Surviving As Ethiopia In The New Hearts Of Iron 4 DLC - By Blood Alone 

So what do you think of the new Ethiopian tree? 🤔

I like how the nation that used to be the one you'd kill in the tutorial now has a bigger focus tree than the united states

I like how when the game first launched countries like the UK and US had the biggest focus trees… and now Italy, Spain and Ethiopia completely blow them out of the water

Yeah... anarchist Ethiopia was the first country I played for this patch. And all the critiques I had with the tree were exactly as those stated in the video. Removing the negative modifiers shouldn't be locked into 1 decision at a time (it's the Communist China issue all over again, even 2 at a time would be immensely better) On the African Union, I hate how nations accepting to join is not a high enough percentage, I guess I just never liked the % chance events in Hoi4. It also takes stupid amount of PP. It's like 600 pp per nation from joining the union to annexation if they all always accept.

When he doesn’t call us his gravy babies… 😢

Whenever Isp goes Anarchist governments its actually a super intelligent inside joke referencing how his braincells work after playing HOI4 for 5 years

Ethiopia has two perfect starting generals that I think are Level 1 but have the Mountaineer and Hill Fighter traits, and if you pick the Planning focus and rush Scavenging Tactics in the military tree, you can have two _amazing_ generals for fighting in Africa and even beat back the Italians in the South without burning the offensive focus on it. The Ethiopia tree is basically exactly what I want to be the template for a future Finland tree if they ever make it.

Play as historical Switzerland on 2 speed. It will be fun

Every time they add a new nation you should restart the entire A-Z series

I love how ISP beats the Italians in like 2 years but Alex takes 10 tries and 1941 to even hold out

Paradox is like an abusive bf. First they give good DLC but then they go ahead and add lend-leases for the full price, or give Baltic States unique focus trees.

I want a Sultanate of Aussa artillery only world conquest speedrun

We need a mega campaign where you do a hard role play Of Switzerland staying neutral

You know why it was so hard? You moved away from the Rastafarian reincarnation of the Lord: Emperor Haile Selassie. Bombaclot.

Winning as Ethiopia my first time around, holding out until level 10 escalation, with Haile Selassie staying, was so unbelievably satisfying.

Just did the Ethiopian Run myself. Stuck with the Monarch, guy has a fancy title, who am I to argue, and had him stay in the nation. I admit I kind of futzed around a lot and didn't do things optimally. I had "Fait Accompli" basically ready to go for about two years before I clicked it to get out of the war. Mostly because I was amused by the chaos that having the war going on was causing. Italy gets a ticking -1% warscore at max escalation every week. When World War 2 kicked off they were at (due to it) 2% War Support and 12% Stability. The French almost capitulated them before they were last minute saved by the Nazis taking Paris. Not to mention I had Libya spit out two nations from their instability it seemed with a Kingdom of Libya like you saw in this run, and a Lybian Electorate Democracy. The insanity of it all lead to the fact that Albania apparently refused annexation by Italy (though did join the Axis), and Greece actually declared war on Albania instead of Italy starting up Balkan things. It was... gloriously stupid in some of the weird effects that came out of it before I decided I had finished screwing over Italy (and the Axis) enough and actually did Fait Accompli. I did however find the "Foster Rebellion" sort of thing... yeah. It's tedious. And doesn't work if you don't basically beeline right to it skipping out on a lot of important "Fix your nation that has nothing" sort of stuff. I only ended up getting French Somaliland out of it. Sad because I kind of like the concept of it, but between how the UK starts the game with what, like 80% compliance in those regions anyway, and how little you get out of it... yeah. It's kind of sad. Side note also was disappointed that kind of like the Canada tree where you have to choose between: "Do you want to make stuff, or do you want to have manpower?" Ethiopia has a similar "Do you want to actually have resources, or do you want to have research?" option. That was very painful.

Fun tidbit: If you manage to take Lybia or Morocco and buy a few ships, you're just able to invade Portugal to annex its colonies and make use of its factories and resources. Once you have Portugal, Belgium, Netherlands and Spain are now viable targets if they're still around.

