Peshawar Lancers/Liberty's Crystal Skeleton Mod for Victoria II

[Ephraim Ben Raphael]

So I'm working on a mod for V2 based on General Finley's great Liberty's Crystal Skeleton TL which is based on SM Stirling's Peshawar Lancers TL. It's my first real mod ever, so I'm still figuring things out as I go along. Here's North America;

The more northernly Mexican state is the Kingdom of Northern Mexico, the Yucatan is Communist, because I didn't want two monarchist Mexicos. The middle Mexico is a Presidential Dictatorship. Once I get around to adding wars and triggers I want to make it so their all at war with eachother and if either of the two legacy states occupies Mexico City it allows them to annex Mexico and become Mexico.

Jamaica is an independent monarchy and controls the Cayman islands+ Dutch islands. It's also a sattelite of Canada. You can't see on the map but the Western British Empire has cores over all of Canada and the former British Carribean and I want to eventually add an event allowing Canada to form the WBE.

The capital of the USA is Montgomery, Alabama, I may or may not later add an event permitting them to build Hayesburg. It's also a democracy with no voting (to represent the state of emergency following the Fall) but with 50% liberal in the upper house so the player can choose whether to restore the republic or not.

EDIT: It occurs to me that I probably should have asked General Finley for permission before starting to co-opt his ideas. I shall do that now.

 

[Color-Copycat]

What happened to Cuba?

 

[Ephraim Ben Raphael]

What happened to Cuba?

The interior was spared by the tsunami but in V2 there are no interior provinces so I just went with the most western part of the island.

 

[mowque]

Look's good, can we see the rest of the world?

 

[Ephraim Ben Raphael]

Look's good, can we see the rest of the world?

Sure, as soon as I have more done I'll post it.

 

[Ephraim Ben Raphael]

Aaaand here's South America. You can't see but Patagonia is also empty.

 

[sphinxeguy]

Keep it up, would like to see the rest of the world!

 

[Ephraim Ben Raphael]

Keep it up, would like to see the rest of the world!

I'm just starting on Europe so that'll be up as soon as it's finished!

 

[Stonewall]

Never read the books, but won't the USA be OP with most of it's original land intact?

 

[Ephraim Ben Raphael]

Never read the books, but won't the USA be OP with most of it's original land intact?

In the original book the USA collapsed completely leaving an India based Britain, a North African based France, Japan, Brazil and a Caliphate as the world powers. This scenario is more based on Liberty's Crystal Skeleton which allows the survical of an industrialized United States as a counter to the more powerful British Raj.

 

[Stonewall]

Ah, another of those Euroscrews?
Well good luck with the mod, i'll give it a spin when you finish

 

[Ephraim Ben Raphael]

Ah, another of those Euroscrews?
Well good luck with the mod, i'll give it a spin when you finish

Less of a euroscrew in this version, I promise.

 

[Ephraim Ben Raphael]

Europe at long last! (I had some trouble with removing Prussia so it took a while).

The French capital used to be Marseilles until Socialist rebels siezed control of European France. The Triple Monarchy is a personal union between Austria, Hungary, and the Empire of Germany forged by Bismarck during the chaos of the fall after the Kaiser's family fled to South Africa. There's a new Papal State formed out of conservative French Catholics who rebelled against the Commune and the Russian capital is Kiev.

 

[Ephraim Ben Raphael]

Middle East.

The Ottoman Empire fractured during the chaos of the Fall and though the Sultan still controls some of the Anatolian coast, everywhere else is divided among various Emirates and successor states. I have yet to do anything east of Persia.

 

[sum sine regno]

So is Trebzon Turkish or Greek, because Turkish its trabzon, and greek Trebizon? Or is it a state for both, because in the original timeline the state there is Pontic.

 

[Ephraim Ben Raphael]

So is Trebzon Turkish or Greek, because Turkish its trabzon, and greek Trebizon? Or is it a state for both, because in the original timeline the state there is Pontic.

It's Turkish. I used the spelling "Trebzon" that the games uses, presmably it's just a slightly different transliteration. And since the POD for this TL is in 1878 it would be hard to make an Anatolian state Greek.

 

[sum sine regno]

It's Turkish. I used the spelling "Trebzon" that the games uses, presmably it's just a slightly different transliteration. And since the POD for this TL is in 1878 it would be hard to make an Anatolian state Greek.

If I am not mistaken it could be quite easy as long as a Pontic revolt was propped by up the dozen or so Orthodox nations nearby; and then the Greeks (and other Christians that wanted a state) of Anatolia and perhaps Southern Russia left for that state, seeing as how the Ottoman Empire fell, someone could make a land grab. Wasn't Belgium like that?

I am wondering, about the ERE/Byzantine Empire, did you change the trigger or remove it? I noticed in many mods with a stronger Greece they changed the trigger so it wouldn't instantly become Byzantium, or too easily become Byzantium.

 

[Ephraim Ben Raphael]

If I am not mistaken it could be quite easy as long as a Pontic revolt was propped by up the dozen or so Orthodox nations nearby; and then the Greeks (and other Christians that wanted a state) of Anatolia and perhaps Southern Russia left for that state, seeing as how the Ottoman Empire fell, someone could make a land grab. Wasn't Belgium like that?

Maybe, but that's not the case here. This is suppose to begin no more than a decade after the Fall so Christian powers such as Russia and the Triple Monarchy are only just beginning to focus on things other than food and maintaining order. Armenia and Georgia just wrenched themselves free from Russia and don't really have the power to support a puppet state in Anatolia, nor do the Greeks (who don't have much of a presence in that part of the country). Basically the game starts just when landgrabs start to be feasible so that the player can engage in them. In any case the Hashemites have been carving quite a swath out of the former OE as have the Mameluks in Iraq.

What's that about Belgium?

I am wondering, about the ERE/Byzantine Empire, did you change the trigger or remove it? I noticed in many mods with a stronger Greece they changed the trigger so it wouldn't instantly become Byzantium, or too easily become Byzantium.

I haven't sarted modding triggers yet, but I plan to permit Greece to become the Byzantine Empire as it is. It's really just a cosmetic change, and having taken Istanbul/Constantinople they might be motivated to do it.

 

[sum sine regno]

That makes sense, and so far I think you are doing a good job so far, I was actually waiting for this.

Well about Belgium, I am talking about the domination of the Walloons, who aren't the majority, and if I am not mistaken the Belgian Revolution was not a popular one.

 

[Ephraim Ben Raphael]

That makes sense, and so far I think you are doing a good job so far, I was actually waiting for this.

Thank you, I put a lot of effort into it.

Well about Belgium, I am talking about the domination of the Walloons, who aren't the majority, and if I am not mistaken the Belgian Revolution was not a popular one.

I can't claim to be an expert on Belgium or the Belgian Revolution, but it's my understanding that the Wallons made up at least 40-45% of the population (for whom the revolution was definitely popular) whereas in the Trebzon/Trabzon region the Greeks made up no more than 1-2% of the population by the 19th century.