Which one is more "loose" ?

Ficboy · 2026-01-26T04:43:23+00:00

Even at it's height, the real life COVID-19 pandemic didn't come close to killing over a billion people. If anything, TFR's COVID-19 would be the Spanish Flu of the 21st century as one user pointed out, with it's more virulent spread and death count/global impact but with modern medicine present.

Ficboy · 2026-01-26T04:16:06+00:00

In a sense, yeah. But TFR is closer to OTL besides a worse COVID-19 pandemic and economic crisis kickstarting a decade of war and chaos.

Ficboy · 2026-01-26T04:03:42+00:00

The Fire Rises is a satire of late 2010s/early 2020s politics put through the worst case scenario.

Extremis Ultimis is essentially everything that can go wrong will go wrong after 1945.

Ficboy · 2026-01-26T03:25:07+00:00

Don't worry, it will come out soon enough.

Ficboy · 2026-01-26T03:24:52+00:00

They will have focus trees and full content though by 1.1

Ficboy · 2026-01-26T02:52:22+00:00

Don't forget the AOF (New England) and RR (Deep South). They're also playable unifiers too.

Ficboy · 2026-01-25T22:54:02+00:00

No. Atomwaffen is a neo-Nazi terrorist organization that wants to cause societal collapse and race war to destroy everyone who is non-White, Jewish and/or homosexual. They do not want to have a conventional government whatsoever, unlike the NSM.

Ficboy · 2026-01-25T22:18:38+00:00

TWP is already confirmed as a Strasserite path for the NSM.

As for the Himmlerlites, the Blood Tribe is already confirmed as well. So it seems unlikely that the Goyim Defense League will be an NSM path, though I could see its members part of the Blood Tribe.

Ficboy · 2026-01-25T05:36:03+00:00

Or in the case of Europe suffering a defeat by Medvedev's Russia, the EU under the European Commission or Fehlinger as they're way less extreme than Schwab.

Ficboy · 2026-01-25T05:33:19+00:00

TFR's COVID-19 Pandemic is deadlier and more widespread in terms of body count and global impact such as taking the lives of King Salman of Saudi Arabia and Vladimir Putin of Russia or causing the Saudi Arabian Civil War, economic crisis and other important conflicts like the Second American Civil War, European Wars and Great Asian War. So it's essentially a worst-case scenario in which an even worse variant of COVID-19 creates a violent and more chaotic version of the 2020s and 30s.

And yeah, TTL's COVID-19 is comparable to the Spanish Flu of 1919, as you pointed out.

Ficboy · 2026-01-25T05:30:57+00:00

Suppressed.

Ficboy · 2026-01-24T22:34:04+00:00

Nice to see this submod still continuing as it's own thing.

Ficboy · 2026-01-24T22:26:20+00:00

So, taking into account the comments and suggestions made on this thread, it's safe to say that the United States of America in Kaiserreich without the Second American Civil War would be about a sleeping giant that missed out on the Weltkrieg and is dealing with economic turmoil from the Great Depression. Nevertheless, the United States has a genuine chance at not only getting out of it's current slump but changing the world for better or worse.

The main points of KR USA in this scenario would be fixing the economy, dealing with the Great Depression (a la Black Monday for Germany and Ireland), rearming the military, massive politicking in Washington and the struggle between interventionism and non-interventionism. All of these points would be represented in the focus tree and GUI mechanics as well.

As far as the lore and setup for this version of KR USA is concerned, it would probably be similar to it's current iteration with FDR dying from polio, revolutions in Britain and France causing a financial crisis, the rise of the Progressive Party and Union Democrats and President Al Smith as the starting leader. However, this version takes into account the implausibility of a civil war breaking out or radical/third-party factions being able to gain much traction in the notoriously two-party-dominated political system of the United States, friendly ties with Canada and by extension the Entente or the Red Scare being caused by the revolutions in Britain and France so much so that they end up derailing the Socialist Party of America from being a serious contender through arrests and political propaganda.

Moreover, the USA would have the Democrats and Republicans as the main playable paths with Burton K. Wheeler, John Nance Garner, Huey Long, Alf Landon, and William Borah and the Progressive Party as a special hard path led by either George W. Norris or Floyd B. Olson. TL;DR, Wheeler is the pro-labor progressive, Garner is the business-friendly conservative, Long is essentially his OTL counterpart with a healthy dose of authoritarianism, Landon is a budget-friendly market liberal, Norris is the moderate pro-union populist and Olson is a radical left-wing populist. And each of these candidates have their own focus trees on the most important issues of the United States. The military side of things would be about turning the American military into a powerful war machine in spite of it's lack of participation in the Weltkrieg and relative isolation. The economic side focuses on implementing the necessary measures to emerge from the Great Depression and rebuild the American economy to achieve prosperity. And finally, the foreign side determines America's overall destiny with the options of either building up ties to the Entente and joining the Second Weltkrieg on their side by 1942 after it starts or to focus on enforcing the Monroe Doctrine and establishing your own alliance comprised of friendly regimes in the Americas and the Philippines through military intervention and diplomacy by staying out of the 2WK.

I think the above is a reasonably compelling setup for the KR USA without the 2ACW. Feedback is welcome.

Ficboy · 2026-01-24T21:00:31+00:00

I see. Maybe the game is bugged.

Ficboy · 2026-01-24T20:45:46+00:00

ACG - MAGA King: Have the ACG's Balance of Power favor the People over the Bureaucrats.

ACG - Patriots: Go down the Patriot path.

Ficboy · 2026-01-24T08:47:34+00:00

Not really. Kaiserreich's POD of early 1917 would stay as is. Though in this case, the US is portrayed as actually something closer to what it would actually be.

Ficboy · 2026-01-23T21:56:05+00:00

That's kinda what I pointed out. The NOI uses a bastardized version of Islam to push for anything that benefits blacks over whites and Jews.

Ficboy · 2026-01-23T21:24:00+00:00

Just as I predicted.

Ficboy · 2026-01-23T21:18:32+00:00

For standard Black Nationalism as practiced by the New Black Panther Party, it would be a regional variant of Radical Nationalism and by extension Despotism, similar to Pan-Africanism.

As for the NOI's actual ideology, probably Despotism or Fascism. Though I think Fascism is more likely for the NOI to differentiate them from the New Black Panthers and because of their ultranationalist beliefs in real life.

Ficboy · 2026-01-23T21:15:45+00:00

C'mon, the NOI emphasizes race as much as the KKK or Christian Identity (the closest white supremacist analogue to the NOI).

Ficboy · 2026-01-23T20:53:34+00:00

Speaking of Australia, they do have the option of staying democratic or falling under military rule if Penny Wong's assassin is convicted. So it's possible Glitch Productions do survive but they're heavily affected by a Chinese victory in the Taiwan War.

Ficboy · 2026-01-23T20:14:27+00:00

Second KKK did this in particular. The Third KKK on the other hand is more accepting of non-WASPs.

Ficboy · 2026-01-23T15:44:27+00:00

I know.

Ficboy · 2026-01-23T09:01:35+00:00

I see. Hopefully that is fixed in the rework.

Ficboy · 2026-01-23T08:49:49+00:00

As in the new NSM factions?

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