
Ideally, you’ll want to assign garrison templates that include the newly-added armored car divisions. The La Resistance expansion, however, lets you have more control at your fingertips. Additional levels improve your production and logistical throughput.īattling resistance, increasing compliance, and forming collaboration governmentsĬombating resistance used to be a passive affair in Hearts of Iron IV. Compliance counters resistance, working in your favor as a conqueror. Even though resistance still exists in these regions, compliance levels are higher. Next, have a look at the compliance map mode and take note of Czechoslovakia and the Baltic States. Garrisoned forces will act as a shield first against sabotage attempts, and they’ll take losses before resistance damanges infrastructure. The “Uprising” status creates penalties for your deployment and logistics, and the “Emboldened Resistance” modifier means higher damage to any garrisoned forces.

Notice how one of the provinces in the Netherlands has 96% resistance? First, here’s a look at the Low Countries using the resistance map mode. Here are some tidbits from my campaign as Germany after trouncing the Soviet Union. These include those captured during the war and those that are occupied by colonial or hostile powers at the game’s start. Provinces in Hearts of Iron IV have resistance and compliance values if they’re occupied by a foreign power.

Now, it’s all about balancing resistance vs. Previously, Hearts of Iron IV simply relied on having enough divisions assigned to fully suppress an occupied country, and the game’s wiki even has tabulated information on how many troops you need.

The most impactful change in La Resistance actually happens under the hood given the reworks to occupied countries and occupation forces. Hearts of Iron IV: La Resistance guide – Resistance vs.
