the balance of power is so trash that if you lose a core state gives a modifier of -0.50 weekly to the left even if you win the war and are at peace, but the modifier non disapear never

Fun exploit I found , if you even anex Etiopia you will be still at war , meaning you can landlease and lay mines , maybe not useful for so , but for MP this can break a lot , by 1939 you can mine as many as 12 sea titles fully

I see you spotted the ridiculous italy focus that can give you jet engines + modern airframe super early, fair and balanced thx mr paradox

Just some points on the touching behavior. An enemy taking our province does not count as being touched. However, if we take a province from an enemy then the enemy is touched. Bombing isn't reliable. Last game I designed a "touching" strategy bomber, destroyed one of an enemy's infra but still did not touch the enemy after I capped their last major one day after the bombing.

Also it's easier to pullout of Etiopia , it lets you form the state faster when you move all army out you get new decision for 10pp

Hey Cloak. At 1:50 you can shift-click fleets as a whole (the first button), you don't need to select each particular flotilla. Then if you want, you can right click them on the reserve bar then press G to merge and you will have a single fleet in 2 seconds, shaves off some seconds.

I really dislike the Balance of Power, it's too interactive and takes away too much from other Gameplay, imagine playing Italy without the Pause Button with Balance of Power, also it being involved in Ideas and not just a Key to unlock specific focusses means that practically, the Balance of Power can mess up your entire Game. You have to design Planes, Tanks and Ships, build buildings, design Divisions, all this and now you also have to babysit these random bonusses which just interfere with your other Objectives.

exactly what I needed, thanks a lot mate

I remember setting up invasions at the start of the game and using them later for Japan. It's kind of bugging out lately

Simply impressive, I'll try but you did perfectly and micro so nice

The reason you didn't get Turkey in the peace deal is because they hadn't been in the war for at least seven days. Also, if you want to save ~30 days on the Yugoslavia wargoal, you can rush down the foreign affairs branch and choose the left branch - it allows you to send a demand to Yugo that they'll almost certainly refuse (they always did for me), giving you a wargoal. In theory, you could save even more time by backing out of Ethiopia and taking the white peace decision, which will give you the option to advance down to Foreign Affairs even faster. The only downside with both of these approaches is the increased time before reaching Mare Nostrum.

Don’t know if you’d want to do this but if you instantly release Eritrea and Somalia, hold focus and peace with Ethiopia you can skip all the way to Culto al Duce as your first focus as long as you select the event option for struggle in Ethiopia. You lose a bit of balance of power and stability tho.

Regarding Turkey, they might not have been in the war long enough.

neat! we want a post-patch air video too.

21:40 this is supposed to happen actually, for a nation to be included in the peace deal they not only need to be included in the war but to have also been at war for a certain amount of time I believe one week. So even though you bombed them and they took a tile you still needed to wait 7 days or 8 to be safe so they would be included in the peace deal.

I do kinda like how you need to keep Ethiopia in order to prevent the Civil war. But it's obviously too unbalanced at this point. But I hope they implement some sort of mechanic that makes it worthwhile to focus on the African theater. Like having some sort of negative mechanic for the UK if they lose Egypt etc.

It takes a certain amount of time at war to be included in a peace deal even if they take land. I think it's like 2 weeks?

Could you also use this strat for greater Italy? Except doing greater Italy focus instead of Roman empire focus.

You can start the game off producing a few transport planes for supply in Ethiopia. Can just ditch them after but it makes the war that much easier

I wonder if this works with the achivmeny Holy, roman and an empire? might just be better to pull out of Ethiopia instead?

Man the British air always melts me after I land on the isles. Wonderful video though, shows me how much I suck at the game, a casual 3k hours noob here :P

Haven't watched full video but would this work if you go for the pope path? Thanks.

So does that decision (its availability) depend on going a certain political route? Say if I want to make a Communist Rome, is that possible?

Mum called, she wants her son back :_)

Can I do that in NSB?

8:36 I laughed hard hahaha

NGL, your video here is making me not want to buy BBA. Balance of Power looks like garbage, and the new peace deal looks buggy/annoying as hell outside of demand fleets. Armies not railroading automatically is crap. I was looking forward to the new plane designer, Italian focus tree, and general mechanics, but the rest doesn't look worth it at all. Speaking specifically of Balance of Power- the stability mechanic already gave a mechanism you had to keep tabs on to make sure you didn't piss off your nation. Now, does BoP replace that entirely, or are there 2 completely separate mechanics? Either way, it looks like a major step backward.

with easy?

Why did you make so much puppets?

Would this method work with the grand fascist council and restoring the pope?

War reps do work.

Why was my Verision of France impossible to break

Its not working

I didn't get anything from grinding LMAO!!

CAS designs when

Instead of making all those individual puppets, couldn't you form Italian East Africa instead?

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