How Ethiopia can be stupid strong - Crusader Kings 4 Achievement Guide

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[@Bitt3rSteel]

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[@LancerIHR]

I prefer the main game tbh

[@Bitt3rSteel]

@@LancerIHR oh yeah, no doubt. But for a mobile game, it's pretty fun

[@eossoda2490]

Bittersteel do you play clash of clans? Edit: because if you do you should make a tutorial on 3 starring a town hall 15 Actually you probably wont but it cant hurt to ask

[@gabrielkowalski3086]

Spooktober? Am I missing something? In my book it's December. :D

[@Bitt3rSteel]

@@gabrielkowalski3086 there may have been a delay in posting this....

[@KAPTAINmORGANnWo4eva]

Haile Selassie: I never thought I'd be fighting alongside an Italian. Benito Mussolini: What about a friend? Haile Selassie: ... Don't touch me.

[@spencergacker9553]

An alliance of convenience.

[@colBoh]

@@spencergacker9553 Politics make for strange bedfellows.

[@beniciounfiltered7861]

⁠@@spencergacker9553 just like he was to Germany

[@Kolvic9]

He actually did it... There's no way... I've been trying to find strategies for months; congrats, man!

[@Drazja]

Well come on its bitter

[@Aurthas]

I got it down course it was non historical and got lucky with UK going communism/de colonize

[@jonastheswede6256]

@@Aurthas look again. It was historical on.

[@Aurthas]

@@jonastheswede6256 I said I got it but did a game with none historical, remember as long as your on normal difficultly or higher with Ironman mode on you can get achievements

[@jonastheswede6256]

@@Aurthas yes you did, dident read it right. Sorry for that.

[@ragzaugustus]

Honestly, I love how most people would go "Viking Tamm? That must be an Easter egg or something". Nope, actual Swedish person, helped train the Ethiopian Army and stayed around for the start of the Second Invasion. It's always nice when games remember that you have random Europeans all over the place training armies in the interwar period. Lot's of WW1 veterans around, not all of them could be in German Freikorps leading coups and what not.

[@Aspenstorpemusic]

The Swedish went from training Somalians and helping then fight during the second italian invasion to making necklaces out of their bandmates' skull

[@elijahduce5323]

Can we just mention that the Empire of Solomon, basically mega-Israel, is a "valuable member of the Axis"

[@infixite8533]

Mega Palestine*

[@danielutriabrooks477]

@@infixite8533 * Greater Levant

[@ocelot9680]

Mega Israel is one funny word

[@Nowyuiiiseee]

@@infixite8533 *Mega Israel He’s the heir of Solomon, not the heir of Muhammad.

[@Otto1Bismarck]

@@Nowyuiiiseee solomon is also holy for muslims

[@ertrick3693]

35:13 looks like Prince Henry's had enough of the British royal family and decided he'd rather be with the cool guys in Ethiopia, lmao

[@chidubememma-ugwuoke9660]

LMAO.

[@tobiaspressler3726]

You can do the crusader IV by going to do the focus: boarding by the train, and ask UK. Then you capitulate and Rush legitimacy as much as possible. When you reach 100 you can ask for jerusalem and they will give it to you most times

[@Bitt3rSteel]

literally a 50/50 coin flip. besides, this is more fun

[@dna0303]

@@Bitt3rSteel While the other strategy is more efficient, I think this is much more in the spirit of the challenge

[@kleinerprinz99]

yeah and that 50/50 coin flip is not evenly distributed, its literally throwing dice and if youre unlucky you will end up with the UK saying no dozens of times, and with how PDX programs the game the coin flip is most likely already done at the start of the game and set in stone. Its just bad. There is too much RNG in decisions would should be influenced by your actions, its just big middle finger from them to the players

[@matthewplesniarski90]

​@kleinerprinz99 this is an old comment I know, but I figured I'd just share this information, most rng for events and decisions is loaded at the start of a new day. If you're able to reload and somehow push the trigger to a different day, you will have a different rng roll. Certain things (like improving relations) can (not will) change the roll mid day

[@TheBittersweetFox]

7 times harder now. Guns requests has been hidden under world tension...

