Ranking ALL 7 Spanish Focus Trees in Hearts of Iron 4

Today in HOI4 we will be ranking every single path Spain has to offer, not just the Nationalists and Republicans, but the Carlists, Anarchists and so on they will all be put to the test to determine which one is ultimately the best of them all.

We will evaluate everything, national spirits, potential, how hard or easy the civil war is for each tree. No stone will be left unturned.

Music used from:
A Hat in Time:
Hearts of Iron IV:

Actually used Krakow for the first time in ages with this one.

25/02/2023.

[BubblesZest]

Start making this video and I figure it'll be like 10 minutes, nope double that lol. No matter, takes as long as it takes. you know in 2022 I visited mainland Spain for the first time since 2004, stayed in Santiago de Compostela and did A Coruna on a day trip. Never would've either otherwise if not for how much I played them in hoi4, was nice.

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I remember once trying to avoid a civil war by not doing either focus.
The 1936 election event still happened, and about a year later all 7 spawned leaving me with Madrid and the surrounding area.
Shortly afterwards the game crashed because the Nationalists tried to join the Axis via focus (for some reason the modifier which blocks them joining factions didn't get attached to them),
However Germany had done "Oppose Hitler" and so there was no Axis to join which is probably why it crashed.
I believe this was around the time Battle For The Bosporus came out so perhaps it's been patched since then.

[williamshortfilm]

Paradox should really do Republican Spain justice and expand their post civil war options. They should also give the Republicans their own plane models, as it makes no sense for them to fly planes with the Nationalist markings! Also, it is weird how the Spanish socialist party belongs to the 'conservative' sub ideology of democracy, and not the socialist one...

[kamikazekalamari]

It would be nice if the republican focus tree would be centered around fighting the allies of Franco (eg. Italy and Germany) by giving it some ways to support the allies, especially France or acting as a more allies aligned Switzerland, being able to support them in a fun and involving way whilst officially staying neutral (like with spies and volunteers, something barely possible with the devastated Spanish economy after the civil war)

[eisbergsyndrom]

I played the Falangists once and reconquering the New World was very fun.

[RansomMoney]

The irony that the 2 “main” sides of the civil war(Republican and Nationalist) are the least interesting parts of the Spanish focus tree.

[gabrieljoseozanan]

The thing with Global Defense Council is not that it can Core Everything, but that you get to choose what to core (once you get the needed compliance).
This means for instance that you make great gains, for instance, by taking on the USA and coring their more productive zones for some major boosts to your economy when taking on the rest of the world.

[JamesSmith-cdrf]

I have always noticed that the paths in Hoi4 that provide a possible manpower modifier that invalidates needing to put women in the workforce or going up to service by requirement almost by default is a better path for the simple fact having fewer and fewer maluses applied to your nations, even though they may be minor.

[B-O-G]

You've gotten a bit of an error at @15:57 saying that it costs 150 political power to core a territory. It's is true that it's 150 if you don't have any neighboring cores, but if the province neighbors one of your core territories (such as in southern France), it only costs 50 political power to core it. If it's somewhere else like in India, it means you can first core one province for 150 and then all of it's neighboring provinces for 50 each.

Apart from that, the real drawback for Anarchists I've seen is that they're non-aligned, meaning they cannot justify wars unless world tension is at 50%. I ended up in a non-historical game where world tension didn't increase to that before 1945, which was annoying and a bit odd that anarchists would follow rules that strictly....

[ShadasinGaeshi]

I discovered yesterday that you can become a monarchy as Franco, just as the carlists do (Restore the Monarchy focus), with the difference that Alphonse XIII is the only option (idk if Jaime IV can succeed Alphonse when he dies). Overall, great vid buddy, you got a new sub!

[Makem]

Anybody who desperately wants to core the whole world, is better off just using the state transfer tool mod.

[ramssescardenascontreras]

I love the carlist path just because "Crusade Against Democracy" is so mentally broken. It makes games fun and memeable to the point I just fry my brain.

[idkjustc]

nice format, waiting for same video for Soviet Union or italy

[kiesarisunny]

I think Anarchist is best just by it’s uniqueness, at least to me

[justdoitlater]

i really like playing as the anarchists, however the -20% production efficiency cap really turns me off. it is propably the worst economic malus you can have, although it doesn`t decrease naval production, which is nice. the -10% research speed is annoying aswell, although not that bad.

[polyaness]

Should be noted that the anarchist recruitable pop boost is so huge to compensate for the fact they can't have conscription, a Stalinist regime on service by requirement will have a bigger bonus than the anarchists (but they'll also have the penalties that come with that and they don't have the coring quirk, so)

[something]

Yeah, my main complaint about the Spanish focus tree is that it all about the civil war.

[kajtekii]

Ah, the quintessential video of my favorite Spanish civil war connoisseur!

[yoga]

Ngl I hope you do more of these like maybe rate more countries focus tree like maybe poland

[pocketmarcy]

You can’t actually core EVERY state in the game, just the ones that some country has cores on (you need there to be a foreign core in order to have the compliance mechanic) the only state I can think of with this issue is south Sakhalin