Any tips for a Confederate States playthrough?

[Draconzis]

One of my goals is to eventually do a playthrough as the Confederacy, but I've never played on the other side of a civil war before and am not sure how to trigger the war. A multiplayer game I played a few patches ago, a friend strengthened the south so much that a civil war never even happened. So essentially, how to do a orchestrate the Civil War and how do I prepare it before hand so that I win it as the Confederacy?

 

[MatthewP]

Build barracks in the south, delete all barracks and naval bases in the north, then try to pass a law that upsets as many interest groups as possible to -10 or worse. Do it very early in the game while southern planters are strong. That should do it really, though you can probably win harder if you pull more shenanigans to create radicals.

Edit: probably obvious, but make sure the planters are one of the upset groups.

 

[Revshawn]

Stop pissing us off! Don’t tread on me!

 

[doubleskulls]

Build barracks in the south, delete all barracks and naval bases in the north, then try to pass a law that upsets as many interest groups as possible to -10 or worse. Do it very early in the game while southern planters are strong. That should do it really, though you can probably win harder if you pull more shenanigans to create radicals.

Edit: probably obvious, but make sure the planters are one of the upset groups.

This will help, but since the US starts with national guard this will have less effect than it would in other countries (e.g. with professional armies).

Also you want to ensure that the states you are developing are ones with strong Southern Planters power base, and you therefore probably want to concentrate on constructing buildings that feed into their clout - e.g. agricultural buildings.

Do the states even split based on their slavery laws? I'm thinking they don't. If that's correct, I haven't tried it, but if you built a lot of agricultural buildings in New York (for example) that ought to increase the power of the Southern Planters and when the rebellion occurs New York would be in the Confederacy.