[@ricklebleu4561]

yeah, and when italy takes aussa they put units on the capital

[@OfficialTedCruz]

the uprising mechanic is also bugged for me, no uprising happens when I click the button

[@user-sf5jq7tt8y]

Apparently out of all the problems of hoi 4 paradox decided that the worst of them is the fact that some people still can have fun in Ethiopia, and so they needed to fix it, best strategy

[@elbeto191291]

Well, thanks to you and SnoopPredictions I managed to actually enjoy playing Ethiopia! Even though I forgot about doing the collab on Palestine, I found this guide and the Reddit one pretty straightforward and easy to replicate. Welcome back Bitter, we missed you

[@sto1238]

Hitler inviting Ethiopia into the axis is absolutely cursed lmao 😂💀

[@gengarzilla1685]

I'm shocked that this doesn't make the Italian AI abandon Germany. Benito Mussolini would 100% throw a fit about Ethiopia being invited in.

[@rodd985]

I just completed this achievement, going to war with all allies and ending the achievements in >1950 lol I think the fully upgraded irregular infantry and Mass Assault is so, so powerful in Africa that it doesn't even compare to regular infantry (the problem with manpower can be solved forming Horn of Africa and Solomon Empire. Congrats, man!

[@kamikadzeto7]

A little thing I noticed here: Since you can't really push the south (Tanganyika or Tanzania) you could do the increase resistance there in advance to mess up their port with the Tanzania rebellion

[@nathaelvhaseyar4350]

You gotta do another one they made it way harder lol (Aussi Sultanate teleports its unit to the Capital instantly, you can't take it)

[@Roketsune]

3:16 This conjured the amusing vision of Bezos just sitting around playing tank and panzer games all day in a mid-life crisis precipitated by his retirement as Amazon's CEO.

[@ZarkinDrife]

Good job, in a lucky game following the same guide I managed to get 4 of the 5 Ethiopia achievements in one run in alt history ai. Incase anyone wants to know, you can move capitol to Palestine and do African union

[@queru1ous]

Thanks for the guide! Playing as Ethiopia honestly feels so underwhelming, they have so much potential to be OP but every goddamn time I just get stuck on the Horn of Africa defending from the endless waves of Allied forces while having at most 20 factories :(

[@Sopmod-py1ee]

Thanks for showing the guide on text, makes it really easy to follow

[@LeBiggles]

After 1500h in game I decided to do this as my first achievements run. Went well but spent 9 years at war and joined the Comintern cuz Italy glitched out and stayed at war after the peace treaty. Still a fun campaign though. Eventhough I didn't get the lion that roared cuz of the glitch.

[@AlejandroP123]

Glad to see my favourite mobile game sponsoring you, although a lil outdated since the event was over a month old

[@googane7755]

Ok I didn't know you can just release them and then annex, thats really smart. I was going crazy because I thought I had to capitulate the entire allies by actually building a navy and airforce, it was not fun to say the least...

[@styloxcrypto]

Nice tutorial I learned a lot about the game grinding generals is OP af even tho I can't receive land lease like in the video now I find out micro is better than using orders from battleplan also promoting generals when our generals suck

[@zogu_4730]

For "fait accompli" we pronounce it "fai taccompli" cause in french we use the "liaison"

[@tonyvanderkrogt2587]

Nice guide but because of the lend lease mechanics changed I'll have a huge deficit. So in my games I use a frontline over the north and south sides and an extra frontline of 2-3 units on the province that has the hardest time, for example Aussa. This makes the microing a lot easier.

[@darkequation]

Italy will now retain Aussa militia at the capital meaning you can't just walk right in when the annex happens (Italian might draw them away so if you seize the chance and pin them in the desert you can have it) And Comintern had their world tension threshold for lend-lease increased to 60%, meaning you'd have to buy guns from market

[@berkdikmen95]

13:28 NO! Giving him offensive doctrine actually improves his attack by one as you can see in the video. Also always promote your generals to Field Marshal because you get +1 trait slot when you do and there's no downside!

