Don't get me wrong, I love the World War in the Dystopian universe, but... I still disagree with the South winning the Civil War. So that being said, when I get my Yankee fleet going, I plan on continuing the Civil War until there's a clear Union victory. ;) I have a friend who's a dedicated Southern sympathizer, so there'll be plenty of naval action around the Caribbean and the Atlantic. We both also plan on getting some land and air units in action for a genuine American Civil War Reloaded.
The Timeline:
July, 1863: Lee wins at Gettysburg, with Britannian aid, thus prolonging the conflict. Pennsylvania tank regiments drive back Lee's advance of Philadelphia. Congress panics and prepares to sue for peace, but Lincoln rallies support to fight on with his Gettysburg Address.
February, 1864: Grant appointed commander of the Union Army. Sherman prepares for a major slash and burn offensive through Dixie.
July, 1864: Sherman's landships grind across Georgia, destroying rail lines, airfields, and several Britannian strongpoints. Major Sutherland, the Britannian expeditionary commander is killed in an air battle when his war rotor is sent earthward by Union rocket fire. General Cressbury takes his place as overall commander. Britannian warships sighted off Nantucket Sound by American scoutships. Skirmish with the Canadians to the north.
November, 1864: President Lincoln opens secret diplomatic channels with the Britannian Parliament. Offers minor trading concessions in the Caribbean if they will withdraw from the war. Congress calls up more troops for the Canadian Front.
December, 1864: Christmas Offensive, Canadian tanks roll across the American border, smashing through fortifications and driving the Union armies back towards Philadelphia. Meanwhile Southern troops launch a simultaneous offensive from Tennessee, but are crushed by a well organized Union air counteroffensive, led by General McClellan. Farragut drives the Union fleet toward the Confederate naval base at Havana, in the U.S. Territory of Cuba.
March, 1865: Lincoln appoints General Sherman as commander of the Western Theater after his successful March to the Sea. General Cressbury's army flees west after Sherman's destructive march, hoping to link up with friendly Confederate forces in Alabama. Stonewall Jackson is run over by a Confederate landship while out scouting ahead of his lines at night with a treadbike squadron. Confederate government calls for a day of mourning.
June, 1865: Union commander Sidney Blakes of the Canadian Front breaks the Canadian army at Sault St. Marie, Michigan, forcing Canada to withdraw it's forces from the war. General Cressbury flees with his troops to Britannian transports in Mobile Bay, Alabama after another devastating air assault by Union airships destroys much of Alabama's landship factories. Cressbury's force is caught and annihilated at sea by a splinter flotilla of Farragut's fleet. Britannian Parliament concludes a swift peace agreement with the North. Confederate government is outraged by the Britannian's withdrawal.
December, 1865: With the Britannian Empire out of the war, Lincoln regroups the northern commands to prepare for a new offensive against the South. Lee's army still at large in the Appalachian Mountains, conducting raids against West Virginia and Ohio. A new front opens in the Western Theater when Confederate agents make offers of independence to rebels in the Mexican Territories in exchange for men and materiel. Former Mexican officers from the old Empire raise regiments and march north to link up with Confederate forces in Texas. Farragut's fleet captures Havana, and sinks the Confederate fleet in harbor. Captain Brigham Young raises the Nauvoo Legion's strength to protect the Mormon state of Deseret. Young appoints a committee to oversee the purchase of Union tanks and landships to add to the Legion.
February, 1866: Operation Chicle is launched by the War Department in Washington. Former Emperor of the Mexicans, Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana is to be released and sent back to Mexico to destabilize the region by playing upon the loyalties of the old guard of the Mexican Army. The plan is discovered by Confederate agents who assassinate Santa Ana in his bed. The rights to Santa Ana's Chicle Gum empire is later sold by his widow to an enterprising New York candy maker.
July, 1866: The combined Mexican-Confederate army overruns Union forces in the West. Sherman is killed in action at Wounded Knee by a Sioux sniper in Confederate service. Lincoln orders Grant to the Mississippi River to build up fortifications. Farragut is ordered to weigh anchor in Cuba and blockade the Mexican coast, Confederate naval resources severely stretched in the Gulf of Mexico.
Mexican troops invade Deseret, only to be driven out by the fanatical Nauvoo Legion. Brigham Young converts the captured Mexican troops to the LDS Church.
December, 1866- January, 1869: Both sides dig in along the Mississippi River and the Kentucky/Tennessee border. Tanks bog down in trench and bunker warfare, airships make daily sorties over the much blasted terrain. Lincoln's Republican successor,William Van Hise is voted in as the next president. Brigham Young dies in 1869, and is succeeded by the Council of Saints. Nauvoo Legion is sent to aid the Union armies along the Mississippi.
January, 1870- Major breakthrough made by Grant with a massive combined air/land thrust to the Confederate center across the Mississippi River, Confederate commander P.G.T. Beauregard is forced to withdraw, while the Mexican General Juan de Poncianado is killed in an air raid on his headquarters in northern Missouri.
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