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French Generals Overhaul
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French Generals Overhaul

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Are you tired of seeing the same generic portraits for half of the french generals ? Are you tired of seeing that Paradox still hasn't done anything yet ? Well boy do i have news for you !
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WHAT IS THIS MOD ABOUT SACREBLEU ????

This mod gives France a grand total of 40 Generals and 14 Admirals which will all be listed down below. Some of them won't be immidiately available when starting the game in 1936, as you will be able to unlock them when completing the "Battle of Maneuver" and "Army Reform" Focuses.

I have tried my best to give them traits that fit their historical counter-part. I have buffed some and nerfed others based on their performances during their career aswell as the Battle of France campaign and afterwards. I'm sorry if some portraits look worse than others, as most of the time, the least known generals and admirals have very few good quality pictures of themselves on the internet. There's also the fact that i'm not the best at making portraits :p

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GENERALS AND ADMIRALS LIST

Here's the list of the available officers in 1936 :

- Maurice Gamelin (new portrait)
- Alphonse Georges (new portrait)
- Maxime Weygand (new portrait)
- René Prioux
- Henri Giraud (new portrait)
- Charles Huntziger
- Georges Blanchard
- Pierre Hering
- Robert Touchon
- Aubert Frère (might need to redo his portrait)
- Henry Freydenberg
- André-Gaston Pretelat
- Victor Bourret
- Marcel Garchery
- Robert Altmayer
- Édouard Réquin
- René Olry
- Aimé Doumenc
- Georges Catroux (new portrait)
- André Corap
- Charles Noguès
- Jean Flavigny
- Charles-Marie Condé
- Jules Bührer
- Louis Colson
- Henri Dentz
- Emile Laure
- Gabriel Bougrain
- Paul Vauthier

Charles de Gaulle and Jean de Lattre de Tassigny are available when completing the "Battle of Maneuver" focus.

Upon completing the "Army Reform" Focus, the following generals become available :

- Alphonse Juin
- Philippe Leclerc
- Marie-Pierre Koenig
- Edgar de Larminat
- Paul Legentilhomme
- Joseph de Goislard de Monsabert

Here's the list of the new french Admirals :

- Raoul Castex
- Jean-Marie Charles Abrial (new portrait)
- Jean de Laborde (New Portrait)
- Marcel Gensoul
- Gabriel Auphan
- Jean Decoux
- Emmanuel Ollive
- Charles Platon
- Marcel Le Luc
- Georges Durand-Viel
- Emile-Marie Lacroix

I also added Emile Muselier's vanilla portrait
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SHOUTOUTS

A huge shoutout to Abbus @ RT56 for providing the portraits listed below :

- René Olry
- Raoul Castex
- Georges Durand-Viel
- Paul Vauthier
- Louis Colson
- Joseph de Goislard de Monsabert

another Shoutout goes to the creator of Jean Decoux's Portrait which i unfortunately wasn't able to find.

*NEW* : LINK TO THE IRONMAN COMPATIBLE VERSION : https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2956206306

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FEEDBACK

If you feel like i've forgotten a portrait or i should buff/nerf an officer, feel free to tell me in the comments !
50 Comments
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Tchaikovksy_Bright Mar 30 @ 7:26pm 
will this mod be compatible with road to 56?
UltraRubick Mar 2 @ 3:24pm 
Outstanding work! This should be in the base game. Can't wait for the "Road to 56" compatibility!:steamthumbsup:
rafael2legrand Feb 21 @ 7:06am 
uodate ?
whiskey one two Dec 23, 2023 @ 11:33am 
however it is easier for u, great work regardless
Alrendaxe  [author] Dec 23, 2023 @ 2:01am 
i'm working on it too, i don't know if i should make a decision, or an event to make sure they appear correctly
whiskey one two Dec 22, 2023 @ 12:05pm 
i did the army reform focus but Paul Legentilhomme didnt show up. any word on the rt56 compatibility?
Alrendaxe  [author] Dec 21, 2023 @ 6:02am 
Corap had a decent understanding of war when you compare him to someone like General Condé who was stuck in the past with his mathematical studies on artillery barrages, or even Blanchard, which Corap criticized for being too doctrinal and too tactically rigid. The 1940 campaign would prove him right in the end, though Corap is still viewed today as a poor general. I believe he had a pretty good potential overall, even if his time as commander of the IXth army is still not very known. I recommend reading his biography, written by Max Schiavon, which helped me a lot !

Anyway i might have said too much for such a small detail but i wanted to prove my point lol ^^
Alrendaxe  [author] Dec 21, 2023 @ 6:01am 
to answer FranC4 :

I'll be honest, i have a little soft spot for Corap. The guy was far more competent than Huntziger or Billotte (he had terrible relations with both of them), and the Army he was commanding was way too small and badly equipped to hold anything other than a couple skirmishes. During the entierety of his command of the IXth army, he kept asking for more troops and better equipment and his demands were always refused. The fact that his army was able to disengage to the other side of the Meuse is a miracle by itself. The blame for the breakthrough at Sedan was put on him by Huntziger and the politicians who needed a scapegoat for their mistakes. Huntziger is the biggest red flag in this story, as he actually had recon planes warning him of movement in the Ardennes, which he dismissed entierly.
Alrendaxe  [author] Dec 21, 2023 @ 6:01am 
hey, i'm about to update the mod with new and improved portraits, aswell as new generals !
(i know i am very late !)


Lots of new portraits for everyone !!!

New Generals to come :

- Eugène Mittelhausser
- Jules Duffieux
- Benoît Besson

New Admirals to come :

- Jean Odend'hal
- Jules le Bigot
- Pierre Goybet
- Eugène Rivet
FranC4 Dec 21, 2023 @ 5:06am 
First, this mod is amazing. The artwork is really well done.
Second, I noticed that the dev for the mod definitely put a lot of heart into commander traits(like George Alphonse is the only marshal without a old guard trait).
However, I have a question for the dev: Are you SURE Andre Corap does not need an Old Guard trait as well?

Thank you!