In defense of Freedom, a USA Kaiserreich AAR

with the civil war now on, Canada implements defense scheme 1. Before the US government can react, Canadian infantry and armoured cars sweep through the states of Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, as well as a large portion of New York State. At the same time, Canadian battleships sail into Boston harbour and unload British and Canadian marines. With such a massive show of force, and all US government forces dedicated to the fight against the rebel CSA and AUS, there is nothing the government can do to respond. Meanwhile, Reed declares open war against his rival Huey long's American Union State.



Huey Long announces a declaration of war against the US federal government, and begins the mobilization of thousands of volunteers to fight in his new army.


Meanwhile, CSA militants take to the streets in cities all across the north, forcing all of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and what was left of New York State to join the Combined Syndicates of America.



The first battle of the war. US infantry and light cavalry storm into St Louis from 3 directions, facing determined resistance from 2 entire divisions worth of heavily armed workers militias. Although the numbers are almost even, the professional skills of US army regulars defeat the determination of the CS militants, forcing them to withdraw across the Mississippi into Illinois.


A very interesting international development. Japan instigates a far-right coup in Australasia, which succeeds in replacing that nations entente friendly government with one subservient to Tokyo. Australasia now abandons Canada and the British exiles and sides with the Japanese Empire.


Back at home, the chaos in the United States reaches the prosperous west coast. The governors of California, Oregon, and Washington, deciding that the US government will not be able to put down the AUS or the CSA, decide to forge their own way, announcing the secession of their states from the union and declaring the Pacific States of America. All three states quickly begin to mobilize their national guard forces, in preparation for the US government's response.


Back in the east, Huey Long rallies the governors of North Carolina, Arkansas, and Florida behind his cause, with these states leaving the union and joining the American Union State.

@Karaiskandar: I find that Australasia usually joins the Japanese if Japan goes with the military government. It gives the Japanese a very powerful ally in the south pacific.

@everyone else: thanks for the comments!

The US government orders federal troops to go on the offensive against the CSA's eastern states. Although the AUS have a more powerful military, the CSA have a much more potent industry, which left unchecked, could enable the Combined Syndicates to arm a very powerful military force. Therefore, the US government implements a strategy of crushing the CSA first, while containing the AUS and the PSA.


However, the AUS will not go unmolested, as US forces launch an offensive into Arkansas.


As the war gets into full swing, ships arrive in New York harbour from both Britain and France, containing thousands of "volunteers" to fight for the CSA, as well as huge amounts of weaponry and military equipment.


With the United States in chaos, the US government announces the abandonment of the Monroe Doctrine, due to the United State's inability to protect the nations of Central and South America.


An infantryman from the Washington DC garrison force is killed during an army confrontation with a local syndicalist mob. The soldier is identified as Pvt Ronald Reagan, a famous movie star who had joined the military as domestic troubles grew. Pvt Reagan is now just another name in the list of people who have been killed in this civil war, a list that is destined to grow much larger.


When the civil war broke out, many supporters of the the AUS and the CSA found themselves still in loyal US government territory. To prevent possible 5th column activity in the rest of the country, President Garner issues an executive order that results in the stripping of their civil rights and suspension of habeus corpus, resulting in the arrest and deportation of AUS and CSA supporters to internment camps in Nebraska, Colorado, and New Mexico.


Meanwhile, the states of Texas and Montana mobilize their national guard units, placing them under federal command for however long the war will last. At the same time, An entire divisions worth of well trained and well equipped "volunteers" arrives from Canada, to aid the United States in winning the war.




The federal government responds to the declaration of independence of the Pacific states of America, condemning the three pacific coast states for their illegal secession from the Union, and declaring war to forcefully bring them back into the fold. With this development, the US is now fighting on 3 fronts.


The Canadians install an entente friendly government to rule over the states of New England that fell under their control at the outbreak of the war. With New England being protected by the powerful Canadian Royal Army, they are out of the US government's reach.


Another insult to the US government, as Hawaii declares self rule and secedes from the United States. Once again, the US government is powerless to stop these separatists.

@stnylan: If I am not mistaken, depending on the choices made by the US player or AI in the lead up to the war, Texas can join the AUS rebellion. Virginia and Tennessee can also go with the AUS as well.

@Karaiskandar & yourworstnightm: Thats basically the plan right there. Smash the syndicates then crush the AUS, then finally roll the PSA into the pacific ocean.

US infantry march on the city of Philadelphia, defended by 20,000 CS workers militia, who are able to blunt the US assault until reinforcements are brought in from Maryland. With these reinforcements, the CS people's army is pushed out of the city.


The state government of Idaho decides to betray the United States federal government, cutting all ties with Washington and declaring their support for the Pacific States government in Sacramento.


Jack Reed decides to show off his new airforce to the United States army, launching air attacks on US positions in western Kentucky.


US military and civilian personnel stationed in the Philippines are ordered to leave the country and return to the United States. Although this is a tough decision to abandon America's ally in the pacific, the threat to the federal government is too great to leave precious soldiers abandoned in far away lands.


