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

Checking out the new Ethiopian focus tree and Anarchy path in hearts of iron 4 by blood alone! Stay tuned for more fun stuff!
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[@iSorrowproductions]

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

[@riskgd]

it is a focus tree

[@Liam-bo6de]

Aussy better

[@Mancer77]

It is ethiopian

[@Natpad_027]

Aussa wc when?

[@lordkroak6670]

Why didn’t you call us Gravy babies 😭😭

[@ValueNetwork]

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

[@Mamenber]

Ethiopia blows them out of the water because Ethiopia rules the waves

[@dredgie9367]

They really could do with going back and reworking the UK tree. It and Germany feel quite dated these days compared to the more modern trees.

[@sol_in.victus]

@@dredgie9367 they need a team that looks at past dlcs and how they interact with eachother like stellaris cause its a hot mess

[@poyloos4834]

Well, bigger doesn’t mean better. A lot if times the minors with more focuses have less substance to their focuses. Like the (only) two civ focuses for Germany giving six civs each. That’s 140 days for 12 civs. Most minors will get less civs than that for their entire economic tree, and that may take a year to complete, if not more

[@dzello]

@@dredgie9367 It's not worth it. It's better for them to go like an African rework or a South American rework than it is going back to update older trees that were extensive but aren't anymore.

[@jodkavodka3126]

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

[@arielbemeliahu8619]

And better dont forget

[@walnzell9328]

Does the tutorial even function anymore?

[@TempestLM]

@@arielbemeliahu8619 not really better, judging by some Ethiopia videos I saw (like this one)

[@daniellee4003]

@@walnzell9328 they deleted it and replaced it with those little videos that annoy the fuck out of you until you turn them off, if I remember correctly

[@senseishu937]

@@daniellee4003 really? That's even worse than the old italy tutorial then. At least you learned some things there.

[@DevinPurcell]

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

[@owwerlord6921]

sad times :(

[@maxchristersson376]

We will always be the gravy babies, don't worry about it :)

[@highgeneralkage2748]

Mission accomplished

[@Liam-bo6de]

ranch infants

[@FauzyGamerz]

Pain

[@jnliewmichael4235]

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.

[@waterking1013]

I found that if you increase relations they will accept

[@spritemon98]

600 is expensive

[@jnliewmichael4235]

@@waterking1013 Still not 100% accept rate sometimes even at 100 opinion. Also, that would be additional PP required, which is already an issue. I've not checked the files, but while we can ask Belgium to join the AU, even at 100 relations, Belgium doesn't seem to ever accept any requests to even join the African Union Hmm, might check the files tomorrow.

[@SentryWill]

Improve relations to get them to join. That's how I got Belgium into mine. It's also funny how a lot of the anarchist modifiers decrease your political power and it's one of the most costly focus sections in all of hoi4

[@waterking1013]

@@jnliewmichael4235 I managed to get Belgium to join

[@ektoe7455]

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

[@yeatnumber1Dmuncher]

mfw ISP dismantles the very idea of a nation just for a meme

[@potatopanter3755]

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

[@randompirate774]

I want a Sultanate of Aussa artillery only world conquest speedrun

[@yeatnumber1Dmuncher]

Sultanate of Aussa Ragnarok mod

[@shanepower9201]

Democratic Aussa military police only

[@iantheroman1016]

❤

[@KAPTAINmORGANnWo4eva]

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.

[@Brandonmw1901]

Did the Finland tree meet your expectations

[@KAPTAINmORGANnWo4eva]

@@Brandonmw1901 Finland, especially historical Finland, is pretty overpowered actually. The Winter War isn't much of a struggle if you optimize the Focus Tree and line up a full army on the border. Fun factor is there but in terms of a stimulating challenge that feels like solving a puzzle when you succeed I like Ethiopia more than Finland.

