Ethopia Help

[KnightoftheStar]

Ok I managed to get the 1st objective and the 2nd, my problem seems to be that starting with the end of my golden age (by which point I've built all the cities I need really) I enter a state of instability followed by a single secession that results in full-blown collapse in 1866 during a massive world war that I got dragged into by defensive pacts, how do you avoid collapse in Ethiopia due to expansion and economy?

 

[onedreamer]

you avoid it by not expanding ^^
gift cities (especially if on the western coast) to Mali. Settle FEW cities with a lot of culture, or just don't settle south of Mozambique and kill the euros that land there.

 

[KnightoftheStar]

you avoid it by not expanding ^^
gift cities (especially if on the western coast) to Mali. Settle FEW cities with a lot of culture, or just don't settle south of Mozambique and kill the euros that land there.

I was able to hang onto South Africa and all the resources from there with no problem for a while until I got dragged into WWI, I'm thinking I'm going to rewind and drop those defensive pacts, I think it was my foreign rating that kept me floating where I was at.

 

[blizzrd]

you avoid it by not expanding ^^
gift cities (especially if on the western coast) to Mali. Settle FEW cities with a lot of culture, or just don't settle south of Mozambique and kill the euros that land there.

This answers the question exactly.

 

[kbk]

I won Ethiopia by holding onto all of sub-Saharan Africa, but it was rough. It's by no means necessary to do.

Also, give up those Egyptian cities. They are wonderful cities, but they destroy your stability.

 

[TDK]

KnightoftheStar, did you found Christianity or Islam?

In my emperor game i founded Islam, which means I had Divine Right. So I dealt with instability by adopting the civic that gives +4 stability for each vassal + the other advice in this thread. Mali is a good first vassal but you might be able to get others as well.

Let me know how it goes.

TDK

 

[KnightoftheStar]

I won Ethiopia by holding onto all of sub-Saharan Africa, but it was rough. It's by no means necessary to do.

Also, give up those Egyptian cities. They are wonderful cities, but they destroy your stability.

I don't have any of Egypt, unless you mean Aksum and Gondokoro, both of which I need Gondokoro as my holy shrine city for Christianity and Aksum for its solid production compared to everywhere else.

I managed to deal with the economy by getting Commonwealth but I think that was almost too little too late, looking like I need to go to my mid 1200s save point and go from there to get this to work better.

 

[kbk]

I don't have any of Egypt, unless you mean Aksum and Gondokoro, both of which I need Gondokoro as my holy shrine city for Christianity and Aksum for its solid production compared to everywhere else.

Nah, I meant the lower Nile cities traditionally thought of as Egyptian. In this case, I'd recommend building your infrastructure, and maintaining a good, really strong military in your capitol, so that if you have cities declare independence you can take them back. Use as few cities as possible to claim sub-Saharan Africa, liberate/gift cities on the Western coast to Mali (even if you don't make them your vassal).

Also, if you do collapse, its not necessarily the end. Independents won't count as Europeans. This game can be won with just one city after you found your religion.