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AlexanderHowl · 03-26-2020, 12:41 PM

By 1870, the Spencers M1860 and the Remington Number 1 are already available, allowing repeating rifles. If you want, you can shift the time to 1880, though you lose a lot of potential stories about Confederate expatriates seeking refuge in the NAN. 1875 might be the best compromise, since it would have been only a decade since the end of the Civil War.

One consequence of having the Awakening in 1816 is the likelihood that the Native Americans of Texas would have been able to stop settlement from the USA, allowing them to join the NAN when it later formed (or perhaps, with the NAN taking Texas from the Second Aztec Empire in the 1840s with the assistance of the USA, perhaps in exchange for some minor territorial concessions along the Mississippi River). Without Texas, the Confederacy would have likely been crippled, balanced by a weaker Union. As long as the NAN is sympathetic enough with the Confederacy to grant refuge to its expatriates after the Civil War, that allows for a lot of the traditional Western stories, though with a twist.

For example, Dodge City could be an Anglo settlement within NAN territory, supplying industrial goods in exchange for buffalo hides and meat. With the massive buffalo herds managed by the Native Americans, Anglos do not have much opportunity to drive cattle or raise sheep. After the end of the Civil War, the settlement was founded by Confederate expatriates and, ten years later, it is the largest expatriate community in the NAN. Several former Confederate officers have helped train and organize the NAN military against the regular border clashes with the Second Aztec Empire, though they really want a chance to free the South.

03-26-2020, 12:41 PM	#27
AlexanderHowl Join Date: Feb 2016	Re: GURPS Shadowgun [Brainstorm] By 1870, the Spencers M1860 and the Remington Number 1 are already available, allowing repeating rifles. If you want, you can shift the time to 1880, though you lose a lot of potential stories about Confederate expatriates seeking refuge in the NAN. 1875 might be the best compromise, since it would have been only a decade since the end of the Civil War. One consequence of having the Awakening in 1816 is the likelihood that the Native Americans of Texas would have been able to stop settlement from the USA, allowing them to join the NAN when it later formed (or perhaps, with the NAN taking Texas from the Second Aztec Empire in the 1840s with the assistance of the USA, perhaps in exchange for some minor territorial concessions along the Mississippi River). Without Texas, the Confederacy would have likely been crippled, balanced by a weaker Union. As long as the NAN is sympathetic enough with the Confederacy to grant refuge to its expatriates after the Civil War, that allows for a lot of the traditional Western stories, though with a twist. For example, Dodge City could be an Anglo settlement within NAN territory, supplying industrial goods in exchange for buffalo hides and meat. With the massive buffalo herds managed by the Native Americans, Anglos do not have much opportunity to drive cattle or raise sheep. After the end of the Civil War, the settlement was founded by Confederate expatriates and, ten years later, it is the largest expatriate community in the NAN. Several former Confederate officers have helped train and organize the NAN military against the regular border clashes with the Second Aztec Empire, though they really want a chance to free the South.