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The War for Eden The War for Eden [A Reds! ISOT map game]

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@SadMuseGirl I forgot to ask, what territories does the Caribbean Futuriste control?
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It consists of French Guiana, plus the islands of St Martin, Guidaloupe and Martinique. The update has a mixture of fishermen and radical oddballs spreading around the rest of the Antilles and up the coast but saying they have "control" over those places is a bit much

Edit: wait I just realised, does the territory of the ISOT'd UASR include the Associated Republics/Autonomous Republics in the Caribbean and Central America? I recall them having the islands of Puerto Rico and Hispaniola as well as Panama and Nicaragua by the 40s, so if it's there Caribbean Futuriste would bump into someone very quickly
 
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The Pact of Steel: An Examination of Relations between Germany, Italy, and the Confederacy
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    • The Pact of Steel: An Examination of Relations between Germany, Italy, and the Confederacy

    When contact was first made between the CSA and the European powers there was considerable confusion. The Confederacy had a long standing opposition to the Germany of it's own world. Italy managed to smooth over the tense situation once proper contact was established through the Italian embassy in Richmond. Once the situation became clear the three nations quickly set about establishing proper trade relations. Territorial issues were easy enough to establish, Featherston was content to be the master of the Americas while German was in the slow process of taming the primeval wilderness to the east. Italy meanwhile set about to achieve the dream of 'Mare Nostrum' in the Mediterranean.

    The Confederacy and Germany were both in the early processes of 'population reductions' to use the sanitary term in regards to their perceived 'undesirables'. There seems to have been some exchange of ideas on this matter as euthanasia of 'crazies' and 'invalids' became common in the CSA in the midst of continued rationing. Featherston did, perhaps at the behest of Saul Goldman, allow Jewish refugees to resettle in the CSA. An action that would save thousand from a gruesome fate even as his administration visited that very fate on the nation's black populace...
     
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    • As I haven't made my second claim: claiming the Republic of Madagascar from Red Flood


    A Very Prehistoric Revolution ​

    The war against the monarchists had been hard fought. A mixture of the monarchists plantation workers revolting en mass combined with a steady flow of military aid and advisors from the German Socialist Räterepublik into the Republic of Madagascar had finally brought the Kingdom to its knees by 1938, and the new red Republic looked forward to spending the a few years rebuilding what had been destroyed in the civil war before turning their small patch of Earth into a fairer society whilst the titans of communism clashed with the forces of reaction in Europe and Asia.

    With the imperialists either distracted by events in Europe or even withering away, the Republic of Madagascar had won itself peace and, though there was some talk of liberating the rest of Africa from imperialism, Madagascar was happy to enjoy that peace.

    Fate, however, had other plans.

    The first thing the government noticed was the radio silence, the sound of the world outside having disappeared. The first thing the common people noticed, meanwhile, were the rats, or to be precise, the fact that they weren't there anymore.

    That said, they both noticed the same thing next, and noticed it with dumbstruck expressions. It was the birds: they were flightless like an ostrich, but were taller than a man at the shoulder and with a long neck that seemed to stretch it's height to almost twice that of a man, and frighteningly they didn't seem to have learned any fear of humans. For a brief moment, the whole of Madagascan society stood still and silent in wonder and horror. Then one of the birds stole a politician's hat and got chased back into the forest by an angry farmer and the Madagascans got back to their business and back to pondering what on Earth was going on.

    It wasn't that Madagascar was in dire straits: they were already fairly self-sufficient in the bare essentials as they were already isolated from their fellow socialists through geography and from the rest of the world by being socialists, and with the bounty of untouched fish stocks (and the occasional elephant bird hunt) if anything the food supply had increased since their arrival. A number of goods produced in Europe had to be rationed until localised production could be started, the 5 year reconstruction plan had to be scaled back dramatically and the opening of the new cement works had to be delayed, but it wasn't anything catastrophic. No, the questions being asked were existential: the German and Hungarian communities in Madagascar wanted to know if they had homelands to go back to, the French community wanted to know if there was still a France to seize for socialism once again, and the native Madagascans wanted a explanation as to what the bloody hell was going on.

