Let the Lion King Roar! HoI4 Ethiopia Achievement Guide

Haile Selassie will lead his nation to glory, hold on to his Ethiopian Empire and liberate Africa! The Lion King Achievement Guide
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[@Bitt3rSteel]

Anyone wondering why this is a re-upload: Some issues with the music cause a copyright claim. Its been fixed and touched up a bit

[@FoxWorkslV]

It's ok, I forgive you Bitt3rSteel.

[@FOHS_Edits]

Did you notice the land required for the achievement looks like a baby lion

[@Waffle77362]

I was wondering actually thanks for clearing it up

[@Goldencat-ft2dd]

No would it turned private in the middle of watching it

[@jonathanabraham7000]

It was taken down when I was halfway watching 🤣

[@alwarado]

5:15 Paradox is making all of those focuses 35 days in the next patch, so getting an actual industry is going to be viable now.

[@franezenic1180]

All of the focuses should be 35 days they are just too weak to even make a difference.

[@pannik_lucas]

Incredible how an African country industrializes in a few months. Nah, I'm just kidding, I can understand completing all that part of the tree as part of one entire process, and that you already spend plenty of time in the political section.

[@jimos4ever322]

When's that coming out? Kind of waiting for another proper patch to get back to HOI4

[@Aaronnnnnn]

@@jimos4ever322 likely in the next week or so, but I dont know for sure.

[@legalduidriving]

@@franezenic1180 African countries were weak, that's well reflected here.

[@adastra3280]

Please note: Leaving the african countries untouched after beating them doesn't work anymore

[@adrianawilliamson7758]

Bro really out here smoking weed

[@mitchotoole9876]

I really enjoy these videos because it makes me realize how awful I am at this game. Like watching him come back as Free France and me not being able to get through Belgium with Germany is great for the ego.

[@sasusaku3373]

Playing this now. Not sure what PDX chanced but all of Britains colonies, weven with supporting resistance, are capped at about 45-55% resistance. They have some military governor buff? Struggled through everything and it was pointless as I can't make anyone revolt and USA is already allied with Britain so I can't invade anything.

[@lord_of_the_rats5916]

Wins against Italy after 5 attempts Causes the rebellions Britain Annexes Kenya and Tanzania right before my eyes Closes game

[@8461529]

Yeah I think Paradox patched that. You can steal British Somaliland still, but they annex every rebellion they put down

[@dorerok]

me to bro now , It happened to me too when we play Ethiopia now

[@bvenkat9924]

There is a video by feedback gaming which analyses all the spirits of the academy and rates them. So it turns out that when you pick planning and logistics, there is a 50% chance of your general levelling up on planning AND logistics (thats 2 stats as opposed to 1). And lets not forget how important logistics are now

[@ivankopernika536]

Has a change been made to supply in the new update?

[@bvenkat9924]

@@ivankopernika536 Some minor changes yes. They've tweaked how much docks and additional levels of railways provide

[@H3lios227]

No matter what, I can't wait to be king

[@thanlan]

Finnaly the Noisy sound is done ! I legit couldn't watch the previous 2 videos because of the sound. keep up the good work 🙂

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Good to hear!

[@Roketsune]

KZbin is telling me the other person made their post 13 hours ago, and your response was made 14 hours ago. I wasn't aware you could reply to people before they even made their post! Are you a sorcerer of some sort?

[@Roketsune]

I hadn't noticed anything amiss about the sound.

[@SamisAga1]

@@Roketsune It is supposedly something teenagers do hear. I am 22 so haven’t heard it myself.

[@KAPTAINmORGANnWo4eva]

The faster you get Scavenging Tactics, the faster you stabilize your units' strength. Focus on movement, recovery rate, and supply consumption, then you have officially turned the Ethiopian highlands into the Isonzo river.

[@JS-iu3ce]

Personally I quite like to have all my divisions in 1 army under the desert fox, as you can grind his mountaineer up really quick to get adaptable, and also if you quickly train up and force deploy 3 more fictions you can start working on skilled staffer, which gets you logi wizard high command which really helps in Africa.

