Soviet Aid Ethiopia is Fun but Rather Annoying - Hoi4
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- Опубліковано 23 вер 2024
- Today in Ethiopia the Second Italo-Ethiopian War is well underway, but in order to ensure their survival the nation's military will turn to away from Haile Selassie's leadership and towards the leader of the communist world, the Soviet Union.
Along the way we will exploring this Soviet Aid focus tree, we will find out what it is good at, what benefits it provides but also where it falls short in comparison to it's companion tree.
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A Hat in Time:
Hearts of Iron IV:
07-09-23
You might think that making videos in the heat isn't a good idea, and you'd be right! It sucks! But oh well here I am making stuff anyway. On the positives though there is, um. Oh yeah the exporting of this video went unusually well. So there is that. :D
I could tell with all the swearing
its so hot here a field caught on fire near my house. stay safe dude
Portugal refusing to leave their colonies like their lives depend on it is historically accurate.
Verdade
Meanwhile in Timor when there's a civil war: Aight I'm out 🏃
Lmao yea didn’t they pretty much bankrupt their country trying to hold on to Angola?
@@sto1238 Yeah lol. The colonial wars were also a major reason for the Carnation Revolution of 1974, which toppled Portugal’s dictatorship.
Portugal not giving up it's colonies. I mean it's historically accurate
19:17 From the creators of South Sudan and North Sudan here we have:
*EAST* Sudan
As a Sudanese man I laughed so hard
to start out, the AI often does agree IF you control all of a country's cores, its very rare for it to agree if you don't.
second, and i hate they have made Ethiopia this way with out telling you in the focus itself, there is essentially two kinds of peace focuses, the ones where you white peace back to starting borders (Soviet Mediation, Declare for Italy, International Mediation) and the kind where you claim the land you hold (Italian Offer of Peace, Faith Accompli, Peace Negotiations).
I think Ethiopia is an excellent example of a country in HOI4 with really good ideas, bogged down by too long focuses, random checks here and there stopping you and lots of rng that the game kinda just expects you to learn and deal with.
Fun Fact: Playing Ethiopia without the BBA DLC is very unpleasant because the "state development" mecanic is still active and there is no way to remove the modifier. This doesnt have anything to do with the video, but i realy want paradox to fix it.
Just pirate the dlc
@basilghazi9352 Based
Ethiopia: Takes Entire Colony
Salazar: NO! That's not yours to take.
I just don't understand why they made these african liberation decisions so RNG heavy and so impossibly slow?
because it's made by paradox
It's so weird how paradox decides which countries get "realistic" paths and which get the wackier ones. The idea of Ethiopia not only surviving against a major European power but also defeating them and pushing them into the sea is already outlandish in of itself, so they should've just given us an OP path as a reward and continue the playthrough. Especially since the AI is never actually able to survive even on ahistorica and this would only be availbe to players.
@@Shua756 Ethiopian tree is literally the one that I hate most in the game. First of all half of those debuffs dont make any sense. Ethiopia gets fleet debuff when they start with none? Why doesnt every land locked nation have it? They get debuff on literally every single thing. Why debuff industry if they have 3 factories already? Then african union, the only interesting formable require dozen of thousands political power? I could say a lot more but I forgot a lot of stuff cuz the last time I played it was year ago and I will never try it again.
In short it's totally unrewarding and is waste of time after war with Italy which can get cores on whole africa a looooooooooot easier. Baltics are example how to make a small nation fun, although this dlc is mainly about Italy and Ethiopia so it should be on level of Poland or Italy.
The one path where the type of wargoal actually matters
I don't think I heard Bubbles swear so much in a video before haha
"i think ai sees the focus im doing".
You too. When someone is completing focus that threats you, you get "bla bla is justifying against you" tooltip even tho they qint justifying
Except this isn't one of those focuses, I expect that behaviour on Danzig or war, not a focus that doesn't give a wg directly.
@@BubblesZest idk, i dont remember what focus that were and what nation i were playing, hovewer i got a notification.. oh right i was playing soviets and it gives notification on anti-comintern pact. Hovewer anti comintern is only a defensive pact.
I seriously wonder dude who made communist Ethiopia tree actually played this game ever before
great video, i would love that more focus in game gave research tech, in some countries post BBA and NSB not starting with a single tech of planes or tanks is ridiculous.
he seemed so done in this vid i couldnt stop laughing
I don't like how hoi4 players call all unhistorical borders bordergore. I get that that is only a part of Sudan but it isn't that bad. Historical borders are just as cursed if not more.
This is a real damned if you do damned if you don't situation right there. I don't mind ahistorical borders, just want ones that look nice.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@BubblesZestOr, get this bro. Don’t listen to either side and just play the game like you want.
One of the other highlights of the path is the extra equipment capture ratio. The combined effect from the soviet designer, national spirit, general trait and maintenance companies results in an absurd amount of captured supplies. I was even able to field 2 20W medium tank divisions exclusively with captured panzers.
Why do i get pushed out even with more than 0 strength? Also remember my entire army getting killed even though i had 80 unit strenght and had a green bubble (aka winning the battle)
reinforce meme
@@BobbiusRossiuswhat's that?
Units in the reserves each have a chance to join the battle per hour if there is width available: this chance is given by reinforce rate. IF the enemy manages to defeat all divisions in combat and no divisions in the reserves reinforced yet, no matter how many divisions you stacked, all of them will retreat. @@I_Hate_UA-cam.
General Grinding in the Ethiopia war is ez
bc the other side just attacks endlessly
Well, there's always save-scumming, like you did with the Towards African Unity video.
Which is a bandaid to the problem, it does work sure but shouldn't exist like it does.
How do you save scum in ironman mode?
@@Teal182I’m pretty sure what they do is exit game and then duplicate the save file in the save folder.
@@blah204 oh alright, i probably cant figure out how to do that because im on mac
@@Teal182 you can’t search the file using .hoi4?
How long can you hold the Italian peace deal? Can you feasibly push both directions at the same time and maximize the land gains?
If Italy can't get any progress or lose territory in one year they will offer peace
portugal just doing a little trolling, by denying peace and deathwaring.
Some of the focus trees in this game would work better if it wasn’t WW2
Wdym
@@scezich6126 having a small limited war for Djibouti would be a lot more fun if you didn't have the entirety of the allied powers coming after you when you do
@christiandevey3898 I feel like there should be some manpower on field requirements and have an ultimatum option for the tree.
One of the main reasons why I stopped playing HOI4 is because of this tedious RNG system. Basically your entire Playthrough is decited by luck and thats no fun.
These Foci keep giving me migraines...
7:36
Sounds pretty typical for comunism.
hi bubbles! im wondering if youve given fascist lithuania a shot? if you havent, you should! its fun but sadly a bit rpg hard
swearing doesn't suit you man
Certain words only go far, sometimes swearing is the best option ;)