What is the trigger for France getting the free 'Early Mobilisation' rearmament event?

[Blunder Bro]

Got it the first play in 1936 February, but my save disappeared a year later, so had to restart.

I am doing ironman and all I want is for this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ event to fire, but I can't figure out the damn trigger. It went off early that time, but even after a long i.e. 1 year attempt with Germany going various ways each time ,I couldn't get it to fire.

I am going Napoleon and I keep getting bloody communist government events instead. So what is the trigger? I can't seem to get it to come up again at all. Same circumstances.

[Slaytherine]

Originally posted by Demonic Cookie:

Got it the first play in 1936 February, but my save disappeared a year later, so had to restart.

I am doing ironman and all I want is for this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ event to fire, but I can't figure out the damn trigger. It went off early that time, but even after a long i.e. 1 year attempt with Germany going various ways each time ,I couldn't get it to fire.

I am going Napoleon and I keep getting bloody communist government events instead. So what is the trigger? I can't seem to get it to come up again at all. Same circumstances.

I didn't sure how I get it, but what I was doing was researching Spain intervention, and joined Spain civil war.

[Madtoast]

i think the Spanish civil war needs to start before your election

[lakupupu]

playing as the netherlands, i got the event for partial mob when germany had a civil war

[Khoryace]

The Requirements to get this event are
-You aren't USA before 1949
-You aren't Republican spain before 1937
-You aren't at war
-Either your neighbors or your allies are at war
- You have one of 6 laws active

So it can trigger during italy's ethiopian war and during spain civil war.

[Blunder Bro]

Originally posted by Madtoast:

i think the Spanish civil war needs to start before your election

I can't say if it was that, as not sure if in that save that it started by then. Didn't know I had an election yet. Didn't get the option to allow communists in or have a "broad coalition" in the same save. Bug?

Either way, I have done so many attempts. Had a couple random ones like a few months of a year later, but they were flukes. Can I delay the election somehow to get chance?

[Blunder Bro]

Originally posted by dragon:

playing as the netherlands, i got the event for partial mob when germany had a civil war

Yeah I think it happened about then too. They did it quite quickly. I am not sure if Spanish Civil War had started yet, but I know the German's had one at same time as event. That's why I focused on seeing what the Germans did and when.

[Blunder Bro]

Originally posted by Khoryace:

The Requirements to get this event are
-You aren't USA before 1949
-You aren't Republican spain before 1937
-You aren't at war
-Either your neighbors or your allies are at war
- You have one of 6 laws active

So it can trigger during italy's ethiopian war and during spain civil war.

May I ask where you got these and why they are what they are? They seem a bit random and broad as hell. What 6 laws would that be? I am 1936 France I can't make any changes for a while unless they are free or event pop-ups. That's why I need early mobilisation so bad. My PP till I get close to Napoleon focus is bad.

Okay, but beyond the very vague rules for it happening, is there anything specific that is most likely to trigger it relating to either Ethiopian or German wars? Like if they occur in X time before do Y focus, you are more likely to get it?


That's another thing. I tried all Monarchist paths for France in a test save. Why is it that Orleon is the only good leader? I know Napoleon VI isn't the OG Napoleon that kicked ass, but I expected him to have some 'Soldier King' like ♥♥♥♥, similar to King Albrect of the Habsburg Poland focuses has. He has nothing, and you can't even get daily unaligned gain advisers like most nations have. The only good thing about him is you get the recruitable bonus spirit and easy focus wargoals against your nice fat neighbours. Restoring a Napoleon to the French Empire, was a bit of a let-down when I saw his pathetic portrait and no stats.

[Fargel_Linellar]

Originally posted by Demonic Cookie:

May I ask where you got these and why they are what they are? They seem a bit random and broad as hell. What 6 laws would that be? I am 1936 France I can't make any changes for a while unless they are free or event pop-ups. That's why I need early mobilisation so bad. My PP till I get close to Napoleon focus is bad.

This event is not linked to France specifically.

You can find all event in the HOI4 folder inside the "events" folder.
They are split by countries and the general one by themselves (for example, there's a "capitualtionEvents.txt)

In your case, the event you are looking for are in the "ElectionsEvents.txt"

This contain all possible event that can happen to a democracy during election.
A few examples:
Public Oppose Rearmament
Public Demands Rearmament
Fascists in Government?
Communists in Government?
Democratic Parties in Minority
Etc....

