Hearts of Iron 4: La Résistance - Return of the Bonapartes! (Part 2)

La Résistance releases on February 25th! Ready to get a copy for yourself? Check the link: bit.ly/32cgdb3
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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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[@ObviouslyNotXenrek]

for majors and nations with access to prospecting decisions, excavation is pretty powerful; gives you more resources to trade, more resources to boost your own (as a major, sizeable) industry, and in the case of prospecting decisions, giving you resources you often wouldnt have your own source of. i mean,level 1 of excavation alone gives france an additional i think, 20 or so, iron just from its cores alone, thats 10 more mils running full-power for infantry equipment, without sacrificing civs or convoys in trade.

[@izayadere7304]

You mean steel

[@assrecker.mp4940]

A monarchy: exists. Pravus. Ah yeah.

[@zimi5881]

... French ppl: get this thing out of my sight

[@assrecker.mp4940]

@@zimi5881 also French people.s Yeah let's just invade and hope for the best lol.

[@euivets2892]

I love Monarchy too

[@logankilsdonk8488]

If you delete your army down to 1 division to train for XP, when you build an army again train the smallest unit so you can train a lot of them and then switch them over to the units you want when they're done. You'll have to retrain them up once they're reinforced but it allows you to put out a much bigger army much faster

[@viini3370]

Good to know, thank you friend :)

[@AvidCluelessGuy]

Gah; Pravus’ gameplay made the devs patch the “delete your whole army for XP” exploit. Big rip

[@silas4lagoon776]

Pravus: “God Dam Comunists!” Liberty Prime liked this.

[@thekommunistkrusader3921]

Hey pravus, I am a fan of yours and a somewhat recent one at that but I just wanna say you're great at what you do but I kind of want you to do more with the intelligence agencies

[@wotmot223]

The last time I was this early my gf laughed at me.

[@notidentifieduser6533]

Last time i was early i still had a gf

[@5lake]

So... Never?

[@ExtermicideN7]

Charles de "Ghoul"... Really?

[@gressorialNanites]

His last HOI4 game instilled weird thought patterns, I guess. :)

[@jshadowhunter]

I know, the-gall of this guy, right?

[@mammoth157]

@@jshadowhunter God....I want to downvote it, but I can't.

[@stylesrj]

Maybe France is secretly working on their own FEV and thus once Fallout is upon the world... well he's all set...

[@azh698]

Undead arch-enemy of famous porn🌟 Lmao "The Dong".

[@awildfilingcabinet6239]

I wonder what Germany was thinking. Hitler’s sitting there telling his generals “soon, we will be ready. Our years of preparation are almost done and soon Europe will be ours, we just need to be able to beat France and maybe Britain.” And a soldier comes in and is just like “yo, they have no army. There’s literally like 100 guys along the whole line” And hitler’s just like “No! We are not ready! We must be stronger than France! Keep building up!”

[@Lord_Imrahil]

I ahve been looking forward to this episode. Now it is time to enjoy you playing

[@GroundThing]

4:24 Anarchist spain is non-aligned, rather than Communist, probably for a couple reasons: First, if Republican Spain goes Communist before the anarchists break off, it would be a civil war between two similar ideologies, which the system doesn't really support. The second reason is, if you had Anarchist Spain break off from Democratic Republican Spain, if the Anarchists were coded as communist (and both are original tag SPR), it's likely the USSR would try to support the Anarchists over the Republicans, which is massively ahistorical. The third reason is likely that they wanted a differentiation between the POUM and the Anarchists, which I suppose is possible with the Anarchists coded as communists, but it probably would be less satisfactory. That said, I suspect in an expansion or two, you'll see an ideology rework, since the devs have made a few comments about disliking the current ideology system (mostly in terms of monarchy being the default non-aligned, but I'd expect to see further expansion than just spinning off Monarchy to its own ideology)

[@theodorepinnock1517]

By Jove! Pravus actually researched excavation!

[@almondzfordayz]

Hey pravus been watching alot of your hoi4 and democracy 3 lately I find you funny in your own way thanks for making my days great:)

[@MatasVinikaitis]

i am so grateful of finding this channel back in 2017, thanks Pravus

[@crisptoast4573]

Wake up, See it's 25th,load hoi,see no dlc, remember your aussie and you need to wait,become sad

[@EmperorElijah]

Exactly what happened to me

[@이동연-c6d]

Long live the French Empire!!!

[@myprofilepicturesaysitall2821]

Vive la France?

[@Azivegu]

Pravus: "One flight to Brandenburg please" Arrives in Berlin: visible confusion

[@francenkovcan5211]

Now hoi4 can have the dreaded western spies

[@Chris11231]

Excavation is very important and good to have, not only does it let you sell more on the market and get more civilian factories but it also lets you import less and save more civilian factories for yourself. I always get it as one of my first techs.

