would really enjoy it!

[danworks]

Holy hell this looks really fun, bravo paradox

[archmagos]

Love the new expacs, but I will always been bad for the countries that got focus trees early on and now have tiny ones

[joshuaicon]

Brilliant guide. Was bashing my head against a wall until I caved, first try I pushed Italy back and made them sign for peace. Sweet sweet achievement.

[VillagerPlaystationVita]

For some reason aussia had transferred all its troops to Italy

[KAPTAINmORGANnWoeva]

Holding the hills slightly further east of your southern line forces the Italians to stand in desert and gives you a good angle to attack the center tile from, which you can then use to encircle the units on the northern tile and inflict massive casualties and chaos on the Italians in Somalia. Also it will provoke them to attack slightly more often, which is a boon for the general you picked since he gets the Scavenger trait from a Focus. Add that to the Logistics Spirit you can get for free and Scavenging Tactics and unless you're very unlucky in real life you'll be gaining guns every time the Italians fail to take your tiles.

I also don't bother training new units with my strategy because you have enough to pull it off by bringing the one commander out of retirement. I instead stall to get the extra research stuff while keeping things primed for ~1938 when I start doing the Focuses that improve the Mekwanint's control, because in the early stage of the war you want the Mesafint's defense bonus more.

Edit: I also stack debuffs to enemy air with leaders like Empress Asfaw because, y'know. You have no possible way to not fight under red air.