TIOT I: Wreckage at Washington

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Alternate history or alternative history[1] is a genre of fiction consisting of stories that are set in worlds in which history has diverged from the actual history of the world. It can be variously seen as a sub-genre of literary fiction, science fiction, and historical fiction; different alternate history works may use tropes from any or all of these genres. It is sometimes abbreviated AH.[2] Another occasionally used term for the genre is "allohistory" (literally "other history").[3]

Since the 1950s, this type of fiction has to a large extent merged with science fictional tropes involving cross-time travel between alternate histories or psychic awareness of the existence of "our" universe by the people in another; or ordinary voyaging uptime (into the past) or downtime (into the future) that results in history splitting into two or more time-lines. Cross-time, time-splitting and alternate history themes have become so closely interwoven that it is impossible to discuss them fully apart from one another. "Alternate History" looks at "what if" scenarios from some of history's most pivotal turning points and presents a completely different version, sometimes based on science and fact, but often based on conjecture. The exploration of how the world would look today if various changes occurred and what these alternate worlds would be like forms the basis of this vast subject matter.

A number of alternate history stories and novels appeared in the late 19th and early 20th centuries (see, for example, Carles Petrie’s If: A Jacobite Fantasy)[4] In 1910 an author from the United States of America collected a series of essays from some of the leading historians of the period in the anthology If It Had Happened Otherwise. In this work, scholars from major universities as well as important non-university-based authors turned their attention to such questions as "If the Union Had Won" and "If Louis XVI Had Had an Atom of Firmness". The development of the genre was delayed by the fact that this work did not make it out of the Union until 1914 when a copy was brought back to the Confederate States of America by a smuggler. . .

Basic Rules:
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If you spam, troll, etc. then you get penalized.
If you break the forum rules you get penalized.
If you powergame then you're doing it wrong.
If you pretend to powergame then something is wrong.

If you roleplay like a pro then you get bonuses.
If you don't work as a team then you are probably going to die.



How To Get CP
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There are three types of territories: regular, colonial, and tiny islands. They give you the following CP-
Regular Territories: 2 CP each
Colonial Territories: 1 CP for every two
Tiny Islands: 1 CP for every five


There is no claiming.



Using Your CP
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War
This is an unstable world, so war is always on the horizon.

Battle Formulas
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[(Unit Strength)*(Amount of Unit)]*(Random # From 1 to 5)=Number
^
Repeated for every type of unit in the battle

I do that for both sides, and the one with the higher number wins the battle.

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To determine how many troops were lost on each side, I use this formula

(# Of Troop Type)+(Random Number Between -[Number of Troops] and 0)=Number of Troops Left


Units

You can build each unit for the listed price, limited by the total number of territories you have. The higher cost, the higher strength. When you go to war you can make a war plan detailing what you want your armis to do... Will you opt for a slow and steady approach or will you strike a blow deep into enemy territory? Anything goes!

(Name/Strength/Cost)

You need to have a large and capable land force to defeat your foes.
There are 4 kinds of Land units that you can build:
Infantry/1/1CP
Cavalry/2/2CP
Artillery/3/CP
Tank/4/CP

You can build Ships!
They come in 4 catagories:
Patrol Boat/1/1CP
Crusier/2/2CP
Destroyer/3/4CP
Battleship/4/6CP

It is reccomended that you name yous ships and keep track of them somewhere, if only for Roleplay and organizational purposes.

A fleet is a collection of ships grouped for some puropse, wether it be patrol or invasion. A ship does not have to be in a fleet, but it is reccomended for power purposes.

Fleets can be used for 2 missions:
Patrol: They patrol your borders and protect from nInvasion Fleets.
Invasion Fleets: Required to escort troops across seas. For every 1 Battleship and Destroyer/Cruiser you send you may send 6 armies as well.

So for example, I could send 1 Battleship and 1 Cruiser, or 1 Battleship and 1 Destroyer, and that would let me send a total of 6 troops (3 per ship).

