Hearts of Iron 4: La Résistance - Return of the Bonapartes! (Part 1)

La Résistance releases on February 25th! Ready to get a copy for yourself? Check the link: bit.ly/32cgdb3
Thank you to Paradox Interactive for sponsoring this video!
La Résistance - the latest expansion for Hearts of Iron 4 - is heavily focused on espionage. You can now build an intelligence agency to train secret agents who will gather intel, crack codes, sabotage your opponent, and organize resistance movements in occupied territory! On top of all that, three very intensive and well crafted national focus trees have been added for France, Spain, and Portugal. In this campaign, we're going to try to restore a Bonaparte to the throne of France and prepare for the oncoming storm. These French will NEVER surrender!
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[@gutsyclub338]

I'm glad that pravus always includes a little notice for sponsored content. It's a good bit of transparency.

[@readyRick]

Not sure where pravus lives but i think you need to disclaim if something is sponsored if you live in the EU

[@fin5317]

@@readyRick you just have to say not explain and everything

[@gressorialNanites]

@Rick_ I'm pretty sure he's Unitedstatesian. He mentioned it a few times. From... Virginia, IIRC?

[@Edalyn_The_Blahaj_Lover]

HydroGlobus it’s either Florida or Virginia, but 100% positive he lives in the states.

[@andrewlentner]

@@Edalyn_The_Blahaj_Lover he lives in Virginia

[@EwMatias]

"Let's try to not be too gamey" *desbands his whole army except for a single division for cheap Army XP*

[@byeillcommentlater1627]

What if he just put that one troop into a new army, had it train, and pretty much have the same effect?

[@Jay-lb1eu]

@@byeillcommentlater1627 No, rate you gain xp with 100% (1 div army training) then one div training of your full army is big.

[@nasirrasheed5256]

he really said that lmaoooo

[@thekommunistkrusader3921]

I honestly really think that the Intel and espianoge needed this because it felt as if Intel was only through decryption which is unrealistic

[@historymogul2867]

Dont disagree, but a lot of other things that could be done first and are more of a priority. ALso, a few things are a bit retarded imo (garrison/resistance specifically, the new changes kinda dumb)

[@cali5254]

OHHHH WHAT IF I WAS BLACK

[@thingperson6977]

Damn I’d pay 15 dollars to zoom out

[@hopin8krzys]

This will be in the free update, right? They wouldnt paywall such a thing?

[@EkiTheIdiot]

hopin8krzys If I remember correctly, the focus tree thingies (zooming, searching and whatnot) will be in the free patch

[@grigss3027]

@@EkiTheIdiot thank god

[@arandomperson3015]

hopin8krzys u shouldn’t have to pay for the expansions in the first place

[@thingperson6977]

LXI FE4R Kinda true but in the end they’re a company. it’s still gay tho

[@Jhrickgamer]

I'm really really happy with how Pravus' channel is growing. I always find myself coming back here every 2 months or so for my streak of binge-watching a HOI4/EU4 series and following the daily uploads for a couple weeks even though I'm not such an avid paradox content consumer as I was before. Being one of the first 50k subs i'm really looking forward to that 500k mark. Good luck, Pravus, keep with the awesome work. Love ya

[@dracolazarus7776]

Armored Recon sounds like a very French way to disperse cavalry tanks amongst your infantry.

[@BolphesarusMaximusWardius]

Pravus: deleate almost all your devisions to get army XP Feedbackgaming: not bad kid

[@ethanng7574]

But he should have kept the mountaineer

[@johnnyboy95101]

I pray they just make the army training xp logarithmic.

[@BolphesarusMaximusWardius]

@@ethanng7574 why he can just train them again

[@ethanng7574]

@@BolphesarusMaximusWardius French mountaineers have a big template and would make more XP

[@BolphesarusMaximusWardius]

@@ethanng7574 thats true

[@llortz]

I was hoping you would do a series with this DLC. Praise Pravus!

[@kakwa]

@Pravus: when you setup your army, you can double click on one unit to get all the units of the same type. It's far better than struggling down the list to find, let's say, all the mountaineers divisions.

