Restoring the Roman Empire in By Blood Alone!

Oh and before I forget let's unpause and look at our Manpower and Factory so before we unpause 124 mils and 106 sieves plus 400 000 Manpower bam 3.9 million Manpower Roma Invicta 142 mils and 136 so all in all not a bad deal ladies and gentlemen you join me in a glorious moment that's right this is Avalanche 1.12 better known as by Blood alone and today Paradox has graciously given me early access to the DLC so I could bring you this video which they're also paying for God I love Paradox anyway what are we gonna do today we're gonna start a new game and who better to play as than Mussolini himself the titular nation of this DLC we will be playing Italy Iron Man historical focuses on and we're gonna try and restore Rome here we are beautiful Italia and of course with this brand new nation comes a brand Focus tree look at this look at this thick boy oh we've got industry bonuses to the left we've got an army and air and a naval tree extensive huge and then the meat of this thing the political Branch locked behind our progress in Ethiopia we can go communist on the left which is where it belongs fascist in the center which I guess this is the historical path called and then you can also convene the grand Council where you can either choose a different flavor of fascist with italobal or dinograndi or do the most based thing and restore the monarchy monarchism play through anyone and over on the right we have the Foreign Affairs Branch this is alliances War goals Etc some nice things here as well but today we focus on marinostrum that's right we are going for the Roman Empire the novos Imperium romanum and for that we'll need to do some Conquest but first things first let's work on our Focus tree now we are going to be dealing with Ethiopia first and to do that we might need some Ethiopian war Logistics most of these are 35 days so it's not a big deal that we have so many focuses but we have to start somewhere so Ethiopian war Logistics as for research Italy starts with a ton of research slots for well it's not a ton but it's a lot and we can get some basic research and we'll start with the basics leaves us with a fourth slot now Italy is very well suited to the naval game and let's check out the naval tab this is where you'll research your holes now your basic ship types as well as certain specific ship add-ons like sonar and depth charges as well as armor belts for your bigger ships and the naval support tab is where you'll find the guns the ammunition the Torpedoes Damage Control Fire Control transports this has been very very much slimmed down much cleaner much more intuitive I love the way they handle this now what they else they changed airplanes no longer are you researching Fighters bombers cast that sort of stuff no we now research the basic airframe and depending on what airframe we use we can build an airplane all to our own liking and I'll show you that in a second but first let's look around what do we need here we're pretty much caught up on Tech at least starts with a competent level of air power so this is okay I could go for the large airframes but I don't think I need them so instead I'll use my fourth slot to work on some Naval stuff the Navy might need to do some work construction will start with the basics as usual just a couple of Civilian factories and then convert into Mills because we will work heavily with military factories speaking of let's get some production going I don't like these light tanks I know that they're a staple of the Italian Army their tank gets I don't like using them so I'm not going to use them instead I'll just use trucks or something I'm also going to need artillery I'm also going to need trains because Italy doesn't start with all that many trains and I'm gonna get some anti-air we are already making some close air support so want to put more factories on that Cass is still King then we have a bunch of ships already in the queue now if you want a min max probably a good idea delete at least the early heavy ships but I want my Conte di gavor I want my Julio cesare I want my littorio I want my big boats so I'm gonna build all of these ships just gonna make sure I build the escort vessels first they're quick and then the extra dockyards will become available to produce my heavy ships so heavy ship's last escorts first on to Ethiopia we have 18 divisions in the north seven to the South this should be enough to deal with Ethiopia realistically especially as a player you don't really have to worry about this too much I'm going to give you a little tip they don't want you to commit too many troops to this why well look at this if Italy launches a major offensive the war escalates if Italy commits more than 25 regular divisions the war escalates and if Italy commits more than 300 aircraft the war escalates however if we simply commit the the entirety of the Italian Army from day one we will beat them well before the war escalates into anything remotely resembling a threat to us and we can deal with this nonsense once and for all why do I want to do this very simple if I can beat Ethiopia within 70 days so before they get two focuses done they will not be able to finish boarding the train when this one happens Haile Selassie leaves his country and sets up shops somewhere else and the war will technically not end until we've dealt with all of the soon to be here resistance and we need to get compliance it's a whole mini game it's very well thought out it's very historical it's well done however I play video games and we optimize the fun out of them so if you defeat the Ethiopians quickly enough highly Selassie can't do that and when the war is over the war is over and we don't have to worry about him of that bam full Wing bam a full Wing this is so so easy this is so good this is the kind of quality of life changes