1933 A Nation Divided "Kickstarter" goes live

[commissarmoody]

Provisional Pledge Levels and Stretch Goals for the Kickstarter:

Level 1. Basic Support Level
Level 2. "1933: A Nation Divided, Volume 1"
Level 3. Volume 1, +2 Propaganda Posters of Choice
Level 4. 2 Copies of Volume 1, 4 Posters
Level 5. 1 Book, 2 Posters, 2 Squads of any one type (Minutemen or Militia
:evel 6. 2 Books, 4 Posters, 4 Squads (2 of each type)
Level 7. Everything at 6 plus an M1917 Six Ton Tank
Level 8. 2 Books, 4 Posters, 5 Squads of Each, 2 M1917s
Level 9 (Limited). Everything at 8 plus MkVIII Liberty Heavy Tank
Level 10. Everything in 8 plus Stanley Steam tank and Mark VIII Liberty.
Level 11. "Heroes of the Second American Civil War" Everything in 10, plus the likeness of yourself or a loved one sculpted as part of a personalities pack as a Minuteman, Militia, Silvershirt, or Regular Army/Marine in WW1 era uniform.

Stretch Goal

(We are fairly certain that the Silvershirts would be our first stretch goal; not sure what order the others would follow in.)

Posting this up on behalf of "1933: A nation Divided"
Rough outline to the future kick starter.

1. Silvershirts (3 Troops + 1 Command)
2. Guide to Armor, Volume 1
3. Ford 3 Ton Tank
4. LMGs for Silvershirts, Militia, and Minutemen
5. Heavy Weapons support for Silvershirts, Militia, and Minutemen
6. US Troops in Interwar Uniform
7. Personalities Pack: Lindbergh, Truman, Patton, Dickie Washington
8. Lindbergh Youth (3 Troops, +1 Command)
10. Porter Naval Gun Truck
11. Lindbergh Youth LMG
12. Lindbergh Youth Heavy Weapons

Comments, questions, etc. are welcome

[carlos marighela]

Depending on who sculpts 'em I might be interested in interwar US army.  BTW you really do need a Smedley Butler in your personality pack.

[commissarmoody]

Agreed, I already suggested Mr. Butler.

[mysteriousbill]

Sounds good to me, when do I sign up?

[Lord of Jerwood]

will be up for this if I can see the sculpt also another one for Butler  

would also make the US troops in interwar uniforms the first stretch goal as there's probably more demand.  

would also recommenced putting this on the VBCW forum. 

[commissarmoody]

Forgot to post up the link to the FB page  

https://www.facebook.com/pages/1933-A-Nation-Divided/333543480090255?fref=ts

Let them know what you think.
Also it would seem that they had decided to post up there own link with all the info already.
http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=52559.0

[commissarmoody]

Also feel free to share it on the VBCW forum if you want.

[HerbyF]

Navel crews for gun boats would be useful. Coppers & company men. Union brigades & Wobblies.

[northtroll]

Having grown up in the Pacific Northwest, this idea is very interesting. I'm not sure what scale of forces you have in mind, but clashes between armed longshoremen and company police and the National Guard wouldn't be too far off the mark. Did you know that the Longshoreman's union paint their floors red to remember their fallen brothers during some of these riots? Red is for their spilled blood so that they never forget. I imagine that lots of the prohibition gangsters and police would be useful, as well as the pulp era soldiers, sailors, and marines. I wonder if the National Guard was still using F-17 tanks out here?

[Cory]

Northtroll, at least two 17's were kept in the Tri cities and Spokane area to use against Wobblies. I never could find out if they were regular army or national guard as the sources are suspect, but they were used for parades and such as a reminder to everyone involved. They may not have been operational or even finished.

One of the tanks even had Matewan scrawled across it and was allegedly hauled up and down the Milwaukee railroad during worker disputes in '36 or '37.

[commissarmoody]

I actually did know this ,
I did a write up for an Independent Seattle, with pretty much the whole Puget Sound/Cascade region using the dockworkers strike as an excuse for  splitting off into what is considered "RED" Territory by the emergency government.
It of course is not a clean break with small conclaves remaining loyal to the government. So worker/miner/logger Militias, fighting against "Silver shirts" and each other.  (Biggest problem they have is that the city can not decided if they want to Constitutionalists, communist, anarchist or socialist)
I grew up in Spokane, before my folks got stationed over in Germany so I have a soft spot of the north west.

 In the my current write ups  Portland and Spokane are pro government. But aside from that, most of the rest of the Northwest is an open book! So feel free to contribute your own ideas to the cause for a future book, or just make your own write ups as you see fit.

Also We are posting up a lot of fluff on the 1933 A nation divided Facebook page. Feel free to contribute.

[Doc Twilight]

Smedley Butler is certainly important, and we will find a way to get him in.

The Northwest will certainly be covered, likely in Volume 3. Volume 2 is going to cover the Northeast.

As for the sculptor, I will likely be sending at least some of the figure work to Leandro Ventic, who has proven to be both reliable and talented. Please join us over on the Facebook page if you have any suggestions, questions, or would simply like to follow along with the fluff.


-Alex

[HerbyF]

Portland and Spokane are pro government.

Historically Portland was a union stronghold surrounded by conservatives both up & down river, even right across the river in Vancouver WA.

[commissarmoody]

So your saying not much has changed then. 
I was just going of the idea that even though they are pro union there relative strong KKK population would be folded into the silver shirts. Thus preventing the unions and small group of active communist from forming more then a flying columns.
But if you can write up a good story about the unions showing solidarity with there working class brothers to the north, we would be more then happy to give it a read.

[commissarmoody]

Call it the Red coast