[@luanrafaelfritoli5138]

The Spain idea seems really good, I'd like to see it one day

[@cnlbenmc]

Wait, Pravus has gotten big enough to get Paradox to sponsor him?!

[@DimensionalWanderer]

He got one for imperator as well

[@kalebsmith8196]

Holy Crap, he is beginning his grand conquest of KZbin. ALL HALE PRAVUS, OUR GLORIOUS LEADER

[@cnlbenmc]

+@@DimensionalWanderer+ But Imperator was generally shit on launch!

[@johnnyboy95101]

Shame my boy Isorrowproductions won't get that treatment

[@theomegapyrope9715]

@@johnnyboy95101 he should not have been harsh with the amazing game march of the eagles

[@Analphabetisier]

14:13 What I usually did as France was annex Spain right after their civil war, giving me a good industrial base to take on Germany.

[@albusvoltavern4500]

I liked how the EaW mod changed the entire focus tree based on your decisions instead of branching into every ideology

[@infinitememegod]

Nobody: Pravus: how about 2 paradox games and 1 another, my schedule can handle that

[@fabianmichaelgockner5988]

I can only imagine when this DLC is realised in Multiplayer-Games the Player who is Switzerland is doing the whole time. Oh God, Oh No!!! Edit1: Four Way Civil War?! Why have I the feeling the Catalonials are involved in this new sh*tshow?

[@annoyingcat6980]

Fabian Michael Göckner Regional Defense council of Aragon. Non alignes Anarchist bois

[@fabianmichaelgockner5988]

@@annoyingcat6980 Switzerland Player: "Muahaha!!! I am NEUTRAL but that doesn't mean anything!"

[@makiskanyt9269]

They indeed are

[@thespanishinquisition4078]

Carlists vs falangists vs republicans vs anarchists. Catalonia isn't necessarily distinct but from what I've seen they tend to be where anarchists pop up the most. And Carlists tend to pop up in the north (burgos)

[@uneevee4397]

I never knew you did hoi4! You are always playing my favorite games, and your commentary is unique and entertaining! It distracts me from thinking about my 2nd degree burn, sometimes school sucks

[@Emptypockets319]

Hey Pravus did you know there where American Bonapartes and the last one created the organization that would become the FBI

[@Ghost_Command04]

Plot twist. FBI really stands for Foxy Bonaparte Investigation

[@fingers752000]

@@Ghost_Command04 With French involvment it would be the France Being Invaded (Again Agency) surely? ;)

[@fingers752000]

With French involvment it would be the France Being Invaded (Again Agency) surely? ;)

[@alexxiii6380]

@@fingers752000 PD

[@counter-terrordoge3335]

Me: *sees Pravus removing French colonial troops from Vietnam* Also me (whos a vietnamese): FREEDOM

[@Anastas1786]

The line "The Legitimate Heir" demands adhering to the position of the _Legitimists,_ those French monarchists who support the restoration of the monarchy under the House of Bourbon, the people they ousted in the French Revolution. Louis XVI and the-Prince-Who-Would've-Been-Louis-XVII died during the Revolution, but 16's younger brother and even-younger brother Louis XVIII and Charles X were willing to step up to the plate with the Bourbon Restoration. Unfortunately, the Restoration was short-lived and what's worse Chuck's second son only had one son who never had kids, so we follow the line a bit _further_ back, where we eventually discover that Charles' closest living male relative who could actually be bothered to have children was in Spain, and following that line we end (as of September 1936) with presently-exiled Spanish King Alfonso XIII, known to Legitimists as Alphonse. The Orleanists follow the House of Orleans, a younger branch of the Bourbons, which was granted the throne immediately after Charles X was overthrown. Their King, Louis Philippe, only ruled for 18 years before another Revolution came to establish another Republic, but his descendants (Jean as of '36) are at least still French citizens, so that's something. Your Bonapartists follow the Imperial line of Napoleon Bonaparte, who overthrew the extremely brief Second Republic, and needs no further introduction. Interestingly, your soon-to-be Emperor, yet another Louis, wrote to Prime Minister Daladier asking to serve in the Army but was _refused,_ so he joined the Foreign Legion as "Louis Blanchard".

