NYC in WHFB

[Ultrackius]

Hi everyone! Decided I might as well start a second quest up, and this one's been in my brain for a while, exited to have y'all!


Five years ago The city of New York vanished. Five years ago we were brought to our new home. Five years ago the mayor ceded power to the NYPD for "the duration of the emergency". Five years ago they used their dictatorial power to suppress the people of our city and colonize the people outside it. Yesterday we finally took our city back.

The struggle was long and hard fought, five years of fighting, of riots, of conflict all across the area of

[]: The Glorious Boroughs +2 points

• The region brought to warhammer fantasy will consist of the City of New York itself and its immediate outskirts, no more

[]: Our Beloved City +1 points

• The region brought to warhammer fantasy will consist of NYC and its surrounding area, including Long Island, going down through northern Jersey, and up through part of Connecticut

[]: Our Twin Pearls

• The region brought to warhammer fantasy will include NYC, northern Jersey, and up to and including Boston, taking with it Rhode Island, most of Connecticut, and part of New York State, as well as much of eastern Mass

The police regime had heavily restricted movement, but plenty fled to this strange new world, and others signed up for the new expeditionary forces the police were sending. That, combined with what news came through and the propaganda made, makes the situation indisputably clear. This is not our earth, indeed, it appears as though something from a fantasy novel with Orcs raiding the lands, Elves on the seas, and Mountain Dwarfs (or Dwarves, if you like) fighting over their holds. Our city entered on the coastline of a strip of land the natives of this world call the Badlands, west of the great Dragonback mountain range and near the mouth of the Black Gulf, which leads into an area known as the Border Princes, which the regime had hoped to use to monopolize on trade through the region, but never did. Near us are the aforementioned Border Princes, a chaotic and unstable land where kingdoms fall and rise daily, as well as the land of Tilea, which appears not dissimilar to medieval Italy. Unfortunately to our east along the land is nothing but savage orcs, who's raids as of yet have not penetrated into our land, but who threaten to do so constantly. And to the south? Araby. Bloody bloody Araby.

It is Araby that led to us finally being able to rise up. It is Araby that overstretched the police regime. Bloody Araby, where the police thought to find oil to make into gas for their rapidly disappearing supplies. Bloody Araby, where they thought to quell dissent with a victory to be proud of, and a colony to ship off the suspect to. Bloody Araby where their efforts and bullets were expended, Bloody Araby where their troops died in the sand. Bloody Araby where they finally took the city of Kamt mere weeks before the revolution's triumph.

And what a revolution it was. The police had ruled with an iron fist for five years, but it took only two weeks to overthrow them. Riots spread, overwhelming the undersupplied home guard, and linking up with the rebels in the countryside. The skyscrapers were overrun, and the military as well mutinied, seizing the newly taken city for the revolution, though the fighting there still persists. After the final few days of clearing out snipers and pockets of resistance, the new government was proclaimed lead by

[]: The Popular Front

• While the socialist movement was often considered the leading force of resistance, in truth victory would never have been possible were it not for the old guard who lead the city before the translocation. Supporters of the old mayor who insisted the handover was not voluntary, the center left opposition to him in the old election, and the political blocks that were so influential in the old world all united with the revolutionaries and overthrew the police regime. The front is massive, but already cracking under the weight of its own contradictions and the hatred between its members, who for the moment are still united, but harber no delusions about what the "crazed revolutionaries" or "moderate reactionaries" think of them.

[]: The United Front +1 point

• When push came to shove the liberals, as they always do, sided with the regime. But it did not save it. Despite their collaboration a united front of the revolutionary forces managed to overthrow them and end the police regime. United in name, it is not so united in truth. Despite its shared commitment to a revolutionary union divisions are growing in what that looks like and what it even means. Eventually either it will dissolve to factionalism, or be suborned to one movement.

[]: The Vanguard +2 points

• When we began our struggle five years ago there were a multitude of factions fighting the police. But in the end all were either crushed or proved themselves moderates, sympathizers to the regime. When the final victory came it was us alone who managed to overthrow the police, all other factions swept to the wayside. Though opposition to our new government is great, only we have the vision, the purpose, to bring true victory to the revolution.

