And those are just the unaligned monarchist options! Like I said earlier, there’s a lot going on here, and if you have an interest in playing any of these three states, the focus trees alone would make La Résistance worth it. Meanwhile, both the Spanish and French have options to join factions with each other or gain casus belli on each other, depending whether their respective royal families wish to form an alliance or claim land that was (briefly) theirs. The Portuguese, for instance, can promote their own monarchy while sending troops to aid the Carlists (Spanish monarchists) in their struggles next door. The monarchic options are quite interesting, as Portugal, Spain, and France have had quite crazy histories with their kings, reflected in the options available. All three of the featured states get foci that can bring them down the paths of democracy, fascism, communism, or unaligned monarchies. It almost feels more akin to one of Paradox’s more grand strategy-esque titles in the sheer amount of choices offered, which is far from a bad thing.Īs it was with Man the Guns, these trees allow for historical and ahistorical options for your selected state.
However, once you get used to the new changes, there’s a whole wealth of opportunities for you in these new trees. A fair amount of very powerful choices require you to ask the Soviets for aid, something I did not realize until I had fully routed the other three factions (we’ll get to the fact that there were four factions in the two-sided civil war in a minute). It’s almost too much to choose from, something I experienced as playing Republican Spain for this review. The new zoom feature on focus trees comes in handy as these trees are veritable mazes of choices. For someone who enjoys the game and the ahistorical options available, it’s a dream come true.
While not being the states expected to receive reworks initially, the new focus trees for these nations are wonderful and huge.