Hearts of Iron IV

Hearts of Iron IV

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NOT COMPATIBLE WITH RT56 AND WILL NEVER BE




📍In HOI4, France, even with the "La Résistance" DLC, lacks content, and is unfun to play.
Our mod aims to fix this, making France more realistic, completely reworking the military, politics, and economy of France, giving France the experience that it deserves.
It is nevertheless highly recommended to use the "La Résistance" DLC while playing this mod. Problems may arise if you are missing it.



Originally posted by Ferdinand Foch (about the Versailles Treaty, 1920):
"This is not a peace, it is an armistice of twenty years"







📍The French Republic in 1936 is a country in crisis. Governments succeed one another, and the French are more divided than ever. Ever since the Crisis of February 6, 1934, few have confidence in their government, and with the 1936 Election soon approaching, politics worry the French more than the growing threat across the Rhine.

Despite this, war is approaching. A war France has been preparing for for years. Germany has been cheating on the Treaty of Versailles for years, their desire for revenge known to all. Rearming to create an army to surpass France.

France, weakened by the casualties of the Great War and a persistent low birth rate has created the Maginot Line, supposedly to protect France so it may mobilize, but with it, came a purely defensive doctrine. Furthermore, many generals are appointed according to their loyalty to the Republic rather than merit. Likewise, the military has grown ever distrustful of the government, turning to extremist politics.

Thus is France in 1936. The last good diplomat died in 1934. Germany rearms without limit. The nation is divided like never before. France stands alone in a hostile Europe, their only ally, Britain pursues appeasement.

Maxime Weygand once said: "It is therefore necessary, at the threshold of this exposition, to banish the idea of a defensive military state, a term for which I see no equivalent other than that of powerlessness, a conception that can seduce because it favors a lesser effort, but which postulates defeat and the distancing of friends."
As of 1936, his prophecy seems to have come true.


Want to know more about French interwar history and more about each political branch of the mod ?
⬇️Click on the link here (Only in French and English)


French Politics Explained [docs.google.com]


Originally posted by Georg Von Küchler (1940):
"Despite our overwhelming superiority in men and hardware numbers, the french troops are counter-attacking in several places. I can't understand how those soldiers, sometimes fighting at one versus ten, can find enough strength to assault us: this is simply amazing ! I see in those french soldiers the same energy than with the veterans of Verdun in 1916.
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  • New National Focus Tree for France
  • Overhaul of Free France (not finished)
  • Overhaul of Vichy (not finished)
  • Focus tree of Provisional Government of France (not finished)
  • France more historical than ever ! (French, Vichy and Free France AI are fully configured for historical games)
  • Complete Political Rework with a focus on realism
  • Inflation and Great Depression mechanic
  • New French Colonies (Morroco, Tunisia, Indochina)
  • New Designers (AAT)
  • New GFX
  • Lot of New Events (Case Anton chain of events for example)
  • Historical Speeches with Music (Daladier, Reynaud, de Gaulle)
  • Reworked AI (Germany will not attack during the Phoney War for example)
  • New Characters (Leaders, Advisors, Generals, Admiralsn etc...)
  • Available in French and English (Russian and Chinese partially)
  • And much more!









  • Road to 56: Leader Portraits
  • Alrendaxe: French General and Admiral Portraits
  • Nikausse: Loading Screen
  • jingsefeichanghao: de Gaulle's speech
  • Dorian: Reynaud and Daladier's speeches
  • mama mia #savetf2: Custom Icons and Portraits
  • France Completed: Icons and Portraits



Originally posted by Jacques Bainville (about the Versailles Treaty, 1920):
"A peace too soft for what it has that is hard, and too hard for what it has that is soft."
379 Comments
TOM287  [author] 3 Oct @ 1:01pm 
@cocainechan The ai is fully configured but for historical france only :)
tsk92 3 Oct @ 12:42pm 
This is really good =)
PastryBox 1 Oct @ 12:03pm 
Good mod. It is very fun to play as France.
sypersyv 29 Sep @ 5:27am 
Can you make (french) africa a bit less useless? there are almost no natural resources in africa and that is quite hard to deal with.
Also make it traverseble for units to cross from the Sahel to french Congo?
Delta 23 28 Sep @ 8:55pm 
could you make this compatible with he USA and UK reworks? I tried both of those out with this mod on and the 36 elections are bugged with them on.
cocainechan 28 Sep @ 5:17am 
Thats all good, ill use it for player-runs only
Timmy Jimmy  [author] 27 Sep @ 7:13pm 
the AI might be broken in our current patch, we'll look into fixing it. I will say the mod is intended to be played as France, for the most part.
cocainechan 27 Sep @ 6:42am 
Are the Ai coded to use the focus tree? I see its updated now but when I last played (couple of months ago) the Ai never went down the game rule path i set.
Timmy Jimmy  [author] 25 Sep @ 9:57am 
They might, but theyve mostly been small bugfix updates. We're holding off on our next big update for the end of the month. I recommend finishing up any playthroughs by then.
DrStrangelove05 25 Sep @ 7:50am 
The mod is updated a lot. Do these updates break ongoing saves?