Italy In Ethiopia can't make it work

[Bradys5]

I have tried a dozen times now to try and take Ethiopia, 1936 start, and No Joy, I can't get enough supply up to the front no matter what I do it seams, I can get maybe halfy into the country and then the supply can't be moved up, I have even Built level 5 RR's to the front and no joy.

Playing Blood Alone.

 

[Mr_Dimento]

Do Ethiopian logistics and make sure to use all your Air Force. Air makes it trivial

 

[Casko]

in case of unbreakable mountains build more CAS tends to work.

 

[Bradys5]

Do Ethiopian logistics and make sure to use all your Air Force. Air makes it trivial

Did that, even added logistics elements to my divisions, still no joy.

 

[Vin55]

Lol how, I did a lot of runs today and out of 8 was in one too slow. You need to get air in every zone not much 2 airwings in each tile are enough, get all your troops down, but the army on agressive and just push, also put the armies on one truck you dont have enough for two. But a field marshall (the level 2 guy) and some fresh lvl 1 Generals for the grind. Put the mountaineers in the north and the tanks and cav mostly in the south, normally I put 24 in the south 22 in the north works fine. Also micro a little, if you see an opening.

 

[Findell_HOI]

Some thing that help.

Make transport planes and use Air Supply Mission.

Only use Tactial Bombers Or other Longer Range Planes dont bother with the shitty fighters or cas.

Do build up one port and rail system usually from the northern front its easiest to push from that side. Hook it up to that one supply hub you can capture mid country. ( Dire Dawa ) ( Rail level 2 Port 4-5 )

Give out roles to general, field marshals, and field officers ( this is new stuff this patch)

Do the Focuses for ethiopia.

Make sure you produce a bunch of truck and set supply to 3 Trucks for for both sides of the army.

 

[Bradys5]

Some thing that help.

Make transport planes and use Air Supply Mission.

Only use Tactial Bombers Or other Longer Range Planes dont bother with the shitty fighters or cas.

Do build up one port and rail system usually from the northern front its easiest to push from that side. Hook it up to that one supply hub you can capture mid country. ( Dire Dawa ) ( Rail level 2 Port 4-5 )

Give out roles to general, field marshals, and field officers ( this is new stuff this patch)

Do the Focuses for ethiopia.

Make sure you produce a bunch of truck and set supply to 3 Trucks for for both sides of the army.

I have tried to use the aircraft for transporting supplies, using transport aircraft, but it always tells me I don’t have enough strategic supply in the area.

in my most recent attempts today I tried to build up the ports both north and south and to expand the RR lines from Rome to one of the size 6 ports in Italy.

This helped but I was still running out of supply.

I did think of that supply point that I could capture but I did not connect it, I will give that a go.

it does seem to be impossible to build supply hubs during the campaign, it usually seems like it takes several months to build but one of them.

 

[Findell_HOI]

Air supply from the northern Airport by the port.

Under no circumstance do you have to build another supply hub.

You really dont need the ports all that high level because 15 supply is enough for the units you start with.

You dont need to build up any extra train stuff in italy but there are 2 level 10 ports Taranto or La Spezia.

 

[Bradys5]

Air supply from the northern Airport by the port.

Under no circumstance do you have to build another supply hub.

You really dont need the ports all that high level because 15 supply is enough for the units you start with.

You dont need to build up any extra train stuff in italy but there are 2 level 10 ports Taranto or La Spezia.

The problem seems to be getting the supplies forward as the troops advance further into the country, past a certain point they simply don’t have any supply and the advance stalls as a result, but taking that supply hub would seem to solve the problem probably need to connect it with at least a level two railroad to one of my ports?

what do you mean set supply to three trucks for both sides?

 

[Findell_HOI]

Yes that does help but it more seems like you aren't using the Truck supply icon.

Under a Field marsh or General there is an icon that starts as a horse you want to change that to truck or multiple trucks depending on how many you have free to get more range from supply hubs.

 

[Bradys5]

Yes that does help but it more seems like you aren't using the Truck supply icon.

