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What surprises me is that I've not come across any American game that applies this rule set to America. I would have thought this would be an Ideal 'what if 'template given you have the Mine Wars as a starting point.Mark.
I think you'll find 'Sea Lion' holds that position.
There was a Kickstarter a couple of years ago called 1933: A Nation Divided, which was essentially the 2nd ACW 1933-1939 but it failed to take off.I am sure there was an SPI board game (many years ago) based on the ACW ending in a stalemate,in other words the Confederate States survived, only for war to break out again in the 1930s.
french speaking.Russians from Alaska, the native peoples.and American annex conspiracy?
Would some of these be seized by other nations in the power vacuum created by a civil war in Britain in the 1930's? Would some go independent? Would others collapse into local civil wars? Would some of these places send forces to fight in Britain? Would the USA intervene if, for example, Japan grabbed Hong Kong and Singapore?
The problem with the VACW is that there is no agreement on when it would start, the cause, the core groups etc. The Bonus March could work, but then you would have to kill off President Hoover and have MacArthur make a grab for power. The Court Packing controversy with FDR could also work, but it's a little boring. At any rate, any background needs to have factions, but not a defined map where this faction controls these states and that faction controls these states etc. Instead it needs to end where people are taking up arms and skirmish at the local level.
I think VBCW captured a chunk of 'popular imagination' and the bandwagon variants could not really offer anything fresh and new in the same way it had. I actually thought the U.S. one had some legs, but as noted 'big business vs the people' was probably a better hook than pure political factions. You've got guys like Huey Long in the mix, what could go wrong? Most people can imagine the 'political' violence escalating to all-out war in the U.S. I think, not to mention it was the era of Gangsters and Pulp heroes; so there was a historical flat line of violence in any case. Imagining Bertie Wooster and chums biffing up the BUF, or giving those Bolshies a damn good thrashing, creates far more cognitive dissonance, which is perhaps part of the appeal.
Foreign powers unloaded all their old surplus arms and equipment and worn out tanks, in return for, or the promise of, Spanish gold, yet still paid lip-service to international opinion and the Non-Intervention Committee.Only the 'Emperor of the Med', cast adrift from the League of Nations, actually sent a formal military body there and even then had to excuse them as just 'enthusiastic volunteers'... they also all signed-up with the Spanish Foreign Legion (as did the Condor Legion) when they got off the boat, thus becoming actual 'Spanish' soldiers in the eyes of the law. Internationalists on the other hand risked arrest by the French for attempting to cross into Spain illegally and quite often were arrested in Spain for actually doing so and having no papers.All things to consider before you boot volunteers and your best kit onto a boat and then send them off to a sovereign country at war.