Uploaded January 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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This video is a complete guide to forming OP France in Hearts of Iron IV. I have added timestamps and a guide below. If you enjoyed this video please consider subscribing to my channel as it takes a lot of time to make these videos. Cheers!

Focus Tree Build-
1. Revive the national block
2. Utilize the leagues
3. The council of rambouillet
4. Revize the constitution (takes a year)
5. Intervene in the spanish civil war (send 5-6 units, grind as much xp as posible)
6. Begin rearmament
7. Laisses-faire
8. Economy devolution
9. Defensive focus (wait 15 days)
10. Repeal the law of exile (gets rid of disjointed goverment)
11. Methodical battle
12. Fortification focus
13. Alpine fort
14. Extend the maginot line
15. Army reform
16. Protect the rights of man
17. The blum viollette proposal
18. Expand the citicenship
19. Encourage inmigration
20. Promote Entrepenuership
21. Stimulate The Dynamic Market
22. Devalue The Franc
23. Develop the Metropole
24. Invest in Metropolitan France
25. Industrial Expansion
26. Support the Grandes Ecoles
27. Develop the Colonies

PP Buy-
1. Alphonse Georges (Army Maneuver)
2. Allow covert volunteers
3. Silent Workhorse
4. Send Attache to China
5. Partial Mob
6. Military Theororist
7. Army Offense
8. War Industrialist
9. Commando Expert
10. Army Logistics
11. Artillery Designer
12. Technocrat
13. Gaurontee independence of the Netherlands
14. Total Mob/ Women In the Workforce

Tips for the Build:
*You need to go local police force and select 5-6 good division d´infanterie with full equipment for the spanish civil war, the rest of your forces turn them into brigade coloniale

*Excercise your troops for 3xp, and make a crap tank for mp garrison. If you can make them crapier better

*Ask for lend lease from your colonies if you run out of equipment during war

Construction: Build Mils Only [port in NA and train tracks next to Belgium right before WWII]

Starting Production Build:
- 4 on gun/ 21 empty,
- 1 on tank/ 1 empty.
- Keep everything else the same

Nov 22nd 1937 Production-
- 15 on AA
- 5 on Support Equipment
- 5 on Artillery

Spanish Civil War-
1. Allow Covert Intervention
2. Send Volunteers (including air)
3. Ban Covert Intervention
4. Unpause
* Use Alphonse Juin for your general

Spy agency:
To agents to Germany Before WWII
2 Passive Defense
1 Form The Department
2 Decription

Army Comp-
Juin To NA and Sardinia w/ Division d'infantrie
Olry to Alpine Line w/ Division d'infantrie
Upgrade general to infantry expert
Field Marshal battle plan on Belgium

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