By the Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah, His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I, King of Kings, Lord of Lords, Elect of God commands you to buy the game play.heartsofiron.com/Taureor

Next guide: conquer the world as Ethiopia!

It is interesting to see a different approach. The militia are pretty strong. Wish I trained them now 😆

1:23 “When you abandon all hope like a little bit- *cough* like a weak person.” That cracked me up

I don’t know when exactly Haile Selassie learned that there was a religious movement worshiping him in Jamaica, but I like to think he got it as an aside between updates on how the war with Italy was going

I was just playing Ethiopia in ironman to try and get some achievements, if only I knew they were adding an Ethiopian focus tree!

Taureor should be a radio presenter

Paradox should definitely continue supporting you as you are getting the best out of HOI4

A Sultanate of Aussa run would be interesting in the future

By Blood alone looks like a really cool update! I like the new Peace Deal changes. I can steal the navy of the Greeks when i play Romania now lol!

I'm so happy Paradox made a tree for Ethiopia, because their history is fascinating and very heroic

you are amazing and love your vids!!

Hey Paradox, you better give this man a shitload of money, because he's the reason I fell in love with HOI4 differently

Holy hell this looks really fun, bravo paradox

That was an amazing guide, nice job 😍 it worked for me - I would like to see how you make uprisings

23:31 they don't give army exp anymore. only chief of army gives exp

I was always temted to play Ethiopia. Now it looks super fun to play. Nice done.

Prawie dobrze przeczytałeś jego imię i nazwisko czyta się Haile Selasii (przynajmniej tak mówiła profesorka na historii etiopi na stutdiach 100% pewności nie mam ale siedziała na miejscu 8 lat więc zakładam że zna się na temacie :D )

Great video! I would be very interested to see you complete one of the new achievements with ethiopia. Crusader Kings IV I think it's called... It's the one where you need to take jerusalem. I would really enjoy it!

Worked like a treat, thanks!

Brilliant guide. Was bashing my head against a wall until I caved, first try I pushed Italy back and made them sign for peace. Sweet sweet achievement.

Worked. Great thanks!

*Aksum sounds like a lot of fun.* Alternatively, anything that makes "Ethiopia" a large name on the map works for me!

I don’t wanna spoil the DLC for me, but it is a Taureor video and long awaited one at that

taureor should do audiobooks. best voice for it.

Love the new expacs, but I will always been bad for the countries that got focus trees early on and now have tiny ones

love your vids bro!

Hi Taureor, love your content, ace videos and guides with super tips, your OWB vids got me into the fallout mod, could we have an Ethiopia video where you free/unite all Africa and some more Old World Blues please, thank you for your videos!

Such a treat, as always. I'd love to see you continue this playthrough (go for Jamaica, of course!) I couple of things I noticed as I tried my hand at this. imru Haile Selassie, the original Infantry Specialist, levels up really fast and is really godlike. Also, by the late 1936, as Italians run out of steam, you can put pretty much any General in the Northern mountains to level up. Put your Hill Fighter there and he gets Adaptable in no time. Wouldn't it be better to use him as a Field Marshal? He'a Adaptable and a Logistic Wizard, what's not to love?

I would love to see an Aussa playthrough. As I find it quite funny that such a tiny country is such a beast.

nice info! 💪

the paw you put on 17:05 is actually a bear's paw, not a lion's 😅

From my Ethiopia play through, if you hold Macalle, then Italy won’t annex Aussa. This allows you to hold the line with only 2 tiles on the front.

I would love to see a continuation for this video. Becoming a God path could be fun!

I need a "part 2" for this guide! Proszę!

Glad the media embargo has been lifted, just when the ingame embargo has been added.

Can't wait to see more By Blood Alone content from you! Btw, personally I feel like in the north with Macalle it's better to hold the riverline, instead of opening up to many directions of attack. For harder paths like the anarchy path it's really hard to hold due to the lack of good buffs

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Holding the hills slightly further east of your southern line forces the Italians to stand in desert and gives you a good angle to attack the center tile from, which you can then use to encircle the units on the northern tile and inflict massive casualties and chaos on the Italians in Somalia. Also it will provoke them to attack slightly more often, which is a boon for the general you picked since he gets the Scavenger trait from a Focus. Add that to the Logistics Spirit you can get for free and Scavenging Tactics and unless you're very unlucky in real life you'll be gaining guns every time the Italians fail to take your tiles. I also don't bother training new units with my strategy because you have enough to pull it off by bringing the one commander out of retirement. I instead stall to get the extra research stuff while keeping things primed for ~1938 when I start doing the Focuses that improve the Mekwanint's control, because in the early stage of the war you want the Mesafint's defense bonus more. Edit: I also stack debuffs to enemy air with leaders like Empress Asfaw because, y'know. You have no possible way to not fight under red air.

i was just about to write in your comments to play ethiopia :) bcs my friend said ethiopia is always dying in the start and i wanted to prove him wrong thx

yeahh continue the save or start another, doesn't matter i just wanna see you try the "Towards African Unity". it sounds very cool!

