"Every Man a King" -- A LouisianAAR

[ShrineGuard]

"Every Man a King" -- A LouisianAAR​

"God, don't let me die. I have so much to do." -- Huey P. Long's last words.​

This AAR is a bit of a fun experiment for me. I've created the nation of Louisiana consisting of four provinces (New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Monroe, Alexandria), boosted the ICs of the provinces a bit, and put in place new ministers, leaders and techteams. The ministers are all real people in roles that could correspond closely with real life, with the exception of the military ministers, who I simply made up. The leaders are all made up as well, and the techteams are simply renamed versions of the US techteams. I also decided to make Huey P. Long not die from his wounds, as what would an independent Louisiana in this era be without such a nifty politician?

I'm not going for staunch realism with this AAR at all. Example: Huey P. Long had better doctors than in real life and viola, he survies. Plenty enough explaination on Huey for me. Instead I will pursue a fun, challenging, and entertaining course, as will be revealed through the course of the AAR. No cheats will be used, but I very well may revert to old saves if something terrible happens and ruins the rest of the game. Also, despite the current lack of graphical interest, I like graphics-rich AARs, so pictures and screenshots aplenty shall acompany us on this AARventure!

Some basic information on Louisiana's starting setup:
Date: 1936 Campaign
Military: 1 1918 infantry division and 1 fighter wing in Baton Rogue, 2 transports in New Orleans.
Government: I'll supply some pictures of the slider settings, minister attributes , etc, for a clearer picture.
Tech setup: I'll also supply pictures to show this.

If anyone has any more questions, please ask away!

Current status: Working to debug my messy implementation of the Louisiana files, as well as waiting on a flag.​

 

[Enclave]

Diificulty/AI agressiveness. How many divisions( what kind ) u start with? And - good luck.
P.S. show diplomacy section, what kind of goverment, military and so on on ... is yuor country.

 

[Rakonas]

what year are you starting in?

 

[unmerged(47162)]

ooo interesting!

 

[ShrineGuard]

Diificulty/AI agressiveness. How many divisions( what kind ) u start with? And - good luck.
P.S. show diplomacy section, what kind of goverment, military and so on on ... is yuor country.

Here's what I just added into the first post in response:

Some basic information on Louisiana's starting setup:
Date: 1936 Campaign
Military: 1 1918 infantry division and 1 fighter wing in Baton Rogue, 2 transports in New Orleans.
Government: I'll supply some pictures of the slider settings, minister attributes , etc, for a clearer picture.
Tech setup: I'll also supply pictures to show this.

 

[Spitfire_Pilot]

Wow a lousiana AAR, definatly sounds promising ! Hope you do well

 

[stnylan]

This sounds like it could be interesting.

 

[GeneralHannibal]

Sounds interesting, you should give yourself some cores on the surrounding areas since your not trying to be too realistic.

 

[cuchulain]

will there be any other independent states?

 

[Hailstone]

I have a couple of questions if you don't mind. Did you use any tools or guides to make your scenario? Are you playing with DD?

Oh, and good luck to you! This should be an interesting AAR and I'm looking forward to seeing where you take it.

 

[ShrineGuard]

Sounds interesting, you should give yourself some cores on the surrounding areas since your not trying to be too realistic.

Yeah, I gave myself cores on the US...figured they might come in handy when I'm ready.

will there be any other independent states?

I've done a little playtesting with Louisiana to make sure it's ready to go before I start the AAR (and to kill time until I get my flag ) and I'm thinking about fragmenting the US a bit. Would make more a much more interesting series of battles and such, I would imagine!

I have a couple of questions if you don't mind. Did you use any tools or guides to make your scenario? Are you playing with DD?

Oh, and good luck to you! This should be an interesting AAR and I'm looking forward to seeing where you take it.

All I used was the general modding guide on the Hoi2Wiki, though I did ask a few questions on the forum for bug-finding purposes.

Yes, I'm playing with DD.

 

[GeneralHannibal]

Yeah, maybe you could divide the US into a large group of states.

 

[unmerged(10426)]

Interestink.

 

[Methuslah]

This does sound like an interesting one; your targets for war could be greater than you think. I'd certainly start with an independent Texas, CSA and California. What sort of tech teams are you starting out with?

Richard

 

[Rakonas]

I think you should have california, texas, make florida then make the CSA be thin along the border of those 4, with USA behind it

 

[Kordo]

I hope the Kingfish lasts longer than he did in RL!

 

[ShrineGuard]

As for tech teams: I just copied and renamed the US techteams. Obviously this is quite unrealistic, but I saw no real reason to bother with crippling myself with horrible tech teams. In the end it just changes the pace of the game.

I'm also set now on splitting up the US. As I messed with playing on my original setup, I found that the way I wanted to pursue the story just wasn't working with a huge US. I'll definately go for splitting up California, Texas, Deseret, and the CSA. That'll set me back a little, but I'll just create a new AAR thread when I'm done .

And yes, the Kingfish already survived his assassination attempt!