



In the Great War of 1914 to 1918, Italy entered the war based on the promise by France and the United Kingdom that Italy would be guaranteed a fair share of the spoils of victory upon Germany's and Austria-Hungary's defeat. After the fall of the Roman Empire, Italy went through centuries of foreign domination until the 19th century. Effectively one of the best strategies for low casualty blitzkrieg WC campaigns.Italy is a rising but vulnerable major power. You can simply face them head on and take them down without any allied help at all. In fact, if you know what you are doing, it does not matter if the enemy has 1 division or has 1000. This style of play requires you to know when to pick fights, take opportunities that the AI RNG deals out, and having a good idea when you need to fall back. Land doctrine obviously being Mobile Warfare. Adjust whenever you have a good surplus on support equipment. The rest of your army can become 10 horse divisions with maybe just arty as support company and nothing else. Go heavy into light tank production until you get a template for 5/2/2 with light armor/light SPG/motorized and crank out 24 divisions of them and pimp it out with the usual support companies of arty, recon, shovels, and mechanics. You will just slowly grind its way across the world that will liberally spend both. Your playstyle in your post spends far too much manpower and IC on division templates that Italy can not afford. Sure against AI, if you bash your head in long enough you can grind out a "victory" and eventually rule the earth but there is no style or finesse. So, do any of you guys have any advice on what to do different?Ībsolutely not. My focus order: Ethiopian war logistics -> Industrial effort -> Industrial effort II -> Extra research slot -> Mare Nostrum -> Army Primacy -> Carrier Effort -> Italian highways -> Prospect for oil -> Capital ship effort -> Air innovations -> Modernized army -> Triumph in Africa. Production focusses on Fighters, Naval bombers (+carrier variant). Land doctrine is Superior Firepower.įor Navy I focus on Battleships/Carriers, and use the Base Strike doctrine, and try to keep dominance in the mediterranean sea until I get control of Gibraltar.įor air, I don't really research alot of the doctrine, but I go Strategic Destruction, both left paths. For tanks I got for 4 mot + 6 tanks (Maintenance, Artillery, Recon and Signal company). I'll have around 60 of those + 50 Ethiopia divisions. For the army I use the Garrison Division and the cheaper Ethiopian for the African Campaign (around 40-50 divisions) and 10-0 Infantry + 5 Companies (Engineers, Artillery, Field hospital, Recon and Signal company). Once I get to war with the allies my whole navy (in 1940 around 200 ships) gets shredded in pieces by the Brits. How do I play Italy properly? Every run its the same, my country turns out to be a massive piece of shit in the shape of a boot.
