HOLY CRAP RUSSIA IS BIG! You should set up a dogpile: Vikings from the north, mongoial attacks on Siberia, and you attack from a beachhead when germany or france inveitably revolt. England might help too, though the AI is tupid about landing troops.
The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave [America RFC]
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Crimson Phantom
Chieftain
EDIT: Double Post
Crimson Phantom
Chieftain
PART 7
The USCA put up quite a fight for such a tiny nation. They were aided greatly by the rugged terrain of central America which made it hard to move re-enforcements in. But nothing could stand in the way of the American war machine, and the USCA fell, but not before General McCormack had liquidated 90% of his own government and officers.
By 1945, a series of long overdue reforms were enacted the civil rights bill and the end of segregation. At the same time, Mexico was admitted to the union as several states, and it appeared as though the former-USCA territories might be as well not out of imperialist mentality, but out of necessity. An independent central America would not be able to ward off Spain alone, and the importance of Bluefields and the strategic Panama Canal could not be sacrificed.
This great unheaval created disharmony in the short term, but it also ushered in a new golden age for America. In 1946, President of Congress Thomas E. Dewey of the Republican Party (the re-branded Whigs) opened the Olympic Games in Austin, Texas, showing to the world that America was a new country, finally at peace and ready to embrace the world.
The Soviet Union sent atheletes to this spectacular event, but a minor diplomatic situation arose when, after the games were over, several atheletes from the Soviet Union and its European sattelite states defected.
In addition to internal reforms, external reforms began under the Dewey administration: special trade agreements were signed with India, allowing for fewer tariffs on goods, as well as special immigration laws that favoured Indian immigrants over others. Although there was some opposition to these by southern Democrats, there was in all reality little place else for immigrants to come from. Both Soviet dominated Europe and Red China had "zero exit" laws in place, and Spain, Scandanavia, Britain and Japan all had nations livable enough that few were willing to immigrate. Within the first 5 years of the Indian Immigration Bill passing in Congress, 75% of all immigrants to America were from India.
In 1947 Soviet and Paris Pact forces crossed the Pyrenees and marched on Madrid. In order to counter the threat of international Bolshevism, Congress authorised the creation of a special intelligence agency called...the Special Intelligence Agency. The first mission of this spy organisation was to give as much aid as possible to the Kingdom of Spain. This included weapons, ammunition, medical supplies and military advisors. While no friend of Spain, the United States could not tolerate the possibility of a communist spain.
Meanwhile, American military commanders began drawing up plans with the leadership of the South American dominions about how to prosecute the war if Spain were to come under occupation.
The British government had become somewhat isolationist since the loss of Mexico, and the only military preparations they were willing to take were to fortify their island and introduce conscription for territorial defence only.
In cultural terms, however, Britain was certainly speaking to America. Over the radio were broadcast previously unheard-of musical styles from Britain a fusion of pre-Raleighian Mexican music and British jazz. This unique musical style would come to be known as "Rock and Bop", and by 1948 the "British Invasion" was well underway as record stores in America began stocking little else by "R&B".
Cricket and football also gained increasing popularity in the U.S. - not to the extent that they replaced baseball and hockey, but they became serious contenders.
---
The war expanded quickly. Soviet forces invaded the PRC and sponsored a coup in Scandanavia that led to the ouster of the king and the imposition of a Soviet puppet government. The Netherlands was invaded and capitulated within eight hours. It was officially this violation of Dutch neutrality that prompted the United Kingdom to declare war on the Soviet Union.
Congress was not yet prepared to commit American troops to such an enormous conflict, and so one million soldiers sat on their hands in America while the conquest of Europe continued unabated. Congress did, however, permit the creation of volunteer brigades who were granted special permission to serve with foreign militaries against the Soviet aggressors. Over 150 000 Americans served in Spain with the volunteer brigades.
