HoI4 Guide - France: Napoleon returns! - La Résistance

oh man this should be good there we go this unites Germany oh yeah that is that is some delicious border Gor oh boy yep well there you have it the French Empire reigned supreme on the European continent all that's left now is to take out Russia this is just a matter of time the Russians won't be able to put up much of a fight against your battle-hardened army [Music] hey folks bittersteel here with another hearts of iron 4 guide today i have for you a small guide for france in lad hazy stones specifically we are going to restore Napoleon Emperor of the French to his rightful throne so let's select our country iron man on historical on startgame first things first we are going to get rid of the military they have failed us in the past they will fill us no more we have no use for these e disloyal troops so we just select all of our units except for one division the one division that remained loyal and disband so take this one division put them in an army assign a general this station them wherever you feel like and set them to exercising yes the one division training trick still very much works this one division will supply us with a ton of army experience which we can later use to modify our templates into more optimal builds research very much the basics of any game electronic engineering basic machine tools and construction it's mostly going to be focused on industry early game anyway because we want to have that good solid foundation in place construction just fill ill de France picardy and nord-pas-de-calais with civilian factories why these areas simply because they have the largest infrastructure and the bigger your infrastructure the more build slots you have but also the higher your build speed so these factories will complete in the fastest military factories we won't need as many guns right away because we have a ton of guns because we got rid of our army same for support equipment we will need a lot more towed artillery because we will modify our templates to include some more artillery in the optimum templates no need for tanks no need for motorised we still have a very hefty stockpile and maybe consider adding some towed anti-air it's this small amount and start building that because our Air Force is not quite as impressive speaking of the Air Force just group them all up find all of your fighters scattered throughout the world base them in the largest airfield in France I believe it's the one in Champaign and set your units to shift-click pilot exercises this will mean they stopped exercising when they reach experience level 3 also note because France does not produce any oil or virtually no oil you are going to run out of fuel reserves very quickly so if you notice that war is around the corner consider starting hefty imports from the US to get your fuel supply or fuel reserves up now finally for the Navy just select all of your ships all of your ships into one fleet base it at breast that is your largest port and put them under an admiral they will be of valuable use later on focuses of course we are going to go with revive the National Block then in to utilize the leads down on the council of ranvier and revise the Constitution all the way down here to proclaim the third Empire and on but first things first revive the national block and with that we have everything in place to start our game France has the industrial base to warrant setting up an espionage agency early so we'll be doing that it's just a small upfront cost now for some smooth sailing later on and especially the cryptology will pay off against tougher foes like Germany and with our agency in place we are recruiting a spy and let's get to work on these well unfortunately named pills shall we first national focus done Germany RIA militarizing but we will just be issuing a diplomatic objection we are in no shape for some actual fighting just yet utilize the leaks and onwards and with our freaky pills done get ourselves an operative see if there's any good ones here this one seems like a nice fellow now ideally the 1936 election event public demands rearmament will fire giving us the option to raise our economy law to early mobilization and boosting our war support however for this event to fire France needs to border a country that is at war like Italy versus Abyssinia so if Italy concludes its war with Abyssinia early like it happened to dis run this event will not be likely to fire instead we will see the election event communists in government fire since france meets a criteria for this event as well namely they have more than 50% communist support in the country now we don't want any commies in our glorious Empire so we will go for a broad coalition and the Council of our Umbria finished now we can revise the Constitution now that we have finished revise the Constitution we will be affected by a national spirit called constitutional revision for one full year this will give us a small weekly stability tick but more importantly we need this spirit to expire so we can continue down the political path towards restoring a monarch to the French throne as you can see here to start repeal the law of exile we must not have the national spirit constitutional revision so let's use this time wisely and invest in our economy somewhat did that end let's pick let's say fair as it will give us a very hefty 150 percent research bonus for the entire industry tab three times it's a no-brainer right there now what some of our civilian factories finishing up we will be filling out the areas that we've been building in with military factories and we'll do this a few more times as more slots open up and more factories complete construction these will be the most efficient areas to build in and the quicker we get