[@LordDarkhelm]

Okay, non-sequitur, but you know how you did the Byzantophile achievement run in preparation for this update? I finished it just today after two months of trying. An hour before the DLC would come out and bork everything. And where all other guides failed, you did not. While I eventually was able to stand on my own two feet without you, the help from your series was invaluable. Thank you so much. It feels so good to complete this after all this time. I can't wait to watch more from you. I have a lot to learn. :)

[@jianliang6124]

Not sure if you saw my comment. Like how much you zoomed in in this video, much easier for the eye, thank you

[@elijahclark3387]

7:25 That nervous laugh there is to die for😂

[@liammurphy4465]

Is it me or does the French guy look like Frank Reagan from Blue Bloods?

[@mehhh553]

Pravus - Terrible Political Power (ft. Bonnapar.. AWCH!) Lyric : Reff 🎶 "Everything is awful... Everything is awful when you're playing as France" 🎶 Now available on Spoti.. AWCH! (OMFG! What im doing??? 😂)

[@finbarrdarcy5929]

Thank you, O Lord Pravus!

[@rainbowninja5389]

Puppets don't count towards getting extra spies by the way, there's already enough members of the allies if the UK's puppets counted they'd be insanely OP

[@barbariandude]

Just did a run with the UK... they're insanely OP anyway. Went hard on spies and decryption (had 4 spies and both Germany and Italy decrypted by 1937), lots of heavy fighters and strat bombers, declined the sudetenland (putting France and Czechoslovakia in my faction for an extra 2 spies for a total of 6) and then just used propaganda + network + boost ideology to destroy their surrender limit until they fell over in 1938 with no issues whatsoever. Somebody didn't think through how the UK can interact with this if you go hard on it.

[@rainbowninja5389]

@@barbariandude it's also worth noting I was wrong and two puppets do count, so you can decolonise and get a lot more spies

[@dracolazarus7776]

It's pronounced Charles de "Goal", not de "Ghoul".

[@thenobalnacho]

Its actually pronounced Ghall

[@dracolazarus7776]

@@thenobalnacho Is Ghall an actual word ?

[@DraytonWrite]

I thought it was pronounced Gall. That's what I learned

[@dracolazarus7776]

@@DraytonWrite Eh, peu importe. So long as he stops saying "Charles de Ghoul". I mean, this isn't Fallout (although I would lol at if there was Québecois faction led by Charles de Ghoul in Old World Blues)

[@ryanmurray7941]

Pronounced gaul

[@cletusmartin4628]

Get that paycheck Pravus!

[@toastyman9212]

Wouldn't a secret event for France to get Spy form tf2 as a agent be a cool idea?

[@RhombonianKnight]

Praise Pravus! Surely his France will be glorious!

[@louislandingin1500]

5:23 he just sang an different of "Everything Is Racist" By Rucka rucka ali Idk If its From Him or not

[@danielweeks4886]

There’s a song from the LEGO movie that says “everything is awesome” in the same beat as his song, Rucka Rucka Ali’s song was a parody.

[@betaking1995]

16:10 look at his name

[@gressorialNanites]

Pretty normal Italian masculine name (and the first name of the guy you are thinking about).

[@williambrennan104]

I would have started with building infrastructure and waited until I could do agriculture protectionism to build the civs. Infrastructure in places with lots of resources is basically a cheaper civ because it generates resources that you then don't have to spend civs on.

[@mrocemccool8652]

not going laissez faire was a mistake lmao

[@revanreborn2548]

5:23 to 5:27, Still better than the original.

[@nazeonrave2501]

Spy Kids 4 lookin real weird right now

[@Mies78]

halleluja, he's doing excavation techs. And it's only 37. Made my day.

[@Descanlin]

Given the repercussions in the game and the focii and events related to them (according to the dev diary, anyway) the Anarchists in Spain seem like they'd actually be a really fun game. And I'm not just saying that because they have a special place in my heart. (downwithhierarchy)

[@delta2372]

Hey pravus, from your opinion would you say France is impossible to play as now? I play this game allot in MP as France and it seems like it's impossible to do anything as France now with how terrible toe debuffs are.

[@bretc7294]

take my money

[@musclesglasses5790]

The War Industrialist's name is "Zinovy", not "Zivony" (which is like saying "Hjon" instead of "John"). This awesome dude was born a poor Russian Jew, became adopted son of the future biggest Soviet writer Maxim Gorky (real name Peshkov, which in Stalin's time got a huge city named after him - Gorky), vagabonded the whole Europe, lived in Canada and New York, in WW1 fought in the French Foreign Legion, lost an arm, in WW2 worked for a Free French Government where he was promoted to Colonel by de Gaulle, consolidated French colonies in Africa against the Axis, then was a french ambassador in China... I mean, I know here he is just a name, a tinsy photo and a couple of stats in this game, just give the guy some respect and spell this name properly, Paradox, will ya? I think he deserves it.

[@coollman8619]

Finally you got excavation. It is amazing and you always struggle because you don’t get it.

[@Untolddead]

watching as I try the new Portugal.

[@olidilkefetherston-dilke9562]

Woooh more eps

[@Minecraftingization]

Hell yea, baby

[@williamatkinson3448]

The Lego movie reference lol

[@AlvorReal]

Thanks for building up your civilian factory count. I promise it'll be worth it in the long run! Assuming the Germans don't over run you of course.

[@gkurzman9919]

*Makes communists stronger* “These communists are way too strong!”