The Soviets lost over a million men in their offensive against Spain and had nothing to show for it. It was after the failed invasion, when the entirety of the invading armies had been encircled and destroyed by Spanish, British and American volunteer forces that Josef Stalin died in Moscow of natural causes, October 24th, 1950
In the wake of the dictator's death, dozens of generals and party leaders attempted to assert control and the entire Soviet system broke down violently. The French Government-in-Exile was welcomed into Paris by the French Politburo and the Republic re-established. The Dutch welcomed British paratroopers into Amsterdam as the populace hanged communist collaborators. The leaders of the German Democratic Republic resigned in the face of mass demonstrations soldiers and police had refused to fire on the crowds and had joined them in their march towards the Volkstag building. All across occupied Europe the chains of oppression were broken as the people who had lived for years under occupation had their freedom returned to them.
Their freedom was not won by the British or the Spanish or the Americans, they had claimed it for themselves in the face of insurmountable odds.
In Scandanavia, only a few years into their Soviet-backed coup, the communist generals were unwilling to give up their power and their domination of their people.
Gustav Hjolfson, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Scandanavia, gave a speech before the cameras of the communist press, vowing "no surrender, no defeat". While the American foreign minister attempted to broker peace between as many of the Soviet "claimants to the throne" as possible and the Western powers, Congress made the decision to enter the war and officially commit troops to Scandanavia.
Riding on the wave of popular revolts in Europe, a cabal of young officers in Turkey,a member of the United Islamic Republics, seized control of the government there and established themselves as a group trying to achieve a secular and democratic Turkey. They recieved SIA funding and eventually a written guarantee of American support for their independence.
The post-Soviet world, where all the peoples of Europe can freely excercise their right to self-determination.
(I created France, Germany, the Netherlands and Rome in Worldbuilder - I couldn't have Britain or Spain [or Turkey] just invading this new free Europe. I also created a number of new independent cites in South Africa and Rhodesia to represent the expansion of the colonial state there - why would they stay in the Kalahari desert when the riches of the cape were unexploited? I wish it were possible for me to go and easily edit in a new civilisation with no stability issues due to land to represent South Africa).
Oh, and there has been a revolt in Arab Jerusalem - I can only assume this is a bid for an independant Jewish state.
I really, really wish I could add more civs in RFC - REV DCM can handle 50 just fine.
The USCA put up quite a fight for such a tiny nation. They were aided greatly by the rugged terrain of central America which made it hard to move re-enforcements in. But nothing could stand in the way of the American war machine, and the USCA fell, but not before General McCormack had liquidated 90% of his own government and officers.
By 1945, a series of long overdue reforms were enacted the civil rights bill and the end of segregation. At the same time, Mexico was admitted to the union as several states, and it appeared as though the former-USCA territories might be as well not out of imperialist mentality, but out of necessity. An independent central America would not be able to ward off Spain alone, and the importance of Bluefields and the strategic Panama Canal could not be sacrificed.
This great unheaval created disharmony in the short term, but it also ushered in a new golden age for America. In 1946, President of Congress Thomas E. Dewey of the Republican Party (the re-branded Whigs) opened the Olympic Games in Austin, Texas, showing to the world that America was a new country, finally at peace and ready to embrace the world.
The Soviet Union sent atheletes to this spectacular event, but a minor diplomatic situation arose when, after the games were over, several atheletes from the Soviet Union and its European sattelite states defected.
In addition to internal reforms, external reforms began under the Dewey administration: special trade agreements were signed with India, allowing for fewer tariffs on goods, as well as special immigration laws that favoured Indian immigrants over others. Although there was some opposition to these by southern Democrats, there was in all reality little place else for immigrants to come from. Both Soviet dominated Europe and Red China had "zero exit" laws in place, and Spain, Scandanavia, Britain and Japan all had nations livable enough that few were willing to immigrate. Within the first 5 years of the Indian Immigration Bill passing in Congress, 75% of all immigrants to America were from India.