these Milty factories up and running the less problems we'll have with supply later on there we go with less safe air finished you'll see in our industry tab we have a few massive bonuses here we can use that to rush down construction and speed up this burst industry just to get more factories at a higher level of production quicker now having completed less a fair let span all the way to the left of the french focus tree and start working on this bit devalue the franc is what we'll start out with for a bonus to our consumer goods below that we have several options to develop the Metropole and the colonies followed by investments now it's important to work our way through all of these investments before we move on to the industrial expansion and colonial industry focuses because these two focuses will give us a bonus to factories in areas that we have previously invested in so we want to maximize on this before we hit any of these focuses so let's start up with the franc now the event Spain requests aid can and will fire if the Spanish Civil War has fired in your game now this is up to you there are two options one is you do absolutely nothing and the other is taking a small hit and lyrical power and boosting the communist support in your country to be able to lend lease equipment to public in Spain in exchange for more army experience personally I prefer to just give them some of our worst equipment in exchange for some very valuable military experience so you're gonna start a lent lease and just give them some of our worst guns a few thousand four thousand of our worst guns and one percent of our monthly production of cannons we can always cancel this later but this will give us a nice trickle of army experience now with devalued the franc done we're gonna build ourselves some highways the auto routes focus this will give us infrastructure in some areas which in turn means faster building more build slots and allows us to ramp up our military industry quicker and we're gonna use that giant bonus to rush towards our construction get that up as quickly as we can to really push those factories out now with our a hefty stockpile of army experience it's time to start converting some templates we'll take the first infantry template because it is very similar to what we'll need and change it to a box standard seven infantry to artillery we can add on some motorized recon companies we have the the trucks for it so it shouldn't matter and throw on some support anti-air because our Air Force frankly is not that great and save and you can alter the colonial brigades as well by just taking off one unit making them ten combat with and once we get a little bit more army experience we are also going to be adding support artillery for that extra defense and soft attacking now those divisions we've just altered we're not going to be actually training those no there is another trick still in this game we're going to create an empty template add on 1 Infantry Division bog-standard infantry and save this now what we are going to do is train about 47 of these so that should be enough to add on to the one division that we have to give us two full armies should be enough to start out with just going to pop them down somewhere and we're going to force deploy these as fast as we can this does not take very long at all and once we have these deployed will then convert those into our good infantry division's so yes that trick is also still in the game and we finished Autoroutes now if world tension has gone in up enough they give you war support over 12% we can hit begin rearmament what we can do however is work on economic devolution just to give us another 10% factory output and you can find the areas that are Autoroutes finished in click along the dock here 80 percent 90 percent franche-comté 80 percent Piketty already had picady i believe but just find the highest infrastructure areas and just plop down military factories in those and we can force deploy these units they've all gathered and pump in some army groups to armies to give them a decent leader and convert them to the proper templates 1 and that is 2 now we will want to assign a good good Field Marshal to them but we don't have any good field marshals we all have these defensive field marshals and Napoleon does not defend Napoleon attacks what we can do is take this general Jean the left of the decimal who has brilliant strategist you will promo him assign him as our Field Marshal and give him aggressive assaulter and offensive doctrine we still have some points left over so we might as well just pick something else like eros mattock and I we have a very good Field Marshal to start us off with these units will now be training until they are fully trained and they could do that along the Belgian border set up an order or our future invasion something to note as France is you have a very high costs to doctrine research as you can see it would take us over a thousand days just to research one doctrine we can bump that down significantly by using one hundred army experience so as France I don't recommend doing any doctrine research until you have one hundred armed exp for each research you're going to do so just wait until they have 100 army experience and then research the doctrine and we're also going to abandon the grand battle plan or superior firepower as soon as we are able that was Japan declaring war on China and the whole world slowly starting to smolder we have enough war supports to begin rearmament giving us four military factories let's do that and in preparation of that we can set up some more production lines increase our infantry equipment a little bit same for towed artillery and start the construction of some armored cars they will be very handy for suppressing resistance in the