that I want in my video games this makes Air Force management so much better now it's just infinitely better anyway I'm going to commit about 400 airplanes here yes it's going to escalate the war we don't care we intend to crush Haile Selassie before he gets to leave the country all right that is pretty much the basic setup done we will now continue on our Quest towards the Roman Empire by crushing Ethiopia and let's make sure we do this right I want to concentrate my forces here use the Cavalry to cut off this Division and we'll push in as hard as we can to the north just concentrate our forces on Lone positions push for victory points and circle divisions bypass divisions just keep the ball rolling with our air cover this should be no problem and let's unpause and Crush Ethiopia green Air going up already that's good and while we're crushing Ethiopians let's take a look at the state of Italy so we've got a bunch of national Spirits here most are familiar we got Victor Emanuel we've got Victoria mutilata and we've got the naval treaties what we also have is reconstruction industriale this simulates our efforts to build up our domestic Industries after the Great Depression and these are mostly positive and we can expand on these three Focus tree we also got a less than optimal military industry yeah that's not good so we're gonna have to work through this and Army Air and Naval Spirits not great again the focus tree holds the solutions to many of these things and we'll get to them in a bit anyway we've made our first push in Ethiopia let us continue just maximize the pressure on these guys never let them recover keep pushing pushing pushing pushing and there's the first one success in North Ethiopia we get a couple of bonuses and Ethiopia takes a hit to base or support we need to conquer the South as well for a similar event and to the South additional troops are rolling in and we should be able to start crushing them now Supply might be an issue so I'm going to motorize a couple of these Supply hubs the Italian industry needs a little bit of a boost and we're going to provide that where are we there we go Italian highways fun little event here this is RNG so you don't know when this pops up it's usually early on but it could be very early or it could be a month from now um the sultanate of ausa so these guys here they're neutral right now but they've been sort of under our thumb not our puppet but we have our say in their Affairs now we can get rid of them entirely send them an ultimatum demand total subjugation or not I don't know why you do this but so we will send them an ultimatum as a result we will eat them and that is the fall of Addis Ababa like I said if you just bring the entire Italian Army it doesn't matter like the mechanics cool and you can really make good use of it as Ethiopia but if a human plays Italy you can just Blitz past it and Ethiopia is defeated and this is the new peace mechanic now we are the only contributing Nation here so we can take whatever we want essentially you select what you want and you bid on it you submit your demands and if there was somebody else who was also submitting demands we'd now get a pop-up window might see that later in other peace deals there's not much to show here we got all of Ethiopia we can now confirm and exit I'm going to extricate my troops and send everybody North before I reorganize the military these areas are going to have some pretty nasty resistance so yeah resistance is fairly High compliance fairly low but we did manage to get them defeated before the Ethiopians managed to send Haile Selassie out of the country as a result resistance can actually be managed relatively easily as long as we can get enough guns to our garrisons and compliance will go up relatively easily as long as we set the right loss take the right focuses we should be okay with Italian African Ethiopia managed to get highly Selassie out of the country we're gonna get Negative events we're gonna have high resistance low compliance it's just a nuisance and I don't want to deal with that so we we rushed this a little bit anyway let's get everybody back home I'm also going to start exercising the Navy get ourselves a little bit of Naval experience what I'll probably be doing next is working my way through here is that fitsioni military whatever towards Coto Del Duce but we need to take some things along the way like the new emperor Ethiopia great for handling that territory just took same with the toppling of the amhara rulers more compliance always good over on the left here we have the ministry of Italian Africa this allows us to set Colonial management and Colonial police always good when you're handling occupied territory we can develop Ethiopia for more compliance our next order of business for Italy will be to build up we have a couple of things that we need to do if you are to form Rome we will need every Coastal province of the Mediterranean fortunately we control Libya but we have more that we need if we can get the French stuff from Vichy relatively easily we can get the Spanish stuff fairly easily Spain is easy to push away we can take Egypt from the UK If we contribute enough to world 2 we might be able to take turkey in the same peace deal if we handle ourselves well and same for the kingdom of Greece that leaves us with Albania we'll eat them through our Focus tree and Yugo slavia Yugoslavia again we can get a couple of we can get a war goal on them through our Focus tree if we look over here Balkan ambition gives us claims and the mission to send an ultimatum Yugoslavia this is a decision so we need to save this and time it correctly we need to declare war on Hugo when they lose their guarantee by the French and preferably the checks they will keep the Romanian guarantee but that's okay we'll just get a package deal Romania and Yugoslavia we can