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Kornstalx -> RE: Italian East Africa (1/23/2019 2:27:54 PM)
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IEA is easy once you learn how the game works. Don't attack Addis every turn, you have to siege it to low supply, and try and cut off that Italian HQ from the capital itself. Each turn that you have two ground units adjacent to any enemy resource (like a city), it will lose one supply point. Once the city gets low on supply, the defending Corps is much easier to deal with. If the corps ever gets to zero supply (click on it and look) you can kill it with just two attacks (usually 5-6 points per attack).
The trick is that Italian HQ... It's full strength (level 10) and a full strength HQ with even ZERO supply is still going to radiate at a supply distribution level of 5. If it's adjacent to the city this will give the corps 4 supply, which is enough to reinforce to 8 every turn. If you don't take all the surrounding settlements (like that one really close to the south of Addis) then the Italian HQ can get supply from there, and if it's getting at least 3 supply from the nearby settlement then it will distribute 8 supply to the Corps in Addis (even if Addis is sitting at zero!). This is enough supply to let the Addis Corps reinforce to 10 every turn, and it will also fight very effectively.
You have to make sure you seige Addis down to low (or preferably zero) supply while pushing that HQ away, and cutting it off from the city. Push it back a hex and block the road between the HQ and Addis. Or chase it and destroy it. You will never be able to take Addis alone with just South African ground corps while that enemy HQ is giving supply, especially if it's getting supply from a nearby settlement.
Just for reference I made a chart that demonstrates how effective the enemy HQ is being: http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=4582548
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