Hey, guys, this is Prometheus421 just attempting to shamelessly solicit some aid for some of my projects in what many might consider a deplorable manner. Considering the fact that I'm completely terrible at modding, I was wondering if anyone who is far more talented in that field than I ever will be would like to check out my ideas for mods. I was hoping I could provide some directional assistance to some of my yet to be made projects while simultaneously being open to any/all ideas that anyone suggests to me. I would also agree script and write full-fledged descriptions for all/most events if someone would agree to translate it into a Darkest Hour format. Here are some mod ideas of mine if anyone's interested:
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?772055-Turtledove-Southern-Victory-Series: The Southern Victory Mod based off the alternate history series by Harry Turtledove. In this timeline, the Confederacy, as indicated in the title, delivers a crushing blow to the Union in 1862, thus formally ending the American Civil War only a year after its commencement. Unlike the Bonaparte Mod, which also includes a Confederacy that successfully won its independence, the main discrepancy between the two universes is that the United States and the CSA have a much more volatile and hostile relationship with each other, even having resorted to war with each other once again in the early 1880s over Mexican territory (much to the United States' dismay). The largely cool animosity following the so-called Second Mexican War between the two nations abruptly becomes hot once again when the United States aligns itself with the German Empire and the Central Powers in WWI against the Entente, who have supported the CSA in its endeavors since independence to keep the United States in check. After much struggle and turmoil, the United States manages to soundly defeat the CSA after several years of European-esque trench warfare, occupying the entirety of the British controlled Dominion of Canada in the process and imposing heavy reparations upon the battered and war-torn CSA (sound familiar?) Simultaneously in Europe, the German Empire, much like its American ally across the pond, has also carved out a great empire on its own continent, establishing various puppet regimes in Eastern Europe to act as a counterweight to future Russian aggression as well as incorporating the entirety of the Belgian political apparatus into its own Reich. The CSA in this timeline acts as an analogue to the post-WWI Germany of OTL, with the anger and revanchist sentiments of the post-war Confederate populace ultimately giving rise to the fascist Freedom Party under the fictional demagogue Jake Featherston. Meanwhile, in post-war France and Britain, fascist political factions have also become prominent in both nations' politics, with the far-right wing Action Francaise Party having successfully restored the Orleanist monarchy and Britain's Conservative Party having formed a coalition with Oswald Mosley's Union of Fascists (similar to the original coalition between the German reactionary DNVP Party and the Nazis early in 1933 that helped propel Hitler to power). As the Entente slowly but surely emerges from its ashes under fascist guidance, a hyper-aggressive Japanese Empire meanwhile makes trouble for the United States in the Pacific, provoking a war with the giant in the early 1930s that, despite ending in a stalemate (due to disinterest from both sides), nevertheless helps to oust President Hoover from power (who, in contrast to our timeline, takes over as President following the premature demise of President-elect Calvin Coolidge). The subsequent American government, under the democratic Socialist Party's guidance (who have taken over the Republican Party's role in the bi-partisan political system following its "permanent" deposition from federal power in the 1880s), spends the duration of the 1930s attempting to play friendly with Featherstone's domain, to the extent of permitting referendums on country allegiance to take place in territories ceded by the Confederacy following the First World War.
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?772787-Kaiserreich-Interwar-Period-Mod This mod, should it come to fruition, would take place from May of 1919 (shortly after the French capitulation to Germany) and "end" in 1936 (though the mod would act more or less as an extension of the Kaiserreich mod). I was hoping that this mod would become like the "AAR mod" of the Kaiserreich universe, with Germany's ambitions in Asia and the rest of the world actually shown to the player rather than merely mentioned. In addition, I was also hoping to represent the "what ifs?" pertaining to the universe's interwar political situations, like if the French Fourth Republic managed to defeat the Communards in their Civil War or if the Chinese Republicans managed to successfully oust the pro-Qing German expedition from their soil (perhaps entailing in the process a full-fledged Japanese intervention). Darkest Hour modder Nicholander and I are currently working on a "French Civil War" scenario at the moment, which will hopefully be completed soon once the technical bugs of the operation are fixed. It's the most "developed" mod on this list so far.
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?773285-Years-of-Rice-and-Salt-Mod Another mod idea based upon an alternate history novel. In this timeline, based on the book The Years of Rice and Salt by author Kim Stanley Robinson, the Black Death epidemic wipes out 99% of Europe rather than OTL's 1/3rd, resulting in a world dominated by Islamic and East Asian powers. I was genuinely surprised that no one prior to me thought of this, considering the fact that there are a substantial number of mod suggestions on this site, ranging from "hypothetical" American invasions of Canada in the 1930s to worlds that don't even adhere to the same logic/physics as our own. This mod, I was hoping, would start in 1915 AD, around the time of the Great "Long War" of the novel, in which Islamic and Chinese/East Asian troops fight each other for literally decades until (*spoiler) the Chinese forces manage to win. Because no one really wants to play a country engaged in a seemingly perpetual war that literally spans the entirety of the 1914-1963 time frame, I was thinking I might make "artistic liberties" with the timeline, with Islam-dominated Europe being portrayed as a patchwork of various sultanates, khanates, emirates, and Islamic republics that, despite being all Muslim, still more or less despise each other due to different monarchical allegiances and some ethnic variations. Meanwhile, in China-dominated Asia, a similar situation also surfaces, with nominal Chinese "vassal states" such as the Autonomous Kingdom of Riben (Japan) and Ryukyu Principality (Okinawa) attempting to break free from their imperial Chinese suzerains.