To reach the full potential of the lend-lease war score mechanic send loads of oil and you will fully take everyone's war participation

Just came here from ISP channel. Am a little embarrassed I'd seen this channel linked to ISP channel, and it didn't click until about an hour ago that it was the same bloke. Hahaha. Love your stuff, mate!!

"Nothing will beat the Mighty Ethiopian Navy, Ethiopia Rules the waves!"

Isorrow keeps on loosing his mind slowly but surely

Btw this is the exact path I chose to be my first guidance into the new patch and DLC! And boy is it broken af Also you get insane PP maluses as Anarchists and you need like 12000 PP to conquer and core Africa so prepare to play until 2100’s 🤡🤡🤡 Also all nations you’re helping to rise up will join Great Eastern Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere permanently locking you from snatching them because WHY THE HELL NOT, AMIRITE PARADOX?

A-Z be like: ITS BEEN 2 MONTHS, TAKE AN AUSSA

Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes

Yeah this focus tree is broken and sadly not in the fun way..... i was attempting to do red sea earlier and was not able to cause revolts plus it takes 750 pp to fully integrate 1 nation into the african union

The Ethiopia challenge Alex: *Has too spend 2 games just for white peace* iSorrow: *Beats Italy by 1941, gains land from them and causes African revolts* Such a stark contrast lol

Something I remember reading pretty much sums it up: stand in the mountains for 2 hours

Paradox out here spoiling us with good updates

Ethiopian Tibet sounds weirdly appropriate : they both have very religious people with a monastic tradition, live in elevated areas and are very resilient. That's one fusion that could work honestly

Love ur vids ,I watch them a lot during school ❤

When I clicked on this video, I didn't expect Ethiopian railguns to be a thing. Now, it's all I want in an RTS game

Its actually easier to annex Africa as the Spanish Anarchists, and it requires less PP to integrate provinces than it does for Ethiopia, needs rework ASAP as it is now...

Yo ISP i figured out the reason why canada is listed as C on the A-Z board and greece is put on K. So in the base game without dlc canada is just renamed to "Canada" while greece remains as the kingdom of greece. So its weird but it kinda makes sense.

iSorrowproductions your videos are very funny and I enjoy them

I find it hilarious that the original Italian focus tree is such a meme and so shit that they put in a cut down version of the dlc one without the alternate history paths into the game for the people who haven’t bought the dlc.

one more entry on the long list of "evidence that paradox doesnt know what testing is"

I was literally thinking, "wonder when Isorrow will play Ethiopia" when I got the notification!

Fun fact, if you go down the soviets path and you beat Italy on your own without having the ussr mediate peace you can stay indipendant

The integration of the african union should be more of an imperial federation type thing with events and focuses rather than a shit ton of decisions and pp

I just tried to be Ethiopia a few hours ago! (I surrendered in 4 months :D)

ISP: Next to Ethiopia is another nation were not going to be talking about Me: ah yes Djibouti

just a tip, they're more likely to say yes if you improve your relationship with them, at like +20 opinion, they'll always accept in my experience edit: i tried doing ethiopia with no PP cheats and it's basically impossible, at 1946 i only had 1 country fully annexed and 1 more in the process of being annexed

Oh nice, you actually get a chance to do African Union, in my video it just entirely broke :P

6:47 A bad time be eating a croissant whilst being a frenchman.

Is he going to redo A to Z now with the new focuses

Clearly a theocratic Ethiopia with Tibet and Rome

Nice vid

>Ethiopian-owned Rome My lil' habesha heart swelled at the sight of that

10:33 might just be the best WAAA from ISP in a long time 😂

I was rewatching the Yugoslavia A2Z video and this popped up

ISP out here playing Tropico 7

You should do a CO OP with BO and Alex as Ethiopia 🇪🇹 👀

I think isp learnt the definition of insanity

Africa LARP. ISP “it sucks.” Welcome to Africa.

Thanks to this DLC a update came to my old version of the game and I finally have forced attack and general skill tree.