[@nikolakolev2168]

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

[@keris8708]

*1 speed

[@nikolakolev2168]

@@RachinBg Така преценихме, аз и жена ми да сме в изолация заради Ковид-19

[@hypestar4156]

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

[@lovablesnowman]

ISP is legitimately excellent at HOI4 though. Alex is genuinely terrible, doesn't even like the game and only plays it because it's all his viewers watch/all the algorithm likes

[@SMGJohn]

You can beat the Italians by 1937 LOL, just hold in the mountains and the hills in the South, Italy literally grinds itself to death down there, all you need to do is spam guns and steal them from your fellow Comrades or buy them whichever focus tree you go down that is.

[@shadowlord1418]

Hey i dont watch alex because hes good

[@lovablesnowman]

@@shadowlord1418 it's not a personal attack or anything. I quite like Alex's content. However he is genuinely terrible at HOI4 and clearly doesn't even like the game. Just he has to keep coming back to it to keep his channel alive Feel bad for the guy tbh

[@viewer.123]

@@lovablesnowman seems like ISP and Alex deal with their map game depression very differently, ISP doubles down and let's it all out - he seems to enjoy the pain at this point meanwhile Alex bottles it all up. Can't wait for Mr Ramblers inevitable mental break down

[@neonmoose315]

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.

[@sndsunderstagel3114]

Idfk what kinda relationship you've been in but listen to me when I tell you that your boyfriend lend leasing you or giving baltic states new focus trees in the hit game hearts of iron 4 isn't normal

[@HistoryNerd8765]

Hey, I like playing as the Baltics.

[@Jack_Dab]

Don’t hate on the baltics

[@ivorycxxxx]

The Baltics are fun!!!!

[@unique00925]

Death or dishonor wasn't bad, change my mind.

[@amossebastian3749]

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

[@hitomisalazar4073]

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.

[@JohnDoe-ut7cq]

My brother in Christ did you forget your MLA citations for this paper?

[@Batmans_Pet_Goldfish]

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

[@frankunderbush]

Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes

[@GrafEisen1]

Bruh

[@the4xgamer765]

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

[@captain_hammer]

Lol imagine if Romania got to annex the entire USSR because they sent so much oil to Germany... That would be so cursed

[@Stoowarb_official24]

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

[@gabrieljoseozanan6989]

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.

[@rickfordmorningstar130]

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

[@user-cd4bx6uq1y]

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

[@Field_Marshal_Emu]

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!!

[@MrVentches]

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

[@alexrempel3274]

Literally. Sucks so much because I actively wanna enjoy the game like come on lmao

[@pootispow791]

Isorrow keeps on loosing his mind slowly but surely

[@tmadlegionsoul3255]

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

[@rileywoods8864]

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

[@weedsome1719]

Watch your teacher tho, you don't want to end up as a youtuber :/

[@ZKGaming129]

iSorrowproductions your videos are very funny and I enjoy them

[@cheeseman9008]

You have gotten really good at editing

[@SCP-1762-BOL]

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

[@aidanking4197]

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

[@Twiggy_00]

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

[@criptyx8981]

Paradox out here spoiling us with good updates

[@yeatnumber1Dmuncher]

@Bully peter 🤖

[@idcgaming518]

@@yeatnumber1Dmuncher yes he is. I guess we have MVM IRL now.

[@weedsome1719]

The fact you cal dlc an update disgusts me

[@ddarkon1223]

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

[@Minedagate661]

I was waiting for this

[@Franciko69]

I was rewatching the Yugoslavia A2Z video and this popped up

[@greysonholtzclaw5276]

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.

[@thefedezboy]

I think isp learnt the definition of insanity

[@ThreeIrishMen]

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

[@ernotuominen1581]

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

[@weedsome1719]

I wish i had disposable income to gift you dlc's brother

[@queru1ous]

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?

[@minoune3709]

Nice vid

[@6th_Army]

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

[@whiteink225]

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

[@Arbiter099]

ISP out here playing Tropico 7

[@Dock284]

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

[@justindagoose377]

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.

