The first thing you do is forming an intelligence agency, at the cost of some production. The mechanics for spies are relatively simple, although they could be a bit better explained in-game. The most eye-catching part of the expansion is probably the new spies. Spain and Portugal has been united in glorious anarchism! Spies & Intelligence agencies Apart from that, there are new focus trees for France, Spain and Portugal, as well as new mechanics for the Spanish civil war, and a few more minor things. Both of these gives you more options on how to play, spies can be used to find out more about your enemy, planting false information, stealing their technology, supporting resistance movements and so on, while the re-worked resistance mechanic gives you more options on how to handle your newly conquered territories. The two major features of the expansion, that will impact how the game is played, no matter what nation you’re actually playing (unless you really want to isolate yourself in a corner somewhere) are the re-worked unrest mechanics and the newly introduced espionage. La Résistance ads and re-works a few things. While this DLC does not change that, it does give you a bit more to do when you’re not actually at war, be it building spy networks in other countries before war breaks out, or dealing with the unrest in conquered territories. Pretty much everything in the game is either about fighting or preparing for an upcoming fight.