Then comes the most alarming news so far in this war. The United States Navy, once thought to be fully loyal to the federal government, falls apart, with many ships suffering full blown mutiny's and sailing against orders for the rebel American states. The damage to the navy from these defections is huge, with an Aircraft Carrier, 5 battleships, and many cruisers, submarines, and destroyers joining the rebels. Such losses force the government to keep what little is left of the fleet docked in port in Washington DC.




At the same time, the Canadian government, with the urging of the British exiles, sends marines to invade and occupy the Panama canal, offering the local US garrison free passage back to the United States if they do not resist. The panama canal force capitulates to the Canadians, and is sent home. Canada's blatant disregard for American sovereignty causes fury with the Canadians and the British royals in the US government, but with the military's hands tied with naval revolts and all out combat in US cities, there is nothing that can be done.


As if the Canadian's where not enough, Japan decides to sweep in and claim its own piece of US territory, invading and occupying the island of Guam in the middle of the pacific. Once again, nothing can be done other than diplomatic protest.


Hawaii's rebel government even gets involved in the action, sending confiscated cruise ships full of militiamen to occupy what is left of the US governments overseas holdings in the pacific ocean. With the loss of these islands, the only region on the pacific rim still in US hands is Alaska, and even that is not expected to last much longer, with both the Canadians and the Pacific States of America preparing to seize Alaska for themselves.


Back in the homeland, US forces march further north, with the objective of retaking the important industrial cities of New York and Newark, New Jersey. However, the Combined Syndicate's Peoples army has other plans, and stops the US advance cold at the barricades in the streets of Newark.



Colorado's loyal state government mobilizes its national guard, to help defend America's western front from the Pacific States Army.


Pittsburgh, one of the country's most important industrial centres, is liberated from CSA control by the United States Army. However, this important achievement is clouded by the implementation of a scorched earth policy by the CSA politburo, which combined with heavy street fighting within the city reduces large swaths of Pittsburgh to rubble and ashes.


It is not only in the north that heavy fighting is taking place. In the south, Huey Long launches his own large scale military campaign, ordering 60,000 of his paramilitaries and militia's to invade Texas. The enemy is able to quickly gain a foothold in the state, occupying Houston and successfully blunting a counter attack by the Texas National Guard and the Federal US Army.

@stnylan: Indeed.

@Karaiskandar: Difficult but not impossible. America will rise like the phoenix from the ashes and become the great power she is destined to be!

@Zhuge Liang: No kidding. Its like America is a giant carcass with separatist and foreign vultures sweeping down and tearing off what they can.

@MarshalThorpe: Maybe, but I still have the mighty United States army and Army Airforce on my side. Thats gotta count for something!

@Mico94: Go Reed and the CSA indeed......to Hell!

The American Union States Army launches a northern thrust into Tennessee. Although only a small attack, it sends alarm throughout the army due to the fact that these are not militants or infantry, but rather an entire division of tanks. This threat is countered by sending in large formations of bombers, who launch massive raids on the AUS armoured units.



Liberia, America's long time ally and one of the few free nations in all of Africa, abandons the US and embraces the security of the French nationalist exile government under General Petain. This development is a huge blow to US prestige overseas.


The main battle lines of the 2nd American Civil War on March 23d, 1937. US troops have retaken the cities of Milwaukee, St Louis, Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia from the rebels, but these gains have been overshadowed with the AUS invasions of Texas and Tennessee, as well as the blunting of the offensives on CSA held New Jersey and New York City. Whats worse, is the loss of the entire state of Idaho to the Pacific States government and the inevitable invasion of the western portions of the country by the rapidly mobilizing Pacific States Army.


Guarding the western front is a line spanning from the Canadian border all the way to Mexico, located along the easternmost portions of the Rocky Mountains. This force is made up mostly of hastily assembled government militias, as well as the Canadian volunteer division stationed in Arizona.


CSA bombing raids on Kentucky are finally stopped with the intervention of an entire divisions worth of P-36 fighters, who tear into the CS people's airforce's bombers, forcing them to retreat to their airfields in Chicago.


The army now launches another offensive, this time, aiming to envelop the CSA's capital, the beating heart of American Radical Socialism, the city of Chicago. It is hoped that by ripping out the heart of the CSA's war effort, we can drastically reduce their ability to keep fighting and end the war in the northern states quickly.


Another attack is launched, this time on the city of Buffalo. Despite a superiority in training and equipment, US troops are blunted from seizing the city by the determined resistance put up by 20.000 CSA militants, fortified on the northern banks of the Ohio River. With no progress being made, the attack is halted.


A US division succeeds in gaining a foothold on the other side of the river, seizing control of all of southern Ohio. This is short lived however, as 20,000 CSA militants, backed up by 10,000 heavily armed and well trained French volunteers, smash the US positions in the state and push them back into Kentucky. Although the US loses its foothold in Ohio, the army is able to use this opportunity to launch another attack on the now depleted forces holding Buffalo, allowing US soldiers to march towards the city.


On the southern front, a US thrust into Mississippi is driven back by AUS paramilitaries, forcing the American troops to flee into Arkansas.


Then, a new opportunity presents itself, as AUS troops march south along the Texas coast into Corpus Christi, exposing their rear guard units in Houston to a US assault. The lone AUS militia division holding the city is quickly brushed aside by battle hardened American regulars, who are able to liberate Houston and trap an unknown number of AUS troops to the south.