Under a Field marsh or General there is an icon that starts as a horse you want to change that to truck or multiple trucks depending on how many you have free to get more range from supply hubs.

O-, I was only changing the horse on the supply hubs to truck, I was not aware that you could change it under the general as well for the individual army presumably?

 

[jpd]

I don't even bother with supply. I just rope in all italian divisions, and simply smash foreward, covered by 96 TAC's in each air zone. Ethiopia collapses in two months. Mid march at the latest.

 

[lordgoof]

I don't even bother with supply. I just rope in all italian divisions, and simply smash foreward, covered by 96 TAC's in each air zone. Ethiopia collapses in two months. Mid march at the latest.

why can't i like your posts? this irks me somewhat.

 

[jpd]

why can't i like your posts? this irks me somewhat.

Frankly, I wouldn't know. There are plenty users who can though.

 

[blahmaster6k]

Frankly, I wouldn't know. There are plenty users who can though.

I think it has to do with moderator mode. Pretty sure I've heard @Secret Master say that if you post as a mod no one can react to your posts.

 

[Secret Master]

Frankly, I wouldn't know. There are plenty users who can though.

I think it has to do with moderator mode. Pretty sure I've heard @Secret Master say that if you post as a mod no one can react to your posts.

I won't show anyone the internal menus of the forum in public, but yeah, there is a way to set your posts to be likable. The default was changed at some point because the forum let randos like/dislike moderator posts when we were trying to police things.

I have gotten into the habit of changing the settings in my meme posts.

Speaking of which.....

 

[STABBY5]

Youre thinking about it to much. Put your airforce there and press go. Never stop attacking. I saw I was at a bit of a gun deficit at game start so I disbanded some of the garbage in Europe like cavalry. Critically though you do need to motorize the supply in Ethiopia or you'll run out near the capitol.

The emperor never got the leave the country.

 

[TalyonUngol]

Honestly, it was super easy to win as Italy. Just push in the north in the middle tile, make a surround on the left and then make a surround on the right. Ethopia wasn't the issue for me as Italy.... lol

 

[damnt512]

I can't quite understand the problem. In my game I won simply using the army already in Ethiopia, I simply sent my entire airforce to northern and southern Ethiopia airzone and start pushing. Supply only really became a problem when I start reaching central Ethiopia, but by then I've weakened their army enough that my supply problems did not matter much, it only slowed me down a bit. Are you sure you are using your airforce correctly, they are key to win in Ethiopia.

 

[Treviranus]

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Prometheus_1 said:
so you do not attack imediatly but wait all the reinforcements to arrive? U do have a video on how to do all that?

Here's what I did:
1. Attack immediately, did not wait for more troops to arrive.
2. Sent the planes stationed in Eritrea into action, didn't send the other planes, probably should have.
3. Gave the army in Somalia this battle plan, gave them two additionally cavalry divisions and told them to attack immediately. This should easily suffice for the mission to take the South.

4. Brought the army in Eritrea up to 24 divisions by giving them all mountaineers still in Europe and some more infantry. I attacked immediately without waiting for the reinforcements to arrive.
5. Told two divisions to stay behind (see the drawn arrow over the Red Sea). They waited until I annexed the Sultanate of Aussa through the event. Then I marched into Aussa with these two divisions.
6. I treated the circled area as low priority and sent most of my Northern army and all of the reinforcements through the middle straight towards Addis Ababa.
7. Once you have the capital, link up with the Southern army and go for victory points, prioritize those you can get quickly.

By using this approach I finished the war in early May. Somewhere at that time is the deadline to capitulate them without having them go into exile. It took me 3-4 attempts to be fast enough. Speaking from my own experience: 7th of May, 20:00 pm is enough. Could annex the country without any problems. I didn't complete the mission to pacify the country, but that had almost no effect since I already owned the country. I also used force attack sometimes. As soon as I could hire the infantry expert I did and I took theater training as the spirit of the academy as soon as I had 20 army XP to get closer to getting terrain traits for my generals.