In the end, the revolution was victorious, in the end, the people triumphed. Now we must attempt to run our city in this strange new world we find ourselves in

Boons: Take as many as you like, each costs a certain number of points which you may have already from the previous choices. You must end with 0 or more points

[]: The People's Defense Navy -2

• Though we do not have much of a navy, and most of what we do have ran out fo fuel in the Araby campaign, there was a ship docked for shore leave when the transition happened. One of the few cruisers in the USN you have no means to man it or to bring it to sail, and indeed even if you could the bay here is shallower then where it was docked before, and it would be quite difficult to sail out, however its guns still function, and it works exceptionally well as a naval defense platform, seeing off an otherwise potentially disastrous raid by a strange elven group during the police dictatorship

[]: The Power of the Gods -2

• Though in our world magic was naught but a myth, here it appears to be real, and moreover, divine magic is real as well. This, combined with police repressions against minority religions, has lead to a massive increase in the faith of our religious communities, though the city is still mostly secular, and divine magic of our Earth deities are likely to show themselves far sooner, and with no need to expand the religious population, and if pursued, there may even be a revival of some of the old world faiths that did not come with us, as many see the polytheistic nature of this new world and get ideas

[]: The Bomb -3

• We cannot launch it, we cannot use it, we cannot activate it, we cannot build more, but on the edge of the land that was translocated (regardless of size) lies a nuclear silo with three ICBMs within. One day we may find a way to use them, one day we may need to. Let us hope this day never comes.

[]: Elf Friends -2

• To the west and north lies the High Elves, seemingly the premier power of this section of the world. They took great interest in our appearance, and sought good relations and study of whatever it was that happened. Though some worried that our revolution would end relations, as they were friendly with the police regime, they seem to not be able to tell the difference between us.

[]: Magic! -1

• Magic exists in this land, and our people have taken to it greatly. While the police regime feared such a thing and suppressed all knowledge, a great transition of Hedge Magic has taken root under their watch, giving us more knowledge and practice with the arcane then we might have otherwise

[]: Dwarven Trade -2

• Up along the coast and through a river lies the Kharak of Barak Varr, a dwarfhold. Despite worries of conflict and confusion, the police regime ended up forming a valuable trading relationship with the dwarves, which continues into our new government providing a valuable source of materials that do not require venturing into the Orc infested lands near our border

[]: Black Gold -1

• The police regime invaded Araby seeking oil, and oil they found in an expedition far into the inland region. Unfortunately though we know this oil exists, it is both far from the coastal land the police regime finally took, and in Araby, a region that the police regime spent 4 years pillaging, burning, and fighting and that our revolution was backed by the promise of ending the conflict and imperialism in, and which has a population that reasonably despises us

[]: Cultural Flourishing -1

• Despite the chaos of entering into a new world so suddenly, the massive disruption of supply lines, and the intense repressions by the police regime the show has not only gone on, it has thrived, as Broadway enters into a new golden age only accelerated by the revolution, and the bookstores are filling up almost as fast as they are emptied. Truly this is the beginning of an age of wonder in our city

Banes: Take as many as you like, each gives a certain number of points. None are exclusive with another or a boon unless they specifically say so

[]: The remnants +2

• Despite our victory the police still hold out in their vile colonies. The city of Kamt, which joined us in revolution initially both from the conscripts and the Arabyans has been retaken by police loyalists. Maintained as a bastion of reaction and colonialism it will be hard to dislodge, and serve as an intractable foe as long as it exists

[]: Rodents of Unusual Size? I don't believe they exist +2

• The NYC Subway system is famous for its many many rats, but as of the last year of police rule there have been strange reports of large talking ones scouting it out, seeking a base after what witnesses describe being described as a failed coup and a civil war. The police deemed these witnesses insane, but perhaps there is truth to their words? Most likely not though, ratmen? Such a silly idea

[]: It isn't easy being Green +2

• Our city came down on the coast of a region known as The Badlands, famous for its Orc presence. We have 'scaped major attention by them so far, only minor skirmishes, largely due to the mountain range protecting us and our advanced weaponry. But with the forces bled dry by the war in Araby and the Revolution rumours have arrived of an Orc warboss calling for a force to crush the strange little city once and for

[]: That's a grudging +2

• There is a Kharak up the bay known as Barak Varr, home to the dwarves of this realm. Unfortunately the police regime disdained such fellows, and tensions between us ran high. We have learned since that the dwarfs are quite the grudgeful fellows, so if we wish for good relations and trade (and to avoid any action against us by them) with the most minerally rich and technologically advanced group we have yet met we must convince them that their grudge was against the cops, not the city itself. Incompatible with Dwarven Trade

