09-26-2020, 02:43 PM | #5101 | |
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If Hamlin-3 legislators were trying to cut out the South, they would've been to make states in accord with the military districts - Leaving the South with less Senators than New England. Not making it so that everybody got co-equal representation based on the population of their states. |
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09-26-2020, 02:54 PM | #5102 | |
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A later attempt at Reconquista might well end up in a long term insurgency as Southerners are very stubborn culturally and weak or not woudl prepare for another war with everything they had, Even in this world there was talk of insurgencies after the civil war and it would require little in the way of resources to wage guerilla warfare on Yankee elite and each time an ordinary expendable Wilkes Boothe took out someone of importance, the Union would grow weaker and poorer. The whole deal could end up just falling apart and both sides being in ruins. That would make for an interesting world as the US would be another backwater in the Americas ethnically European but politically Latin American . Along comes WW1, WW2 and the whole mess and you have a very different world, |
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09-26-2020, 03:22 PM | #5103 | |
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Generally speaking, most secession scenarios realistically end with the South as the new Mexico, “so far from God and so close to the United States.” The Union was still a rich, industrializing country and the South wasn’t. It’s either a Herrenvolk democracy propped up by European powers or a single-party state of freedmen (Picture something like Ba’athism in Iraq and Syria, where a minority with the money and guns rules) supported by a bloodier, more imperial United States. But I thought it would be fun to have a Black republic in North America for players to visit, so I bent history down the proper course to achieve it. If “North America as Latin America” is more interesting to you than go for it. Last edited by Micah Davis; 09-26-2020 at 03:39 PM. |
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09-30-2020, 06:18 PM | #5104 |
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Try this one...
In our world Hitler wasted vast resoures on battleships like the Bismarck or the Scharnhorst. Hitler liked the show and display of launching a battleship. But Hitler had only a few battleships. Both Britain and the USA had navies more than three times as large. Germany's battleships achieved little or nothing, but their U-boats were a terror. The Nazi U-boats were a serious threat and danger. Also, Germany simply had more U-boats and experience with them. Had Hitler realized that Germany could never keep up with Britain in surface ships but he had an advantage beneath the waves it wouldn't have won him the war, but the horror imflicted on the allies could have been vastly greater. On this Q5 world Hitler decided that putting all of the Kriegsmarine's resources into submarines. The Battle of the Atlantic is beginning, with Germany having many more U-boats and better resources to support them. Homeline is working on getting the Liberty ships built earlier. Still, in this world sheer numbers might not be enough. Moreover, the Nazis seem to be getting ahead in jets and rocketry and Hitler has publically spoken of Hermann Oberth's proposed space mirror weapon. Homeline has noticed Cabal activity in Europe. Our they having one of their wars with Midwinter Aton? And will this feud lead to a hell world?
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09-30-2020, 09:31 PM | #5105 |
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Another bad problem is the the senate would have many hundreds of additional members, and most would eventually have to be paid pensions. And these pensions are huge, compared to the private sector.
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09-30-2020, 09:35 PM | #5106 |
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A minor expense. At worst, an additional $1 billion per year in total, which is not even a rounding error in a multi-trillion dollar federal budget.
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09-30-2020, 10:13 PM | #5107 |
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Ther same as any other federal employee. Yes they can get 80% retirement, if they are in office 67 years. They get paid a bit better then a 1 star general and there are more generals.
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10-01-2020, 10:27 AM | #5108 | |
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The U-boat risk is, of course, the counter point. IF the Med is an Allied lake, a lot of shipping from India will be going through the Med, reducing chances for U-boat attacks, and saving more ships. The Bay of Biscay is shallow enough that the U-boats were always at risk there, which got worse as the war went on. More U-boats in the Atlantic will also increase the risk of hitting US shipping, that may get them in the war faster, as well as speeding up other Allied power involvement. Brazil, in particular, made a significant difference in the Caribbean Sea, and the South Atlantic. May it work out better for Germany? Maybe, but not likely.
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10-01-2020, 02:57 PM | #5109 | |
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10-01-2020, 03:12 PM | #5110 |
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Try this one...
This Youtube scenario leads up to an interesting map and interesting possibilities for a world war in the 1890s. Basically, Britain and France intervein in the American Civil War and force the USA to accept the CSA's independence. France gains control of Mexico and Britain takes most of the West coast from San Francisco north. There are also struggles in central Europe and the Eastern Mediterranian. The map is interesting but unstable. it will lead to further Great Power conflict. An agressive expansionist South will compete with France, Germany, Britain, and Spain, to extend its territories southward. The USA will be a rapidly industrializing nation with a large population and hostile to Britain and France, and likely friendly to Germany, Russia, and Spain. Look at the video, it looks like a fountain of interesting twisted WWIIs (the ACW is WWI in these settings) all set between 1890 and 1910.
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