future speaking of suppressing resistance in the future we can take our cavalry division and make it a little bit bigger just add one division of cavalry there and once we research MPs just plop those in there as well and with our first 150 political power we're going to add ourselves an elusive gentleman and giving us an extra spy extra spies are always handy and work on military police now with begin rearmament done it's it's not worth starting another focus at this point we'll just wait for October 7th and build up political power until we get to that point and then we can hit repeal the law of exile so we're just gonna let wait and let our political power tick up for now in your occupied territories tab might not be a good idea to change your your your garrison template to the cavalry division's they have a little more suppression to them and more military factories just keep putting these in artillery for now we will need a lot of artillery to fill our army needs we can take guns from the Belgians and the Dutch but artillery will mainly need to reduce ourselves and there we go we are no longer suffering the effects of constitutional revision which means we can head down the tree towards the third Empire so hit repeal the law of exile keep rushing down this instruction or alternatively yet dispersed industry early and now we can proclaim the third Empire and in seventy days Napoleon the sixth will become leader of France let's take our little power here and let's plop down a war industrialists to get our factories out even quicker let's get our cannon to a little earlier than usual soft attack is really good and with that we have proclaimed the third Empire there we go Napoleon the sixth ruling left French Empire alright let's kick things up into a higher gear and start getting ready to avenge Waterloo you now have another 150 political power but I'm going to wait with using it until we get more recent gamla available as chief of the army for his 10 percent division attack bonus and for that we will have to do the aggressive focus we could do that after we have dealt with the Belgians and the Dutch and possibly even the English and there we go a venture loot done we're going to set as our next focus aggressive focus to be able to have a excellent chief of army we now have several war goals we have one on Belgium one on the Netherlands and one on the UK so let's start kicking some ass and restoring the French Empire to glory the Belgians won't put up much if any other resistance they simply don't have the numbers to stop you and with the aggressive focus complete we can get our good army guy the army offense expert power left so let's consider getting a army logistics specialists just to reduce that attrition and there we go the Belgians have capitulated and they have a nice stockpile of guns for us let's just take all of their states just fully annex them now for the Dutch do the same thing you set up your Field Marshal order drawn attack line they're even weaker than the Belgians so you just immediately fire off this war as well and going to delete them from the map as for focuses it's a good time now to keep going down retribution for Sudan to start hitting on the Germans and the Dutch have even more guns for us and a hefty amount of fuel but that's not all we're going to take the Dutch East Indies from them satellite them do this first because if you annex them you will lose the Dutch East Indies just take the Dutch East Indies and then you take all of the Dutch States now we have defeated our Waterloo enemies on the mainland it's time to set our sights on the big one the United Kingdom what are you going to do is take one of your armies take the 10 best divisions from critique that army and create a naval invasion order at Cherbourg towards Portsmouth those 10 divisions can go there I and park the rest of the army on the ports equity your other army can stay on the mainland to counteract any naval invasions that the British might try on you now for our future endeavours we're going to train more of these tiny divisions about 48 and then at 12 more 60 divisions should do you have a full army to man the maginot a full army for the Alps and then some leftovers to deal with Africa these divisions are going to be turned into colonial brigades who whose sole purpose will be defending your country well your actual good units will do much of the pushing actually make that 72 divisions just just to get that nice full army now to ensure that we can actually achieve naval supremacy in the channel we're going to take our entire Navy and set them to patrolling the channel and take everything we have in terms of airplanes set them near North pas-de-calais and just tell them to have air superiority missions and naval strike units over the English Channel now if you're still guaranteeing Czechoslovakia at Point at this point now might be a good idea to revoke that guarantee otherwise you might risk getting pulled into a war with Germany before you're really ready for it and we can deploy those units so we just trained set them all to the colonial templates we'll need a bit of artillery but we can get those later so one army will guard the Alps one army will guard the Maginot I and this army will guard the French territories in North Africa and split them between Syria and the Algiers region we could reorganize the Dutch get some more compliance out of them and now we declare war on the British as you can see they've immediately started landing troops all units that are not on the Isles are units that they can't use to defend the islands with and we will crush them in the airports there we go our army has made a landing and start aggressively pushing into the United Kingdom now as you can see we've made quite good headway on the British