[@shadowtango]

Hey Pravus you do know your one division you have being training is a completely different template then the one you have being upgrade right

[@generalgrievous6689]

I swear if you can't play Poland in a resistance fighting expansion...

[@PuppetierMaster]

I've enjoyed every video since his Rebuilding the German Empire is KasierReich mod and this just looks like pure gold! Love the video

[@doofuszhi]

I am not good at playing these kind of games at all but I just absolutely love watching your commentary! Thanks for the videos!

[@mortemtyrannus8813]

HoI4 is easier than most of them, even earlier Hearts of Iron games. Good if you want to try getting into them. Don't make the mistake I did and dive right into Crusader Kings 2 or Europa Universalis 4.

[@PobortzaPl]

Cafe Rene? Listen carefully, for I shall say it only once: That's a nice detail.

[@ryandukeman5390]

I caught that and it made me smile.

[@Speedster___]

Why exactly is that who does that reference

[@PobortzaPl]

@@Speedster___ Title screen, right and slightly up from German officer's head to can see sign "Cafe Rene". That's most likely a reference to British sitcom " 'Allo! 'Allo!" created by Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft.

[@loganharpole137]

Ya know I love to imagine Laval basically had an argument with The National Assembly about military spending, and because he was required to keep at least SOME standing army, he kept up one unit of infantry

[@KingCrofty]

cafe rene from allo allo on the homescreen, man i love paradox devs

[@lordavy7469]

Pravus, I think you should try Surviving Mars even if you already have. They released a new expansion that adds a lot more stuff and I think you may like it.

[@sorryari]

Love that attitude Pravus @1:20

[@jianliang6124]

The national focus at the beginning is quite small and hard to see, can you zoom it in a bit more in the next video.

[@Jay_76]

I'm looking at it this way: If you win, "Yay! Pravus won!" If you lose, "Well, what do you expect from France? Military Competence? HA!" So, either way, it's all good.

[@zartey]

I mean since France has the most successful military in history it's only natural you'd expect military competence from them.

[@arno_groenewald]

1 small smidge step closer to Totaler Krieg 2030. I like it!

[@grater3403]

I knew you would make a video about this

[@fattah_aman2083]

Build forts at the belgium and Luxembourg borders. Great strat even in multiplayer

[@tylerhutson4687]

I have always wondered why you didn't do the one division trick. Great video.

[@krisztianisaszegitoth8394]

Hey you can select all units of a kind if you double click on one of them

[@TheHaltjager]

"I have a way of getting rid of communism and that's called a NATION WIDE BAN" Pravus Gaming 2020

[@theinsanegamer1024]

Oooh! Pravus in a new Hoi4 video!

[@theunionjack5172]

Basically now every European that gets a focus tree now can restore there monarchy or go to an autocratic monarchy instead of a constitutional monarchy

[@trischas.2809]

10:00 - Apparently, you can invest in Algerian France via BOTH routes! I don't know if you doule-dip though...

[@No-sl8wp]

Armored car only. Would be cool

[@francisjones7940]

Support Tank Companies eh? Sounds like a cheap way to make space marines, and I love it!

[@xensan76]

Dang, all France had to do to win WW2 was disband its entire army.

[@NIkonEX-]

if there is no army how can be they surrender

[@hyper8701]

Can't lose your army when there is none

[@cior8837]

26:15 I noticed that always in the Revise the Constitution focus description is misspelled, that's annoying. lol

[@fredecarlslund5407]

OwO tons of sponsors for the sweet sweet Pravus

[@FritzOFN]

Hi Pravus Gaming - Tip: when you get research and political research pop-pup, press "details" to pop directly to the research tree you did. But - if you have several researches done simultaneous, open one at a time. Love your gameplays, keep it up.

[@RhombonianKnight]

Praise Pravus! This will truly be the most glorious France!

[@Beggar42]

That intro screen ... Cafe René ... ? Are there British airmen in the attic?

[@TitoTheHeavy]

Another great series, love the vids.

[@alsanderandciaran]

Super monarchy with; Great Britian, German Empire, Kingdom of Italy, Carlist Spain, Austro-Hungarian Empire and Kingdom of France!