    The government of course wanted answers to those questions as well, and was most frustrated that everyone expected them to know what was going on. Salvation would come from an exiled French palaeontologist: one Jean Bassot.

    Bassot had recognised the birds: they were the very much extinct elephant birds. After a few days of research, Bassot had located a number of other species: giant tortoises, lemurs and aye-ayes, all creatures science had confirmed were extinct stubbornly telling the confirmations of science to sod off. The disappearance of the rats, meanwhile, also attracted Bassot's attention, for he remembered that the rats had been brought to Madagascar by humans. Based on this, the conclusion he came to, and the conclusion he shared with the government behind closed doors, was that the Republic of Madagascar must have been sent back in time or perhaps to an Earth where humans never evolved.

    It was as good an explanation as to 'what happened' as any, and for that alone the Republic of Madagascar happily went along with Bassot's request for himself and a few of his fellow scientists to go on an expedition to the shores on mainland Africa to see what life was there, but that still left the question as to 'why this happened'. This would be answered by Paul Dussac, fellow exiled French man and 'the Marat of Madagascar' who's newspaper and radicalism had helped incite the revolution in the first place.

    "We have, by accident or design, gone back to a time before imperialism, capitalism, or any of the evils of which we were familiar. Though we have lost much, we have also found an opportunity: we are now free to build a world that'll never know such wretched things!"

    Whilst not all agreed with Dussac's radicalism, his optimism took hold nevertheless: Madagascar had found itself in an Eden, and with that came a chance to make an Eden for its own.

    This just left one question: "Is anyone else out there?"
     
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    A Very Prehistoric Revolution
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    SadMuseGirl said:
    For a brief moment, the whole of Madagascan society stood still and silent in wonder and horror. Then one of the birds stole a politician's hat and got chased back into the forest by an angry farmer and the Madagascans got back to their business and back to pondering what on Earth was going on.
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    I really appreciate the level of detail and the touches of humor in this particular entry. Especially the touch about the communities of French, German, and Hungarian expats pondering about their homelands.
     
    EcoSyndieDragon said:
    I really appreciate the level of detail and the touches of humor in this particular entry. Especially the touch about the communities of French, German, and Hungarian expats pondering about their homelands.
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    Thank you very much ☺️.

    Something I've been wondering: has Italy redug the Suez Canal? Italy's colonies in Somalia and Ethiopia will probably be the first contact Madagascar has and depending on if the canal has been dug or not will probably go a long way to determining the degree to which Madagascar sees Italy as an existential threat.
     
    Can i use KR Savinkov's Russian State for my second claim, or is it too big?
     
    Red Spring
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    With the first winter slowly giving way to spring the new arrived nations were free to look outward. The Pact of Steel was on high alert but had yet to strike a blow, instead it's leaders were holding a summit in Berlin. One wonders how the newly rapture nations will handle things going forward? One matter that has been communicated by Germany and Italy is a willingness to part with their remaining 'undesirables' in the form what remains of it's Jewish and Roma communities. Of political dissenters, few likely survived the first winter of harsh labor.

    Meanwhile there has been a large number of 'guest workers' from Italian Kameroon have been sent to Germany. Meanwhile Libyan Arabs and Berbers have been sent to the Confederacy to make up the recent reduction of local black labor. Italy's East African holding meanwhile grown more unstable due to distance from the Metropole. Efforts to build a new Suez Canal are underway at present, a joint German-Italian project. Materials and communiques move across the Atlantic as the New Eden drifts closer to war...

    Sorry for the delays, I've been dealing with work and personal stuff. The new turn has begun, diplomatic and trade arrangements may officially commence! Players may discuss ideas before committing to policy but I would like to have this turn wrapped up by Monday in the interest of keeping thing moving. Those wanting to ISOT a nation of second nation will have to wait till after Monday.
     
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    • The Glass Jaguar

    With the dawn of the second year post-event it was becoming increasingly clear in Colombia that the country simply could not provide enough food or materials to supply the army at full war readiness for much longer. Even as the economy was rationalised under the new red government it simply could not produce enough weapons without compromising promises made to civilians. And so talk in the government turned to decommissioning troops to work in the fields and industry.