[]: We ain't following some foreign faith +1

• Due to both natural paranoia and the work of the police regime the opinions our people have of the religions of this world are incredibly low. Sigmarite missionaries are chased out of town, and Morrites are accused of devil worship by the more reactionary segments of our population. This limits our access to foreign divine magic, and is likely to cause tensions with our neighbors. Incompatible with Everyone Loves a Good Cult

[]: Everyone loves a good cult +1

• Chaos. The people of this world, at least those in the north, seem to fear its very name (Araby, so far from the poles, simply doesn't think of it much). The police saw the name and assumed it would be a force against their regime. Though it has not appeared much in the time of their reign or during the revolution, because of this it has a much softer reputation in our lands than in the kingdoms already here, and worship of it is much more likely to spring up. Incompatible with We aren't following some Foreign faith

 

[Ultrackius]

In the end, only one revolutionary force could rise supreme, only one could take hold of the region to destroy the reactionary threat. In the days of resistance there were many factions, during the revolution there were more. In the end, which faction rose on top?

As Vanguard was chosen, choose one of a more limited selection of movements

[]: The Communist Party of the United States of America
A famous, if permanently declining force in American revolutionary politics, it was based in NYC and indeed was holding a conference at the time of the transition. The old guard of the party, seeing the sudden change, sought to maintain control of the movement, but were eventually ousted when, after an influx from young radicals when alternate organizations collapsed, the center of the party united with them to seize control and remove much of the Old Guard allies. Though dissatisfaction by its left leaning factions would lead to a minor split, the center was able to hold it together and prevent any major damage. The party would go on to become the leading revolutionary movement, after most of its competition was crushed by the police, it survived. When the revolution came the CPUSA was at the forefront of the lines, and the head of the movement. After dealing with its minor revolutionary opponents it quickly ascended to power

• The CPUSA are on the CENTER-RIGHT of the revolutionary coalition
• Factions include the leading Party Center (Primarily Right, with a strong alliance with the center) as well as the as of yet unfactioned young radicals (Center and Left, as of yet ununified around a movement, ideology, or cause). It also has a disgraced old guard faction, who functionally hold still to liberalism
• The CPUSA is distinguished by its continued devotion to the old world we came from, to the point of even holding a new constitutional convention to claim legitimacy with Old America, and generally holding the new state to be a revolutionary successor to the United States, rather then one opposed to it as most other movements hold
• Major issues for the CPUSA are on the legacy of America and the Old World in general that much of their leadership seeks to safeguard, and the application of orthodox Leninist and Marxist doctrine in this new world
• The fates of the other factions if the CPUSA is the vanguard will be
  • CPNYB: The split mostly fails with the center aligning with the party left, and their membership never reaches more than a few hundred or so, oft derided as modern Trotskists for their constant splitting
  • DSA: Party is dominated by the DSA right, who ally with the liberals before splitting after the liberal movement seeks to unite with the police against the reds. Considered by some to be a potential opposition movement to the new government
  • Maoist Rebels: Are crushed by government force in the years leading up to the revolution, mostly irrelevant except as former heroes and martyrs against the police.
  • Soldier's Soviets: Their revolt is in most areas short and bloody, being crushed utterly by the police but becoming the greatest of the revolutionary martyrs. In some areas however, the revolts were better timed, and their rising coincided with the general revolts. The Soldiers Soviets are now a key organ in the government, pushing for a more radical line and for the spreading of the revolution to the rest of this new land
  • Student Radicals: Though they mostly stayed separate from the party during the revolution itself (and were then crushed by the police), a not insignificant segment joined with the radicals within the party, and began to push for a more radical line.
  • Union Revolutionaries: The Union leadership was always hesitant about the revolution, but in the end they saw which way the wind was blowing as more and more of their members joined the party. Their former leadership are now influential forces on the right of the party center, and a few in the detested old guard.

[]: The Communist Party of New York and Boston
A split from the CPUSA in the early days after the transition after the center of the party refused any alliance with the new radicals, instead seeking to ally with the old guard to mantian control. This quickly lead to a split pushed by the left, but latched on to by much of the center who refused this poisoned bargain and would not give up on revolution. As the CPUSA faded the CPNYB consistently grew in strength and power, becoming the primary force of the revolutionary movement, and quickly taking power after the revolution was victorious.