islands the French military just over running and yes British be damned now I'll leave the checks the checks are irrelevant let's promote some entrepreneurship as you can see the British can't really put up much of a fight this is this is over they just don't know it yet these planes don't really have to do anything anymore just get them back to safety yeah got emoji sauce and some more political power that we can throw in somewhere a silent workhorse should be excellent in the peace deal with the UK we're going to satellite the Raj and British Malaya and after that it would probably be best to simply puppet the UK they have a lot of territory but it's difficult to control with the new mechanics and taking the their fleet will be a tremendous amount of power in our hands otherwise we would use a lot of manpower to simply garrison all of their stuff there we go puppet is in UK should have control of their fleet now and we don't have to worry about garrisoning the area who is this guy I have no idea we're gonna move our defensive armies over to a defensive Field Marshal and our offensive Field Marshal can hang out in the Low Countries and this will be where we start our attack against the Germans eventually can use our spies to root out some resistance and keep making moves against Germany now espionage is helpful not necessary but certainly helpful so what I like to do is just plop a few divisions into these ports we're sure no funny business from the Italians there are a few more divisions that we can use to like the Germans get our units some experience so they have less problems holding the front lines you have to keep building these factories just to make sure our war machine doesn't have any hiccups might be beneficial to change out our occupation garrison to something that includes military police and maybe a bit more cavalry just so we have an easier time keeping those Dutch and Belgians under our boot and now we have reached the end of the line here it is feel a deluge this gives you a very great national spirit 20% of your division training time 3% recruitable pop 25% or population factor the idea that they give you this without actually having to conquer all of the areas leading up to it is insane this is super powerful so just rush for it and your colonial divisions can use some of your leftover recon the motorized divisions they should have enough motorized left to fill these out meanwhile we'll just do these development focuses to build up Frances strength even more maybe just just kick things off the good old-fashioned way declare war what I'm calling my allies and just roll over them as quickly as we can while we're at it might as well just get double punch in and reveal their Intel get a big push going right away make use of this war to sour sauce to extensive conscription I just reorganized the front line yeah it's stabilized now from this point on you might want to take things a little more slowly and micromanage a little bit more I'm gonna tack on some maintenance equipment and just steal some from the Germans while we're fighting them Germans are fighting us very ferociously it would seem like there is some small dent appearing in the German army stockpile so that's good we're steadily whittling down the German army stockpiles this might take a while but eventually we will win this let's make the most of this cipher try to get a little bit of a push going oh no the italians pushed up out of this one tile every time this one tile let's change our template for the garrisons - armored cars that should reduce our need for manpower and inventory equipment substantially and it upstair suppression considerably we're slowly getting there I think the Germans are just giving us their guns yep Germans just handing us their guns are nice nice nice people they those Germans should not be too much more now you see to have more and more trouble replenishing their losses some of these tank divisions are at abysmal strength the Germans are on their last legs here it's gonna give them a little bit more of a grind against my lines and they'll start pushing in I think that was the final hurrah of the Germans that last counter-offensives so just start pushing them in now yeah Germany is just crumbling they have nothing left in the tank hey we made it to Berlin evil Hulse Germany is stubborn I'll give him that there we go with Italy knocked out we have defeated the Axis powers now just a matter of making the world look pretty oh man this should be good there we go this unite Germany oh yeah that is that is some delicious border gore oh boy yep well there you have it the French Empire reigns supreme on the European continent all that's left now is to take out Russia this is just a matter of time the Russians won't be able to put up much of a fight against your battle-hardened army all right that's been my guide for you guys if you liked the video leave a like comment below and consider subscribing for more of this content if you didn't like it tell me in the comments and hit that dislike button and I wish you all a very good day goodbye

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Keywords: HoI4, Hearts of Iron 4, UK, fascist, hearts of iron 4, hoi4, Bitt3rSteel, hoi4 tutorial, la resistance, la resistance hoi4, how to, civil war, exploit, France, napoleon, Napoléon, Espionage, hoi4 la resistance, napoleonic france, games, strategy, tutorial, french empire, hearts of iron iv, hearts of iron 4 guide, hoi4 guide, hoi4 france

Id: sk5gH6L24sI

Length: 31min 42sec (1902 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 10 2020

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[u/Head_In_A_Snowbank]

Unfortunately 1 division training is now removed as of 1.9.1 beta, but good video regardless, helped me plan out my playthrough.