Kidane Mehret Pass
March 1, 1896 — The eve of the Battle of Adwa
Avoid the Sentry Searchlight
Italian outposts sweep the ravine with high-powered lanterns. Do not step into the moving yellow beam while standing or running, or the alarm will sound!
Use Sangar Rock Cover
Hold [C] to crouch behind low basalt stone walls. As long as you are crouching inside a cover zone, the searchlight will pass harmlessly over you.
Empress Taytu's Stratagem
Approach the wooden winch stand at the flooded gulch and Hold [E] to raise the sluice gate and drain the water, cutting enemy supplies.
The Battle of Adwa
By severing the Endeyeyus water supply and confirming that General Albertone's brigade was separated from the main Italian column, your intelligence allowed Ethiopian forces under Emperor Menelik II and Ras Alula to execute a decisive encirclement.
Adwa remains a watershed victory: the decisive defense of sovereignty that halted colonial expansion in the Horn of Africa.