The symbol in the middle of Free France's battle flag is called "The Red Cross of Lorraine." Symbolizing resistance and hope, it signifed the effort to free Vichy and Occupied France from German control.
Funny enough, the symbol itself was actually derived from a Byzantine cross that was inherited/transfered to the Duchy of Lorraine from the Kingdom of Hungary due to a cadet branch of the Anjou family. Hence why it is also called the "Cross of Anjou" and resembles more of an orthodox cross rather than a catholic one.
Yes merging france and Britain was an idea of Jean Monnet who was in charge of coordinating France and the UK's war production. He managed to convince Paul Reynaud and got De Gaulle ( he was against it) to speak about it to Churchill but it ultimately failed.
Tried again in the 50s when the French economy was pretty bad. It was rejected, leading to France cooperating with Germany, leading to what is now the EU.
Another issue with the whole Free France v. Vichy France aspect of the focus tree is that the focuses that increase resistance in the mainland become pointless when Vichy joins the axis. Since Vichy has cores on all of mainland France, any resistance you do spark as Free France becomes null when Germany just gives the land to Vichy which has cores on it. You can even see it in the video when AI Germany just starts to hand out territory slowly to Vichy.
Interesting thing about concentrated is that in the super late game it actually becomes better than dispersed again, because the extra output is the only difference when your production lines are at max efficiency.
Why didn't you take the grow rubber on Madagascar decision? The allies are very likely to lose Indochina so building up alternative rubber sources you are likely to keep sounds good to me
The Franco-British union was a real suggestion made by the British Parliment but was shot down by Charle De-Gualle and Winston Churchill, if succedd UK gains cores on all French Cores (theroically all of Germany, Benelux, Italy via European Union, all of West Africa through the referendums.)
Since paradox changed the middle officer corps effects proper heritage might be the best thing to take in that branch anyway since it gives more general xp gain, which makes the 1 division trick even better.
Love to see Dave adding a spanish audio track for the ppl that struggles with english. I like the original ofc but now more people is gonna be easier to understand him. Greetings from Chile
Here’s an idea I had for an unconventional playthrough: 😇🇬🇧 Good Guy UK where you decolonize but stay democratic just before Germany invades Poland and essentially stay on the historic path. You challenge yourself by lacking the resources, but still get the buff of extra PP and manpower.
At one point like a week or something before France accepted the armisist Churchill proposed a union between France and Britain in an attempt to keep them in the war.
Dave, when you will start to use invader/ampfy general and make marine division with 1 propeller light tank and use 5x supply grace ? You can make motoriesd faster by mobile warfare + 20% +10% therorist +10% army manuver +10% trickster/terrain +10% MIO +5% spirt = 20kmh+ 5x faster then infantry ;) even in battle you get +15% unexpected but if you have 4x the speed of infantry you generally do overruns. For max mot you also need good cas to trow damage into the fight(mediumCAS). Sadly if you put mot.recon you stuck on 12kmh. You can make adv.light tanks go faster/or armored cars(for extra 10%) until that you stuck with support arty/support rocket arty, signal for more cordination, hospital/logistic. You get good cordination from spirit.
Dave how do you feel about the floating docks? Wouldn't they help on attacks on places that doesn't have ports so you can do some attacks where they won't station guards?
Franco-British union was a real thing, even if not really a realistic option. Jean Monnet (the French Economic Mission in London) was pretty much all in for it. It was supposed to be the first step on the United States of Europe and in some sense it was logical first step, considering the two empires had centuries earlier kind of separated from one larger empire and that they were remarkably close in 30's. Of course culturally they were like water and oil, but that's nothing new, looking at how culturally diverse and messy the two countries are today (even if immigration is excluded). The not really a realistic option part I mentioned could be debated to death, but I think that UK withdrawing her forces from mainland and totally incapable to defend her new lands is alone more than enough to put it in to the unrealistic category. BEF was humiliated and had it held the ground, it would've been destroyed. Suicidal option.
You kept winning all the border conflicts because Vichy France was staffing their garrison divisions with the single horse divisions they inherited at the start.
Nah yeah, unironically the battle plans are some of the best design Paradox has thought up and the fact that every game after (looking at you Vicky 3 with your insanely shit war system) hasn't copied it is dumb
@@ivanelgordo5919 si no me equivoco es IA 🤔 Lo usa un youtuber que hace videos en inglés de sucesos históricos también En configuración cambias el idioma
No. That’s not evidence of it. But he has chosen to pivot from a productive strategy of ‘every single click’ to other videos where he is trying way hard for ‘engagement’, whereas ‘every single click’ by nature of being a better product even if wrapped in a less polished layer is always a good investment for him, and us the viewers. It’s a standard tech influenced desire for expansion rather than acknowledging the limits of market - there’s only so many hoi viewer even potential viewers.
