Landon Topics
1) China: Historically you have Panay, Pittman, trade, and the troops coming home China in the ramp up to war. What you need to add is a Peace Plan where Landon tries to emulate TR's success in the Russo-Japanese War. He'll almost certainly fail (but if he succeeds he gets the Nobel Peace Prize). After talks break down, Isolationist Landon immediately pulls the troops home and loses DI. Hegemonic Landon and Big Stick Landon tilt to China with more aid. Big Stick Landon would go further and send out Great White Fleet II and probably embargo trade with Japan earlier. Certainly, he would be harder on Japan in the Panay incident (maybe that's the trigger for the embargo) (Status: 90% scripted and tested. Many submitted to Wiki and numbers reserved.)
2) Europe: The missing thing here are the Neutrality Acts and reaction events. Instead of having anonymous WE hits with European events, I would recommend adding a number of reaction events so that the USA gets a pop-up. Then Hegemonic and Big Stick Landon probably aren't that far from Roosevelt on reactions here. I can see BS Landon being sterner with the Germans and Landon in general being less inclined for the "death of the a thousand cuts" in increased tarriffs that Roosevelt used to try and influence German behavior. For example, Roosevelt canceled Helium sales to Germany after the Anschluss so the Germans ended up retiring the Graf Zeppelin II instead of risking a second fiery catastrope like the Hindenburg. I think it likely that BS Landon would pick a fight with Congress to break the Neutrality Acts as an unconstitutional abridgement of executive power. An Isolationist Landon would be far more blase about German aggression and get less positive WE from events and more negative WE from events. (Status: 90% scripted and tested. Many submitted to Wiki and most reserved)
3) Latin America: This is under-represented in the USA's event portfolio since HOI is a war game and Latin America was not a major theater of war. Even an isolationist Landon would pursue more bilateral trade there, along the lines of the historical events that Ghost_dk has already scripted. Hegemonic Landon wouldn't be far behind. The conflict between Haiti and the Dominican Republic might trigger a US intervention which would be best represented by an event reducing them puppet status and costing the USA supplies, oil, influence, and some manpower rather than triggering war entry. Possible for Hegemonic Landon and likely for BS Landon. Mexican-American relations deservesa bunch of new events. The Anglo-American oil nationalization crisis is about a 2-30 event chain. The historical slap on the wrist response of Roosevelt ends the crisis quickly with about the least risk and cost. The UK broke relations and a harder US response would have presented potential problems to the government in Mexico city. If the US had pushed hard enough, well, who knows where it might have ended up. The trouble there is that you then lose the missing help that Mexico gave in WW2. There should be an AI only event bringing Mexico into the war in the spring of 42 if the USA is at war and has "played nice". The "Bracero" guest worker program of the war years would be another event (manpower for USA, dissent reduction and supplies (the remitted wages going home) for Mexico), but again only if the USA "played nice". Mexico would also have some gain_tech and lend-lease if it joined the war. (Only about 10-20% scripted, though I have an outline for the Oil Crisis and almost none on the wiki or reserved numbers).
1) China: Historically you have Panay, Pittman, trade, and the troops coming home China in the ramp up to war. What you need to add is a Peace Plan where Landon tries to emulate TR's success in the Russo-Japanese War. He'll almost certainly fail (but if he succeeds he gets the Nobel Peace Prize). After talks break down, Isolationist Landon immediately pulls the troops home and loses DI. Hegemonic Landon and Big Stick Landon tilt to China with more aid. Big Stick Landon would go further and send out Great White Fleet II and probably embargo trade with Japan earlier. Certainly, he would be harder on Japan in the Panay incident (maybe that's the trigger for the embargo) (Status: 90% scripted and tested. Many submitted to Wiki and numbers reserved.)
2) Europe: The missing thing here are the Neutrality Acts and reaction events. Instead of having anonymous WE hits with European events, I would recommend adding a number of reaction events so that the USA gets a pop-up. Then Hegemonic and Big Stick Landon probably aren't that far from Roosevelt on reactions here. I can see BS Landon being sterner with the Germans and Landon in general being less inclined for the "death of the a thousand cuts" in increased tarriffs that Roosevelt used to try and influence German behavior. For example, Roosevelt canceled Helium sales to Germany after the Anschluss so the Germans ended up retiring the Graf Zeppelin II instead of risking a second fiery catastrope like the Hindenburg. I think it likely that BS Landon would pick a fight with Congress to break the Neutrality Acts as an unconstitutional abridgement of executive power. An Isolationist Landon would be far more blase about German aggression and get less positive WE from events and more negative WE from events. (Status: 90% scripted and tested. Many submitted to Wiki and most reserved)
3) Latin America: This is under-represented in the USA's event portfolio since HOI is a war game and Latin America was not a major theater of war. Even an isolationist Landon would pursue more bilateral trade there, along the lines of the historical events that Ghost_dk has already scripted. Hegemonic Landon wouldn't be far behind. The conflict between Haiti and the Dominican Republic might trigger a US intervention which would be best represented by an event reducing them puppet status and costing the USA supplies, oil, influence, and some manpower rather than triggering war entry. Possible for Hegemonic Landon and likely for BS Landon. Mexican-American relations deservesa bunch of new events. The Anglo-American oil nationalization crisis is about a 2-30 event chain. The historical slap on the wrist response of Roosevelt ends the crisis quickly with about the least risk and cost. The UK broke relations and a harder US response would have presented potential problems to the government in Mexico city. If the US had pushed hard enough, well, who knows where it might have ended up. The trouble there is that you then lose the missing help that Mexico gave in WW2. There should be an AI only event bringing Mexico into the war in the spring of 42 if the USA is at war and has "played nice". The "Bracero" guest worker program of the war years would be another event (manpower for USA, dissent reduction and supplies (the remitted wages going home) for Mexico), but again only if the USA "played nice". Mexico would also have some gain_tech and lend-lease if it joined the war. (Only about 10-20% scripted, though I have an outline for the Oil Crisis and almost none on the wiki or reserved numbers).