defeat them easily we also have to deal with Bulgaria why Bulgaria is a leech and if Bulgaria is allowed to join the access alongside US and Germany they will take Macedonia don't care Serbia again don't care but they will also claim Central Macedonia and Thrace and we need these two tiles to form Rome and I'm sorry Bulgaria but because you will not listen to reason I will have to kill you before you become a problem so on our first war coming up we will now gobble up most of the Balkans in one go but first we must prepare Italian highways are done I'm quickly gonna grab the ministry of Italian Africa this allows us to send Colonial police it's much better to manage the regions that way because right now I will be running with local police force but Colonial police is just way better also make sure garrisons are set to high priority this region is very much a drain on your resources this is the new plane designer boys so we can not only slap on an engine and weapons we can also add special modules like defense turrets or dive breaks for your close air support that kind of stuff but this is where you build your airplane same as you build your tanks or your ships and it's really really cool all you have to do is take an airframe in this case say a basic small airframe you can then select what engine you want single engine you want a dual engine your choice let's go with single Lane engine a good single engine and Armament we can make a fighter by slapping on fighter weapons or we can make a naval bomber by adding Torpedoes or we can add Cass same as before if I want a fighter that can do more things let's start by adding like machine guns and also add some bomb base and all of a sudden we have a fighter that can also do close air support it's not as good at close air support as a dedicated cast but it's essentially a multi-role fighter that gives you broad spectrum use so this is a really cool addition to the game you can really tailor your Air Force in the direction you want it to go if you want cheapish light aircraft that operate close to your territory small airframes if you want a little bit more leeway go with basic medium airframes they will give you more range more options for fittings but they will be more expensive and slower and less agile obviously and if you get the large airframes that is where you can get the classic long range tactical or strategic bombers or make him a fighter a large long-range fighter to escort your bombers on route to their destination I'm not gonna go over my research I'm just gonna go for the basics of Industry infantry and artillery and I'm probably not gonna dabble with tanks but I am going to dabble with should I get the opportunity is better Fighters and better cast but I'll get to that when we get there I am also going to reserve one slot to do naval Tech to improve the ships we have by increasing these these texts and the Damage Control on Fire Control just so our Navy which isn't small it's a good Navy but just so that Navy can actually you know go toe-to-toe with the British maybe or at least be strong enough to get our troops into the United Kingdom because we will have to uh deal with the UK someday but let's keep the research going radio is always a good idea actually it's fairly realistic mechanical Computing and Colonial police we can either recruit additional units don't want that we have other plans this will give you the occupational Colonial police let me show you what that is it is specific for Colonial territory so everything in Africa pretty much and you can go into your occupation law and select Colonial police it's essentially a better version of local police that you can still increase so it is just better all around and we're gonna set that everywhere and we'll also be ramping up our production more guns more support equipment more artillery more close air support this is not a guide per se this is not as clean as it could be let's get War economy in and let's also start building oh I shouldn't have gotten War economy should have gone for the silent Workhorse first oh well all right Triumph in Africa next as you can see free intelligence agency with two spy slots again if Haile Selassie made it out of the country go with anti-partisan first and get those two spies working on reducing resistance here because it will be a nightmare that's not a concern for us I'm gonna go with cryptology and start decrypting some people and we have more political power to spend and they changed a couple of things the way this works it used to be that every member of any military High command gave you experience and they all cost roughly the same depending on skill now we have two options we have options that are a low political power cost with a higher command power cost or you can have the reverse they cost more political power but cost less command power and you it's gonna be a choice on one which do you want which specific leader do you really need or want and two which can you afford because you only have so much command power to go around usually secondly you can see most of the military High command itself does not give you Army experience they've removed it from all of these guys as far as I can tell and instead have moved it to the military chief of army chief of Navy and chief of Air Force let's go here and they now give a lot more than they used to to compensate for that so we've got badoglio here who gives us 0.3 daily Army experience which is significant I just don't think I want his skills I'd rather get Hugo here who gives me something useful like division org instead of non-combat other Supply penalties but I do like the fact that this guy doesn't cost us I don't know which is best though which I would like is this guy the Army maneuver expert but I need to do a focus to unlock him and the focus leads to a side of the tree that I don't really