• The CPNYB is in the CENTER-LEFT of the revolutionary coalition
• Factions include the Anti American Alliance (center, tense alliance with the left, leading) the Movement for a New People (left, divisive, opposed to the AAA and the parts of the left who allied with them. Seek the total abolition of anything even American, regularly denounce the party for keeping the american city names), and the CPUSA remnants (right, minor faction, trying to maintain the marxist and leninist stance)
• The CPNYB is distinguished by its hardline opposition to the old world, seeking a total repudiation of America and anything American or old world in general in favor of creating a new identity based in this strange new land.
• Major issues for the CPNYB include the creation of a new culture untied to the world we came from, and the creation of a new communist theory suited to the world we find ourselves in.
• The fates of the other factions if the CPNYB is the vanguard will be
  • CPUSA: Survives as a minor movement after the membership moved to the CPNYB, oft derided as the Mensheviks of the modern revolution for their moderation
  • DSA: Largely dominated by the DSA right, who allies with the liberals and dooms the movement to irrelevance. Further prosecuted by revolutionary movements shocked at their betrayal, and by the left of the party for their american label
  • Maoist Rebels: Are crushed by the police government soon before the revolution, fragments survive shattered and are tentatively allied with the new government, though they distrust some of its elements, making the alliance a terse one.
  • Soldier's Soviets: Crushed by the government in a short and bloody uprising. Despite popular sympathy, the government is officially opposed to their memory, considering their uprising a retrograde and not truly revolutionary one
  • Student Radicals: Failed to make their own organization and became a core part of the CPNYB support base, highly influential in the new government but considered a potential concern by the leadership
  • Union Revolutionaries: Remained fairly moderate, with the more radical ones joining the party, and the moderate ones being crushed by both sides during the revolution

[]: The Democratic Socialists of America
A broad tent organization, when the transition came the DSA was left adrift. Much of the national movement's leadership and ideologies had organized in Boston for a conference, and the NYC DSA was one of the movement's largest, yet the two could not create a unified line. The NYC DSA was firmly held by the DSA-Right, who sought cooperation with the democrats and liberals in maintaining stability, while the national leadership in Boston found itself aligned with the student radicals and communists advocating revolution. In the end the Boston faction would prevail over the New York faction due to outside events, as the NYC-DSA was devastated by the handover of power from the liberals to the police, both in terms of its aggressively persecuted membership, and ideologically collapsing as the transition was supported by the very liberals they had allied with. In the end the Boston faction would grow in strength in the underground, absorbing the student radicals and the union and eventually becoming the leading force in the revolution

• The DSA is on the RIGHT of the revolutionary coalition
• Factions include the Boston Faction (Right, firmly in control of the movement), the DSA-Left (Center, dominated by more harcore Marxist groups and similar so-called "left deviationist" forces. Major force internally but determined to be kept from power by the rest), and the DSA-Right (liberalists who opposed much of the revolution, in disgrace but with a few of their cliques surviving)
• The DSA is distinguished by its internal conflict, as party members fight over whether to be the SPD as it was before WW1, as it was before WW2, or as it was in the Cold War. Outside the party it is distinguished by its pushes for the democratization of all lines of society, as well as its Boston base, in sharp contrast to most organizations which based themselves in NYC.
• The fates of the other factions if the DSA becomes the vanguard is
  • CPUSA: The party center allies with the old guard, causing the split with the left to grow and leaving it as a moribund organization with little support and a line slightly to the right of the Boston Faction
  • CPNYB: Initially making a large splash in the movement with it's split from the CPUSA, it failed to gain steam or membership, with the student radicals joining to the left of the DSA instead, or moderating and joining the Boston Faction. It survives rudderless and without direction, mostly serving as a reading group for those student radicals who were left behind by the movement
  • Maoist Rebels: Largely decimated by the government, they continued to be a relevant, if weak, force even throughout the revolution. However afterwards they refused to accept the primacy of the DSA, declaring it to be a capitalist and revisionist movement. They survive even today, continuing a much reduced PPW against the government from the forests and hills.
  • Soldier's Soviets: Moderately successful in areas, they survived the police attacks, and after the revolution largely moved into two camps. Those who believed their purpose was done and disbanded, and those who believed they still had a place in the new order, and became a loyal if controversial aid to, and thorne in the side of, the DSA government.
  • Student Radicals: The DSA was long considered the home for these types, and for the majority, it still was. The student radicals largely joined up into the DSA-Left, with the moderate elements of them maintaining more prominence then they might have otherwise, and becoming a staunch supporter of the Boston Faction
  • The Unions: Largely decimated by the government who refused any negotiation with them, the remaining union movement was largely folded into and allied with the DSA, and remains a staunch ally of the party right

