Axis in Africa question (puppeting the IEA)

[Meglok]

Has anyone released Ethiopia as an Italian puppet and given the puppet the 2 IEA colonies, or also made It. Somaliland and It. Eritrea puppets to see how the Axis would react regarding sending troops there?

Obviously this requires some console commands or up front mod work. I am just wondering if this has been tried by anyone and what happened.

Thinking about additional ways to reduce Axis ai units in sub-Saharan Africa in case there is still a flood heading there after 1.4. It is not like Italy loses much IC by making them puppets so not much downside tot his idea if it helps.

 

[Meglok]

Since I am hearing nothing but crickets guess I will test this after 1.4 is released.

 

[billcorr]

Has anyone released Ethiopia as an Italian puppet and given the puppet the 2 IEA colonies, or also made It. Somaliland and It. Eritrea puppets to see how the Axis would react regarding sending troops there?

Might be a useful move in multiplayer.

In our current multiplayer game, Ethiopia was released as an Italian puppet. A human player with extensive experience playing as Poland took over as Ethiopia.

The Allies took more than 18 months to reduce the Ethiopian fortifications.

Just wondering how much longer Ethiopia would have held out if had received the 2 IEA colonies.

 

[Tarnoyan Warrior]

Since I am hearing nothing but crickets guess I will test this after 1.4 is released.

This could be very helpful, actually. On the other hand, I don't see much of a flood in Ethiopia. But yeah, the AI doesn't send as many divisions to allies as it does its own front. It might be a better question to see what would happen if you released Libya instead. That might accomplish something.

 

[Oahkoah]

I usually puppet Ethiopia and don't call them into my wars until Egypt has been secured. I then usually give them the province of Djibouti to allow them to complete their focus for extra naval yards, as I'm kind that way

 

[Surimi]

Ethiopia is actually a pretty decent source of colonial manpower so I tend to puppet it when playing Italy. I'm not sure about the AI implications of removing Somaliland/Eritrea though.

My guess it will not make much of a difference beyond the (extremely limited) ability of those areas to defend themselves on their own.

 

[Surimi]

Ethiopia is actually a pretty decent source of colonial manpower so I tend to puppet it when playing Italy. I'm not sure about the AI implications of removing Somaliland/Eritrea though.

My guess it will not make much of a difference beyond the (extremely limited) ability of those areas to defend themselves on their own.

 

[tommylotto]

In my mod, I made Libya, Eritrea, Somalia and eventually Ethiopia integrated puppets of Italy under the new TfV autonomy system. It does not help the Great Axis African migration. Any territory taken by Ethiopia goes to Italy and that I presume triggers the migration, or maybe it is triggers by just any Axis territory (and the puppets join the Axis) adjoining British territory.

Also, raising local Ascari troops in East Africa can be very powerful.

 

[Meglok]

In my mod, I made Libya, Eritrea, Somalia and eventually Ethiopia integrated puppets of Italy under the new TfV autonomy system. It does not help the Great Axis African migration. Any territory taken by Ethiopia goes to Italy and that I presume triggers the migration, or maybe it is triggers by just any Axis territory (and the puppets join the Axis) adjoining British territory.

Also, raising local Ascari troops in East Africa can be very powerful.

Sigh. Guess we will have to hope the tweaks in 1.4 reduce the flood to a trickle.