Beneath the Crimson Banner: An Alternate History Mod

[Kommandante.12]

That being said, I'm aiming for a reverse Southern Victory Series interwar scenario.

The North, under the leadership of the Socialist Party, finds itself increasingly centralized as capitalism is gradually whittled away at through the years in favor of nationalization.

William Z. Foster has won the presidency, beating Hoover who hails from an increasingly emasculated Democratic Party. As in the Southern Victory Series, a loose coalition exists between the Socialist Party, the Progressive Democrats, and the Republicans.

However, as Foster ratchets up tension by making a big push to put the final nail in the coffin of American capitalism, this multiparty coalition is steadily falling apart.

In the South, the populist Huey Long ("the King Fish") is in the Confederate White House serving out his second term in office as president.

His controversial Share Our Wealth Program is Long's means of placating the restless Confederate poor as to more effectively keep a firm lid on discontent while at the same time putting the rich in their place.

He's inevitably doing a fine balancing act between state capitalism and socialism, obviously not wanting to be accused of being a dirty Red who wants to revolutionize the C.S. from within.

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Meanwhile, the rhetoric of President Foster only grows in intensity as Northern capitalists flee to the South. Military spending is prioritized as war clouds loom over Europe; a Socialist Germany stands face-to-face with an opposing Franco-Russian alliance eager to expunge Socialism from continental Europe.

Dark days lie ahead for both the C.S.A. and the U.S.A.

Dark days lie ahead for the world.

Dark days maybe for teh Capitlaist Pigs, but soon all the Proletarians will be liberated! L'Internationale!

 

[bean1]

Dark days maybe for teh Capitlaist Pigs, but soon all the Proletarians will be liberated! L'Internationale!

I honestly can't resist having J. Edgar Hoover be Minister of Security given the in-game minister personality of Prince of Terror.

Dark days lie ahead for the capitalist pigs indeed.

NOTE: In all likelihood a complete minister portfolio for the (Socialist) United States will be upcoming once school ends for Spring Break.

 

[Kommandante.12]

I honestly can't resist having J. Edgar Hoover be Minister of Security given the in-game minister personality of Prince of Terror.

Dark days lie ahead for the capitalist pigs indeed.

NOTE: In all likelihood a complete minister portfolio for the (Socialist) United States will be upcoming once school ends for Spring Break.

*commie laugh intensifies*

 

[commanderx]

Will there be any events for period that happens after the fall of the Reds ?

 

[Conquerer1234]

Always wondered what would happen if the Soviets won the Polish-Soviet War I'll be following this with the joy of my communist tendencies, about soviet poland just incorporate it into the Soviet Union because normal SSR's or states aren't playable in normal circumstances and who talks about Soviet Belarus or Soviet Ukraine as independent.

 

[Santander]

In the South, the populist Huey Long ("the King Fish") is in the Confederate White House serving out his second term in office as president.

Just so you know, the historical Confederate States Constitution gave the president one six-year term with no chance of reelection. Now, I assume that the aforementioned constitution has been amended extensively, to remove slavery at the very least. Would you mind outlining the changes you've implemented, along with Confederate politics in general?

 

[bean1]

Just so you know, the historical Confederate States Constitution gave the president one six-year term with no chance of reelection. Now, I assume that the aforementioned constitution has been amended extensively, to remove slavery at the very least. Would you mind outlining the changes you've implemented, along with Confederate politics in general?

Sorry. Yeah, most of this was made up on the fly.

Its just a random concept for a possible mod that I might make a brief timeline for.

As such, it isn't my top priority.

Plus I've been very busy with school so I haven't gathered up any books yet. (nor have I taken the time yet to read the Confederate constitution)

about soviet poland just incorporate it into the Soviet Union because normal SSR's or states aren't playable in normal circumstances and who talks about Soviet Belarus or Soviet Ukraine as independent.

The Polish SSR will be an allied puppet state beholden to the Soviet Union.

Soviet Germany, along with Soviet China on the other hand, have military alliances with the Soviet Union which implies not only cooperation but federalization within a larger Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Thus, they'll be independent playable countries with their own (Red) armies, events, and so forth.

 

[commanderx]

So many commies in Europe to kill so little time

 

[Kommandante.12]

So many commies in Europe to kill so little time

We may lose 5, 10, 30, even 50 soldiers and yet you cannot withstand our ultimate tactic that puts Rome to shame: Send more.

 

[commanderx]

We may lose 5, 10, 30, even 50 soldiers and yet you cannot withstand our ultimate tactic that puts Rome to shame: Send more.

That's no tactic, that's just zerg rush, anyone can just order an army to move in machine gun fire and see what will deplete faster army or enemy ammunition

 

[Kommandante.12]

That's no tactic, that's just zerg rush, anyone can just order an army to move in machine gun fire and see what will deplete faster army or enemy ammunition

Yet it always works out in the end

 

[commanderx]

Yet it always works out in the end

Yeah , if Soviet Union would have competent commanders who would have used their manpower wisely, Reds would have probably taken over the world in 1940s, but no all they had was incompetence, look at the Finish war...... ah the purges .....you so nasty

 

[Kommandante.12]

Yeah , if Soviet Union would have competent commanders who would have used their manpower wisely, Reds would have probably taken over the world in 1940s, but no all they had was incompetence, look at the Finish war...... ah the purges .....you so nasty

It's for the Greater good...The Empire of Stalin.

 

[commanderx]

It's for the Greater good...The Empire of Stalin.

I hope you are not sincere about that

 

[Kommandante.12]

I hope you are not sincere about that

You hope... *laughs maniacally as background turns to flames*

 

[Conquerer1234]

IMO Stalin was one of the worst People in history, having been responsible for famines, purges, and liquidations of millions of innocent people.

 

[Kommandante.12]

IMO Stalin was one of the worst People in history, having been responsible for famines, purges, and liquidations of millions of innocent people.

Yes, yet people still praise him. He was pretty much the Hitler of the East, just he wasn't discriminate about his mass killings like Hitler was so everyone was equal to die.

 

[Conquerer1234]

I think it's just nostalgic to believe in Stalin for Russians today

 

[Kommandante.12]

I think it's just nostalgic to believe in Stalin for Russians today

Maybe to remind them that no matter who becomes President, Stalin will never be beaten in record of horrible dictator.

 

[bean1]

Spoiler alert: Trotsky becomes this world's equivalent to Stalin in Beneath the Crimson Banner. Yeah, Trots will hate me for portraying him as such.

Read Robert Service's Trotsky: A Biography, and you'll soon stop believing that Trotsky was an heroic champion of the people against the big bad bureaucracy, and that if only he'd taken power the USSR would be a better place.

No. Nada. Nein.

Part of this bit for my timeline has to do with real life convictions. I used to be into that Trotskyist shit a long time ago.

Now I chill with Marx, Engels, and Eugene V. Debs.