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?772055-Turtledove-Southern-Victory-Series: The Southern Victory Mod based off the alternate history series by Harry Turtledove. In this timeline, the Confederacy, as indicated in the title, delivers a crushing blow to the Union in 1862, thus formally ending the American Civil War only a year after its commencement. Unlike the Bonaparte Mod, which also includes a Confederacy that successfully won its independence, the main discrepancy between the two universes is that the United States and the CSA have a much more volatile and hostile relationship with each other, even having resorted to war with each other once again in the early 1880s over Mexican territory (much to the United States' dismay). The largely cool animosity following the so-called Second Mexican War between the two nations abruptly becomes hot once again when the United States aligns itself with the German Empire and the Central Powers in WWI against the Entente, who have supported the CSA in its endeavors since independence to keep the United States in check. After much struggle and turmoil, the United States manages to soundly defeat the CSA after several years of European-esque trench warfare, occupying the entirety of the British controlled Dominion of Canada in the process and imposing heavy reparations upon the battered and war-torn CSA (sound familiar?) Simultaneously in Europe, the German Empire, much like its American ally across the pond, has also carved out a great empire on its own continent, establishing various puppet regimes in Eastern Europe to act as a counterweight to future Russian aggression as well as incorporating the entirety of the Belgian political apparatus into its own Reich. The CSA in this timeline acts as an analogue to the post-WWI Germany of OTL, with the anger and revanchist sentiments of the post-war Confederate populace ultimately giving rise to the fascist Freedom Party under the fictional demagogue Jake Featherston. Meanwhile, in post-war France and Britain, fascist political factions have also become prominent in both nations' politics, with the far-right wing Action Francaise Party having successfully restored the Orleanist monarchy and Britain's Conservative Party having formed a coalition with Oswald Mosley's Union of Fascists (similar to the original coalition between the German reactionary DNVP Party and the Nazis early in 1933 that helped propel Hitler to power). As the Entente slowly but surely emerges from its ashes under fascist guidance, a hyper-aggressive Japanese Empire meanwhile makes trouble for the United States in the Pacific, provoking a war with the giant in the early 1930s that, despite ending in a stalemate (due to disinterest from both sides), nevertheless helps to oust President Hoover from power (who, in contrast to our timeline, takes over as President following the premature demise of President-elect Calvin Coolidge). The subsequent American government, under the democratic Socialist Party's guidance (who have taken over the Republican Party's role in the bi-partisan political system following its "permanent" deposition from federal power in the 1880s), spends the duration of the 1930s attempting to play friendly with Featherstone's domain, to the extent of permitting referendums on country allegiance to take place in territories ceded by the Confederacy following the First World War.
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?772787-Kaiserreich-Interwar-Period-Mod This mod, should it come to fruition, would take place from May of 1919 (shortly after the French capitulation to Germany) and "end" in 1936 (though the mod would act more or less as an extension of the Kaiserreich mod). I was hoping that this mod would become like the "AAR mod" of the Kaiserreich universe, with Germany's ambitions in Asia and the rest of the world actually shown to the player rather than merely mentioned. In addition, I was also hoping to represent the "what ifs?" pertaining to the universe's interwar political situations, like if the French Fourth Republic managed to defeat the Communards in their Civil War or if the Chinese Republicans managed to successfully oust the pro-Qing German expedition from their soil (perhaps entailing in the process a full-fledged Japanese intervention). Darkest Hour modder Nicholander and I are currently working on a "French Civil War" scenario at the moment, which will hopefully be completed soon once the technical bugs of the operation are fixed. It's the most "developed" mod on this list so far.
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?773285-Years-of-Rice-and-Salt-Mod Another mod idea based upon an alternate history novel. In this timeline, based on the book The Years of Rice and Salt by author Kim Stanley Robinson, the Black Death epidemic wipes out 99% of Europe rather than OTL's 1/3rd, resulting in a world dominated by Islamic and East Asian powers. I was genuinely surprised that no one prior to me thought of this, considering the fact that there are a substantial number of mod suggestions on this site, ranging from "hypothetical" American invasions of Canada in the 1930s to worlds that don't even adhere to the same logic/physics as our own. This mod, I was hoping, would start in 1915 AD, around the time of the Great "Long War" of the novel, in which Islamic and Chinese/East Asian troops fight each other for literally decades until (*spoiler) the Chinese forces manage to win. Because no one really wants to play a country engaged in a seemingly perpetual war that literally spans the entirety of the 1914-1963 time frame, I was thinking I might make "artistic liberties" with the timeline, with Islam-dominated Europe being portrayed as a patchwork of various sultanates, khanates, emirates, and Islamic republics that, despite being all Muslim, still more or less despise each other due to different monarchical allegiances and some ethnic variations. Meanwhile, in China-dominated Asia, a similar situation also surfaces, with nominal Chinese "vassal states" such as the Autonomous Kingdom of Riben (Japan) and Ryukyu Principality (Okinawa) attempting to break free from their imperial Chinese suzerains.
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