[@BaiKaiLu]

Also you can grind adaptable within the first 3-6 months if you swap your generals around, i.e. desert guy in the mountains, mountain guy in the desert. Worth using the ones who will get the scavenger upgrade from your focus tree too :)

[@BenjaminMellor]

I found that if in the balance of power, you give your all your ethnic groups independence, they will then build factories and then you can re-annex them later on using decisions unlocked after doing a focus (I can't remember which one.). This will give you more factories overall, but I think you have to beat Italy so your nation doesn't lose existence when collapsing.

[@ancaoraathasach]

So great to see more achievement guides.

[@Marxist-Nixonist-Bidenist]

I think the chitet are probably better due to all the bonuses you can get for them and they don't cost much supply, which you barely have in Africa.

[@alexanderschweinehunde167]

I’ve recently learned that defense skill on a general modifies breakthrough so it might be worth considering

[@esense9602]

praying to hear my wish for another saving your disaster campaign. always a good series as expected.

[@hhsbrunner]

Can't wait for you to cover some version of the federal empire cheese and get a 70 factory ethiopia without leaving the horn! Great vid.

[@512TheWolf512]

Tanzania is a union between Zanzibar and Tanganyika, actually. So you're wrong there, individual territories still retain their names to this day. And will keep doing so if the east African federation project succeeds

[@LichsuhoathinhDrabattle]

Great video, looking forward to your next videos❣❣

[@devilkit13]

Great video but there are two more cheesey things you can add to this strategy since I did 95% of the same to beat Italy. First cheese, you need 20 PP and you can improve relations with Mongolia and Tannu Tuva, this is so you can ask them for lend-lease. It may take a month or two before they will agree to send you anything. But when they finally do wait until the guns are almost delivered and pause the game. Before the guns are added to your stockpile bump any units that you are training to highest priority to get equipment so they can get enough guns to reach 20% training level to force deploy them. Once you receive the guns go back into diplomacy with those two countries and cancel lend lease and then ask for more guns- ONCE THE UNIT IN TRAINING GETS THE GUNS DO NOT FORGET TO SET THE PRIORITY TO REINFORCEMENT. You can do this for about a year or so before apparently they will stop building a stockpile of guns because their army will be equipped. Later on in the game once the Spanish civil war is over you can ask guns from Germany and Russia since they will no longer be sending aid to the Spanish Civil war. There are pros and cons to this, if your soldiers end up being too well equipped above 70% fighting strength the Italians will stop attacking this is bad because they will stop burning equipment in attacks and will be able to build up morale making offensives a little tougher. Second cheese, after you complete Hold in the North and South you can purposefully let the Italian army border your province of Shewa I actually lost Dessie on one of my attempts and found that you can initiate another war escalation. I only recommend doing this one once you have 18+ infantry in the north because you will have to hold a longer border against the Italian army. If you can manage to hold Shewa province for 190 days you will hasten the war escalation by one step which can be be used to time your offensive sooner because mass desertions will happen a little sooner than anticipated.

[@georgeofazgad2176]

Tried the guide and I realised why no one is making demands in the peace conference, passing turns doesn’t give war score anymore and no one has enough in the initial turn to puppet or annex anything, so it ends in a white peace

[@xavierdupuis7653]

I think this might have been fixed. I cant seem to get white peace in my attempts

[@Deepno-qh2cl]

Nice there's no high pitched sound in the background now thanks for fixing it bittersteel

[@0xdani000]

I have learned that I have to do the newest achievements guides you post, since some of the old guides don't work anymore, they either modify the AI to be smarter or include new mechanics to invalidate some of the cheese

[@explosivecherry2150]

Honestly I failed the resistance on a lot of it and didn't get the option to give guns again, BUT I managed to go to war with uk by joining an "ally" of one of the nations I freed in a different region and initially it's extremely easy to take the land neeeded for achievement. so don't let failing one make you give up the run.

[@probower4726]

I love it when Bitt3rSteel mocks Reddit ahahah (timestamp 21:47), great video as always! Quality

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@accurategamer7085]

@@Bitt3rSteel this was really funny.

