We all know that the October Revolution of 1917 is one of, if not the defining moment of the 20th century for good or for ill. No one can or will deny that for a second.
BUT WHAT IF
- Said October Revolution had not occurred at all? Or at least, not in the way we know it?
- Instead of falling into anarchy and civil war, Russia was one of the prospering victors of the Great War, profiting handsomely from the destruction of the Central Powers alongside her British ally?
- The revolution did not occur anywhere in the Old World at all, but that burgeoning bastion of liberal capitalism across the Atlantic?
The world of
Back in the USSA by Kim Newman and Eugene Byrne proposes just such a reality, where the old United States of America collapses into a civil war due to deep-seated societal tensions and an early entry and disastrous performance in the Great War, ultimately being reborn as the United Socialist States of America, the Old World empires of Britain and Russia taking up the mantle of guarding the world from the revolutionary fervor of founding father Eugene Debs and his protege-slash-successor Alphonse "Al" Capone, as well as the Tripartite Pact lead by National Socialist Germany, who seeks revenge against them both...
Based on Newman and Byrne's world and following it as much as possible (while still allowing for alternative outcomes of course!), 077 and der Kriegsherr proudly present the Back in the USSA mod for Darkest Hour!
While still very much a work-in-progress, as we have been working on it for the better part of the past year and a half, the mod is in the odd position of being almost-finished, but still with a few roadblocks, namely due to complications with the E3 map and the difficulty of converting a scenario for DH Full to it and related issues.