[]: Maoist Rebels
Not all the resistance came from the cities, in the countryside that was brought along the police soon found themselves bereft of power. Back when control was handed over to the police forces "until the situation stabilized" there was a brief uprising by socialist movements. It was swiftly and brutally crushed but the most radical portions of it, who had predicted such an event, survived and fled the twin capitals into the countryside of what was once New England, as well as the new land surrounding the transported region. From there these forces, lead by and eventually more then dominated by a Maoist coalition, waged a Protracted People's War against the government. Holding one region, then fleeing to another they never were able to achieve the great victory forever just one year ahead, but they were able to present a constant thorn in the side of the police government, never being able to be crushed and always there to threaten convoys and government operations. When the war started going bad they found their moment. As the police forces struggled to crush revolts in the cities, they took the countryside and created a massive force able to enter into the twin capitals and crush the reactionary forces once and for all! A glorious victory, only somewhat marred by (in truth, false) accusations that they intentionally waited until all other revolutionary factions had expended their forces.

• The Maoists are on the LEFT of the Revolutionary Coalition
• Factions include, the Party Center (LEFT), the Revolutionary Military Forces (LEFT, in tight alliance with the Party Center), the Red Guards (FAR LEFT, viewed with worrying suspicion by the rest, popular in Boston), and the New Revolutionaries (CENTER-RIGHT, seeking a cooling of rhetoric, largely made up of former members of other groups)
• The Maoists are distinguished by their holding to, well, Maoism. This has lead to a significant focus and indeed power base in the countryside, while most all other movements are relegated to the cities. It also shows in their policies, as they tend to hold to a much more radical line. There is one major exception to this rule however, as they hold that the other nations of this world are feudal, and thus must be aided in a transition to capitalism, rather than true revolution.
• The fates of the other factions if the Maoists are the vanguard will be
  • CPUSA: A major force in the doomed New York uprising before the Maoists crushed the weakened police, it is the stance of the party that their failure was due to their theoretical errors, but their memory has a strong hold among the population.
  • CPNYB: Having failed to attract the CPUSA left, the CPNYB sustained itself as an irrelevant force for some time, but in the end most members returned to the CPUSA to aid in the doomed revolt, with their surviving membership largely folding into the New Revolutionaries
  • DSA: Having launched a major uprising in Boston, the DSA forces were put down before the Maoists could enter the city. In the new government they are largely dismissed as liberals and moderates, with the left of the movement largely joining into the New Revolutionaries
  • Student Radicals: Though the city revolts they mainly fought in were defeated, the students had no organized movement, and largely faded back into the background of disorder upon the military defeat of their allies. Since the Maoist victory they have returned to the streets in droves to join the Red Guards and fight for the revolution
  • Soldier's Soviets: With the cities in total revolt a soldier's revolution could very well have brought victory to the non Maoist forces, alas, this revolt never gained much steam, and the solider's soviets were in fact the soldier's soviet, with only a single one forming, and quickly being crushed, creating a much more stable remnant for the regime to flee to then they might otherwise have had
  • Union Revolutionaries: When the revolution came to the cities everyone assumed the unions would rise up with them, but after the first day of the conflict, everyone looked around and realized this had failed to materialize. Far from joining the revolution in fact, the Unions stayed out entirely, and in some cases even provided support to the police forces who had wined and dined their leadership. When the city revolts failed they gained a position of prominence, and, when soon after, the Maoists swept in, the were utterly destroyed.

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[Ultrackius]

Scheduled vote count started by Ultrackius on Sep 25, 2024 at 8:38 PM, finished with 30 posts and 19 votes.

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  [X]: The Communist Party of New York and Boston

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  [X]: The Democratic Socialists of America

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  [X]: Maoist Rebels

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  [X]: The Communist Party of the United States of America

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