[@hitomisalazar4073]

Okay having tried this out, this is the stumbling block I personally had, and might be worth warning people about. When Kenya flipped Independent... the UK was entirely unable to put down the revolt in Kenya. Their capital ended up on that mountain port province of Mombasa. The UK troops were well out of supply and they decided to just poke at the Kenyans (with 3 Infantry divisions fully equipped and full morale) with just one division at a time. It ended up in an eternal stalemate of the UK being completely unable to push the final victory point they needed, and the Kenyans understandably being unable to push out the about 11 (admittedly out of supply but fully equipped) British units surrounding them. Bit of a flub there for me. Not sure if it was just bad luck or when I timed it so the UK was unable/unwilling to actually do something about it, or if I need to join the Allies merely so I can build the supply hub there for them or what.

[@sheppycider123]

You can progeny aussa capping. Keep the city to the left of it, it’s one province in from the Italian frontline , massaca or smth; put 2 Inf 2 mountaineers on the left mountain tile they’ll never push it, put the rest of your inf and one militia on the city, but don’t have more than 6 on the tile. Any extra you keep on the province behind it and cycle one in every time you see someone retreating. Do NOT use a front line. The rest of your militia 9 of them send to the south and use three tiles like bitter does. Get the extra unit asap and send it south. Keep an eye on the south but it will generally hold. You will have to micro the north until you get your volunteers (guns focus) and then hold. Train one or two more militia for the south but otherwise you don’t need more units. Italy will not be able to push at all. Use your most defensive general for the north and hill fighter for the south.

[@user-cd4bx6uq1y]

It feels like a lot happened with this DLC, but also nothing much at the same time

[@kleinerprinz99]

Those integrate decisions were amazing : No pesky war, no pesky peace conference! Land just signed over.

[@heliogt1961]

heyo bitter. i got a question: since the new update. it feels like china is somewhat broken since i am barely able to get japanese troops in or hold my lines. idk if it has anything to do with the update or me being bad. tho i played according to your guide. anyways. back to nice ethiopia video

[@MaFo82]

The useless industrial focuses will get changed into 35 days instead of 70 in the next patch.

[@strategicintervention]

love your videos but just a warning you can still hear the ringing in the background a bit at times

[@alphaseal_6993]

Big fan man!

[@MrGiselbart]

Question, how did you manage to hire more units as you fought? Since I am also playing as Ethiopia currently, also went with Emperor Stays path, and I could not make any extra units save those I got from focusses, like the Arab and Congolese mercenaries. I also could not lend lease from the Brits or Turks ( tried to befriend them) because it said world tension was not high enough. I eventually managed to drive out the Italians, but now im kinda stuck wondering what to do next, with practically non-existant factories, at peace with everyone, its currently 1939, so on tech im also quite behind due to the corrupt bureaucracy. Any tips to this HoI4 noob would be welcome :D

[@ObsidianHunter99]

Oh boy time to watch the video again

[@DanglyWhale]

Hi @Bitt3rSteel and fellow players, this still works but you have to go for the 'Towards african unity' focus to unlock decisions that will force the colonial power in question to white peace the african nations and have them join your faction. It costs 100pp per country and seems to be a bit random, id say like 40% chance of just saying no. if they do say no, youll get a choice to join their war and they join your faction or taking a 5% stab hit and leaving them to it. Id also be conscious that if you prepare resistance, you do have a limited time to send the guns as the decision will expire so the first 1 or 2 nations you may have to just hope they dont capitulate before you get the unity focus. They likely wont but i would recommend going straight for the african unity focus straight after 'support Anti-colonialist resistance' focus. You do need to be a bit lucky with RNG to get uganda and kenya to white peace as you can then kick them from faction and eat them. Good luck you beautiful Achievements whores!

[@yourlocaltrucker6663]

I haven’t tested anything out yet, but you could also probably just try to get a non-historical game where the UK goes communist and so they decolonize allowing you to just take the former colonies

[@pauloatanasio7567]

Bro. I almost went crazy thinking that the video if yesterday had been a false memory, because I looked at night and didn't find it. hahahaha

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Welcome back!