want to use the choice is yours I think I'll get more out of The Preserve Army Traditions Branch so I'll not get the leader I want I'll just get the leader I need let's take Ugo here and start getting ourselves a little bit of army XP speaking of army XP let's also get the officer core here we go professional officer course is my go-to again more daily command power so they've moved daily command power again this one's also cool makes it cheaper to hand out medals but I haven't actually done this yet so I don't know if this is gonna be worth it medals you say well let's see if we can find any distinguished units here so we can go into their unit details and go to history and you can see what these units did and this unit specifically in February of 1936 took part in the continued action in the Ethiopian Highlands offensive operation cool lost 14 dudes got 11 experience and not much we can do here this one is a better example this specific unit took at this Ababa as a result we can give them a medal why don't we just do that right now let's give them metal and this will confer bonuses to this specific unit as long as this guy remains in command General de Brigade presbytero sure and we can give them in exchange for some political power a medal or recovery rate more HP less Supply consumption more attack I think we'll just give them the order of Savoy first class increased attack I always like more attack there perfect brilliant ah National Spain has gone to war with Spain which means we are going to be sending some volunteers that can send three because I haven't gotten rid of my irregular threat I'm gonna send them three Mountaineers along with air volunteers one airing that's better than no airwings and they're on their way ah send the close air support I think yeah they'll have to they'll they'll do it's now also mid 36 and we have about a year for all the guarantees on Yugoslavia disappear well it's irrelevant ones so we need to make sure everything lines up somewhat correctly and since we will be going to war with about half the Balkans I'm also going to start training a couple of Divisions let's see I have one full Army not counting its missing Mountaineers got seven Irregulars and eight of these so I'll train 16 more divisions to start we can get more provided we can actually get the Manpower and guns out in time Italian military industry not that impressive I'll be honest I think I'll focus on getting myself a couple of extra military factories before we do anything else so this is interesting steel couple of sieves uh or I can get two Mills here and another I can get four mils in the same time it takes me to get two sieves and eight steel yeah I think I'll I think I'll go for these uh for the middles anyway what I'm gonna do now is build up my military industry through focuses for a little bit while also still dabbling maybe with developing Ethiopia maybe getting the amhara rulers event because this gives us more compliance in the region but I first want to get compliance to take up naturally a little bit more why well the the higher compliance is the slower it will take up naturally so you want to get this up to a reasonable amount through natural ticks and then get the big lump sum rewards from your focuses a little later on so they are more impactful I mean that's my thinking I could be wrong let me know in the comments if I'm completely wrong let's get a couple more guys in I could get the financial expert five percent consumer goods that's a fair deal or the war industrialist also good deal once I start building I think I'll stop with the captain of industry I'm gonna be building quite a few things like civilian factories maybe a couple refineries and Railways first so let's get the capital of industry first one good thing about Italy in the new patch is you get a ton of political power behold the balance of power in Italy it goes between the grand Council of fascism and Mussolini if you're going historically as you progress through Focus trees these two Powers might change both might change or one might change you'll see for yourself and you have the option of using decisions that take political power to then affect the balance of power you want to move it towards the grand Council to get certain focuses done or to get certain bonuses though I don't see a lot of great bonuses here except maybe this one or you want to move it in Benito's favor again for certain focuses and to grab some bonuses personally I like to keep it around here Consolidated power of the duche it gives us more political power more stability more war support without negatively affecting us because if we get it to dictorial Authority you start losing some Army Navy and air experience because the man starts meddling it's uh justify to conquer Sofia 230 days we shouldn't be picking up any guarantees I don't think world engine is gonna Spike by then besides if the war goal finishes early we can always just declare the war and just let it sit Bulgaria is not going to join any factions they're not going to pick up any guarantees that early and they can't reach us anyway so we can declare the war on Bulgaria while we wait for our vocal on Hugo and then we can fight Hugo Romania and Bulgaria in one go we are more than powerful enough for it all right we've got about 100 days left before the war gold finishes so I think I'm gonna start tracking towards eating Albania I've got a couple of bonuses picked up for the industry already good amount of factories being built once these sieves finish I'll start militarizing mostly because I wanna fight and I wanna fight hard uh getting my Roman Empire I don't have the luxury of sitting here and building up civilian economy like Germany does now I will be fighting in the Balkan sooner rather than later all right Balkan ambition done let's get Albanian occupation and that should more