I CANT FREAKING INVADE ETHIOPIA SHOULD I DELETE THE GAME

[meeeeme]

i just bought the game and for 14 hours im starting new over and over because i cant invade a bunch of farmers in time for benito to be happy and except for infantry there is also supplies and navy and air i should know about but i dont please help i watched a million tutorials and they somehow destroy ethiopia in days while i cant even send more men from italy or planes and i also run out of supplies

[mk11]

Online tutorials are often based on older versions of the game. There have been radical changes to the base game and new DLC added so ignore any tutorial more than a year or two old.

[velvetcrabman]

Sounds like you need to get to grips with the very basic parts of the game. Suggest you watch/read tutorials in great abundance...

[luftatmer]

This is a strategy game. You are not supposed to win your wars after „14 hours“ of play time. No shame to loose in the beginning. Find a good tutorial vid for the basics. But watch out for the date of the vid, don’t take anything older than 1-2 years.

Edit: spelling

[meeeeme]

Originally posted by velvetcrabman:

Sounds like you need to get to grips with the very basic parts of the game. Suggest you watch/read tutorials in great abundance...

i tried but all of the tutorials that i find about air combat and navy and the infantry designer and whatever the hell the brown box that is always at zero means always always seem to not actually show how to do something and just talking over unrelated footage and also they seem to try to add runtime to the video because the guy who gives the tutorial starts saying stuff like (hello guys and girls today we are going to learn how to use the plane air force in the hit video game hearts of iron 4 and before we get into this amazing tutorial about the video game hearts of iron 4 i want you to like and subscribe) in a heavy accent and then when the actual video starts he starts talking about completely unrelated aspects of the game like i want a video on navy stuff and the guy goes on a 10 minute rant about how using tanks to conquer yugoslavia is the best stratedgy and then finally begins talking about what i want. and i also hate how they seem too ignorant about the new players and instead of explaining what all these terms used mean and how the hell you actually begin use of a certain unit for example a plane they just read the descrption that you can see easily in the game instead of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ showing us what conditions must be met for the planes to work and when he finally gets to that part he probably says something like (i imagine you can figure out the rest) without actually doing anything in a video except for reading the in game description without any commentary whatsoever like wtf for me to watch this video i probably know what it says in game i want you to tell me what happens if i press that button and how.
Know any good ones that actually explain stuff

[meeeeme]

Originally posted by luftatmer:

This is a strategy game. You are not supposed to win your wars after „14 hours“ of play time. No shame to loose in the beginning. Find a good tutorial vid for the basics. But watch out for the date of the vid, don’t take anything older than 1-2 years.

Edit: spelling

i though ethiopia was specifically made so that the player would get an early taste of pretty easy combat because i remember thats what the devs said somewhere and also if im not supposed to win wars what do i do except for political management.
also what is a good tutorial for someone who struggles specifically with supply/train/resource/wooden box stuff and also air/navy

[meeeeme]

Originally posted by mk11:

Online tutorials are often based on older versions of the game. There have been radical changes to the base game and new DLC added so ignore any tutorial more than a year or two old.

thanks any suggestions

[MORE DPS]

afaik ,the code for the war actually spawns more troops for ETH if you capture the capital, some of the ways the war behaves is not great fora first time experience.
recommend playing a smaller country , greece is probably a good starter

[✚ Mariel ✚]

Use close air support planes and you will be fine. Close air support solves everything! (Just be aware you need air superiority, so you will need fighters if you are against any nation with an air force.

If you are still struggling because of low supply, pull a few of your divisions back to the port to resupply, then move them back to the front line to attack. Try to take supply hubs and build rail lines if necessary to connect them to your own supply network, I believe Addis Ababa has one.