In 1947 Soviet and Paris Pact forces crossed the Pyrenees and marched on Madrid. In order to counter the threat of international Bolshevism, Congress authorised the creation of a special intelligence agency called...the Special Intelligence Agency. The first mission of this spy organisation was to give as much aid as possible to the Kingdom of Spain. This included weapons, ammunition, medical supplies and military advisors. While no friend of Spain, the United States could not tolerate the possibility of a communist spain.
Meanwhile, American military commanders began drawing up plans with the leadership of the South American dominions about how to prosecute the war if Spain were to come under occupation.
The British government had become somewhat isolationist since the loss of Mexico, and the only military preparations they were willing to take were to fortify their island and introduce conscription for territorial defence only.
In cultural terms, however, Britain was certainly speaking to America. Over the radio were broadcast previously unheard-of musical styles from Britain a fusion of pre-Raleighian Mexican music and British jazz. This unique musical style would come to be known as "Rock and Bop", and by 1948 the "British Invasion" was well underway as record stores in America began stocking little else by "R&B".
Cricket and football also gained increasing popularity in the U.S. - not to the extent that they replaced baseball and hockey, but they became serious contenders.
---
The war expanded quickly. Soviet forces invaded the PRC and sponsored a coup in Scandanavia that led to the ouster of the king and the imposition of a Soviet puppet government. The Netherlands was invaded and capitulated within eight hours. It was officially this violation of Dutch neutrality that prompted the United Kingdom to declare war on the Soviet Union.
Congress was not yet prepared to commit American troops to such an enormous conflict, and so one million soldiers sat on their hands in America while the conquest of Europe continued unabated. Congress did, however, permit the creation of volunteer brigades who were granted special permission to serve with foreign militaries against the Soviet aggressors. Over 150 000 Americans served in Spain with the volunteer brigades.
The Soviets lost over a million men in their offensive against Spain and had nothing to show for it. It was after the failed invasion, when the entirety of the invading armies had been encircled and destroyed by Spanish, British and American volunteer forces that Josef Stalin died in Moscow of natural causes, October 24th, 1950
In the wake of the dictator's death, dozens of generals and party leaders attempted to assert control and the entire Soviet system broke down violently. The French Government-in-Exile was welcomed into Paris by the French Politburo and the Republic re-established. The Dutch welcomed British paratroopers into Amsterdam as the populace hanged communist collaborators. The leaders of the German Democratic Republic resigned in the face of mass demonstrations soldiers and police had refused to fire on the crowds and had joined them in their march towards the Volkstag building. All across occupied Europe the chains of oppression were broken as the people who had lived for years under occupation had their freedom returned to them.
Their freedom was not won by the British or the Spanish or the Americans, they had claimed it for themselves in the face of insurmountable odds.
In Scandanavia, only a few years into their Soviet-backed coup, the communist generals were unwilling to give up their power and their domination of their people.
Gustav Hjolfson, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Scandanavia, gave a speech before the cameras of the communist press, vowing "no surrender, no defeat". While the American foreign minister attempted to broker peace between as many of the Soviet "claimants to the throne" as possible and the Western powers, Congress made the decision to enter the war and officially commit troops to Scandanavia.
Riding on the wave of popular revolts in Europe, a cabal of young officers in Turkey,a member of the United Islamic Republics, seized control of the government there and established themselves as a group trying to achieve a secular and democratic Turkey. They recieved SIA funding and eventually a written guarantee of American support for their independence.
The post-Soviet world, where all the peoples of Europe can freely excercise their right to self-determination.
(I created France, Germany, the Netherlands and Rome in Worldbuilder - I couldn't have Britain or Spain [or Turkey] just invading this new free Europe. I also created a number of new independent cites in South Africa and Rhodesia to represent the expansion of the colonial state there - why would they stay in the Kalahari desert when the riches of the cape were unexploited? I wish it were possible for me to go and easily edit in a new civilisation with no stability issues due to land to represent South Africa).
Oh, and there has been a revolt in Arab Jerusalem - I can only assume this is a bid for an independant Jewish state.