or less coincide yeah with the world along Bulgaria world tension isn't high at all and most of the guarantees have dropped I've got the political power now I'm just gonna wait until the uh guarantee here disappears this does happen when if I'm not mistaken the checks go with trust in the west it is about mid 37 so either this month or next month and if it hasn't happened by early August I'll just declare war on Bulgaria and wait a little bit longer not really a concern there you go Yugoslavia refuses like they always do bottom option does nothing don't want that don't click the bottom option top option gives us a war gold boom and we get the wargle instantly so don't unpause if you want pause now you risk them getting guaranteed so we now instantly declare war we only pull in the Romanians and we are now at war with pretty much all of the Balkan except for maybe Greece and we're just going to crush them realistically they have nothing against us so in the South focus on the victory points in here just mess around a little bit I guess and to the north grind and push hard this really is not that much of a challenging war and like that we've already linked up with the Zara front and I think that is Hugo out of the war yep Yugoslavia is done for I had a little of a game Crash when Yugoslavia capitulated and I forgot to hit record when I fired the game back up but that's okay you didn't really miss anything I simply took all of Yugoslavia and now I intend to take all of Bulgaria as well I'm just gonna reposition the Army and keep pushing and again with air power and our sheer numbers we should be able to win this relatively easily Romania does have a reasonable Army for a country at their size but once we take our Bulgaria and have a very very wide border with them only more than fine honestly Bulgaria is like not even a pushover I don't think they even qualify as a pushover they're just not strong I'm trying to be a little more methodical about this part of the war than I am about Yugoslavia uh mostly because I don't want to waste too much equipment too much Manpower as you can see I need a ton of equipment so I'm gonna divert that equipment to my garrisons once that need has been fulfilled then I'll turn up more divisions and there goes Bulgaria so again we'll take all their stuff they don't have a Navy so nothing to take there submit my demands and we continue now we just have a very long continuous front with the hated Romanians they are our next Target so I'll just get everybody into position and then we'll make our way to Bucharest now with this added front line length Romania doesn't have the troops to keep this going fortunately we do so we'll just crush them outright and with Bucharest taken Supply in the region is going to stabilize just need to control the railway here as well and then we'll be in the money to roll up what's left of Romania all in all not even a very difficult War losses are minimal territory gains are maximal and once we finish this war we simply build up for World War II love these encirclements good numbers good numbers something to sate the appetite probably should be would be better off not killing them but I can't help myself I see a good encirclement I have to go for it and there we go Romania has crash the game now for Romania we can integrate most of this if not all of this if we do form Rome but until we do I don't want to bother with the region so I'm just going to puppet them and while I'm here I'm gonna take some resource rights yes I will take your oil thank you very much I I could take their Navy but I mean all they have is a couple of screening ships yes I could but I really don't want to bother they're usually trash anyway and I think that's it that's all we want here there we go Italian Romania and the oil goes to Italy I'm gonna topple the amhara rulers get a little bit more compliance out of this and then we continue on with culto Del Duce and some bonuses to consumer goods or bonuses to political power many choices here these are not that interesting it leads to strengthening the regime which we will need eventually if we're gonna go for mare nostrum but I can wait I can wait I also want pact of Steel but it is going to get one of our advisors fired but it does lead to some bonuses why treaty with Germany German military corporation some bonuses to research here as well and Italian iridentism which gives us a ton of claims they are useful as well as uh let's see here war with Greece gonna need that one it also leads to claims on true like all all of this leads to claims I like claims and I also want control of the French territories if I can get this one not we'll just go war with France but I think our priorities should lie with expanding our industry and expanding our military capabilities some more so far so good right Italy's gotten bigger stronger better and our spies will be better served preparing for the inevitable speaking of preparing for the inevitable I'm going to group up my Navy and I'm gonna send the entire reikia Marina over to the Germans once I can so I'm gonna ask to join their faction there we go we are now in the axis so we have a couple of options the bottom one is no negotiations and that reduces resistance now for us resistance isn't a problem again if you go highly Selassie kicking around it might be we can simply subdue them again this just reduces resistance but allows the event chain to continue while the bottom option ends the event chain we can make him governor of a region this creates a puppet mathematically the creation of many puppets is best because all those puppets will do their little Focus trees and you'll end up with more factories I just don't want that mess in my life and I will simply add some Grant some concessions I'm gonna get a lot of compliance a little bit of resistance and a free General it's not a