[@tagus100]

I'd like to see an Ultimate Italy and Ultimate France guide (alogn with achievement guides of course).

[@mattsutherland546]

The resistance mechanic has been changed? When the UK is at war that maximum resistance the regions reach is 55% now

[@jeroti187]

I think the new mechanics with Italy leave them weaker or at least make it take longer for the AI to ramp up, which means more of the fighting is left to Germany. AI Germany simply can't produce enough planes, tanks and infantry equipment to hold out for very long, so if they get bogged down someplace it really messes them up.

[@FOHS_Edits]

I like the fact that all the land you need to be the lion king looks like a baby lion

[@pauloatanasio7567]

1° I would like you to make a guide for "Bad Romance" on BBA. 2° I discovered that you can catch Dijubti simply by improving relations with France. 3° I think you can get Lion King and Crusaders Kings 4 in the same play 4° For the Lion King it is not necessary the regions to the northeast of Ethiopia, simply the regions to the south that are part of the United Kingdom. So Djibouti and the other region is optional.

[@MikeThepiper]

Hope to see a video in the future of you controlling the African continent

[@user-hs7xl3oz4r]

Hey bitt3r! Can you do a greece agiads video?

[@simonparadis1773]

The last part of the focus is broken no matter the ideology you go. When you make an uprising, if you are at war with a colonial nation when the colony is create it start a war against you and it join his colonial power. In my game, I start 20 uprising and I had to deal with 20 new enemies and I couldn't make a faction and unite Africa.

[@its__penguin7964]

I swear this was posted yesterday

[@Kuzma_86]

Me too

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Had to make some changes to the music. copyright

[@hitomisalazar4073]

I have to admit I was really curious about the rebellion plan and if you were going to go for it when this started. Mostly because I found them... incredibly frustrating and near useless. Because the game starts with the UK having 100% compliance in the areas. And the lowest you get by those decisions/actions is like 60 Compliance. Which is still too high to realistically foster any sort of rebellion. Which was clearly just a failure on my part on timing it and realizing what I needed to properly do. The only one I got to flip myself was Djibouti because the Vichy/Free France swap over meant it reset to zero compliance and decided to rebel and join me.

[@DmitrijKudriavcev]

You have to send guns to them at the right moment. If rebellion is over 60, sending guns adds another 30 and it instantly starts an uprising. However, if you start a rebellion and then buy the land from the France, the rebellion debuf is still on and this land can uprise against youm

[@hitomisalazar4073]

Yeah I found it out since then but it can require some tight timing for the bigger would be break away nations like Egypt. Like you have to do Egypt just perfectly timed to get everything up to the right threshold to revolt or one state will be just too stable to break away. Same issue the Polish have with the Warsaw Uprising event. It was hard to get all of Poland in a proper state of resistance to trigger it because it couldn't JUST be Warsaw, it had to be all of occupied Poland.

[@1mostaussiebruce390]

I wouldn’t mind seeing the final product of the Africa Focus

[@grandly2214]

Apparently he wants that Djibouti.

[@j.m.f5451]

If you're concerned about supply consumption it's likely better to take GBP over Mass Assault. If you go down the left side of Mass Assault sure, you can get a total of 20% supply consumption reduction once you're deep into the tree (which you won't be as Ethiopia for a long time), but it has very few other bonuses for a nation like Ethiopia. Grand Battleplan has 15% (5% of which you can get immediately with the army spirit), and soft attack, breakthrough, defense, command power gain... I dunno, seems like a no-brainer to me.

[@CarvaxIV]

Not to mention, GPB gets you Tip of the Spear to invade Yemen without researching Transports (which will take a good while longer due to Ethiopia’s research malus) if you are going for Askum and the Solomons.

[@j.m.f5451]

@@CarvaxIV Oh wow, you're right! I know that spirit increases marine transport cap, but I didn't think it'd allow you to invade without research the transport tech. That's super clever.

[@generalroyal1341]

21:53 Be like From South Park with That one Episode:They Took our Jobs.💀

[@legionofrome2967]

Have you tried using the war participation mechanic using fuel?