They should re-do the resources for africa so its actually worthwhile, maybe a tiny bit more factories

so this path is just >one interesting war at the start >save up political power and click decisons for years on end >the rng doesnt go your way so the independent countries the decisions spawn dont join you >the game is fucking over and you havent done anything

I'm surprised and disappointed that they didn't add more resources to Africa. It was colonized in the first place because of the abundant resources there...

You forgotten that french also eat snails and rotten cheese.

I have this mental image of Churchill going through a vicious cycle of drunk dialing Ethiopia like "c'mon baby I didn't mean it, come back to me," and then sobering up and saying "I invited bloody WHO to the Allies? To hell with that!"

It is satisfying when you hold out and force Italy to make peace

Damn, I would have loved Paradox to introduce the erhiopian focus tree before the bald failure one.....

Anarchist Bureaucracy; never thought I'd hear that...

You have gotten really good at editing

what I don't get is how come Ethiopia got a focus tree and yet Finland hasn't gotten one yet

Imagine if they added micro nations and gave the most overpowered focus trees

You can go down soviet aid, take their guns and win by yourself. that skipps the puppet part

I think it made the peace deals better. Before, it would turn the borders into swiss cheese. But now it makes the borders more realistic, like what they would be after a real war. It's more similar to the divide of Eastern and Western Germany.

Nothing says anarchism like centralising an entire continent under one government!

Is that my favorite funny hoi4 man? Yes, it's him

I honestly think ethiopia's focus tree is bigger than france, Uk, USA and Japan. Also germany.

Did you know that when I play as Germany and historical on,Ethopia won and sign a white peace

Imagine finding this chaotic madman while searching for #spaghetti

Oh boy, my favorite RU-vidr is playing Ethiopia!

No bad italian tree, no gravy babies, what do we behold?

March of the eagles A2Z!

You know the views are gonna go crazy when he uses this type of thumbnail.

A-Z IS BACK IT HAS RETURNED

HOI IV needs a Custodian Team a la Stellaris like yesterday, but it doesn't look like it'll be happening.

My first game as Ethiopia I won. I gave them two tiles so i could hold the river in the north and never lost a single tile in the south. I find it too easy, they never even got the event to annex Aussa so it was a neutral actor the whole war for me. I wish it was a tad harder.

So many dlcs later and still funny map man has not shot himself. How?

Yessir new episode of A-Z coming soon!!!!

i did the same communist playthrough, it seemed like fun, but it wasnt i had about the same experience but italy joined the allies right before i finally pushed them out of the north

The war participation going down with lend lease gives me an idea: Sit there as a country in the middle of nowhere without a focus tree (let’s just go with NZ) and slowly try and dwindle everyone else’s war score in a war

Kaiserreich A to Z when?

Tryed this on unhistorcial as my first playthrough witz the new dlc….. I smashed my pc when italy joined the allies

"Gonna make Last Stand way cheapierre."

Guess you've got to do the entire A-Z from the very beginning

You should play as chad since it's on the same continent

I was waiting for this

Next thing I would love to see for HOI4 is a custom focus tree for Finland.

Are the special episode "all the releasable nations" in the A to Z playlist ? I hope it was a real episode and not a fever dream.

Its actually quite easy to cause revolts in the one or two province african nations. You just have to wait until the resistance reaches 60% and then give them guns because then they go above 90% and instantly revolt. Its harder in some of the nations that have multiple core provinces like egypt and sudan, but once I worked that out I didn't fail to cause a revolt once. It didn't matter though because they still dont join the executive committee even when at max relations. I think if they let you do more at once and cut the PP cost of the decisions it would be a much better focus treee.

I think the Ol' Rambler Try path is the best Ethiopia path I've seen so far, have you thought about trying it out?

man really went for the least wacky path we coulda had zion

And in this A to Z series we had a rat….bring the rat back

Aussa won’t capitulate so long as you hold macinda or whatever that city beginning with m on the border with them. Italy can only pressure them when they have a certain number of border tiles.

A to Z is missing Aussa

Played Italy on ironman, and almost got greater Italy, but I think my Croatian collab gov made it impossible. Dopamine denied. Hours wasted :(

I hope they update political power, it was good at the start but they have so many new things in the game you end up never having enough