For the great lakes flag, how abiut 5 blue stripes for the 5 lakes alternated with green stripes e ep 're esenting the lanf and the north star?
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I have most of the flags, but I will add yours to the respecting roster later on.
Canada can be broken up a little, maybe after a defeat in the Casadian war.
Mexico i've mentioned before, im busy right now so if you look back you'll find them.
Just some Pics from my progress so far.
Starting heads of state and governments for American Federation, New England, and Canada respectfully. Note that an event will happen in the AF so you can chose which leader you want, either Ralph Nader or Bill Clinton, and a possible third option.
Various Event pics and the Backgrounds I will use, really like the new ones added by the Blank GFX project, Ill let you decide what the events are about in your imagination.
Starting heads of state and governments for American Federation, New England, and Canada respectfully. Note that an event will happen in the AF so you can chose which leader you want, either Ralph Nader or Bill Clinton, and a possible third option.
Various Event pics and the Backgrounds I will use, really like the new ones added by the Blank GFX project, Ill let you decide what the events are about in your imagination.
If anyone is Interested I have been thinking about the name know that I'm close to Alpha stage. here are the names I currently have in stock.
American Wars
The Glass House (My personal Favorite)
Fall of Freedom
The Other Way.
Tell me what you think.
American Wars
The Glass House (My personal Favorite)
Fall of Freedom
The Other Way.
Tell me what you think.
it does fit, but Im trying to steer away from names that have been taken (I though about Fall of Liberty, but i found it was also a used name), also I plan on expanding to include the rest of the world in the mini-story I've created.
I feel like you have some democrats who are a centre/centre-right Party after 1990. If you want Stalinists, then the Communist Party USA has some figures you could use. Trots would be in the Socialist Worker's Party. Those parties participated in electoral politics, but had poor showings.
On the other hand there were Revolutionary parties, which differed greatly from electoral parties.The Panthers were Maoists (Let's call them Leninists since they are between Stalinists and Trots). The Revolutionary Communist Party was basically the biggest Maoist formation after the 1970s.
Sure, some political figures would become Communists opportunistically, but it would make more sense to have some ACTUAL Communists.
Maybe seen as a bit too original American Civil War-sih, but how about "A House Divided" or "Divided We Stand" (maybe more 9/11-ish) or "Divided We Fall"?
I'm a little confused why Bill Clinton would be President of the Mid-Atlantic, considering he is a Southerner. He was fairly right-wing for a democrat, being more to the right than Carter, and Carter was more to the right than LBJ, JFK and FDR. Bill Clinton was part of the Democrats shift to the right. Maybe it was oppurtunism plain and simple, making sense that he might change his tune if the wind was blowing the other way... Still, he sounds better in place of the "New South" than in the American Federation to me.
I don't know your backstory, but another suggestion:
Who is going to be the analogue to Gorbi? How about Jesse Jackson. He wins the 1984 Democratic nomination and then the general election. He tries to move the US closer to the Soviet Bloc, but encounters resistance from all corners as the US economy takes a tank. Of course there is all kinds of racial tention from his presidency, on the one hand much like we have seen with Obama, but it ends up being a lot like Lincoln's election. Finally there is a military coup led by the Joint Cheifs of Staff (which set up a junta with Colin Powell and Wesley Clark) in August of 1991. The nation splits apart as a result. The Bill Clinton acts like a Yeltsin and claims the New South. Jerry Brown leads the West., some-kind of Nationalist for Texas (I'm still thinking David Duke), while Senator Ted Kennedy takes New England, and the American Farm-Labor Party dominates the Midwest with Paul Wellstone in the leadership.
Now depending on events, each nation can go down a different route. Inability to stabilize the regime would mean racial minority radicals take power in a revolution that moves each nation's politics (typically to the left, unless Stalinist, in which case it moves to the right).
For each nation there is likely to be at least one succession of leadership if not two or three. Stalinist regimes have leadership for life. Leninist and Left-Wing Radical regimes go the route of the modern Chinese Communist Party, and select a new leader ever ten years at the Party Congress. Social Democrat nations and other democracies go through a election cycle of 4, 5 or 6 years.
Example of how scripting could work:
American Federation:
Ralph Nader 1991-1993 Left-Wing Radical
Then 1993 mirrors Yeltsin's crisis in 1993. You act like Yeltsin and keep Nader in power by dissolving the government, arresting the opposition and writing a and quickly shoving a new constitution (why Yeltsin is considered a great "democrat" I don't understand) or you can move to the right, left.