Patrol Boats can accompany fleets and take part in defense of the fleets.

Invest In Economy
You may invest up to 200 CP into your economy a turn. This increases the production of your economy by a related percentage (200CP/20%, 100CP/10%, etc). This only affects your base economy.

Integrating Colonies
You can only integrate 1 colonial territory a turn. It costs 10 CP. The colonial territory being integrated doesn't do anything for that turn and is "in transition" until the next turn.


Diplomacy
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You can get into alliances to fight each other and NPCs.
You can bribe NPCs with CP to make them do things such as attack your enemies.
You can do anything else you can think of as long as I don't veto it.


Infrastructure
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You can expend 5CP to build extra Infrastructure. Each infrastructure gives one extra CP per turn. You can only build one per turn for every 10 territories you control.


Events
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Both random and scripted events will happen.
Everything from an assassination to an earthquake in Sarajevo. Anything can happen.


When making decisions try to follow the basic persona that your nation has established. So no saying, "Oh, well the CSA and USA have decided to put aside old animosities to takeover Greece..."

I reserve the right to veto any decisions that I decide are too unrealistic.
 
This will be updated each update.

Map
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Nations
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NORTH AMERICA

USA-
Regular territories: 94
Colonial territories: 1
Tiny islands: 2

CSA-
Regular territories: 48
Colonial territories: 0
Tiny islands: 0

Mexico-
Regular territories: 59
Colonial territories: 0
Tiny islands: 0

Yucatan-
Regular territories: 2
Colonial territories: 0
Tiny islands: 1

Maya-
Regular territories: 4
Colonial territories: 0
Tiny islands: 0

Federal Republic of Central America-
Regular territories: 7
Colonial territories: 0
Tiny islands: 0

Haiti-
Regular territories: 1
Colonial territories: 0
Tiny islands: 1

Dominican Republic-
Regular territories: 1
Colonial territories: 0
Tiny islands: 0

Cuba-
Regular territories: 4
Colonial territories: 0
Tiny islands: 1

Puerto Rico-
Regular territories: 1
Colonial territories: 0
Tiny islands: 0

Alaska-
Regular territories: 21
Colonial territories: 0
Tiny islands: 40

SOUTH AMERICA

Gran Colombia-
Regular territories: 37
Colonial territories: 0
Tiny islands: 0

Brazil-
Regular territories: 41
Colonial territories: 0
Tiny islands: 2

Uruguay-
Regular territories: 2
Colonial territories: 0
Tiny islands: 0

Peru-
Regular territories: 5
Colonial territories: 0
Tiny islands: 0

Quechua-
Regular territories: 3
Colonial territories: 0
Tiny islands: 0

Aymara-
Regular territories: 3
Colonial territories: 0
Tiny islands: 0

Chile-
Regular territories: 11
Colonial territories: 0
Tiny islands: 34

Bolivia-
Regular territories: 3
Colonial territories: 0
Tiny islands: 0

Paraguay-
Regular territories: 2
Colonial territories: 0
Tiny islands: 0

Argentina-
Regular territories: 19
Colonial territories: 0
Tiny islands: 0

EUROPE

Germany-
Regular territories: 70
Colonial territories: 29
Tiny islands: 59

France-
Regular territories: 65
Colonial territories: 100
Tiny islands: 4

Spain-
Regular territories: 39
Colonial territories: 5
Tiny islands: 10

Portugal-
Regular territories: 7
Colonial territories: 18
Tiny islands: 22

Denmark-
Regular territories: 8
Colonial territories: 5
Tiny islands: 21

Austria-Hungary-
Regular territories: 90
Colonial territories: 0
Tiny islands: 1

Russia-
Regular territories: 239
Colonial territories: 108
Tiny islands: 7

Greece-
Regular territories: 20
Colonial territories: 0
Tiny islands: 20

British Empire-
Regular territories: 38
Colonial territories: 347
Tiny islands: 149

