When should I do the French Union? France Indivisible HOI4 RNG explained

In this video we take a look at the RNG for French Union and discuss whether it is worth doing or rather to simply get rid of the full employment national spirit.
Answer: Well it depends on what path you are doing
100% every game of 1936 france you should release Algeria at the start of the game though. it will give you free factories when you complete Blum Viollette

[austinquinn]

In one of my games, I got Indochina, Syria, and West Africa. I had Millions in manpower. Unfortunately, I didn’t think to release them as a puppet first, but it changed my opinion on the focus. I go for it every time now and I’ll have to release the puppets first next time.

[BubblesZest]

I see the Union as a endgame thing, since France has so many boosts to non-core manpower -25% factor hurts but isn't crippling. But learning how to game like this is quite useful, just like French Collab spam is.

One forgotten thing about the Union is that promising any part of colonial France independence will decrease chance of Union acceptance to a 1/4 of what it starts as. Then again Free France is rarely played and generally loses all it's colonies so I'm not surprised not many have noticed it.

[Ebongreen]

I've been playing (and replaying, and replaying) Popular Front France in HOI4 for a while now as my main nation/pastime, and here's what I can offer as additional feedback.
First, I love French Union, at least as a concept. I wish it weren't straight RNG locked on game-start: instead, I wish it were an actual calculation based on compliance, similar politics, resistance, etc. It would make it potentially more rewarding to do nation-building among your puppets before launching the focus, for example. (I would love to see some clever person make a Better French Union mini-mod just to alter the behavior of this focus...)
Speaking of puppets, IMO the optimal strategy is Mostly Puppets: release North, Central, and West Africa as puppets, along with Syria and Lebanon. _Keep Indochina_ and the smaller colonies, especially Tahiti: the resources there are SO valuable for France. And in puppetizing, you regain so much infantry equipment you turn the initial 1936 deficit into a surplus because you're eliminating so many garrison troops.
It really narrows your focus (hah) as France down to just European France and Corsica in the early-to-mid-game—and while you're losing potential manpower, I've found that I have enough to last me well into late-game if I play defensively/conservatively (which you ought to be doing as democratic France anyway).
I absolutely go Little Entente and also generally intervene in the SCW to keep Spain democratic and have it join the Entente, but that's an entirely separate essay.
Thanks for the video! 🙂

[волкодиночка-ья]

bro, that was very useful, my greatest thanks!

[rps]

I always release Tunisia as a puppet anyway because I am too lazy to put troops in North Africa and it makes the Italian AI even more stupid. I didn't know that you can instant annex Algeria after releasing them though.

[williamsmeds]

I wish there was a way to increase the odds or try multiple times. The odds for some regions are ridicioulusly low, and no one likes rng.

[bernaldo]

Great vid. Thx. I will try to form the French Union. What about a thumbnail for this. It’s missing😉😉😉

[NARKYCZ]

My question is can you save scum this? Either if you just reload the game until you get most of them (so the result is not hardcoded for curent game like for example Austria-Hungary.

And second in most of these rng ai scenarios you can save reload play as the nation who you want the specific outcome, choose it when the event pops up save reload and play back with your old country (for example Mexico buying Belize from UK) but since this is not one country but bunch of them I guess you cannot do that here :/

[cnppreactorno.]

I got everything my first try. I also was obliteraterating Germany at the time via Little Entente

[bismarky]

ah, well I'll be sure to do this when I do the check entente achievement, also spaghett

[FrnchToast]

Just tried this for the first time and got Central, North and Syria

[an]

damn, i got none in my first attempt which sucks for a first attempt

[krasnamerah]

Thanks for the explanation.

Regardless whether you want to do the French Union or not, release-puppeting the French Colonial Empire would definitely (and heavily) lessen the burden of having to garrison them since the start because you need to fill off the massive weapon sink ASAP.

Also as a sucker of Formable Nations, there should be one too for the French Union. Since there are 8 possible regions to be integrated, getting at least five of them as your cores should automatically changed your cosmetic tag.

[azDanqs]

i tried 5 times and all of them always leave what the fuck

[bubblebum]

spaghett!
where the f are your subscribers btw? u should have 894k not 894