[@berkdikmen95]

@@onionsoups1327 Nope. Field marshal stats are half as effective on your troops when they are field marshals. For example, if your general has 10 attack it gives you +50% attack but if your field marshal has 10 attack and if you use him as a field marshal your troop gets a +25% attack on top of whatever it gets from your general

[@diegovandermeiren232]

Great video!

[@yougoslavia]

I didn't even realise I was early until I spent about 2 minutes watching the video.

[@solgerWhyIsThereAnAtItLooksBad]

Damn, it really took a whole other game for Light Tanks to be viable

[@lanleskovec8697]

well i guess it is time to do the crusader kings achivement

[@vonleeb4846]

Few comments to presented solution: 1. You don't need to rush to deploy Chitet Safari before Mehal Safari focus, you need to start producing them. 2. You may do also This time for Africa achievement in the same run if you take Towards African Unity focus instead of Salomon one. Crusader is given when you move capital to Jerusalem still being Aksum Imperium. If you take African Unity you should already have 5 countries as your subjects. For This time for Africa just try to take few countries from Portugal, Belgium and Free France by decisions. Eventually just conquer South Africa, you may release few countries from SA.

Any plans to go for the Red Sea achievement? I am struggling extremely hard with that one.

[@poyloos4834]

There’s actually a considerably easier way to win as Ethiopia that no one is talking about. The Italians don’t move to annex Aussa until they’ve takes Macalle. A frontline (plus a fallback line on the tile behind macalle in order to allow battered units to regain their org before going back into a fight) along macalle and Gondar is amazing, and not hard to set up, and you don’t have to deal with an expanded front. Do the same thing in the south as in this vid, but try to hold macalle, it’s crazy

[@Bitt3rSteel]

"try to hold macale" is not an easy strat. Yes, I can do it. But I'll never use it in a guide, because that's like saying "just don't suck". It's costly, stressful and difficult. Newer players have better options

[@poyloos4834]

@@Bitt3rSteel i suppose. It’s the easiest run I’ve ever done for Ethiopia, simply because having such a small front makes the north utterly trivial. And all you really have to do is immediately set the fallback line there.

[@pletskoo514]

but you miss out on a mill

[@Samar_Carroll]

tbh I did it once but I cant find the save game or redo it@@Bitt3rSteel

[@holaadios2263]

I just tried that strategy of holding in Macalle and it works like a charm, thanks!!

[@riggy1990]

I'm down to 65 achievements left Decided to try for them all. I sorted all 65 by community achievement. This was #59. I spun a wheel, and this is what I'm gunning for now. Will watch this video in detail (Again) and hope I can pull off this achievement. Dreading the Germany 1939 one (At least with that one, if you fail, you get to restart quickly)

[@yousseffiguigui510]

Whenever u need weapons and look for lend-lease Mongolia and tannu tuva : laughs is chad

[@DieFrauAmHerd]

Dug into the northern front, my railway didnt connect cause of italian planes. Couldnt dig in enough with this. Germans not willing to give me guns even though i maxed relations twice. Worst thing suddenly i get a tooltip, "we dont know about any exports regarding infantry equipment" from tanna tuva and mongolia. So no more guns coming in, no supply coming in, and the Italians just keep getting in more units and guns. Yeah pretty salty. Guide is great, but i dont get paradox achievments being so RNG reliant to work. Love your guides Bittersteel keep at it if you can. I hope nxt time i get better RNG.

[@aufwiedersehen..]

Best hoi4 youtuber.

[@lucaskroneman9498]

I thought you meant you’d have a way to peace out the allies when you said without capitulation. I really don’t like dealing with infinite us naval invasions

[@colBoh]

I wish this game-- or at least, a mod-- gave you the option to control which focus your puppets take. It would make strengthening Ethiopia a hell of a lot less random.