Italy-
Regular territories: 30
Colonial territories: 35
Tiny islands: 4

Switzerland-
Regular territories: 4
Colonial territories: 0
Tiny islands: 0

Luxembourg-
Regular territories: 1
Colonial territories: 0
Tiny islands: 0

Belgium-
Regular territories: 10
Colonial territories: 10
Tiny islands: 0

Netherlands-
Regular territories: 6
Colonial territories: 50
Tiny islands: 40

Bulgaria-
Regular territories: 10
Colonial territories: 0
Tiny islands: 0

Romania-
Regular territories: 13
Colonial territories: 0
Tiny islands: 0

Serbia-
Regular territories: 10
Colonial territories: 0
Tiny islands: 0

Montenegro-
Regular territories: 2
Colonial territories: 0
Tiny islands: 0

Albania-
Regular territories: 5
Colonial territories: 0
Tiny islands: 0

Norway-
Regular territories: 17
Colonial territories: 0
Tiny islands: 13

Sweden-
Regular territories: 17
Colonial territories: 0
Tiny islands: 2


ASIA*

Japan-
Regular territories: 42
Colonial territories: 4
Tiny islands: 32

Ottoman Empire-
Regular territories: 65
Colonial territories: 0
Tiny islands: 0

China-
Regular territories: 165
Colonial territories: 0
Tiny islands: 0

Philipines-
Regular territories: 18
Colonial Territories: 0
Tiny islands: 14

Siam-
Regular territories: 12
Colonial Territories: 0
Tiny islands: 3


AFRICA

Ethiopia-
Regular territories: 14
Colonial Territories: 0
Tiny islands: 0


AUSTRALIA

OTHER

Hawi'i-
Regular territories: 6
Colonial Territories: 0
Tiny islands: 1
 
The Alternate History of Wreckage At Washington

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-Everything goes wrong for the Union at Antietam, resulting in another humbling defeat for the North.
-Following his victory at Antietam, Lee marches south and takes Washington, forcing Lincoln to flee to New York.
-The fall of Washington is a critical blow to the morale of the Northerners, resulting in Britain and several of its allies recognizing the CSA as a sovereign nation.
-Stonewall Jackson and Lee launch a two-pronged invasion of the North. Jackson invades and retakes West Virginia, while Lee (using British supplies) crushes Union forces at Gettysburg.
-Following the decisive action at Gettysburg, European complaints convince Lincoln to make peace with the South. Washington and Maryland are returned to US control, but West Virginia is returned to the Confederacy. In return, the CSA gets Kentucky.
-As soon as it is obvious that the CSA will win the war France and Britain recognize it and force the USA to end the war. Prussia and Spain, however, refuse to acknowledge the CSA until Lincoln actually signs the peace treaty.
-The Indian Territory is admitted as a state to the CSA at the end of the war, Sequoyah.
-Mere days after the end of the American Civil War the Empire of Mexico invades the CSA and USA. The forces of the USA and the CSA are in no shape to fight off an invasion from fresh forces. The Reconquista manages to retake all the lands lost in the Mexican-American War, and then some.
-A rebellion in the former state of West Virginia finally manages to push out the last of the Confederate troops. The state is quickly readmitted to the Union.
-The CSA declares war on the USA due to the perceived annexation of their lands.
-The USA fights tooth and nail to keep the new state, and in the end the CSA is forced to conceede.
-Gran Colombia purchases Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana from their respective nations after regaining Venezuela and Ecuador.
-The CSA declares war on Spain when a navy ship is sunk near Cuba, but the USA sides with Spain looking for an opportunity to conquer the rebellious nation. In the end the war is fought to a stalemate on North America. Cuba and Puerto Rico are made independent democratic states, allied with the CSA. The Philippines are made an independent democratic state, allied with USA.
-Mexico announces alliance with CSA, prompting Yucatan secession. With the Mexican Army still occupied in the lands taken during the Reconquista the rebellion is successful.
-Emboldened by the Yucatan success the Maya people rise up in the province of Chiapas and the nation of Guatemala.
-Both revolts are successful and the Mayas unite, creating the Maya Republic.
-Emboldened by the Yucatan and Maya successes the Quechua and Aymara peoples rebel and form Republics.
-Mexico ends its alliance with the CSA.
-The Maya Republic invades Belize and takes it from Britain.
-Following the general trend in the Americas an alliance between El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica solidifies into a real political union. The 2nd Federal Republic of Central America was formed.


