What if France actually tried stopping Germany (HOI4)

[MochiDaDog]

Pretty sure the German troops were ordered to evacuate if the French intervened irl

[vachagan]

Funfact IRL the Nazis planned to back down if the French actually were gonna oppose the remilitarisation of the Rhin, that was just a massive gamble

[lumethecrow]

-Rejects germany
-Bans communism
-Refuses to elaborate

[EnclaveSoldier]

If this was mp, it wpuld take exactly seconds before the host insta kicks you from the game.

[mastrorick]

Pulling that out deserves a positive national spirit for France

[ArsunGalm]

Congrats, you actually broke germans focus tree.

[randomguywithapc]

Wow! The rhineland staying demilitarised is very rare! You are lucky my friend.

[BUHU-tlzj]

Bro this national spirit is just for one year and as soon as germany is at war it is no longer demilitarizied

[nttinvis]

France is actually OP if yk how to play it.. you can build so many divisions anf factories

[Therecreep]

Fun Fact: Denying Rhineland used to be a criminally easy way to conquer Germany, as France can easily deal with the 30-40 divisions Germany spawns with, and the revolution was quite weak.

Not sure in which update, but now, its basically impossible to have this event end in war. Before I knew they balanced this, I tried dozens of times to no avail. Guessing they simply threw a strength calculation into AI Germany's decision where it obviously backs down.

(Double Fun Fact - This also makes it 100% historical, Hitler had issued his troops to immediately back down if the Allies intervened with the remilitarization)

[Chabier-mxmz]

Lol i did thay and they stray up refused it, declaring war. I couldnt do shit and couldnt advance onto Germany

[KnownNiche]

To everyone trying to play smart and say that France should have protested - there is a reason they did not. Public opinion was so against the war that a civil uprising like in hoi4 was absolutely possible.

Morale would be incredibly low, war support would be on the floor, people in France would be absolutely furious. One thing is declaring war in a videogame where all your divisions fight at full morale, generals can't coup you, and the nation's industry functions just fine at 0% war support

[Hunter-cx]

ironically if germany attack you, you whould have free germany.

[Simon-pxmi]

We need to see france also deny germany sudetland. It would be very interesting to see the reaction of crippled germany without rhineland and czechoslovakia. Idk if it would prevent the polish attack but why not start the most boring playtrough.

[Draig-zbtx]

Sadly, it wasn't from lack of trying.

[frostyleech]

If the league of nations actually did something other than bitch and complain, it would've prevented a lot of issues

[Tho-ugh-t]

Germany could have been stopped in a lot of points

[uwouwouwouwo]

Alternate title. What if allies actually have balls

[leandrobrother]

The only way to save France was to abondon Belgium

[mastrorick]

See Pierre, you only had to trust on yourself and in the power of friendship