[@tonyleier]

that would be extremely annoying if you were playing as a puppet, so there's a reason it's not in the game.

[@colBoh]

@@tonyleier Then there should be a way to turn it off before the game starts, like with the "Puppet gives war score to overlord" or "Faction member gives some war score to faction leader" options.

[@greaterbelgiummapping1266]

Hi Bitter im am huge fan, also disaster from russian empire link in desc when?

[@AdmiraHax]

Himmler: "Mein Führer, I thought we hated ze Jews..." Hitler: "Das ist right, Heinrich, but look at zem bois go in ze Afrika. Could Mussolini ever do something like zat?"

[@todo1231]

Isnt ethiopia a christian country?

[@danielutriabrooks477]

@@todo1231The Solomonic Dynasty descends from Solomon, a jew

[@poiuytrewq11422]

Yes, but they're Christians. As were all starting Christians before Non-Jews were accepted in. Not that it would have helped, Hitler hated all Religion and Himmler was a Norse Paganphile.

[@Cotton_Collector]

Bro you are de best

[@VitaKet]

Is this stil possible? I tried this and got steamrolled. Aussa has been occupied as soon as it flips on several attempts...

[@kelmonfoz4226]

I love me some crusader kings 4

[@jonidymeti5396]

Wanna know the ultimate suffering? Doing anti tank gun only (the ones in the arty branch).

[@DarpMasta_JDKg1375]

Can you try re-doing these achievements? Because I feel like Italy got a buff in Ethiopia

[@Rosa-xg8tb]

This is really cool

[@ok.55180]

The way he lead us to watch the ad... insane.

[@klo3496]

Finally achieved this ..in 1945! It was touch and go..now going to try get This Time for Africa..Thanks Bitter.

[@Razorrx223]

Can you make Heinrich Himmler revolution?

[@LocoMotive931]

I tried to start doing this, but for some reason the northern army just keeps leaving the one tile open next to the river. It is so annoying because the Italians can just simply walk through. Anyone else experienced the same problem? Is it a bug?

[@arnokyupelyan3027]

Cool video

[@6th_Army]

I have no idea what was changed. But it worked.

[@xorphelius]

Could we get a look at Yugoslavia again? I'm trying to get hugeoslavia currently and everytime France withdraws guarantees from me so I eventually end up at war with both the allies and axis

[@yamamotohiromori419]

Germany to Italy : you losing to then is the best thing that happen to us

[@leus9513]

in my games tanna tuva only gives me 20 weapons and mongolia never accepts

[@ossiannordh2310]

Im surviving on disaster saves, please make me stay alive

[@viclorenzo5016]

Epic 👍

[@Captainofparagon]

Question, in the us focus tree I can’t get the communist path so your us tutorial is impossible to do and it’s really annoying, I got no step back dlc on so idk want to do please help!.

[@albatts4706]

I know this is a year old however I think that there was an update in HOI where I can not get guns from any country until world tension in 50% any advise bitter? And Merry christmas

[@Cl-l13F]

i been trying for 3days, idk maybe 10 times, its not possible with AaT update, so i rolled back to 1.12.14 last by blood alone update, to gain access to lend lease.again i failed few times firstly: italy never stops attackin on both fronts secondly: even at half strength italian divs hold like crazy. thirdly: lend lease guns from mongolia and tuva insufficient. i barely hold current stock, they dont give no more than total 500guns. at best case scenario i had -6guns per day. with that defecit , attacking makes you melt slowly and u end up with like -6000 guns and stalemate, where in this video Bitter ends the war. fourthly : those events which giving either pp or mil is no more, completely removed. it didnt happen not even once in my dozens of attempts. fifth : assau's region dont have any mils anymore. tho still a good place for defense. sure, i can hold my ground indefinitely but once ww2 kicks, italy-ethiopia white peace happens, and erethia and somaliland is out of your reach. if you try to declare war on them then they join allies. idk what else to do at this point, either italy is stupidly strong or ethiopia very weak. and there s no way to rollback to originial 1.12.0 by blood alone patch. which i assume this video based on.

