Tried the tutorial, Ethiopia beat me in Africa.

[A.J]

I was playing as Italy in the tutorial and the game told me what to do. I did everything but the A.I still beat me in Africa. Now I have nothing and can't complete the tutorial.

Am I really that trash at the game? What do I do now?

[Vilab]

yes

you may read some HO IV gameplay videos, and you start the tutorial again and again until you actually crush Ethiopia ( as you are meant to )

[bubbas]

Originally posted by AmirosBambiros:

What do I do now?

There is a golden rule a friend of mine told me once:

Play game, fail.
Play again, fail better :)

So start a new game and fail better ;)

[Name Lips]

You're not even supposed to "do" much of anything. Draw a few lines, hit GO, and watch your army win.

Maybe you're trying to do stuff, like move units around on your own? You don't need to do that. In fact unless you know what you're doing you might mess up the AI trying to execute the battle plan for you.

[BrigadierBill]

Originally posted by Name Lips:

You're not even supposed to "do" much of anything. Draw a few lines, hit GO, and watch your army win.

Maybe you're trying to do stuff, like move units around on your own? You don't need to do that. In fact unless you know what you're doing you might mess up the AI trying to execute the battle plan for you.

I don't actually use the battleplanner at all, and just micro everything (other than naval invasions). A lot of people might prefer that, but I usually just pause a lot and manage my own offensives.

For Ethiopia, micro would probably work better than macro for the starting troops, just pay attention to terrain and otherwise mass your firepower. Attacking across rivers is very bad (not as bad as mountains, but that's unavoidable), and if you have to fight in mountains try to attack from multiple directions to get more combat width.

Either way, I'd recommend watching a video on how the basics of combat work if you're having trouble in Ethiopia. Paradox games can be a bit obscure (the only one I played with a decent tutorial was Stellaris, and maybe EU2).

[Skippah]

Gather all your troops and form two frontlines of 10+ units. Then draw battle plans, click execute, and you cannot lose. Also make sure to have air superiority and use your close air support.

[|H|H| Fr3ddi3]

Send everything you have to the war. (though i tend to leave tanks at home and i'll disband cavalry)

Put all the garrison divisions on the south east front under their own general. Infantry and mountaineers on the north west front under another. Do not use your 1 high ranking General, you want to use this war to get some experience for your other Generals. Send your ground attack airforces down there and assign them to the mission area.

Draw a battle plane for both armies. that meets in the middle at their Capital, wait untill max planning is attained.

Then you either hit the execute button and watch you armies gobble up the territory, or you attack manually. Eitherway, drag the war out as long as possible so as to farm army / General XP.

Puppet Eithiopia when you win, don't annex.

[xdd]

wtf even AI Italy isn't that ♥♥♥♥

[GoldenTalon]

Originally posted by AmirosBambiros:

I was playing as Italy in the tutorial and the game told me what to do. I did everything but the A.I still beat me in Africa. Now I have nothing and can't complete the tutorial.

Am I really that trash at the game? What do I do now?

Yes you are. Try watching a few YoiTubes - there're hundreds of them

[(EE)Monkey]

Instructions unclear, lost to Ethiopia

[Sardaukar]

Must be a troll lol

[p]

He's either a troll or he's serious.
Incase of him being serious

If you lose to Ethiopia you might aswell give up now.

[A.J]

Originally posted by Flavius Aëtius:

Must be a troll lol

Wasn't a troll, they did drive me out. I did what somebody wrote in this topic earlier and tried moving my units around on my own(after initiating the battle plan). My bad.

Originally posted by Champ:

He's either a troll or he's serious.
Incase of him being serious

If you lose to Ethiopia you might aswell give up now.

Never going to give up just because I have issues with game mechanics. I'm now very well off and having fun in a 1936 scenario.

Just takes time to grasp the mechanics that's all. I personally like that journey in complex games. And this is a great game.

[KriegerKR]

Originally posted by AmirosBambiros:

Originally posted by Flavius Aëtius:

Must be a troll lol

Wasn't a troll, they did drive me out. I did what somebody wrote in this topic earlier and tried moving my units around on my own(after initiating the battle plan). My bad.

Originally posted by Champ:

He's either a troll or he's serious.
Incase of him being serious

If you lose to Ethiopia you might aswell give up now.

Never going to give up just because I have issues with game mechanics. I'm now very well off and having fun in a 1936 scenario.

Just takes time to grasp the mechanics that's all. I personally like that journey in complex games. And this is a great game.

after you get the mechanics down ethiopia is easy. some people can't understand that noobs to the game don't know how to play yet lol

for the future, what I do to kill ethiopia before my first focus is done is bring my entire army to the north of ethiopia, expect for the troops that start in the south. make a frontline, then an arrow, click go, and ethiopia will be yours, no micro needed really.

but it'd go faster with a bit of micro

[Despiser]

You could always do what Mussolini did but that didn’t turn out well

[Name Lips]

I have a question real quick. Lets say you're attacking Ethiopia with a battle plan, and you wait and you get the planning bonus. Then you execute the plan. If you grab units and start moving them around manually, in violation of the battle plan, do they lose the planning bonus?