It seems to be the fate of any great AAR that it eventually demoted to the state of mere alternate history fiction instead of actual AAR
Honestly acceptall maps would be fine with me, possibly alongside war gameplay, with more detailed lore relegated to AAR text.It's still possible I'll recover the data - or I will at least create dummy acceptall-made maps for story.
But to write all the events, to find all pictures and flags I just added in summer - again? I highly doubt that.
Entropy catches up with all of us, and our hard drives.It seems to be the fate of any great AAR that it eventually demoted to the state of mere alternate history fiction instead of actual AAR
"The seditious rebels claim that we are the rulers of Manchuria and only later conquered central China to become its rulers. Their prejudices concerning the division of their and our country have caused many vitriolic falsehoods. What these rebels have not understood is the fact that Manchuria is for the Manchus the same as the birthplace is for the people of the central plain. Shun belonged to the Eastern Yi, and King Wen to the Western Yi. Does this fact diminish their virtues?"
- Yongzheng Emperor, 1735
So if I'm getting this right, Imperial China is just Fengtian with Puyi as a puppet monarch?
It's quite a bit more than that. Mongolia, Manchuria, Shaanxi, and basically everything north of Nanjing are controlled by 'Imperial China.' Whereas 'RoC' controls the south and West, though how effective that control is, might be debatable.
"The bringing of great masses of thoughtful and free people under a single government must tend to make governments what alone they should be, the representatives of the will and the organization of the power of the people. The adoption in Europe of the American system of union under the control and direction of a free people, educated to self-restraint, can not fail to extend popular institutions and to enlarge the peaceful influence of American ideas."
- Ulysses S. Grant, 1871, message regarding unification of Germany
Darkest Hour is kinda a mixed bag in this regard, but that is mostly because of the scale of the provinces compared to some national divisions. It included California perfectly but it really misses the ball in the Great Plains and the Northeast just has too small statesYou forgot 5 from Rhode Island that one is too tiny for DH map...
Well, this US should be much more of a challenge for Germany than the US of OTL. Of course, I have absolute faith that the vessels of the Kaiserliche Marine will still be able to dictate peace by steaming up the Potomac.
America will prove to be a quite different beast in this timeline it seems.
Cold war in the 1920s.
Despite the party politics of the USA and the will of the voters operating in mysterious ways, I still see the USA in this timeline
as kind of good guys.They didn't start a war, they didn't break nations apart(Britain) , or invade them after signing a peace treaty with them(Soviet Russia, unless the treaty was signed with the Russian Republic and it then fell apart, can't remember).
They even called a summit to regulate the naval race and the Germans sent Steel magnates and admirals to turn them down.
On another note will there be an economic crash like our timeline or Kaiserreich timeline?
And what are the German-American economic relations?
OTL the US companies had a lot of trade agreements with German companies even after the rise of Hitler business being business and all.