[@theiceinhell1592]

King of Kings is a Persian Based Word(Shanashah)

[@nono_Hoi4]

20:30 seems like sharks really like to eat italians for some reason

[@eli-mi3mh]

Lets go its out i got up not even a minute ago

[@haavi12]

... they annexed tanzania

[@salzmann4207]

You didn't kise the first time, it was just a planned retreat to reorganize

[@samwill7259]

I wonder if someone has done all of the research required to figure out if The Lion King could have taken place in Ethiopia. Like, if all the animals in that movie are native to the nation, if the general geography and stuff matches. I'm sure they have, people are crazy when they have free time and hobbies.

[@Patton1944]

I tried the rebellion strat and the UK annexed them every time. I'm not sure, but there may have been a patch the changed it, or I might have simply been unlucky.

[@xavierdupuis7653]

Yeah same... every single rebellion has been annexes and not White peaced

[@Doperwtje81]

So I got as far as annexing Somalia and Aussa but Kenya refuses to revolt no matter what i do. Luckily the Lion King achievement doesn't need you to be at peace so if this happens just declare war and take it.

[@sprites75]

Oh. there was an easier way. good job!

[@ugandaknuckleslll2378]

Bitt3rSteel, can you make the new house of the revolution and sunset invasion achivement with by blood alone, im trying to make it but always somethibg goes wrong so pls

[@michadworczyk6007]

Please make part 2 where you will conquer all africa by Horn of Africa :)

[@patrickbellinger7122]

So about the no naval invasion thing. about 90 days before I can declare Australia naval invaded...

[@redfred004]

They just changed alot of Ethiopia focuses to 35 days and changed some of their requirements in the upcoming patch

[@ryanwagner4230]

Can u do a Macedonian empire video again. I think the guide needs to be changed because of the addition of supply hubs and railways

[@sein2312]

In my one/last run UK for some reason instead of signing white peace decided to anex Kenya. And besides that I tried to integrate Somali Sultanate via these decisions but instead they became my puppet because "they wanted to have some autonomy" (So i can't form Horn of Africa). I guess you need to improve relations with them to be sure... Or there is inevitable random... Again... I think that it would be much better if instead of puppet you get war goal on them.

[@user-sc7xq8ms6z]

Bitt3rSteel could you try a communist portugal with workers of iberia and popular front video, i really struggling achieving it :)

[@tamasczigola6392]

So what to do if italy does not peace out after the decision? I am stuck with them naval invading me :'(

[@tuturg7454]

Did someone try it ? I have just gotten Kenya and Tanzania to revolt but they where re-annexed by the UK ! No white peace leaving them free to invade... The funny thing is that the IA behaved correctly as in the guide for Djibouti and Somalia... WTF !? Now I am a but stuck... Should I rush to get Kenya and Tanzania before the US join the fun (it's currently feb.41, or should I wait until I have a proper army in 44-45 ?

[@TallFirefighter1]

I can’t wait to see you unify Africa

[@Iymarra]

Tried this and got clapped without the guide. Time to try again.

[@adamjohnston2774]

13:36 the 10% bonus only effects irregulars, so the logistics and planning would be the better choice for long game, since you were getting rid of the irregulars anyway

[@kiriseraph9674]

I wish I saw this before I did it the hard way :O

[@MJC___]

17:38 I managed to get the encirclement and Italy offered peace

[@mobgabriel1767]

i love how ethiopia who starts in a war against itally snowballs easier and quicker than greece

[@CARL_093]

This i gonna try

[@viclorenzo5016]

Nice 👍

[@Bitt3rSteel]

Thanks ✌

[@user-ju8il5vt2l]

UK is annexing African countries that revolted somehow. Am I doing something wrong or the game is patched?

[@lukasmitkus857]

i have noticed that there is a static sound idk if its only for me but it has been there on all the new vidoes. when i watch other content i don't hear it if anyone knows a fix or has the same problem let me know as i don't know if its just my set up. thx :)

[@yohann22400]

Guide for the heir of solomon next ? Cuz Ethiopia is so hard to play

[@tuturg7454]

Actualy you can get the achievement (CK4) super easily by just taking the train the UK and capitulating. Then you have a focus to ask them kindly for Palestine. Once your country is liberated from Italians, just click on the décision to move you capital to Jerusalem and you're good.