[@JULIAN11.]

​@@Cl-l13FI have the game updated (all the DLC bought minus the latest one) and managed to get the white peace by late 1938 (~November), the trickiest part was getting the south right, it took me ~5 attempts but I managed to fully kicked them out (in attempt 3 I managed to kick them out but I didn't leave any division in the ports and you can imagine what happened) - after that the north was very easy If you want to have it as reference, the Italians had taken ~150k casualties by the time I started pushing in the south - by the time I started in the north they had wasted like ~15 divisions in naval invasion, so pushing through the north was quite trivial (and just as a side note, I was just reaching level of scalation 9 and the Italians had 450k casualties by the time the white peace fired)

[@cherrymarshmallow]

The title scared me, I was a bit confused. Then realization.

[@salazarmerlin1385]

Bitt3rSteel I've got an idea, why don't you just have a shot on Belgium? I s'ppose it's gonna be fun.

[@futsalslorok8144]

I still don't understand how to annex those federal states, did only take the increase infrastructure decision or U also build factory??

[@MunchKING]

OH!! "Crusader Kings IV" is an *achievement!*

[@pasbaf]

after trying and trying to get the achiviemnt through this guide, l did it! and as l reformed the empire, l just realized l was running the 'demand it' mod by accident and l want to end my life

[@boungecz8596]

Can you try and save Endsieg mod the 1945 one?

[@ScP-049-01]

In terms of production we have no production

[@SheklerStealerIII]

I think it could be cool if you played Russia in Kaiserredux (not kaiserreich it’s bland in the original mod) I’d like to see you do the second civil war for the socialists

[@amirtp_]

How get the naval support to 50%, no Deckard to build ship

[@Finn_the_Cat]

With AAT out I wonder, is that strategy still viable of begging for guns off of the tannu tuvans or is buying stuff off the market the better option now

[@JULIAN11.]

I managed to kick Italy out of Africa without the DLC (so no market) and as I was playing the most recent version, no Tannu Tuva lend lease - it is more difficult than before but it is still doable (for reference, it took me until November of 1938 to kick them and for the white peace to fire)

[@salzmann4207]

Belgian guy causes chaos in africa Hmmm, do i know that situation? No, nothing happened in the congo

[@kleinerprinz99]

Oh about that 5% research bonus. I do not think its worth it and that you will get it anways maybe because after a while there is a decision on right hand side that will popup where you can trade in 5% research bonus for 5%? stability and the way its formulated suggests you already have that bonus and its like switch / lever you can flip around.

[@hundekeks3831]

It somehow doesnt work for me, italians always push to far and then i lose. Some ideas why?

[@shamashin3542]

sad to say with the patch that requires world tension to get lend lease this doesnt appear to work anymore.

[@512TheWolf512]

imagine if federal empire wasn't a focus, this would havve been absolutely impossible

[@Bitt3rSteel]

its so broken, but its also the only really good focus ethiopia has

[@Kilroy_washere]

Neat

[@warhammer1244]

no matter what I do, I can never push the italians out. Defending is easy enough, but once I need to counterattack the south, they start stacking divisions there and it makes things impossible to push after I take a few tiles.

[@quandalusdingelous]

This ethiopia is shit af even as liberia i can do more i destroyed every division on the South and then they naval invaded me with another fully equiped 10 divisions same on north 🤡

Every now and then the Italian AI goes super fucking aggro on you. Most of the time you tend to get lucky tho and Benito forgets how to move his units.

[@terrorinc3237]

I got like no events throughout the war, I cry

[@TheCornishKnight]

Why does Prince Henry have the Monarchist Britian King George VI protrait?

[@emielverwaeren6550]

saw you on reddit begium

[@richardalex4516]

I dig your Solomonic Empire.

[@tjs23gamer20]

At lest for me, this way of getting the achievement does not work. 1. Italy instantly moves into Aussa with 2 units 2. World tension limit for lend lease Does anybody know how to solve these issues?