great General but it's a free General and I really hope I can get compliance up high enough it is getting there it's like in the 50s low 50s so no I'm not gonna make it I've also gone and researched where was I synthetics because I need a couple of synthetic refineries just to make sure that I have rubber in hand once World War II does kick off I'll probably need more than this so I'm gonna sprinkle in synthetic refiners wherever I can and probably go ahead and grab these uh rubber processing bonuses but I want to get my better Fighters out as well this is ahead of time but I did get a nice bonus to this so this might be worth researching I'll be able to produce at least a few of them by the time I get this researched I think it's gonna be worth it yeah I failed the event Ethiopia still resists it was close though oh well with our failure more more or less in Ethiopia and I can now fully focus on the goal at hand and I'll quickly lay out my battle plans due to the new way that war participation is calculated I cannot just go in and occupy the UK and call it a day now I need to commit to several fronts I will not abandon Africa but I will in fact be fighting on these two little front lines I'll probably use my kimichinere and I will try to improve this template and get a little more of them just so I can fiddle around in North Africa with them this will give us War support sorry War participation by you know participating in the war fighting Etc I will also do the same on this front line with the French go a little bit of a back and forth here hopefully getting myself more participation along with the Air Force in the region shooting down enemy planes or conversely getting shot down anyway it should give me more participation and then I will use a couple of hopefully two northern armies here to help deal with the low countries they will go the Germany don't care and help deal with France when France has fallen I'll redirect those northern armies for quick invasion of the UK hopefully and encircle London while taking the rest of the island that should give me enough War participation to have a favorable peace deal in which I can take the entire Coastline the only thing I need to make sure that I do is one eat the kingdom of Greece this is probably going to be my ticket into the war and I must not forget to get turkey involved as well before I end things I could draw Spain and but I can handle Spain later on my own same for Vichy France and honestly same for the Swiss why the Swiss well I don't like him alright working through the focus 3 we have another choice to make we can either strengthen the northern industry this gives us a couple of factories or we can modernize the middle Giorno southern Italy essentially this gives us 12 steel which is great and a bunch of Naval Base system infrastructure and also a couple of military and civilian factories now my heart says modernize mesozo Journal because I want that steel it looks good but this not only boosts these regions this doesn't just give you factories they also directly affect your design companies like this one will be strengthened if we complete strengthen Northern industry same for this one same for the industrial concern this one will be strengthened when we do modernize the mesogiorno while Daniel is the one I have selected will do the same but when I do the northern industry now most of the things I've selected here are reliant on the Northern industry being strengthened so I'm going to do that I'm going to strengthen the northern industry now so this is something you want to take into account if you're playing Italy and you want to sword a min max it but yeah I like I don't really mean Max but I'm also gonna make my budget assault division I'm not gonna work with tanks I just we don't have the industry for it so we're gonna go with the next best thing and what I like to run with is nine motorized units and then for motorized artilleries three or four I think I'm gonna try four and I'm also gonna slap on engineer some support artillery and support anti-air this is ridiculously expensive in terms of army experience but it's a it's a it's a good cause these will be our shock troops and I'll use these and there you go Poland refuses German ultimatum and we have our war with Greece so we can pretty much join together here day one first off let's put the Navy back to Port I'm gonna put them here wilhelm's Haven they will serve to Naval invade the UK everybody else is in position I borrowed some Romanian units to uh help guard Sardinia I don't want to lose territory that I don't have to I've got North Africa well I wouldn't call this locked down but I have enough troops here that can test the area and Greece well Greece is about to have a very very bad day when my units rolls South and I don't think they have much in the way to stop me Germany is now at war with the allies and we are going to declare war on Greece as they are now going to join the Allies as well there we go Kingdom of Greece is now in that faction and we're now war with a major which means we can do the super researchito and probably superioro and super Marina when we ever get to it these just straight up boost our armies this simulates the reorganization of the military and we should be good to go yep now I'm just going to take care of Greece uh if I see an opportunity like this one here obviously I have to take it we'll do a little bit of uh fighting along the border with the French here same here with the British doesn't really matter we haven't called Italian East African to the war so these guys are just sucking up UK's divisions that they need to guard these areas now perfect at least those divisions aren't fighting me anyway now we can look at Total War participation as you can see this has changed somewhat occupation is a lot less valuable and land combat damage done is