    The army however, had another idea. They now had a much clearer image of the various groups throughout the Americas and so they reached out to the UASR to re-establish the Vladivostok Compact. An invitation was extended to the UoB delegation in Mexico to join VOSCOM as a fellow traveller (if not real communists). Additionally an offer of alliance was extended to the Carribbean Futuriste, as whilst Colombia was not sure what to make of them, they at the very least didn't seem to be fascists.

    These alliances were not purely for a defensive purpose however. The Colombian army was proposing a policy of "immediate and maximal violence" against the strange reactionary state in the Southern USA. Without any safe ports to harbour in it was hoped that the Germans and Italians would struggle to fight a transatlantic war and so would not be able to easily support their American brethren, thus the war would effectively be a two (or more) Vs one matchup, in favour of the reds.
     
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    Year 2, UOB

    With the melting of the snow and ice comes a new, if late, spring. With ground being broken in the farms the leaders of the UOB, which had put aside their political conflicts during the first year and still yet to pick them up, agree that in order to ensure enough food supplies for its citizens and those that got dragged along with them. Waves of people from larger cities flow across into Ireland and into northern france, driven on by promises of land, and the ability to secure their families food supplies. Though these aren't all missions for simple food reasons. A good third of the army is moved into northern france itself, with many of the settlements being planned and built by military engineers to make them as defendable as possible, while hidden supply caches are hidden in forests and caves for what all know is a coming storm. Mines are opened, though for now it all flows across the channel to the industry of England.

    In the new world more workers are sent to Mexico, and even an increase of the army and navy, another full third of the former, being placed in the burgeoning colonies in response to the Confederacy, with the alliance from Columbia being taken into serious consideration, but during the spring it would not be acted upon.

    With spring fading and fields being worked, comes summer, a summer colder than anyone is used to, but one nonetheless. The gibraltar expedition is canceled as the monster of politics once more rears its head, though this time it is not about how the country is organized, but about its next steps. From those wanting to immediately attack the facisti in Italy, Germany, and the Confederacy, to those wanting to abandon the continent and fortify the home island, to those that wanted to fortify and hold Northern France and cut of Italian access to the Atlantic. As the debates rage across the government and in the streets, ships are launched, and divisions are raised. The navy itself would still get the mainstay of production, while the army would only see a further half a dozen divisions raised.

    With Fall beginning the party that sought to deepen ties to fellow Socialist nations would earn a minor majority, wooing the isolationists to their side with the promise that "Allies abroad can help defend our fair isle". This would lead to them taking up Columbia on the offer, leading to a most of the navy and half of the army in Britain and France being shuttled over to the Mexican colony for what is believed to be a quick war against the Confederacy...though with that movement does come worries about a surprise attack from the Axis in Europe among the Leadership and even the frontier Citizens.
     
    Republic of Madagascar Year 2: the threat of the Roman Eagle

    "I never thought I'd see the day when Americans and British were more revolutionary than Germans" - unknown member of the RoM's Department of Foreign Affairs

    The internal situation having more or less stabilised, contact was first made with Italian East Africa. The RoM had deliberately kept it's cards close to its chest with the understanding that the Italians were imperialists and until their hostility to anticolonial and socialist movements could be gauged, and was quite glad of that decision when it turned out to be worse than they had possibly feared. The Italians were imperialists of the most vicious sort possible, and their German ally seemed genuinely deranged in a way comparable to Futurist France. Madagascar was, in spite of the aid from their Germany, a deeply undeveloped nation; and it found itself in a world with two fundamentally hostile great powers.

    It wasn't all bad news. The Suez canal had gone and until it could be rebuilt this did bring several advantages. As much as Madagascar wasn't in a position to wage a war, the Italian horn of Africa was increasingly unstable and all aid to it had to go around the cape of South Africa and passed Madagascar, meaning that they weren't in a position to launch a war of conquest either.