[@Makem12]

After you've seen 3-4 of these new la resistance let's plays, you can pretty much guess what paradox put in the sponsorship contract.

[@hirocheeto7795]

What do you mean?

[@Makem12]

@@hirocheeto7795 a bunch of different KZbin creators releasing sets of videos on the same expansion at around the same time while making a conscious effort to talk about the same few topics while all being sponsored by the same company.

[@hirocheeto7795]

@@Makem12 Yes, that is indeed what a sponsorship is. Paradox gives the title to a couple well-known people to review and give their thoughts, give some publicity, and that's that. Well done for some basic perception.

[@Makem12]

@@hirocheeto7795 Thank you Watson. I try to keep it simple for people like you

[@Makem12]

@@hirocheeto7795 you're the one who was incapable of understanding my post thus requiring an analysis of the originally concise statement.

[@Minecraftingization]

So excited for the new Focus Trees

[@gigasx]

Jesus this game seems so hard, so many things to manage from the beggining

[@vulpine3431]

21:34 Ethiopia went into exile? And italy is still in an all out war? I think that printing press is drunk.

[@duckduckinator3185]

VulpineKitsune Or Mussolini is drunk

[@ronstoppable5198]

27:05. I wanted to see how long it would take to complete the development of civilian industry, it took starting 1 January 1936 until 9 Feb 1938 to get to Colonial Industry and 16 November 1938 to get to Global Integration. 1,050 days in total.

[@sparkytuna123]

You should try playing Superpower 2! it's really hard to find any good up to date content on it!

[@hummad7547]

Yay Viva La Resistance

[@ardiusforce9537]

Cant wait for this series

[@h21lad13]

Yes finally thank u parvus for getting la resistance

[@mcsquared4238]

Honestly since the release of la resistance all the videos that i have seen are youtubers giving their napoleon boner the good oiling they've been looking for and alex the rambler struggling the king into power but its good to have the dlc out and itll be great to jump into

[@philipphartmann9813]

I started watching him for plague inc. But now he got me to play hearts of iron IV

[@duckduckinator3185]

Philipp Hartmann Same here

[@TrainzFreak]

Cafê Renê, is that a nod to 'Allo 'Allo?

[@mortemtyrannus8813]

Gruber's little tank, multiple references to the show as achievements. It's definitely a reference.

[@michellerichards1975]

You can shift click the red person to select all. Btw 2000 HRS played in over a year

[@The_Starfleet_Ensign]

ofcourse pravus would go monarchist. :D

[@nekomaniac2716]

sure hope this run doesnt spiral down into another revolution

[@last_dutch_hero258]

Pravus, the Netherlands next? I wonder how it is gonna play out with the new update.

[@philipparish9439]

MORE!

[@kkitchens8089]

Everybody: Plays as anarchist Spain and restores the bonapartes. Me: Restores the Bourbons. Everybody: This guy made a bad mistake. He his so dumb. Why did he do that?

[@Aetherius21]

*sniff* Lovely smell of monarchy...

[@PepperoniMilkshake]

DUDE!! IT'S ON

[@richman6974]

Will you do the Second pastry war?

[@dkaloger5720]

Holy I am so hyped I love hoI

[@zx-3948]

Any beginer tips for the game? I just got it since its discounted on steam as of now

[@C.A._Old]

for FREEDOOM! wow bro you going to 400K sub good job! +1

[@rasplez9889]