a factor so contributing to the war by actively fighting gets you points and quite a few points as as does strategic bombing as before Convoy rating now gets you bonuses as well sinking enemy ships destroying enemy planes and sending land lease also casualties but again not as much as before I think I only need one Army plus my motorized for Greece I'm gonna redeploy the other Army to the Netherlands again I can actually afford to help Germany now because it gets me bonuses no I don't want you lendlies well so far so good Greece is knocked out they should capitulate soon and that is king of Greece out of the way super estacito done as well could pick up a couple of bonuses here don't think I need them really and now I'm gonna get the super irono first improve my Air Force now get rid of whatever's left in Greece and redeploy my Army to the low countries so I have Maximum Impact there so far our participation is good 40 and I expected to shoot up when we contribute some more to the war in the low countries as well as invading the UK alright Belgium's in that's the worst one to declare warn though Germany but as we have no choice but to accept it should have just taken out in the Netherlands oh Germany if you're not going to I'll do it myself contribution is also looking good we're getting a lot of land combat damaging occupation not so much or destroyed planes but the combat does weigh we are outperforming Germany there they are shooting down a lot more planes getting their bombing in getting their rating in and sinking some ships actually we'll get in on that later but it's just the battles we're winning them we're doing good everything is according to plan plus of course we'll occupy the UK yeah French defenses are crumbling as we speak let's get more upgrades and always need to keep things moving forward now this is expensive in terms of equipment but it's a lost we can bear it's a short campaign really once we get to Paris it's all over for the French and then we can prepare to hit the UK speaking of I'm going to start planning my Naval Invasion all right I've set up a set of Naval invasions from the port beneath Hamburg towards the Eastern side of the UK we're gonna try and cut them in half and I just noticed the um Germans are shipping troops I don't know what they're doing and where they're going but their shipping troops all right what the hell are they doing and with the fall of Paris that should be France out of commission go on then there we go oh dear God it's disgusting um okay looks like we got a good chunk of occupation here that's great I guess I'll have these troops deal with the Turkish border and we're now able to actually get some rubber through Vichy France and apparently we can still trade with Siam who we have a land connection to apparently meanwhile in terms of focuses I have went and gotten super airos or Air Force isn't as terrible as it is and now I'm working my way down La Battalion strengthened the regime and that will eventually lead to marinostrum and that is what we need to make Rome great again there we go we've made landfall and now we can start maneuvering moving to Norwich there you take the airfields you push there take the Airfield push South go for the Airfield you push there you hit the port long as we can take the port we're good but this is a little bit of a micro intensive part of the campaign but we absolutely have to take a port here if we don't we're screwed oh and our navies seem to have touched oh dear lord um this actually might not be as bad as it looks my goal here is still to cut the United Kingdom in half if I can do that we're on the right track have I taken Hull yes I've taken Hull just need to link up with the southern armies and then I'll have the entire Coast under my control I'll start by sending this infantry Army across good all right all right I did take some damage but most of the Infantry managed to land intact I'm landing more infantry more motorized I have green Air my air force is putting up a good fight and we are still pulling ahead in terms of contribution perfect very very good how did that naval battle turn out oh yes oh the UK really isn't ready for this look at the low strength on these divisions the low orc these units were Force deployed in a hurry to try and do damage control here I have them by the metaphorical balls right now oh I love that this still works I love that this still works oh boy the Italian Army is in the fight of its life and we're doing very well losses very minimal so far inflicted casualties probably not that high no not that high at all and I think with that we should have London in circles perfect the UK is not gonna like that now I just need to wipe the floor with whatever they have left in the South all right and leave enough divisions in place to keep a tight circle around London yeah contribution definitely edging out ahead not just occupation but all this land combat we're doing here this is going to put us well ahead of Germany so we'll just Crush whatever's left in the South look at all these units the UK is wasting in Africa taking massive attrition alright that is Turkey in just going to quickly declare this is definitely not going to matter there we go just grind on them on their border a little bit again oh I just uh noticed there's some German troops here I don't want them taking London so uh yeah I think I'll just turn off all of the Allied Supply in the region so I've turned Allied Supply offer every Supply Hub in uh Southern England hopefully Germany doesn't take London I'm still pushing hard in the north here I'm pushing hard everywhere essentially I think we've got this one in the bag yeah 60 participation I think we're done here I'm just gonna end it I've had my fill of this war the UK is defeated and with them Falls the rest of the islands well the Allies there we go the fall of