Deo Vindice: A CSA AAR
Above: Dixie, January 1, 1936
Part 1.
"The South is America. The South is what we started out with in this bizarre, slightly troubling, basically wonderful country--fun, danger, friendliness, energy, enthusiasm, and brave, crazy, tough people." ~ P.J.O'Rourke
The Confederate States of America stood at a crossroads at the beginning of 1936. The great national prosperity of the Roaring Twenties had vanished with the coming of the Great Depression. Over 2 million people were unemployed. Racial tension, often violent, which had gradually been declining since the Great War had returned to the streets and town halls across Dixie as men in their despair sought to blame their woes on Jews, on Mexicans and most of all on Blacks. The old certainties had fallen by the wayside and extremism now marched in broad daylight.
Huey Pierce Long, the Louisianan firebrand who had captured the heart and souls of the common men towered Caesar like over Dixie. Radical, famed demagogue, man of the people, rogue he was at once the most admired and most despised politician in North America. To the old political elite and the modern business leaders he was supremely dangerous and they determined to fight him in Congress and in the courts and in the newspapers. For many it was as if a battle for the very soul of the Confederacy was taking place.
Above: Huey Long's Cabinet, January 1, 1936
The Confederate States were isolationist and demillitarised - the horror and bloodshed of the Great War was not something most in Dixie wished to repeat. In consequence the CSA had only a very small standing army at the start of the year, still equipped with Great War era weaponry and transportation.
Above: State of the Army
The Confederate States Navy (CSN) on the other hand was one of the largest in the world, behind only Britain, the United States, Japan, Italy and France. However many of the ships were relatively old - for instance not one of the Confederate Destroyers had been built on post-1918 designs.
Above: The State of the Navy
The Confederate Army Air Force consisted of one wing of interceptors, one wing of strategic bombers and two wings of tactical bombers - non of them very modern. Confederate aviation lagged behind in heavier than air craft as most funding and interest went into civilian airship construction. What designs there were, were largely inspired by British models.
Above: The State of the Air Force
Though the millitary had not been a major political issue for many years the worsening international situation caused by the Italian war with Abyssinia had promoted calls for a substantial reform of the armed forces and many polititical pundits wondered what, if any, part millitary reform would play in President Long's controversial policies.
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The Confederate States has a base IC of 90, but thanks to it's hefty peacetime penalty it's available IC is actually only 50. The goverment is Social Conservative and Isolationist and I have five tech slots available.
I'll generally be writing a history book style narrative like the historical background, though I may include some dramatic narrative. Purely game related stuff will be printed at the bottom of posts in Times New Roman Font.
Ok guys this is the official start of the game. Enjoy!