[@cnlbenmc]

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

[@Timmy_-jj4wm]

Oh boy, my favorite KZbinr is playing Ethiopia!

[@marcuswillbrandt5901]

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

[@putinslittlehacker4793]

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

[@mathmathgeography5589]

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

[@jacobsage1711]

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

[@MrJones._]

ISP makes it look so much easier than what Alex the rambler does

[@justinambru8529]

You forgotten that french also eat snails and rotten cheese.

[@zachgamr5475]

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.

[@FloridaMan10]

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

[@egebop221]

Gamer moment

[@dwightd.eisenhower2031]

:D

[@janys6502]

In the south fall back to the 5 mountain tiles with 8 divisions, up north wait for the little country to be annexed and fall back so you have to only hold 4 mountain tiles with the rest.

[@senko1145]

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

[@carltonleboss]

He's coming for Djibouti

[@minigamerguy1232]

ISP you have to play as the tiny nation next to Ethiopia so the A to Z still works

[@yapalskippy1807]

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

[@rinvonrinnomi8525]

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

[@ThugRammus]

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

[@kittensofdeath4904]

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

[@TheMovieClipGuy69]

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

[@xXxAngryBird101xXx]

When it gets updated, you should do an AtoZ with The Great War mod

[@samuelzachariah8739]

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

[@joegibson1566]

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

[@JDBD13]

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

[@Aldrahill]

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

[@Thephantomsolder]

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

[@alexdita4006]

Holy nasaly voice. Good video!

[@jdsquane8044]

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!"

[@someguycalledcerberus9805]

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

[@Eisenwulf666]

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

[@ThreeIrishMen]

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

[@RenneVangr]

Imagine finding this chaotic madman while searching for #spaghetti

[@emib6599]

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.

[@lupushonora6882]

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.

[@Yellowpuffin]

I tried that as well and even then they do not revolt. This stuff is broken at the moment.

[@AnonymousWerewolf]

"Gonna make Last Stand way cheapierre."

[@sheppycider123]

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.

[@wulf4785]

A-Z IS BACK IT HAS RETURNED

[@L1GHTYBOY]

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

[@glitchyikes]

Clearly a theocratic Ethiopia with Tibet and Rome

[@SMGJohn]

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...

[@154Kilroy]

I tried playing Ethiopia and it was actually going really good, but after a year or so the Italians advanced in two tiles and I don't understand how or why considering it had been showing green. But that was it for me. I'll try again in the future, but I don't understand what I did wrong. So it put me off somewhat.

[@geofff.3343]

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

[@swaguelclemens9164]

10:00 ISP discovering the trap of decolonization.

[@Krasipol]

I actually hope they add a focus tree for brazil or any other south american nation next. Also i hope they implement the peruvian ecuadorian war into vanilla at some point.

[@seanparker3203]

Kaiserreich A to Z when?

[@edmundthespiffing2920]

It reminds me even more why I don't play vanilla anymore.... Though the new DLCs have added good features.

[@gaspertrobis8538]

March of the eagles A2Z!

[@electricVGC]

At least Aussa was in the Ethiopia episode in the mod lol

[@thediethrower1803]

Anarchy but with only one law, no spaghetti

[@freddederman7270]

We need a mod that lets you play till like 2000 or whatever the start date for millennium dawn is. And also one that is millennium dawn but you can customize the countries

[@holyhan3219]

you should play a game with the chaos mod, the country roulette mod, and the random country placement mod

[@holyhan3219]

for more pain also do artilery only

[@arthurzwachte5537]

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

[@egebop221]

From what I've seen, the dlc looks great, however, my Hoi4 game has had a problem for a while now where it crashes after a few minutes when I play Italy... Perfect time for an Italy reboot I can't play!

[@cenkaliisk7967]

-yes-

[@NuggetOG]

Still waiting for that Slovakia A-Z video

[@iskmati]

A to Z is missing Aussa

[@jonisalmela2399]

I see. So two guns is better than a gun. I did not know that.