    The absence of the Suez canal also meant that Madagascar was also in a perfect position to listen in on the German-Italian radio chatter of passing ships, resulting in them quickly picking up on the presence of a Britain and America that were hostile to the interests of these imperialists. As a result, early in the year ships were sent to make contact with this version of Britain and America and to, if possible, work towards military coordination with them against Italy and Germany at a minimum and hopefully get help with arming and industrialising. In the best case scenario of Britain and America being fellow socialists, they'd be invited to have a limited military presence on Madagascar as a way to deter Italian invasion. Along the way, the delegation sent to the anti-fascist America encountered the familiar Caribbean Futuriste. Normally, it was considered an enemy: the futurists and communists of Europe being mortal enemies, but circumstances had changed and the futurists had their existential threat on the doorstep and so relations were set up and the Caribbean Futuriste was able to share their unorthodox preparations for war with the curious delegation…

    The third bit of good news the new brought, albeit in a somewhat twisted way, came with the fascists loudly touting their willingness to deport their remaining 'undesirable' populations, which was viewed by the RoM as too good an offer not to take. The German and Italian refugees had high levels of literacy compared to the native Madagascans and often had other skills that the underdeveloped Madagascar was deeply in need off; were often fiercely anti-fascist enough after having suffered under those regimes that they could reliably police themselves for potential axis spies that might be slipped in; and, thanks to the investment and aid from the German Socialist Räterepublik of their own history, there was already a community of Germans for the German speaking refugees to be integrated into.

    It goes without saying that the RoM offered to take in as many 'undesirables' as they felt they could possibly house, and indeed offered to take in more next year (an offer made under the theory that they'd have the infrastructure to accept in even more next year and on the off chance that war hadn't broken out); whilst also using the threat of potential imperialist attack to start moving towards a war footing among the general population with increased arms production and the introduction of conscription.

    Opportunity emerged when Bassot's small expedition to mainland Africa came back a success, with the Madagascan government piggybacking on the publicity Bassot's expedition generated to launch several "expeditions" to various islands near Madagascar, conveniently setting up listening posts, pill boxes and general military presence as they went. By the time the year was done, Zanzibar as well as the Seychelles, Comoros and Mauritius islands all had a quiet Madagascan government presence. To help fuel the expanded operations of their (mostly German surplus) fleet and air force, the Madagascan government took to expanding the production of oil in the Bemolanga oil sands.

    This of course raised questions as to their war plans. Realistically, even if their outdated fleet could land in Italian East Africa, they wouldn't have the manpower to hold territory, as such initial plans for conventional warfare were defensive in nature and focused turning Madagascar itself into a fortress and making the islands they had seized defensible enough that the fascist forces would be bled dry wasting manpower on seizing them. However, they soon realised that they had an advantage: Germans, specifically their socialist Germans. Due to military aid from their own history's German Socialist Räterepublik, there was a sizeable German community in Madagascar, and between the distance from the metropole and the inefficiencies of Nazi bureaucracy it would fairly easy to pass them off to the Italian colonial government as German citizens once they had some training in espionage. As such, Madagascan military intelligence slowly launched its own plan to infiltrate Italian East Africa with agents disguised as German businessmen hoping to invest in Italian Africa, using it as a cover to contact any resistance groups that would be amenable to socialism…
     

    A Small Fish In An Italian Pond.


    The existence of London, and the British, had initially brought about a great sense of relief for the Greeks, a joy that was viciously destroyed by the revelation that this was not the great empire they knew but instead a strange communist rump state. Furthermore the absence of the Suez limited opportunities to seek out any eastern regimes willing to contest Italian dominance. Seeing Italian domination as inevitable Prime Minister Tsaldaris officially announced his membership in the "Mortalists" faction and his desire to see Greece and Italy united as two kingdoms with one king.

    This was in direct opposition to the desires of the Regent, who had no intention of relinquishing his position to anyone but God himself. Kondylis made a number of fiery speeches denouncing the Mortalists. Lines hand been drawn in the sand but for now, neither side dared cross them for now. The Fifth Monarchists feared Italian intervention if they tried to purge the Moderates, the Moderates feared that the instability of a conflict with the Fifth Monarchists might open up a space for Republican sympathisers to worm their way back to power.

    A Deal With Devils


    Regent Kondylis, seeking to limit the influence of Italy on Greece chose to personally make a trip to the Union of Britain when he learned of their existence. Whilst he was a staunch anti-communist, he decided that the strange Britain were at the very least a less imminent threat to Greece and to his personal power.

