UPDATE:
I came across this image earlier this week. It captures the original Homeland scenario fairly well I think. Of course back then I was only a baby-dh-modder and I'm much more experienced now. Of course I cannot call this mod Homeland anymore since there was a tv series of the same name and I had difficulties a couple of years back with guys in california wanting money to unlock my uploaded files ... long story.
Because I was helping out with various mods, it got me back into the mood of modding again. I've now returned to Homeland to make it better and much more interesting to play.
What is going to be new in the new version?
I'm starting in 1932, when FDR finds it very difficult to get the Democratic nomination for the Presidency. Historically he had major problems as I believe agents backed by the British Empire conspired with the far-right in America to try to stop him. At that time there may have been a coup in the USA as well. Conspiracy theories abound for this era anyway. I've actually bought a book with will give me much more indepth detail about the 1930s for all the major powers.
So basically the mod will be based around an ahistorical scenario where the USA sides with FDR or not and the consequences of that single turn of events.
FDR was an American Liberal just like Lincoln was, and he believed in the same things that Lincoln did. But the various shades of Republicans in the USA wanted a totally different USA than FDR did. Something like what we have today, where the military industrial complex rules the government and not what FDR would have wanted, the other way around...
The other main theme in the mod will be a USA vs British Empire scenario. Again FDR believed the government being involved in supporting people to help them build up themselves and in that way the country overall. The British Empire was founded on a totally different premise, to exploit the people to enrich the few. So under FDR, the USA will be opposed to the British Empire.
Anyway, expect the same units, that is the dh units plus 62 more. I've ideas for some more units, along the lines of the GOLD unit I had before.
I have a plan to have a huge naval battle in the middle of the Atlantic between the USA and British navies, to try to settle the question early and not have them slog it out in the american homeland territories. The British will probably renew the naval treaty with the Japanese and not let it slip as they did historically.
Of course the USA is a huge powerful country. But this is before all of that. It happens while america is sleeping, thinking it is safe and its friends are real friends. But for the British Empire it is a life and death struggle. It is a fight to the ultimate death .. of america, or the British Empire...