[@Puntstraat53]

Isnt it so that you can better go for the agency when you are on civ economy because all the debuffs it gives for building etc

[@cain4586]

Roses are Red, Violets are Blue, Pravus Gaming is awesome, and so are you!

[@ottopike6000]

He still says "de' Goul".

[@jackjenkins168]

Charles de **GHOUL** Its Gaul Pravus

[@brianmcgloughlin7799]

Wait, is this a way to increase the popularity of non-aligned?

[@no_name4476]

You are good

[@Vicerion17]

Can someone clarify something for me since I think I misunderstood something, didn't he say that with this new expansion he no longer needed to train up a bunch of cavalry for garrisoning purposes and rather you just need to spend manpower to suppress stuff?

[@t3ichtaucher]

As I understand it, you don't have to recruit the divisions and garrison them by yourself anymore. You instead assign the template to the region that has unrest and the template is being passively used. That's why it still needs manpower and equipment. It just works on its own in the background without you having to micromanage everything. Its more efficient this way as the AI tries to perfect it but you can't use these "Shadow divisions" for combat anymore. Still the better the divisions template is the better and more efficient the suppression is Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong

[@Vicerion17]

@@t3ichtaucher Aha that makes more sense and makes some things click as I remember him talking about using the new heavy vehicles for suppression and whatnot, thanks. Though now I'm curious about what happens after, when a region needs to be suppressed and the manpower and equipment is spent will it be permanently garrisoned there or once successful there will it move should a different region require it later on, only creating new divisions when the number of regions needing to be suppressed outnumbers the amount of divisions.

[@Descanlin]

​@@Vicerion17 I imagine it would be similar to a normal troop; the manpower and equipment is "spent" as much as it is in a normal unit, i.e. you can always get it back -any losses. I wonder if garrisons have an attrition rate, maybe based on resistance in the area. At any rate, I don't think the garrisons move about like that; they're assigned to a specific region forever, until you change it anyway, and don't "move on." If you have a barebones garrison for placid areas and a super-suppressor 9000 for the problem areas, you'd have to manually assign the Terminators to move them about from hotspot to hotspot. Also, to clarify a confusion I just realized you have: There isn't any "divisions" involved. Insofar as something you could call a "division" is involved, they're in the background of the code; the only mapping the system has to divisions is the usage of manpower/equipment (scaled to the area suppressed and how much suppression it needs) and the template it uses (which dictates the baseline manpower and number/type of equipment used.) In terms of actual mechanics, there is no unit on the map; it's a drain on your resources in the background, without a visible token on the gameboard.

[@damianadams1585]

7:31 hehehehe

[@The_Starfleet_Ensign]

the allies sound like they can get much more powerfull then before

[@samyakdhartuladhar8437]

Why are not researching scout planes? You can use it during peacetime

[@Cloud9vegas1]

Can you play as the anarchist in Spain’s focus tree?

[@lionbreaker0852]

I don't think he knows about the differences to the Spanish civil war, the civil war takes ages now its not quick

[@last_dutch_hero258]

Netherlands next pravus? i a mwondering how it would play out in the new update.

[@nasirrasheed5256]

how do u have doctrines i need to spend ep instead of researching it

[@mikelitoris536]

40k infantry equipment, in the minus in support equipment. Uhmm... Please move some factories around.

[@theomegapyrope9715]

i love the imperialism outro

[@CesarAugustoRocabadoVillegas]

At least your libertarian hearth makes you to give this kind of honest disclaimer

[@D3Swarm]

Me sees the CNT-AIT on spain: *starts chanting "CNT!"* Pravus: "meh" My catalonian blood rised hahaha Hope you keep the series Pravus, I like to see how far could you go with france and the new content

[@kallekulmala1876]

Arty on units is not meta anymore. It got nerfed to shit so it's better to use support

[@MrSHADOWANGEL999]

Monarchy and imperialism the Pravda way

[@aarohalme1020]

The Anarchists have a small front, so of course they are doing well. A monarchy can also be very nationalistic, as Japan was the most nationalistic during WW2.

[@The9thPersonman]

Should've abused communist raids. The 5% increase to communism is actually a decent event. The benefits from increased stability is good and counteracts a lot of stab loss.

[@martinpiquot7378]

polish resitstance

[@AllForSol]

I know youre busy and im sorry to inconvenience you but i just wanted to know is this all you do to make money? sorry if the question is too personal

[@baron6541]

fronk

[@battlingd9880]

meeeeeeeeooooooooooooooow

[@jm-gr1ww]

chooses construction speed over industry research buff.........

[@AlbanAwan]

This is what you get for not banning communism when you had the chance.

[@persallnas5408]

with all respect but his name was not charles de ghoul

[@proudgreec]

left comment

[@Jackh1]

The way he says De Gaulle's name hurts me.

[@haesung2148]

Meh.. I honestly think excavation worth nothing until really late game.

[@alexwu9546]

franch commune just sucks, never tried non-aligned France before tho

[@johhn_e1521]

I am tempted to skip school just to play. What has hoi4 done to me

[@nasirrasheed5256]

very annoynig