You will still lack the industry necessary for tanks and aircraft, but you shouldn't need them yet.ĭecisions: Ethiopia begins with low stability, and that will become a problem later if not rectified. Research: If you haven't already, you will want to begin researching support equipment and artillery to add to your army. It will take around 2 years of throwing themselves at you for the Italians to start running low on manpower and equipment.Įconomy Law: Ethiopia doesn't produce many resources, so it will be very advantagious at this point to switch your economy law to Free Trade. Continue research into infantry weapons, electronics, and industry, forgetting about navy, tanks, and aircraft for the time being. From there, it is a matter of waiting and building up. Keep this up until you start accumulating supplies and winning battles. Be sure not to allow the northern and southern Italian forces to join into a single front. Be careful not to get pocketed, as you will be manually moving divisions. Try to reinforce mountainous tiles more because your troops will be more able to defend them. What this does is delay the Italians without losing too much equipment. As soon as the battle indicator turns red, order the engaged divisions to retreat. Inevitably, you will start to lose battles. Instead merely wait for the Italians to attack. I reccommend against this, as it is rarely successful and a risk to the few resources you have. Strategy: The Italians will not attack right away, so you may be tempted to try to take one of the ports in Somaliland. Send the single Kebur Zabagna to the north front into the mountains. Do not draw any frontlines or even move the Infantry Divisions. Inital Army Setup: Put all divisions into the same army under Seyoum Mengesha, then put his army under a field marshal when possible. At this point, immediately get the infantry expert, Haile Abba Mersa. Political Power: Do not spend political power on absolutely anything until you accumulate 150 power. It is crucial to keep the Italian forces separated. Once that is finished, build forts in the adjacent tiles to create a wall of forts that stretches from the west to the east. Once that's done, go back for Construction Effort III and Extra Research Slot I.Ĭonstruction: Immediately begin construction of a level 1 fort in Addis Ababa. From there, take Construction Effort I and II, then Armament Effort I-III. National Focus: The first focus selected should be Industrial Effort.

When the time comes, Grand Battleplan doctrine is recommended. Once industry is taken care of, research Infantry Equipment I.

It will be important to research the industrial technologies first (except Excavation and Synthetic Oil). Research: Right away, you'll want to research the Support Weapons I and Basic Machine Tools technologies.

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