Sultinate of Aussa world conquest. They seem to be in a "strong" position there, heh.

Thanks!

1:23 oh no, OH NO, MY ASMR HOI 4 MAN IS GONNA SAY A- oh... Phew. Phewwww

Good video👍

all their stuff,,, love it :-P

your voice man literally incredible

"I hate micromanagement" says the guy who runs a grand strategy game KZfaq channel

please consider doing more Ethiopia runs!

Hearing your son say "dado" (i guess that is dad in polish?) really made me feel old.

Just finished my Aussa run. 2 hours of digging in and repelling italian charges until ww2. Fun though

Awesome

Hopefully this will help me when the DLC comes out!

I promise you next DLC I'll wait your video to by from your link. For now I can only give a view and a like 👍

That was a close one, almost lost Aussa on 14 of July in 1936 because evryone decided to walk away from it out of teh blue

i love it !!

Italy denied the peace treaty does that mean I'm at war for ever?

I used this guide, was all good, but I didn't watch end of this guide and stayed in war with italy too long, had to wait until axis was defeated. I am not great player. Will try again tho!

22:03 You're at 40% since the regrouping specialist you added moved the balance of power 10% to the left.

Got to finish teh war early, since Italy sudently left big chunk of land and let me walk to their port in the north

Watching Ethiopia humiliate Italy again is absolutely satisfying Maybe the third time, it will be Ethiopia's turn? Ethiopian Two Sicilies!

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Maybe do one of the other new paths first before returning for a longer form Ethiopia.

True heir of solomon or anti colonization would be proper... the Rasta path is too meme worthy.. great informative video!!!

I cant believe this video is sponsoerd

17:05 A bear's paw print is quite clearly that icon, not an ungulate like a boar

thank you for the video! loved the guide! let's BECOME A GOD! in next video!

Not to be mean but I found your videos very easy to get to sleep too genuinely, I sleep hella easier thank you

Do 4 future videos where u do all those 4 different endings

For some reason aussia had transferred all its troops to Italy

Great video and love the new Ethiopian FT. For a next video start uprisings and free Africa of colonialism.

Next challenge should be Luxembourg world conquest

You should do England planes only with the new plane designer.

nice video

Watch out when taking the north army to the south cause Italy can naval invade you again and rush to your capital (personal experience here when I was just about finishing the south side :()

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I love this guys speaking voice. I want him to read me a bedtime story.

I definitely want to see u play this again and choose Soviet path and also that u become puppet but destroy ur Overlord from inside

You say selassie like a pole ie, thats cool

Thanks for the guide but at around early and mid 1937 (twice) I made a third army at the northern border and the Italian divisions retreated to Eritrea, is that normal AI behavior?

Nice 👍

Hiring some advisors move the balance of power left or right

I got the italians out and the somali sultanate popped up and instantly joined the allies. After 6 tries it was just frustrating:D

Kind sir, correct me if I am wrong, but I keep seeing a common mistake with many players with offensive lines lacking an actual offensive order and thus not getting the combat performance bonus. As stated directly in the wiki, "When a division is at the starting position of an offensive battle plan (i.e. a battle plan containing at least one Offensive Line or Spearhead order) and is neither moving or fighting, it will accumulate a planning bonus at the start of each day, expressed as a percentage, until a maximum planning bonus is reached. This confers greater combat performance for the division. "

23:30 military high command doesnt give experience anymore.

You are the best hoi4 player

Jah !

Thank you I tried and failed within the first 2 months on my first couple attempts

Would love to see you form the Empire of Zion.

Wait wait wait, "select random country" button on the start screen?

Does the escalation mechanic and war level seem similar to the Russian invasion of Ukraine?

Lucky you have early access.

Take all of Africa. Would be cool to see that.

No medals to divisions? Might make things a little teeny bit easier.

on non-historical britain just called the entire commonwealth on me and destroyed me within 3 months

Please do Switzerland next.

i`d like to see italy or swis

Hmm yes lore of hoi4 Ethiopia run in by blood alone momentum 100

Do a world conquest as Aussa

Heir of Solomon. Use his ring to make demons destroy Italy