I hope the next update focuses on the Soviet Union primarily, because their focus tree is in dire need of restructuring. Everyone else has pretty flexible trees, even minors like new Zeeland, Yugoslavia, and Chinese warlords, and the only major I can think of is Germany missing a communist path (which let's be honest, you have to be in the mood to play communist so it's negligible). Maybe with a better frontline system and peace conference to deal with the intense border gore. And since you'll be getting something to actually fight for, they could go the whole nine yards and give us an official "road to 56" kind of expansion that deals with what happens after a great war ends, or maybe a special event that turns a war into a great war with unique modifiers, kind of like the flashpoint wars from vic2. Or more events that allow you to demand territory at will and establish spheres of influence, rather than being caught up in a war in 1936 because you invaded a tiny nation for literally the smallest, most insignificant and poorest state on the planet just because it makes the map painting game look prettier. Possibly get into the economy management side of things where consumer goods are scaled based on your population, and you have a slider that you can use to designate more goods for more stability and happiness, or less stability and happiness for efficiency in the war effort. It would just save us the stress of managing civ factories every 5 seconds in the late game because you've built literally EVERYTHING there is to build in every state, and now you have 90 free civ factories gathering dust, making strat bombers redundant because as soon as you pummel 10/10 infrastructure in every state in the air zone, it gets built up again in seconds. Honestly that's the most boring part of the endgame; that nothing matters anymore and you realise there's no point continuing the game.

[@allahman123]

YES

[@themaniac2448]

actually it's a forth empire because the first empire was with napoleon the first then the second was when napoleon reinstated the empire as napoleon the second and then napoleon the third reinstated the empire the third one so yeah this is the forth empire

[@willthomas5380]

At Waterloo Napoleon did surrender, oh yeah and now I had to do at Waterloo

[@christopherg2347]

6:30 You can alwas just convert between miltiary and civilian factories, using civilian output. Personally I try to get a certain "minimum amount" of civilian factories per region. And the rest is left to Miltary.

[@nashiffuadkhan9817]

we need more

[@canadianmonarchist6357]

WAIT DID I HEAR THAT RIGHT YOU CAN FINALLY BOOST NON ALIGNED SUPPORT

[@tucoramirez988]

I can't get much xp with 1 division train that you do, is this trick got nerfed?

[@이동연-c6d]

I wish you play Vicey France!!!!!

[@MrRome-oh2yl]

One word. More.

[@sleepyuser5189]

The video was sponsored by Action Française

[@theunionjack5172]

Gibraltar is different as well

[@firstoffproductions1462]

Next, we fix Italy and Japan

[@kaiserpiplup4486]

they said in AMA that they wll be doing soviet before italy

[@dukeandhazzard2721]

Italy, Soviet and maybe Poland

[@jonathand.t.5051]

@@dukeandhazzard2721 Yeah seems about right Really surprised Italy didn't get a rework this dlc, cos, y'know, flipping to democratic halfway through the war

[@Acs-e8u]

Wow

[@sarge5431]

bruh what is that vehicle in the back it looks like an sdfks but with a panzer 1 turret

[@johnnyboy95101]

Hell I'll give it a like just for the first couple seconds.

[@treecultleader970]

France is harder than ever before lmao

[@jed1587]

God has smiled upon you this day The fate of a nation in your hands And blessed be the children We who fight with all our bravery 'Til only the righteous stand You see the distant flames They bellow in the night You fight in all our names For what we know is right And when you all get shot And cannot carry on Though you die, La Resistance lives on

[@Ulriquinho]

I have scoured KZbin for a La Résistance communist play through and no one seems to have done one yet. Up for doing that some time soon?

[@coffeemania4990]

When would italy get its update, it really sucks playing as italy right now compare to other nations

[@jonathand.t.5051]

Soontm I really wished Italy got an update tho. I was really expecting an Italian focus tree ngl

[@kylezheng8807]

Using the feedbackgaming 1 unit trick lol

[@ilsopravvissuto6860]

Good

[@pinkdirt8652]

i feel like this is going to be ridiculously annoying when doing world conquests. Will certainly change the meta with the supply i think.

[@royaltek]

nobody is talking about how hes almost at 400k?

[@peterludwig4599]

Is it possible to conquer the world with Switzerland? Guess I will try it.

[@delta2372]

I want to get excited for this dlc but it just seems like with all the horrible debuffs France has gotten they have no chance of holding the mainland now unless they ally germany.

[@ali69175]

As always im gonna buy it just cuz u played it😂 Tho i wanna ask Where do u guys see the "meta"? I want the name of the web 🙄

[@jonathand.t.5051]

Normally, you don't really know the meta for a few days Theres no specific websites where you can get the meta, but normally you can find meta vids on youtube after a bit of time, or find them on reddit or some hoi4 related discord I guess