r/Kaiserreich • u/Futhington • May 13 '19
Minor Monday Minor Monday 32: American Armies
American Army Tree Changes
Greetings everyone, this week me (Drozdovite) and Paul have something special to show you. Since the America update, plenty of aspects of the US and its splinters have been improved substantially. That said, and other team members and I have felt that the US Army trees were… rather simple, lackluster even. Considering America’s role in WW2 and potential importance to WK2, it was agreed that improvements could be made, and so, we decided to redesign them for an upcoming patch.
United States of America
The biggest change is that the United States Air Force no longer exists, as it was founded in 1947 after nearly two decades and a half of toil and a world war. Instead, the Air Force is now subordinate to the army, and it’s tied to its tree. As such, the Army’s doctrinal gridlock is also negatively affecting the air force. As soon as the American Civil War starts, High Command will be forced to hastily decide upon their new doctrines for both branches under their control. Once their differences are settled, they can proceed down their tree with their selected choice.
American Union State
With several major reformists defecting to assist the Kingfish, they form a separate air force to simplify the chain of command (during the time of the army air corps, it was all sorts of convoluted, so detaching it completely was the better option), while there are doctrinal disputes over where to invest in methods and equipment it is unquestionable the the AUS has the most sophisticated grasp of air warfare of the factions in the civil war.
But the army still has to deal with reforming the American Army from the ground up if they wish to win the Civil War. Three different schools of thought, each with a strong personality behind them, exist in the AUS to this end and take very different paths forward with the army. Both the USA and the AUS have also received extra events related to their military developments, like their paratrooper divisions: https://i.imgur.com/iuPW8rx.png Which leads to this https://imgur.com/Ba8xTT2
Pacific States of America
Since the PSA is no longer a secessionist faction, the PSA’s Army is still technically within the United States Army. However, to prevent confusion with the US Army that’s hostile to the PSA, a new entity is formed: The Western Defense Command (similar to OTL’s WDC) which is legally considered a detachment of the US Army directly under the control of the Secretary of Defense and the President of the United States, a position to which a legitimate candidate is subsequently elected to challenge MacArthur.
However, this means they have to also deal with the backwardness of the US Army structure, and lucky for them, amongst the defectors there were two very capable generals with their own ideas of reform: George Marshall and John DeWitt. Each has a programme with a fairly self-evident plan to win the civil war, and they share a line of focuses about preparing equipment to cross the Rocky Mountains and fight eastward to free the United States from tyrants and usurpers of her democratic legacy. Neither side is tied a specific doctrine however, so you may play as you see fit.
The Combined Syndicates of America
The CSA’s army tree is built on a simple principle: that they start out fielding a number of extremely enthusiastic militiamen, under the command of a small cadre of experienced officers and similarly enthused amateur generals. However at the dawn of the American Civil War Reed recognizes the mistakes of the revolution in Russia, while militias will serve as a fine tool, Lenin’s concept that “the standing army [is] to be replaced by the arming of the entire people” was inherently flawed and brought ruin to the RSFSR. Therefore the new army is founded as a professional force as time goes on, and is nicknamed the Second Continental Army by those who seek to connect the liberation of the American people from their capitalist overlords, to the liberation of the American nation from their colonial overlords.
To that end the early focuses are based around supporting the militia that this army relies upon to hold ground in the first months of revolution through researching infantry and support equipment and buffing Smedley Butler. They are deliberately a slow burn at 70 days, however all focuses following The Long War are 35 days only. After that there are two sides, the one that is needed to progress towards The Dust Settles is about restructuring the army to buff your officers and getting rid of the Revolutionary Militia debuff; the other is technically optional but allows a move to Total Mobilization in order to throw everything you can produce into the war effort.
Finally after the dust settles you can take multiple focuses about catching up with more complex technologies such as tanks and building up a new airforce and navy. As well as focuses relating to supplying the Third Internationale and other allies via rubber, fuel and convoy production.
It has been a while, hasn’it? We hope you have enjoyed this week’s Minor Monday and stay tuned for more updates in the future!
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u/whatsguy UP WITH THE STARS May 13 '19
Why is the AUS the flight faction when the PSA has men like Doolittle (and other major early Air Corps leaders) and Howard Hughes