London well yeah like the UK really didn't have all that much stuff left we will take the important bits so everything Coastal around the Mediterranean and now we can see some of my states are being contested now I want all of them and I'm going to demand all of them I will go forward and press these claims I can forfeit the claims and just say I a I take him I don't want him but I need and want those States so I'm going to press my claims and the game seems to have resolved this and I have my stuff no Germany also pressed a couple of these claims so you can see these ones are all mine so turkey's mind serious mine Egypt's mind but Germany is being a bit pissy about Greece so I still have this in my demand so I can submit the demands and we'll see if the Germans are willing to be reasonable here they probably will not I'm not gonna ask for some more stuff while I'm here like the Royal Navy select all it's gonna be funny there we go and we got most of our stuff so we got all of the Navy things I think but Germany is still contesting Greek territory okay I'm gonna select all of it and demand it I want that Greek territory oh Germany is still pushing forward one Crete and I took Crete I took Attica sometimes it's a little confusing how this works oh dear God it's gonna be great are we still at War we're not at War okay so I have the entire Coastline I have all the Greek States I have all the Turkish States so now I take out Vichy France by justifying a war goal on a claimed State 45 days or I could go through the focus tree maybe no I don't think I want to go through the focus tree instead let's just demand the balearics from the Spanish and justify on the French for acclaimed State uh French somalilander Corsica doesn't really matter and we will simply get our divisions into position now to wipe out the French here's that Navy we just stole that is the majority I think of the French navy and the Royal Navy both under my control delivered to me in Rome perfect and now let's group them up with our own glorious Fleet alright Hungarian fighter competition sure Balearic Island seated to Italy hooray Spain gives up the Balearic Islands great I don't have to fight over those once I'm at all of Vichy France I'll go to war with the nationalists here it's gonna take a while um is there an easier way to get me a war girl through the focus tree no don't think there is I'll just have to justify the old-fashioned way there we go Declare War I don't call it my allies I'm gonna do this on my own and now I'm gonna justify on Franco oh look now it only takes 10 days I love this now this is also new if you start generating tons and tons and tons of world tension countries you're not at war with and who will obviously have a negative opinion of you due to your world tension generation are gonna start embargoing you and it's going to be impossible to trade with them that might end up screwing you in the long run there we go we finished mare nostrum now what does that get us that gets us the decision we've been looking all right Vichy just roll over and die you've lost it's over yeah people are just gonna constantly Embark you from this point onwards it is what it is it's okay you should have more than enough resources at your disposal in manual in Europe anyway you're the Roman Empire you control all you need to control I think that's it yeah that's Vichy France under control there we go another peace deal again um we're the only ones in this peace deal just take everything take their land take their Navy take everything and at this point it's probably not a bad idea you know start building tanks I guess with all the factories and resources I have I just haven't researched any oh well let's just deal with the Spanish and call it a day so just the Spanish and British States left and that is just this stuff so this war will see us Victorious all in all not a terrible game I actually have a lot of fun it's only August of 1940 uh once Spain girls shouldn't be too much later yeah now everybody and their grandmother is going to embargo us so there's nobody left to trade with unless they're Germany and there goes Spain final peace deal we're just gonna take everything I'm gonna take all of your ships submit my demands and I think we have everything there was to take there we go we control the entire Mediterranean if I'm not mistaken so let's see if we can click the button yes I'll send you more guns there we go mare nostrum the crowning Glory of this achievement boom Imperium romanum now you'll notice this is a little bit different from the old Roman um the restoration decision it doesn't give you cores and everything it gives you cores on the territories required for forming it so everything that is Coastal all of Greece and I think all of turkey but I'm I could be wrong but it does give you decisions to core additional lands I can reintegrate Egypt bam of course I can conquer galashanka bam course restore order and Mauritania bam course and a dozen more of these decisions to just bring Roman rule back to all of those territories so it's only 1940 and if you want to continue a campaign like this now is the time work your way through all of these decisions you most of the land required is just going to be a little Conquest here some Conquest there and you will be able to get what you need I especially love this one avenge tudorberg or arminius you're gonna get what's coming anyway that's it for this video I had a ton of fun with this I hope to make a lot more videos like this if you want to try out the new Italian Ethiopian or swiss Focus trees check out my link down below I've partnered with Paradox to uh hook you guys up with some DLC and I hope you enjoy this next video as well see ya

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Length: 46min 6sec (2766 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 24 2022