SitRep

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AMERICAS
In the USA government has become extremely centralized, with the states loosing almost all their rights. The nation is also very isolationist, and high tariffs and restricting regulations have made them a terrible trading partner. Mexico is considered one of the USA’s biggest enemies, second only to the CSA. Discrimination has been completely destroyed in the surviving parts of the USA, due in part to the fact that it is seen as something the CSA would do and therefore completely unacceptable.

In the CSA the exact opposite has happened. The central government has lost almost all power, and the only reason taxes are tolerated is because they are used to maintain the military. States have usurped almost all powers of government, and their militias have become small armies under the control of each state. The only thing keeping the CSA together is the threat that the USA and Mexico represent. While slavery no longer exists, something akin to the Jim Crow laws, but much worse, has taken its place. The CSA’s income comes almost entirely from the cotton trade. They have become indebted to the major industrial powers of Europe, and are as close to a vassal as is possible without actually becoming one. Mexico is considered one of the CSA’s biggest enemies, second only to the USA.

In the Empire of Mexico the territories gained by the Reconquista have become second-rate territories, and the people there harbor separatist hopes. Tough weapons and ammunition regulations have managed to crush any rebellion before it can start, however. While the Mexicans dislike the Mayans and the people of Yucatan for breaking away, they feel that the Reconquista has made up for it. Mexico has become on of the three major American powers, and is very imperialist.

In the Republic of Alaska trade with the motherland (Russia) is still the source of much of their income. They depend on Russia for almost everything. They bought their independence from Russia long ago in the 1860s, but have never truly left the Empire.

In Cuba a stable democracy has managed to form. However, Cuba is a satellite of the CSA to a large degree, and rarely does anything the CSA doen't approve of.

In the Dominican Republic short-lived governments are the norm, replacing the breif period of stability imposed by General Ulises Heureaux. The debt continues to grow, and some people are beggining to call for someone, anyone, to help.

In Haiti the series of coups that began after President Boyer was forced to leave office is continuing. National authority is disputed by factions of the army, the elite class, and the growing commercial class.

In the Republic of Puerto Rico the government has become quite stable. Puerto Rico has become very prosperous through trade, and unlike Cuba is actually quite independent of the CSA. Many people attribute this to the fact that Puerto Rico is small enough to escape the CSA's notice most of the time.

In the Republic of Yucatan democracy rules. With the increasing instability of Mexico during the early Reconquista, the Yucatecans broke away yet again, and began to form one of the most democratic governments in the world. While still in a perpetual conflict as a result of the Caste Wars, the Mayan revolution that spread from Chiapas into Guatemala and Belize has lowered the tensions of the small nation.

In the Maya Republic,in a continuation of the Caste Wars, the Mayan conflict in Chiapas spread out into Guatemala where the nation's Hispanic government was overthrown. With little opposing force from Britain, the nation then invaded Belize, and stands poised for war with the Republic of Yucatan.

In the Federal Republic of Central America centralization has led to a government like our USA. Like many countries in the Americas, Central America was pushed towards centralization by the bloody results of the American Civil war. The ongoing conflict in Guatemala left Costa Rica as the major leader of the close-knit nations, and soon a constitution was drafted, banding together the remaining nations of the 1st FRCA. While small, they remain one of the most stable governments in the Americas.