[@Torpoint.]

could you do an australia game

[@Joshua429]

Here is my 2023 Bitt3rSteel prediction:I think that he will reach 200k subs by fall or winter .

[@user-hg6ps4ne1f]

Hi can we see what mods ur bought?

[@06dpa]

Damn, so that's how they beat me in the tutorial.

[@muscalaur6807]

How did you naval invade without a navy?

[@leizzy1441]

33:17 how did you do that? Starting just one specific attack order? I have 4000 hours in hoi4 and I dont even knew this existed as a feature

[@Bitt3rSteel]

hold shift when you click the start icon and then click the order you want to start

[@leizzy1441]

@@Bitt3rSteel i Will try later, thanks!

[@chasecolin1]

I don’t know how you’re able to defeat Italy because every time I try my units suck and can’t break through their line when you start to push south. I’m on my third attempt and just cannot keep enough strength or org to beat them. I’m so stuck. It’s easy to defend against them but they just keep throwing themselves into me where I can’t get an org and it’s so frustrating

[@gridquid8010]

You have to wait it out since Italy gets weaker overtime

[@iaminsideyourhouse-]

*Historical focuses on* Romania: *I don't think so*

[@aatroxnoxus8299]

« Aksumite Palestine » led by prince Henry x)

[@Cactuscult]

How do you get the lend lease so early? It says for me i cnst ask for a lend lease until the world is at 60% tension

[@Bitt3rSteel]

They changed the lend lease mechanic in the last patch

[@ovrsurge4689]

I had the same issue rip. Nobody in my market is providing guns either, maybe there is a way to use that feature to obtain your guns but otherwise things are going to be very slow going.

[@ovrsurge4689]

ok, so there is a league of nations resolution barring arms exports to ethiopia right now, that explains why so few countries are even in my market.

[@Cactuscult]

ohhhh I wish they made this information more obvious@@ovrsurge4689

[@nicolaosplastiras4469]

I Have never seen a greece world conquest. I am trying it the last 3 years i am playing hoi4

[@kamladevi4500]

Good

[@humanoid3297]

Italy once said ,,is there a country which will fight us with bows and arrows" guess there wasn't with this man controlling ethiopia

[@blacksand9106]

Could you try anarchist-communist Ethiopia I could not get the Red Sea achievement while playing as them and I wonder if you could

[@markwilliams8941]

You can do similar balkanize as communist if you go full anarchist balance of power with lower than 40 stability. Then do horn of africa focus to reintegrate.

[@tomi19981998]

@@markwilliams8941 how? I've also been trying? Cause you can't liberate the nations?

[@markwilliams8941]

@@tomi19981998 As I said above its based on the balance of power bar you get anarchist vs communist. The max anarchist section says your country will break apart with less than some amount of communist support or low stability. After you get max left section on bar with condutions met, an event will fire asking if want to fight all the broken up countries or let them be independent. Let them be independent and then reform country with horn of Africa focus

[@SamuelMaluco379]

This one was easy to me, i played on unhistorical and the uk decolonized, the one I am getting annoyed to get is the african union achievement

[@tamasczigola6392]

Southern border was not as easy to destroy as for you :/ got encircled in the end. guess I will play it safe next time.

[@j.m.f5451]

The timing in this is really finnicky for much of this strategy I'm finding, and it doesn't seem like you've gone over how exactly you achieve naval supremacy to launch the naval invasion at all. Maybe there's some exploit here that's not being mentioned, but I certainly can't do it without -some- ships. Still a bit of a nuisance achievement.

[@kingtommen6454]

just to the focus that allows you to purchase old ships. Ask Germany and Japan for lend lease and they will give you convoys once you dont have enough

[@tunahan4418]

I did everything you did and they just kept pushing and got aussa and even encircled me south. ?????

[@thatnnoob6109]

As a Christian this whole Ethiopia Aksumite/Solomon stuff is pretty chad.