[meeeeme]

Originally posted by MORE DPS:

afaik ,the code for the war actually spawns more troops for ETH if you capture the capital, some of the ways the war behaves is not great fora first time experience.
recommend playing a smaller country , greece is probably a good starter

greece is actually the only dlc i own since im greek and it involves too much naval and air stuff like historically the italians invade navally and in game and if i chose kosmidis and the EEE have to invade turkey navaly and just being peacefull with all countries and just laucnhing coups sounds like something a ♥♥♥♥♥ would do.
btw what is your pfp called

[meeeeme]

Originally posted by ✚ Mariel ✚:

Use close air support planes and you will be fine. Close air support solves everything! (Just be aware you need air superiority, so you will need fighters if you are against any nation with an air force.

If you are still struggling because of low supply, pull a few of your divisions back to the port to resupply, then move them back to the front line to attack. Try to take supply hubs and build rail lines if necessary to connect them to your own supply network, I believe Addis Ababa has one.

how do i send planes when i click on their icon over the airports it gives me a screen your mission enemy mission and both sides are empty with nothing to interact with and also if i click on the plane and then send it to an area inside its zone like ethiopia the game just shows an arrow that indicates that the plane is travelling but it didnt do anything it didnt move whatever i tried and how do rails work doesnt it take a year to build one

[luftatmer]

Your questions show you have not even began to understand the very basics of the game. No shame about that, all of us started like you one time. But you can't hope to win wars (even such an easy one like ETH) without a basic understanding of what's happening. Search for rather recent tutorials on the very basic stuff. You can do it.

It's not that I wouldn't want to help you here with your questions. But they couldn't replace a proper learning of the basics, I am afraid.

edit: spelling

[meeeeme]

Originally posted by luftatmer:

Your questions show you have not even began to understand the very basics of the game. No shame about that, all of us started like you one time. But you can't hope to win wars (even such an easy one like ETH) without a basic understanding of what's happening. Search for rather recent tutorials on the very basic stuff. You can do it.

It's not that I wouldn't want to help you here with your questions. But they couldn't replace a proper learning of the basics, I am afraid.

edit: spelling

i have tried couldnt find answers to certain questions

[budisourdog]

TBH Germany should be the starter country, not Italy. Germany only has to do land and air, has techs, decent starting divisions, and eventually if you think you are winning you can build a fleet to try to cross the oceans.

ITALY GUIDE:
Ethopia war. Bring in everything. Gather divisions into two armies north/south, draw offensive lines, tell them to attack. Bring the planes, move them to nearby airbases and tell them to do air support. Maybe delete some of the cavalry units after the war finishes.

Your production: Infantry Equipment > trucks, artillery, AA & anti tank guns > fighters, support equipment, light tanks > CAS, TAC, and maybe NAV airplanes. Navy: Take your pick but split it about 50% building capitals 50% building support.

Units you want: Infantry divisions with some artillery in it, mountaineer commandos, light tanks with motorized support (default italian tank divs are really bad), lesser infantry or cavalry as garrisions that always stay at home in your cities and ports

Overall strategy: Your economy won't be good enough to make a huge number of tank divisions or even a large airforce, but you can do superb support. Light tanks and Mountaineer commandos will roll into France, Yugoslavia and Greece, possibly Republican Spain if they exist too. For Africa the big goal is to push to the Suez Canal, take it and dig in the Allies will sent a lot of troops there to fight you but its attrition hell so DO NOT take the bait of pushing even if they look weak. Produce a lot of infantry with artillery, anti air and anti tank. Guard the coastlines, use your airforce to counter Allied planes. Extra units and material can go to the Eastern Front. Fuel will get tight so if your navy or airplanes aren't actively fighting go ahead and park em in a port.

[Rekutor]

Well my first country was germany and i think you should give it a shot.
Watch some tutorials on how to do basic things and use the same template.
Difficulty on civillian and maybe boost germany a bit for the start.
As you play again and again you are starting to get a feel for it and discover a lot of new strategys.

If you do it this way it will take a bit longer to get the full hang of it but it is more fun.

[Undertaker]

Originally posted by meeeeme:

SHOULD I DELETE THE GAME

Yes.