I really, really wish I could add more civs in RFC - REV DCM can handle 50 just fine.
BurnEmDown
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I really like this story, how you write it so historical-like, very convincing that these events could have actually happened. I also like how you post many pictures, really puts the reader in "the mood" of the story, especially these maps of the world where I can see the current state of the world, I like to stay updated.
Oh and BTW you could have invaded Europe and then give independence to these cities (which gives them a good chance to respawn if they belong to a certain civ).
Oh and BTW you could have invaded Europe and then give independence to these cities (which gives them a good chance to respawn if they belong to a certain civ).
Woah, this story is becomig very involving. Good job.
Could I see some screenies of Soviet Europe? I wanna see the RUssian pwnage. Oh, and was the massive loss of life lead from unstable to collapsing?
Who is the pink/purple in Turkey?
Could I see some screenies of Soviet Europe? I wanna see the RUssian pwnage. Oh, and was the massive loss of life lead from unstable to collapsing?
Who is the pink/purple in Turkey?
mechaerik
Tuturuu!
I'm going to assume the pink/purple in Turkey is Turkey.
Either way, this story is excellent.
Either way, this story is excellent.
Crimson Phantom
Chieftain
I'm afraid I didn't take any, but it was as large as I indicated on the map I filled in - they controlled every city from Bordeux, with full cultural borders straight through to their pacific bases. They were hopelessly technologically backwards, though: I don't think they had Infantry unites yet, just stacks of Cossacks - "Cosstacks", if you will.
The punk/purple in Turkey would be Turkey - they were the ones who appeared as Russia collapsed, I mention them at the end of the last post.
Another part coming today, maybe tomorrow, I have to study for exams.
Yared
That Guy
You spread Dutch/German/French culture with the Worldbuilder?
I guess it simulates some sort of Versailles-like redrawing of borders, even though RFC doesn't do that.
Crimson Phantom
Chieftain
PART 8 - FINALE
PART 8
India fell out Maoist China's sphere of influence, joining with America as a free and democratic nation allied against tyranny.
Meanwhile, in Europe, the Scandanavians were anticipating an invasion on the coast of Norway and so sent the bulk of their formidable forces there. The 101st Airborne, however, had other ideas. They dropped into the south of Sweden to commence the liberation of Scandanavia from communist oppression.
America's navy was modernising, and the United States became the second nation to have an aircraft carrier (after Great Britain). The United States also launched their first submarines in 1951.
Spain's involvement in the war was largely over, as they were more focused on rebuilding than waging war in the frozen north of Europe. A crisis emerged as within one week of each other the Autonomous Region of the Azores and the Peruvian Autonomous Territories freely elected pro-Chinese Maoists to power in their respective parliaments. Spain accepted the democratic will of the peoples of these lands, and both areas were granted full independence despite American protests that democracy would quickly come to an end once the communists entrenched themselves.
The 101st Airborne, 74th Airborne and the 1st Ontario Light Infantry paratrooper divisions successfully neutralised southern Sweden, destroying on the ground many Scandanavian factories while the 1st Strategic Bomber Group annihilated the rest.
General Eisenhower landed his army west of Oslo on August 8th, 1951 under heavy air support. The Scandanavian airforce was old and outdated, and half of it was shot out of the sky during the Kristiansand landings.
The Americans fought hard during the landing and repelled communist attempts to push them to the sea. Although they achieved their objectives, Eisenhower felt that there were not enough re-enforcements to successfully hold the ground taken and he ordered a withdrawl.
Meanwhile, in Africa, the recently reestablished Dutch government wasted no time trying to assert its independence from American hegemony, supporting UNITA rebels in Namibia against the abtrennung government of South Africa. While the American government made it clear that it wholly condemned the abtrennung regime it urged the Netherlands to focus on defeating the evil closer to its doorstep in Scandanavia.
In the Middle East, Spain officially recognised the independent Jewish state of Israel, which had declared its independence not long after Turkey. They had fought hard for their independence and were capable of surviving the Arab juggernaut on their own, but welcomed Western support.