So you choices would be:
Stay with Ralph Nader for ten more years (2003), Left-Wing Radical
Move to Democracy, Ray McGovern (Slightly a Putin analogue but in the opposite direction, from the intelligence community, serves until 1997), Social Democrat
Move to the Left, Charles Baron (former Panther, current New York City Councilman, serves until 2003) Leninist
The Communist Party USA Comes to Power, Gus Hall (serves until death in 2000), Stalinist
and then repeat with each option:
If Nader, then in 2003:
Party Congress chooses Jarvis Tyner (until present day), Stalinist
Party Congress chooses Charles Baron (until 2013), Leninist
Party Congress chooses Ray McGovern (serves until 2008) Social Democrat
Party Congress chooses Kathleen Mickells, (Trotskite serves until 2013) Left-Wing Radical
If Gus Hall, then in 2000:
Party Congress chooses Jarvis Tyner
etc, etc, etc
So, if you do this for each nation, then it may allow for a different game each time, creating unique game play for repeat value. Also, maybe have the values for each differ based on where the current marker is. Have the current government type have a 50% chance of continuation, the two immediately to the Left or Right have 20%, and the fourth farthest one have 10%. This way the shift is less likely to jump all over the place.
On the other hand there were Revolutionary parties, which differed greatly from electoral parties.The Panthers were Maoists (Let's call them Leninists since they are between Stalinists and Trots). The Revolutionary Communist Party was basically the biggest Maoist formation after the 1970s.
Sure, some political figures would become Communists opportunistically, but it would make more sense to have some ACTUAL Communists.
Maybe seen as a bit too original American Civil War-sih, but how about "A House Divided" or "Divided We Stand" (maybe more 9/11-ish) or "Divided We Fall"?
I'm a little confused why Bill Clinton would be President of the Mid-Atlantic, considering he is a Southerner. He was fairly right-wing for a democrat, being more to the right than Carter, and Carter was more to the right than LBJ, JFK and FDR. Bill Clinton was part of the Democrats shift to the right. Maybe it was oppurtunism plain and simple, making sense that he might change his tune if the wind was blowing the other way... Still, he sounds better in place of the "New South" than in the American Federation to me.
I don't know your backstory, but another suggestion:
Who is going to be the analogue to Gorbi? How about Jesse Jackson. He wins the 1984 Democratic nomination and then the general election. He tries to move the US closer to the Soviet Bloc, but encounters resistance from all corners as the US economy takes a tank. Of course there is all kinds of racial tention from his presidency, on the one hand much like we have seen with Obama, but it ends up being a lot like Lincoln's election. Finally there is a military coup led by the Joint Cheifs of Staff (which set up a junta with Colin Powell and Wesley Clark) in August of 1991. The nation splits apart as a result. The Bill Clinton acts like a Yeltsin and claims the New South. Jerry Brown leads the West., some-kind of Nationalist for Texas (I'm still thinking David Duke), while Senator Ted Kennedy takes New England, and the American Farm-Labor Party dominates the Midwest with Paul Wellstone in the leadership.
Now depending on events, each nation can go down a different route. Inability to stabilize the regime would mean racial minority radicals take power in a revolution that moves each nation's politics (typically to the left, unless Stalinist, in which case it moves to the right).
For each nation there is likely to be at least one succession of leadership if not two or three. Stalinist regimes have leadership for life. Leninist and Left-Wing Radical regimes go the route of the modern Chinese Communist Party, and select a new leader ever ten years at the Party Congress. Social Democrat nations and other democracies go through a election cycle of 4, 5 or 6 years.
Example of how scripting could work:
American Federation:
Ralph Nader 1991-1993 Left-Wing Radical
Then 1993 mirrors Yeltsin's crisis in 1993. You act like Yeltsin and keep Nader in power by dissolving the government, arresting the opposition and writing a and quickly shoving a new constitution (why Yeltsin is considered a great "democrat" I don't understand) or you can move to the right, left.
So you choices would be:
Stay with Ralph Nader for ten more years (2003), Left-Wing Radical
Move to Democracy, Ray McGovern (Slightly a Putin analogue but in the opposite direction, from the intelligence community, serves until 1997), Social Democrat
Move to the Left, Charles Baron (former Panther, current New York City Councilman, serves until 2003) Leninist
The Communist Party USA Comes to Power, Gus Hall (serves until death in 2000), Stalinist
and then repeat with each option:
If Nader, then in 2003:
Party Congress chooses Jarvis Tyner (until present day), Stalinist
Party Congress chooses Charles Baron (until 2013), Leninist
Party Congress chooses Ray McGovern (serves until 2008) Social Democrat
Party Congress chooses Kathleen Mickells, (Trotskite serves until 2013) Left-Wing Radical
If Gus Hall, then in 2000:
Party Congress chooses Jarvis Tyner
etc, etc, etc
So, if you do this for each nation, then it may allow for a different game each time, creating unique game play for repeat value. Also, maybe have the values for each differ based on where the current marker is. Have the current government type have a 50% chance of continuation, the two immediately to the Left or Right have 20%, and the fourth farthest one have 10%. This way the shift is less likely to jump all over the place.