    The offer he put on the table was that he would work with the UoB to transfer the British portion of Greece's IFN loans from Italy, who was currently claiming the whole sum, to the UoB. In exchange he wanted the Elgin Marbles and a number of other historical Greek articles returning to Greece to boost his personal prestige with the Greek people.

    The River North


    Meanwhile Prime Minister Tsaldaris sought to bring new wealth through the new city of Constantinople. He demanded that the northern ports be constructed first and a fleet of river-capable barges be constructed to open up a Danubian trade route with Germany. By opening up a trade route not dependent on the Italians he hoped to make his planned Italo-Greek union more of a partnership of equals rather than wholly dominated by the Italians.

    Soon tobacco and other cash crops would be flowing north, drastically reducing the country's debt whilst refugees and anyone seeking a life on the Anatolian frontier would trickle south. Greece's colonisation efforts could not provide the same level of state support as the Italian or German colonies could provide, but consequently they were taxed and policed less. The Greek colonies would become a haven for anyone seeking a quiet life where they could keep their heads down.

    a.n not entirely happy about this, I feel like it needs something else, but I don't really know what right now.
     
    Exiles

    The UoB would happily accept the undesirables of Germany and Italy, using them to boost populations in Irish and Mexican colonies...while also trying to entice the refugees into joining the armed forces.

    Hellas

    The Lord's Regent would be welcomed cautiously. Yes he was a monarchist, but he was one for God, and the christian church was making a surprise comeback in popularity on the Isle of Britain.

    His offer was considered, and while the income of the loans would be nice, it would ultimately be rejected on ideological grounds, through the vote was quite a narrow one...though a number of more minor artifacts would be offered as recompense.
     
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    Whilst official reports deny it, rumours swirl that Regent Kondylis locked himself inside his room for an entire day when he returned to Greece with scant little to show for his trip. When he emerged he gave a new speech denouncing the British as "Thieves, Cowards, and Communists" and announcing that it was clear no aid would come from that direction.


    He next travelled to a certain historical town in Morea, where he announced that if Greece wanted to survive as something other than an Italian province it would have to draw on its Spartan legacy. Women's right to vote would be revoked and a swathe of natalist policies would be introduced to increase the population.


    Whilst Prime Minister Tsaldaris supported the civilian ports, Regent Kondylis would push for the expansion of the shipyards in Thessaloniki to produce a new mine-laying ship and submarines. Greece had no hope beating the Regia Marina in a fair fight, but he hoped that by slowing down the Italian fleet and employing raiding tactics it would hinder any naval invasion attempts.


    The Great Blue Sea


    Both Greece and Italy had taken to expelling communists, trade unionists, and generally anyone they didn't like to remote Mediterranean islands. It was hoped that they'd die out there in the wilderness. Neither state really cared what happened out there though, as long as they didn't come home. It was out in the wilderness, travelling by dugout canoe, that the Greek left learned hungrily of the development of the Soviet Union over the years they'd missed. Of course they also learned of the left-communist critiques of the Soviets, but these were largely dismissed because the Soviets had a state and the Bordigists did not.


    Whilst the Greek and Italian communists mingled and learned from each other, there was still very little they could do. They didn't dare form a permanent settlement for fears that the Italians would bomb it, so they instead resorted to migrating between a number of temporary villages until something changes.
     
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    • Oops I could've sworn Columbia was a Popular Front government but it looks like the latest map contradicts that. Oh well, nobody called me out on it so I'm probably safe.
     
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    It's fine we'll pretend it's from a Reds! AU, btw you should avoid double posting in the future the mods don't like that.

    Btw Good job everyone on the detailed write ups!
     