---
The communist government's grip on power was loosening as they suffered heavy casualties from Allied bombing campaigns America and its allies were killing the enemy faster than new troops could be recruited. Scandanavia was never the most populous area, and the war was quickly depleting their nations of young, able-bodied men. The Finns could no longer take this, and they began a guerrilla campaign against the communists with Allied assistance.
Back in America, the film industry began making big-budget productions portraying "our boys" "over there" fighting the evils of communism.
The United States, along with Spain, it's dominions, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Guinea, India, Turkey, France, Germany, and the other free nations of Europe entered into an official global alliance, known as the United Nations.
---
On September 16th, 1951, Eisenhower opted for a less dangerous landing zone, and and landed several hundred thousand American soldiers in the south of Sweden, avoiding Noway's trecherous and well-defended coastline.
The British conducted simultaneous landings near Trondheim, forced to shoot waves of teenagers and old men conscripted by the communists at gunpoint and forced down to fight in the fjords armed with pitchforks and scythes. As the British neared the city proper, most of the communist leadership committed suicide the few that didn't would later be hanged at the Oslo War Crimes Tribunal.
October 3rd, 1951 signalled the end of the Second World War. The people of Europe, who had lived through first Nazism and then Soviet tyranny, were finally at peace.
---
Epilogue
General Eisenhower would enter politics after the war and become President of the United States.
America exploded its first atomic bomb in 1952, too late to be used in the war, but its power was such that it guarenteed American hegemony for years to come. Nation after nation joined the United Nations- few rogue states remained as the world became mono-polar. Japan and the Republic of China and its southeast Asian allies eventually democratised under Western pressure. The People's Republic of China, whom many thought would replace the Soviet Union as greatest threat to world peace, entered a period of detente during the Nixon administration, and eventually came to be America's greatest trading partner after China's economic liberalisation in the late twentieth century.
Israel would fight several skirmishes with its neighbours, but American, Spanish and British support guarenteed their victory in every struggle, and the arab nations eventually acknowledged Israel's right to exist after the threat of nuclear annihilation was put on the table.
Russia eventually became a functional democracy and, like Germany, acknowledged their past and moved forward as a modern democratic, capitalist nation.
United Nations sanctions and covert funding of liberation movements by the U.S. and its allies would eventually force South Africa to abandon abtrennung and institute majority rule.
With the United States at the helm, the world entered a golden age of prosperity, freedom, and justice.
THE END
PART 8
India fell out Maoist China's sphere of influence, joining with America as a free and democratic nation allied against tyranny.
Meanwhile, in Europe, the Scandanavians were anticipating an invasion on the coast of Norway and so sent the bulk of their formidable forces there. The 101st Airborne, however, had other ideas. They dropped into the south of Sweden to commence the liberation of Scandanavia from communist oppression.
America's navy was modernising, and the United States became the second nation to have an aircraft carrier (after Great Britain). The United States also launched their first submarines in 1951.
Spain's involvement in the war was largely over, as they were more focused on rebuilding than waging war in the frozen north of Europe. A crisis emerged as within one week of each other the Autonomous Region of the Azores and the Peruvian Autonomous Territories freely elected pro-Chinese Maoists to power in their respective parliaments. Spain accepted the democratic will of the peoples of these lands, and both areas were granted full independence despite American protests that democracy would quickly come to an end once the communists entrenched themselves.
The 101st Airborne, 74th Airborne and the 1st Ontario Light Infantry paratrooper divisions successfully neutralised southern Sweden, destroying on the ground many Scandanavian factories while the 1st Strategic Bomber Group annihilated the rest.
General Eisenhower landed his army west of Oslo on August 8th, 1951 under heavy air support. The Scandanavian airforce was old and outdated, and half of it was shot out of the sky during the Kristiansand landings.