In Gran Colombia a balance has been achieved. While the breakup of Colombia began in the 1830s, conflicts with Peru and the Empire of Brazil reunified the nation, which, along with the consequences of the American Civil War, led to a much more centralized government. Already having outlawed slavery, it became a strong industrial and economic force, and, as one of the three major powers of the Americas, began to draw in smaller nations as allies. While one of the more advanced and stable governments internally, its political opposition to Brazil has caused many tensions on the continent.

In Peru the government is facing a civil war, brought on by their failure to stop the Quechua and Aymara.

In the Quechua Republic the jubilation from winning independence is finally starting to subside. The Quechua have fought for their independence, and will preserve it at all costs.

In the Aymara Republic the jubilation from winning independence is finally starting to subside. The Aymara have fought for their independence, and will preserve it at all costs.

In Chile the nation is on track to being an economic power, but is hindered by the threats of the larger nations.

In the Empire of Brazil industrial development has happened at a breakneck pace. A situation similar to that of America during the Industrial Revolution has developed, with the Industrial developers becoming the main money in the nation. The Emperor relies of industrial taxes for most of his income.

In Bolivia the government is facing a civil war, brought on by their failure to stop the Aymara.

In Paraguay the people are suffering from Brazilian oppression.

In Uruguay the people are suffering from Brazilian oppression.

In Argentina the government has unified to form a powerful economic force, comparable to modern Germany

EUROPE
The situation is much the same as in our 1914, but with Britain more tied to the CSA.

AFRIA
The only difference in Africa is the US colony of Liberia.

ASIA
The situation is the same as in our 1914.

THE PACIFIC
In the Kingdom of Hawai’i trade is a major part of the economy. The current Queen rules from Honolulu. Hawi’i is considered to be one of the two major Pacific powers.

In the Republic of the Philippines trade is a major part of the economy. The Philippines are considered to be one of the two major Pacific powers.

Alliances
In Europe, the major alliances are the same as in our 1914.

In the rest of the world, the major aliances are...

Alliance of Freedom
USA, Haiti, FRCA, Gran Colombia, Yucatan.

Golden Circle
Brazil, CSA, Cuba, Puerto Rico

Usuhsib e Tzutz
Maya, Quechua, Aymara

Pacific Treaty Organization
Philippines, Hawai'i

Alianzo Americano
Mexico, Peru, Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina


The year is 1914. Will you let the world go down a path to self-destruction?
 
Russia here
 
2 more things that I forgot to put in the above.

1) The start year is 1914 and each turn will be 6 months. (January, 1914->July, 1914->January, 1915->etc.)

2) Nations will start off with a specific complement of infrastructure and armies to reflect the world situation. The amounts will vary by nation.

EDIT: 3) You have no obligation to stay in any alliance your nation starts off in. Feel free to leave, but please say more than just "Russia is out!"
 
 
Mexico
 
I'll join as the British Empire, but remember to still work on SaD.

The British Empire would like to announce that it will seek neutrality in North America, and turn its efforts to the Old World.
 
Yep I'm definitely gonna be the CSA.
 
China
 
Serbia, China, Germany, Mexico, want to be Russia's bros?
 
Yes, manito. Mexico accepts.
 
Alianzo Americano
Mexico, Peru, Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina
:twitch: *heart attack* :faint:
AlianzA AmericanA
Ufff. :whew:
Sorry to be so hyperbolic, but I was just... well. That's how it's spelt correctly. A masculin word ended in "o" just looks to me like... well.
 
Germany.

Also, These two Russian territories should be German.

Lastly, Russia's op as hell.
I'll fix it.

:twitch: *heart attack* :faint:

Ufff. :whew:
Sorry to be so hyperbolic, but I was just... well. That's how it's spelt correctly. A masculin word ended in "o" just looks to me like... well.
Maybe Spanish is different in this world... ;) Amyways, thx for pointing it out.
 
It was still unrealistically OP.
 
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