    Caribbean Futuriste Year 2: Eyes Bigger Than Their Belly ​

    First contact was with the UASR, followed by Colombia, then the UoB's colony in Mexico and finally the CSA. This was something of a nightmare scenario for the ruling Légitime Défense centre: 1 regime that considered the mere existence of Caribbean Futuriste an existential threat due to its existence inciting their oppressed populations to revolt and 3 different varieties of Spartacist. Still, beggars cannot be choosers and the centrists were very much beggars, and as such they eagerly accepted the proposals of alliance from Colombia to defend against the CSA whilst all but begging the UASR and Union of Britain for a trade deal that would let them kick start their now nationalised plantations and gold mines and get the economy moving towards something akin to normal. There was an understanding that they would have to emphasise and build upon the "post-capitalist" nature of futurism to do this, at least assuming that a great power that was inclined to help them wouldn't magically turn up next door to them (and even then such an offer might have too many downsides to say agree to it), but there was also a hope to have some degree of independence from these Spartacist powers. The centre of Caribbean Futuriste politics was based on building upon the status quo of being plugged into the French economy, and didn't really have an answer as to how to guarantee an independence their economy wasn't built for. As a result, centrists politicians who weren't satisfied with simply plugging their economy into the British and American economies and hoping for the best started looking for suggestions from the more eccentric wings of the party…


    Contact was made with the European axis not long after and the Republic of Madagascar after that. The left-escadron and surrealist were thought both beneficial for different reasons. The axis loudly making their desire to get rid of their 'undesirable' populations meant more population to solidify their new territory across the rest of the West Indies and the coastline extending northwest from French Guiana, helped further by people trying to escape from the CSA (the centrists meanwhile, thought it was the best way of introducing some sanity to the surrealist and escadron communes there). The Republic of Madagascar meanwhile, was the best chance of achieving some degree of independence from the Spartacist nations they found themselves so close to: enough so they could be recognised as a junior partner rather than a colony.


    Though they were on opposite sides of the great ideological clash in their own timeline, they were both very much junior partners in the clash between their France and Germany and with the 'socialist' measures the nominal centre of the futurists had been forced to implement a lot of the ideological differences did not meaningfully exist anymore. Instead, as far as the Futurists were concerned they were surely united by their joint desire to grow past their colonised past and by having a reactionary existential threat on their borders, and it was hoped that a joint bloc might be built with the Republic of Madagascar, the territory liberated from the CSA and Italy and any other colonised countries whatever power had dropped them here saw fit to deliver to this world in future. Of course, that was just the futurist left wing: its right wing had other plans…


    Where the Futurist left wing were anaemic before the event that brought Caribbean Futuriste to this new world, the right-escadron had barely existed. The right-escadron was linked to the military and Caribbean Futuriste didn't really have much of one, and as a result they were the political tendency that didn't jump in popularity when Caribbean Futuriste arrived. No, they got their jump start when contact was made with Colombia and the UASR. It wasn't that they hated them: on the contrary, they knew war was 'the moral hygiene of a nation' and when they saw the glorious war infrastructure, the ability to turn an entire nation towards war, that militarised internationalism had forged they knew they had to have that.


    Rechristening themselves as 'militarised futurism', the Futurist right pushed for greater and greater links with these powers, to do everything to mimic their war to prepare for the inevitable Holy War (for is not all War Holy?) against the CSA. With some kind of conflict inevitable, the centrists bowed before their demands: expanding the military, requesting military assistance in training and equipment from Colombia and the UASR, and contemplating the War Plan 'Q3-Deux Nuds' that they had eagerly shoved into the centrists' faces.


    War Plan 'Q3-Deux Nuds', it's name drawn from a random letter and number and the name of a painting, was the product of a broad understanding that the independence of Caribbean Futuriste required more territory hitting the fact that they didn't have the resources to seize it, later expanding with the desire to help the Republic of Madagascar seize Italy's East African territory, all of which mixed with the derangement, unorthodox methods and complete lack of principles that the militarised futurists had. In short, due to it having been colonised by the CSA and the mainland of the CSA being presumed to be the main target of the UASR, Cuba was conceived of as the main possibility for the expansion of Caribbean Futuriste: either as a member of Caribbean Futuriste or sister republic (similar logic being applied to Italy's African colonies once relations were established with Madagascar). However, even with the CSA distracted by the invasion of the mainland the Caribbean Futuriste didn't have the manpower to seize and occupy Cuba conventionally.


