{"id":4121,"date":"2020-10-22T19:58:53","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T19:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kalle-online.net\/blog\/?p=4121"},"modified":"2020-10-29T14:22:11","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T14:22:11","slug":"scramble-for-africa-ethiopia-strategy-deity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kalle-online.net\/blog\/scramble-for-africa-ethiopia-strategy-deity\/","title":{"rendered":"Scramble for Africa Ethiopia Strategy (Deity)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ha! I’ve made a false statement: In a previous strategy guide I claimed Egypt<\/a> was the easiest Native African nation to play. That needs to be corrected to Ethiopia being easiest for all Native African nations (while Egypt remains the easiest of the North Africans). Overall and described in below Scramble for Africa Ethiopia strategy, Ethiopia most certainly is way easier. Thanks to Ethiopia’s great cultural bonuses, a successful strategy relies solely on walling oneself in and waiting it out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Comparison of Africa in the years 1880 and 1913<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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As we can see, even historically, Ethiopia not only survived the historic Scramble for Africa<\/a>, but even expanded its borders and prospered: Menelik_II.<\/a>, king and later Emperor of Ethiopia, strongly expanded and modernized the country during his 1889 – 1913 reign. Keeping good relationships with all other colonial empires and only being at war with Italy in the First Italo-Ethiopian War<\/a>, allowed him to not only defend his kingdom, but expand it<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Playing the Scramble for Africa<\/a> as Ethiopia will basically follow the same historic cornerstones:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scramble for Africa Ethiopia Strategy – In a nutshell<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Here’s the Dos and Don’ts for playing Scramble for Africa as Ethiopia:<\/p>\n\n\n\n