You can see the conditions for each of them.

The USA and Spain before the civil war are excluded for them (for obvious reasons)

The 6 laws in questions are:
has_idea = low_economic_mobilisation
has_idea = civilian_economy
has_idea = isolation
has_idea = undisturbed_isolation
has_idea = volunteer_only
has_idea = disarmed_nation

In short, you need to be a democratic nation with someone at war that border you or have one of your ally at war (but not be at war yourself)

Your mobilization law (manpower) need to be one of the 2 lowest
Your economy law need to be civilian economy (or undistribed isolation/isolation for the USA)

Because this event is 100% outside of your control as France, you have no way to ensure this happen. The most likely for it to happen is for Italy to take a long time to capitulate Ethiopia (until May 1936)

P.S: French Napoleon biggest advanatge is that you get an early war goal against UK, invade Canada before capitulating the UK and you can get the USA in 1938 easily(you even have time to make 2 collab if you start them asap when you switch Non-aligned).
Just don't worry about the non-align popularity, you can get the stability much easier than through party popularity.

[Blunder Bro]

Originally posted by Fargel_Linellar:

Originally posted by Demonic Cookie:

May I ask where you got these and why they are what they are? They seem a bit random and broad as hell. What 6 laws would that be? I am 1936 France I can't make any changes for a while unless they are free or event pop-ups. That's why I need early mobilisation so bad. My PP till I get close to Napoleon focus is bad.

This event is not linked to France specifically.

You can find all event in the HOI4 folder inside the "events" folder.
They are split by countries and the general one by themselves (for example, there's a "capitualtionEvents.txt)

In your case, the event you are looking for are in the "ElectionsEvents.txt"

This contain all possible event that can happen to a democracy during election.
A few examples:
Public Oppose Rearmament
Public Demands Rearmament
Fascists in Government?
Communists in Government?
Democratic Parties in Minority
Etc....

You can see the conditions for each of them.

The USA and Spain before the civil war are excluded for them (for obvious reasons)

The 6 laws in questions are:
has_idea = low_economic_mobilisation
has_idea = civilian_economy
has_idea = isolation
has_idea = undisturbed_isolation
has_idea = volunteer_only
has_idea = disarmed_nation

In short, you need to be a democratic nation with someone at war that border you or have one of your ally at war (but not be at war yourself)

Your mobilization law (manpower) need to be one of the 2 lowest
Your economy law need to be civilian economy (or undistribed isolation/isolation for the USA)

Because this event is 100% outside of your control as France, you have no way to ensure this happen. The most likely for it to happen is for Italy to take a long time to capitulate Ethiopia (until May 1936)

P.S: French Napoleon biggest advanatge is that you get an early war goal against UK, invade Canada before capitulating the UK and you can get the USA in 1938 easily(you even have time to make 2 collab if you start them asap when you switch Non-aligned).
Just don't worry about the non-align popularity, you can get the stability much easier than through party popularity.

Ah okay. I get you now. I will just have to keep rolling. I really need that economy boost to get France going. So I think I am all done with this thread, now that I got a clear answer. Thanks dude :) and see ya around. I'm going to close this now.

As for doing all that by 38 as France? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH no that's funny as hell. Finland was easier. At least they don't start off as a literal dumpster fire, that then gets duped by a pretender Napoleon.

[Fargel_Linellar]

Originally posted by Demonic Cookie:

As for doing all that by 38 as France? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH no that's funny as hell.

You can easily beat the UK (and all it's colonies), then the US with your starting army and mils.

I've done it recently when going for the achievement.
I've build nothing but Civ and make only construction and electronic research until I had cap both the Allies and the US. (my goal was to have as many factories as possible for when Germany attack me in 1940)

The only tricky part is to not put your fleet into strike force in the channel too early. Lure some of the royal navy into the western approach with a few subs in convoy raiding.
Once you see less than 120 ships in the channel, put your fleet in strike force and launch your invasion.

If the AI sees your fleet, it will put more ships in the channel and you won't have superiority to launch invasion.

Also, wait for the UK to call it's colonies into the war. If you declare war it raise WT and the USA will join the allies.