The Americans fought hard during the landing and repelled communist attempts to push them to the sea. Although they achieved their objectives, Eisenhower felt that there were not enough re-enforcements to successfully hold the ground taken and he ordered a withdrawl.
Meanwhile, in Africa, the recently reestablished Dutch government wasted no time trying to assert its independence from American hegemony, supporting UNITA rebels in Namibia against the abtrennung government of South Africa. While the American government made it clear that it wholly condemned the abtrennung regime it urged the Netherlands to focus on defeating the evil closer to its doorstep in Scandanavia.
In the Middle East, Spain officially recognised the independent Jewish state of Israel, which had declared its independence not long after Turkey. They had fought hard for their independence and were capable of surviving the Arab juggernaut on their own, but welcomed Western support.
---
The communist government's grip on power was loosening as they suffered heavy casualties from Allied bombing campaigns America and its allies were killing the enemy faster than new troops could be recruited. Scandanavia was never the most populous area, and the war was quickly depleting their nations of young, able-bodied men. The Finns could no longer take this, and they began a guerrilla campaign against the communists with Allied assistance.
Back in America, the film industry began making big-budget productions portraying "our boys" "over there" fighting the evils of communism.
The United States, along with Spain, it's dominions, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Guinea, India, Turkey, France, Germany, and the other free nations of Europe entered into an official global alliance, known as the United Nations.
---
On September 16th, 1951, Eisenhower opted for a less dangerous landing zone, and and landed several hundred thousand American soldiers in the south of Sweden, avoiding Noway's trecherous and well-defended coastline.
The British conducted simultaneous landings near Trondheim, forced to shoot waves of teenagers and old men conscripted by the communists at gunpoint and forced down to fight in the fjords armed with pitchforks and scythes. As the British neared the city proper, most of the communist leadership committed suicide the few that didn't would later be hanged at the Oslo War Crimes Tribunal.
October 3rd, 1951 signalled the end of the Second World War. The people of Europe, who had lived through first Nazism and then Soviet tyranny, were finally at peace.
---
Epilogue
General Eisenhower would enter politics after the war and become President of the United States.
America exploded its first atomic bomb in 1952, too late to be used in the war, but its power was such that it guarenteed American hegemony for years to come. Nation after nation joined the United Nations- few rogue states remained as the world became mono-polar. Japan and the Republic of China and its southeast Asian allies eventually democratised under Western pressure. The People's Republic of China, whom many thought would replace the Soviet Union as greatest threat to world peace, entered a period of detente during the Nixon administration, and eventually came to be America's greatest trading partner after China's economic liberalisation in the late twentieth century.
Israel would fight several skirmishes with its neighbours, but American, Spanish and British support guarenteed their victory in every struggle, and the arab nations eventually acknowledged Israel's right to exist after the threat of nuclear annihilation was put on the table.
Russia eventually became a functional democracy and, like Germany, acknowledged their past and moved forward as a modern democratic, capitalist nation.
United Nations sanctions and covert funding of liberation movements by the U.S. and its allies would eventually force South Africa to abandon abtrennung and institute majority rule.
With the United States at the helm, the world entered a golden age of prosperity, freedom, and justice.
THE END
Yared
That Guy
Nice. What are the conditions for historical win for America?
BurnEmDown
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The UHV's are:
1. Ensure no European colonies in America in 1930.
2. Build the Statue of Liberty, the Pentagon, and the United Nations.
3. Control 10 oil resources in 2000.
I don't think he won the UHV, just decided that no more communists = victory, or was it a diplomatic victory?
1. Ensure no European colonies in America in 1930.
2. Build the Statue of Liberty, the Pentagon, and the United Nations.
3. Control 10 oil resources in 2000.
I don't think he won the UHV, just decided that no more communists = victory, or was it a diplomatic victory?
Yared
That Guy
Ahh 
Yared
That Guy
America #1 #31
Crimson Phantom
Chieftain
No UHV, I just decided that winning World War II and having basically the entire world allied with me should count as "the end of history".
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