    The solution proposed by the plan was found in heroin. Due to medical usage and due to the libertine attitudes of Futurist nations, Caribbean Futuriste had a small industry in it, albeit not as much as in drugs that enabled greater speed like cocaine. The plan in short was to smuggle heroin to the rank and file of the military forces stationed in Cuba (and later the Italian African colonies) with the intention of weakening the garrison there until anticolonial natives could revolt with ease: providing a beach head for Caribbean Futuriste troops to land and help them seize the territory from the weakened colonists powers. It would require setting up networks of insurgents with Cuba, Italian Cameroon, and Italian East Africa as well as massively expanding their opium production, and even assuming Madagascar were able to take on Italian East Africa the plan working would stretch Caribbean Futuriste forces deeply thin if it actually worked. However, the potential rewards were great, the enthusiasm of the militarised futurists infectious and realistically no one had an alternate way forward in a world caught between reaction and communism, so with no other option the planners and military intelligence within Caribbean Futuriste started laying the groundwork for their grand anticolonial war…
     
    Centrists with heroin? What will they do? Also it's a bit funny that the Nazis are trying to get rid of people when everyone else is screaming "please give me more people I want to do colonialism!"
     
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    Centrists with heroin? What will they do?
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    Attempt to hook Italian colonial and CSA troops on it to weaken them enough for a colonial revolt to succeed... Or at least that's the war plan. The centrists are in dire enough straits to take a risk and are listening to people who are... A bit deranged, so whether it'll work out the way they want it to is another matter.
     
    I would like to point out, the USAR and Columbian players would both have to agree with the war for the UOB to go in on the CSA. The Caribbeans doing their crazy plan though, that I think can go ahead on its own and is honestly funny
     
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    • Okay this is extremely a draft version but I managed to find a relatively easy mapmaking tool to try and figure things out in my mind. Fair warning: the borders are extremely vibes-based. German and Italian borders were inspired by the Reds! 1941 map because that was the one I found, but I don't think they got their puppets brought with them (with the stated exception of Italian Africa) so borders have shifted a bit. CSA borders were inspired by the TVtropes page but they were also given a bit of colonisation in the interior before the UASR was dropped on them. I know Russia and Japan have been mentioned but as there aren't any posts for those yet i haven't included them here. Please feel free to tell me I have got it all wrong/what needs fixing.

    Edited in a V2 with edited CSA borders, Neutrality removed, and a better Poland. This will have to be the final version for now because apparently the save/load feature doesn't work so I have to re-do it from scratch each time.
     
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    The plan in short was to smuggle heroin to the rank and file of the military forces stationed in Cuba (and later the Italian African colonies) with the intention of weakening the garrison there until anticolonial natives could revolt with ease: providing a beach head for Caribbean Futuriste troops to land and help them seize the territory from the weakened colonists powers.
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    I didn't have 'join the war on drugs on the side of the drugs' on my ISOT bingo card :o

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    Okay this is extremely a draft version but I managed to find a relatively easy mapmaking tool to try and figure things out in my mind. Fair warning: the borders are extremely vibes-based. German and Italian borders were inspired by the Reds! 1941 map because that was the one I found, but I don't think they got their puppets brought with them (with the states exception of Italian Africa) so borders have shifted a bit. CSA borders were inspired by the TVtropes page but they were also given a bit of colonisation in the interior before the UASR was dropped on them. I know Russia and Japan have been mentioned but as there aren't any posts for those yet i haven't included them here. Please feel free to tell me I have got it all wrong/what needs fixing.
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    Good job overall!

    The CSA would've recolonized Sequoyah for oil along with the lost bits of Arkansas, Virginia, and Sonora before the UASR ISOT.

    Also Switzerland was divided between Italy and Germany for settlement
     
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    Okay this is extremely a draft version but I managed to find a relatively easy mapmaking tool to try and figure things out in my mind. Fair warning: the borders are extremely vibes-based. German and Italian borders were inspired by the Reds! 1941 map because that was the one I found, but I don't think they got their puppets brought with them (with the stated exception of Italian Africa) so borders have shifted a bit. CSA borders were inspired by the TVtropes page but they were also given a bit of colonisation in the interior before the UASR was dropped on them. I know Russia and Japan have been mentioned but as there aren't any posts for those yet i haven't included them here. Please feel free to tell me I have got it all wrong/what needs fixing.
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    Very nice 👍. I think the UASR post said that the Associated Republics came with it (meaning that the UASR includes Nicaragua, Hispaniola, Hawaii and Puerto Rico) and Madagascar did grab Zanzibar on its 2nd year but other that it looks good to me
     
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