Is it possible to kick Italy out of Ethiopia? I've tried several times but so far haven't been able to survive more than a few months
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You have no chance of ending the war. Even if you hold out (last time I tried, I managed to stay alive for two years) but Italy will just send more troops because you can't capitulate them.
If you are going to win as Ethiopia, you need to rush the ports as quickly as humanly possible, but beware that as soon as you conquer their ports, they will keep sending naval invasions
I've only managed it once, it involves rushing the two/three ports in Eritrea and Somaliland as quickly as possible and then holding on to them.
Play the Road to 56 mod, it adds in an Ethiopia tree that will allow you to form a Peace with Italy once you've driven them out of Africa, which is easy is hell.
I think there should be an option to end the war if Ethiopia manage to hold out long enough or even kick the Italian out of the entire country.
You can survive as Ethiopia in 1.4.2 trivially by micromanaging retreat between capital and adjacent city (put all starting units on those two provinces, constantly retreat reserves with low org).
Once you have veterans and a great general, Italy will be at war with allies and you can kick them out w/o joining. Make a couple subs for when UK trashes Italy's navy and you can even invade Italy as neutral. It's slow though, and bleeding Italy's manpower and equipment that hard means they'll sometimes do stupid crap like capitulate to France.
Once you have veterans and a great general, Italy will be at war with allies and you can kick them out w/o joining. Make a couple subs for when UK trashes Italy's navy and you can even invade Italy as neutral. It's slow though, and bleeding Italy's manpower and equipment that hard means they'll sometimes do stupid crap like capitulate to France.
You can just abuse the AI by camping behind a river on a mountain, and then the Italians will suicide their divisions which are reduced to 10 soft attack only against your Ethiopian divisions on 300+ defense points. Once Italian divisions are down to around 20% strength just take the ports and done they are kicked out.
You can defeat them by holding a few mountains near the capital. I killed 400k of them and lost 25k over a few years. Then WW2 really began and they didn't have enough troops to hold low priority Ethiopia.
I might try again. I must have played a dozen times using different methods with 1.4.2 and it was suicide. But I didn't think about stacking all my units in one or two key areas. Maybe I will try that.
Its not possible anymore, since in 1.4 patch the ports were moved further south. It used to be easy to rush them.
If anyone can actually hold off Italy and reconquer the African ports in 1.4.2, I would be impressed - you should share a video of how you did it on Youtube (and relying on the AI stupidly abandoning the tiles is not enough)
If anyone can actually hold off Italy and reconquer the African ports in 1.4.2, I would be impressed - you should share a video of how you did it on Youtube (and relying on the AI stupidly abandoning the tiles is not enough)
I tried it again after I posted to complete and utter defeat. I agree that it's impossible since 1.4.2. I did inflict 52,000 casualties but inevitably the Italians pushed me back into a small pocket on the mountains. I eventually succumbed to encirclement. Lack of factories is also a big problem. I focussed on the industrial tree initially and I eventually managed to build 3 extra mil and 2 civ factories. Helped enormously, but all too late of course. I also had time to stick a fort on my capital but nothing helped stem the flow of enemy troops.
Take the ports then exit and reload the game. Should cause supply to be recalculated
Seems like it doesn't matter the Pdox game, people are too quick to conclude things impossible
. From 1.4.2:
Photo taken to complain about attrition not working (constantly reloading for this is pretty annoying), but the picture sequence should make it obvious enough; kicking Italy out is trivial if you stall and have a bunch of veterans + high level general.
Doing more after that takes more planning. Joining allies is an option for tech slot, but you can get a bigger take if you NF the port to get a couple subs + convoys and invade Italy yourself after UK wipes their navy. Do not merge wars; this will screw you out of occupations and post-war land. Occupy as much for yourself as possible and leave allies as soon as you don't need the membership.
One question about that - how on earth do you go from 13 divisions to 25 in that amount of time? I can't get enough weapons, so the divisions are less than half strength.
You're making guns from day 1 and get factories from focuses early. These aren't 40W divisions or something, basically any minor with the manpower can do this by spamming infantry equipment. Take this for example, though I made more arty in this one:
@TheMeInTeam How much real time does it take for the British to get involved? The couple times I've tried doing this my eyes glazed over after awhile and I forgot to shuffle in time
@TheMeInTeam How much real time does it take for the British to get involved? The couple times I've tried doing this my eyes glazed over after awhile and I forgot to shuffle in time
I wouldn't trust the British to ever get involved. I see units here and there by late '39 or early '40, even the occasional French unit. It's nothing that you can rely on to help you, or even retake their own territory uncontested in a decent timeframe. You're better off pretending they're not there, aside from providing encirclement opportunity from the existence of their territory. If UK does anything for you at all, it will be blasting the Italian navy.