Taking these countries is incredibly important and should not be skipped unless the server rule set specifically bans them being taken before a certain date. This requires a high investment into Spies to actually benefit from this war by building a collaboration government in Yugoslavia and then building another one up in Greece once it is maxed out.
Similar to before but you basically get a free focus just replace air innovations with something else like getting industrial effort 1 earlier. There is no clever way of bypassing befriend Bulgaria but this should not be the way you join the axis as it wastes PP and time just ask the Germany to join when it gets really close to war so that the allies do not get as much war support early on.(and if you are lucky get strikes) If you are really determined not to give the allies any war support via world tension you can wait and should declare war on Yugoslavia first before the Albanians submit.įrom here you can bounce around where you like but I would recommend doing the Italian highways downwards as a priority after all the axis and your navy do desperately require oil. Note that you wargoal on yugoslavia should come about 20 days before you finish occupying albania this wargoal is permanent so wait until albania is occupied/owned by you get some troops on that new part of the border and go to war. *note that you should be researching fighter 1's immediately if you are going to get fighter two's for the axisġ.After bypassing ethiopian war logistics as shown above take "Mare Nostrum" or you could take Army primacy but it is generally best to get dockyards sooner than mills and you will not need the research bonuses yet to doctrine.Ģ.take "Air Innovations" for a 100% bonus to the research of fighter 2 (start researching the moment you have this bonus and fighter one's)Ħ.Claims on Yugoslavia(store up pp so that you can start justifying a wargoal once this finishes on just one of the claimed provinces should be just over 120 days)ħ.Now do army primacy or Mare nostrum (which ever one was left) Sending volunteers to Japan or an attache will definitely resolve this issue, however if you are using my heavy cruiser naval meta which requires a large amount of pp then you will just have to manage. If you are desperate for army xp either because you are not allowed to drag out the war with Ethiopia or accidentally crushed them quickly. Italy really struggles to produce enough men to garrison Ethiopia so not having to guard it allows you more men and time to sweep the med and make your crucial naval invasions. * Also by puppeting ethiopia and releasing somalia and eritrea you can take the divisions they produce but not call them into the war meaning that you don't have to defend them and get some much needed divisions for invasions and defense. Step 4: Depending on the ruleset you may or may not be able to puppet ethiopia if you are able to do so I would strongly recommend this as getting 15 or so 20 width infantry divisions is better than getting one civ after like 3 years of compliance gain.
Step 3: once you have skipped the focus you may take out ethiopia at your leisure or on the servers ruleset time-frame(note that you get a nice +10% war support and stability bonus when you triumph) Step 2: Let the Ethiopians take Eritrea(northern part) and most of Somalia and you should have the option to click "bypass" on the focus.
Step 1: take all of your divisions facing Ethiopia and draw a fall back line in the lowest part of Somalia assigning all of your units to it.
Here is how to skip it and save yourself time so that you can get to the much more valuable focuses sooner. It is not necessary to take the "Ethiopian war Logistics" focus and bypassing it is of great benefit. While Ethiopia is a good opportunity to gain some army xp and gain quite a nice puppet and position in Africa.
Now as you likely know Italy starts the game at war with Ethiopia this is an excellent opportunity to gain some army experience that is necessary to upgrade your main divisions to 20 widths.