[@explosivecherry2150]

@@tuturg7454 tied this and they said no to giving over palestine every time

[@tuturg7454]

@@explosivecherry2150 That's weird, they said yes both times for me ... Did you improve relations to 100 and have agents doing diplomatic pressure on them ?

[@explosivecherry2150]

@@tuturg7454 ah I might have been missing the agents and diplomatic pressure

[@digitallee5006]

First of All, how dare you directly call me out like that!!! WRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!

[@RoyalRoseTrue]

Just wait until he has to do The Red Sea Achievement (I earned it, but it also happened because of aHistorical Luck)

[@sveko7633]

Despite PDX changed the white peace events, you can do the achievement as described. Just do the transafrican focus first, then free the states via the anticolonial mechanics and you will get a decision to ask the former colonialist-state to confirm the independence. If confirmed ( much RNG involved), the new state will be independent in your faction. Kick it from your faction, declare war and annex it. Of not confirmed, you can go to war to help or do nothing and loose some war support. Not perfect, but doable.

[@cuonghoang2243]

more guides please

[@vq-gamesblitz]

i kinda wanted to watch u unite all of africa

[@BigJOL77]

I still support a re-work of that the Ethiopians should have an option to buy the land from the allies say in return for a War Declaration event on the European Axis powers. Ethiopia is still too weak to fight the Allies without the use of Cheese tactics. Dont get me wrong I love me some cheese but it is not the style everyone wants to play as and if they want people to play Ethiopia more then i think that should be implemented. it is good to see though that they are fixing the 70 days to 35 days for the industry but I still think more is needed to be done

[@terrorinc3237]

No one would give me lend lease, I cry

[@kurdishkurdish2513]

The only thin that can me happy at this moment after Barcelona's defeat is you 🤧

[@TernalWager]

Imagine this irl

[@cheekychunkSR]

The Kenya revolution didn't work despite it being 90%+ and Tanzania got ate by the UK again. I just had to build up and wait for the Allies and Soviets to go to war in like 1946 and with 5 full armies I pushed out against the weak border and B-lined for the Kenya/Tanzania areas!

[@unstoppable1727]

I tried this but the UK refused to give up Somali land and I wasn't about to declare war on them. Also yemen screwed me when I tried naval invading and they had like 20 divs.

[@kamikadzeto7]

Hey Bitt3rSteel, please try uniting arabia again, with whichever nation you like. The Iraq video seems very hard to reproduce (tried 11 times so far).

[@0xdani000]

I did it last month as the UK, I went unaligned (get your king to marry the divorcee), as soon as he takes control, naval invade France, and then buddy up with Germany, after that you kind get a free reign to do what you want, which in my case was to conquer Arabia

[@Potispotato]

French somalia did join the axis for some reason

[@hydranmenace]

I want to see the rest of the game. Not a demand or anything. I was just getting into it.

[@stevenkravitz6377]

When I did this, it worked fine up until the African independence wars. I don't know how you got them to white peace, when I did it, Britain just annexed them.

[@Bitt3rSteel]

New patch, i need to redo the whole thing

[@stevenkravitz6377]

@@Bitt3rSteel you can still get the achievement, even with the new patch. Its not that hard to occupy the territories

[@Bitt3rSteel]

@@stevenkravitz6377 no, but it essentially sets you up for a failed run after you blitz the territory. You'll get the achievement, but you can't actually win the war

[@humblememesmerchant3887]

@@Bitt3rSteel Is there any way to revert specifically to the last patch?

[@franezenic1180]

I finally finished this nation got all ach. But its just not fun the focuses are so bad. Take to long and you just sit there doing nothing for like 2 years. Side note if you hold Macalle Italy wont annex Aussa. Good luck to the rest of the ach hunters!

[@beretman27]

Iron like a lion in Zion!

[@sahilhossain8204]

Hmmm yes lore of hoi4 the lion King momentum 100