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Prohibition was certainly not our 'finest hour.' ;)

I have a few more ideas, and I'll post events for them after I do a little research.

Steele
 
The anarchists? That wasn't on my list, but it is now.

I have four more now... how many do we want? If I keep going too long, the US player will have two events per day. ;)

Steele
 
Two more United States events:

Code: 
#####################################################################
# 1915 Republican Nomination
#####################################################################

event = {
country = USA
id = 58558
random = no
style = 0
name = "1915 Republican Nomination"
desc = "The Republican party selects their Presidential candidate"

trigger = { government = democratic }

date = { day = 10 month = june year = 1916 }

action_a = {
name = "Nominate Charles Evans Hughes"
command = { type = sleepevent which = 58559 }
}

action_b = {
name = "Nominate Theodore Roosevelt"
command = { type = sleepevent which = 58560 }
}
}

#####################################################################
# 1916 Presidential Election - Wilson vs. Roosevelt
#####################################################################

event = {
country = USA
id = 58559
random = no
style = 0
name = "1916 Presidential Election"
desc = "The people of the United States go to the polls for the Presidential elections."

trigger = { government = democratic }

date = { day = 5 month = november year = 1916 }

action_a = {
name = "Elect Theodore Roosevelt (Republican)"
command = { type = dissent value = -5 }
command = { type = warentry value = 25 }
command = { type = headofstate which = 58095 }
command = { type = headofgovernment which = 58096 }
command = { type = foreignminister which = 58036 }
command = { type = armamentminister which = 58039 }
}

action_b = {
name = "Elect Woodrow Wilson (Democrat)"
command = { type = dissent value = -5 }
command = { type = headofstate which = 58001 }
command = { type = headofgovernment which = 58002 }
command = { type = foreignminister which = 58035 }
command = { type = armamentminister which = 58004 }
}

action_c = {
name = "No Change"
command = { }
}
}
 
I like that idea, but are we going to hav nominations for the other elections as well? It would seem kind of weird to only have 1 nomination, but 3 elections...

Steele
 
Code: 
###############################
The Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti
###############################

event = {
country = USA
id = 58428
random = no
style = 0
name = "The Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti"
desc = "Italian anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti murdered a factory paymaster and his guard. When they were tried, their radical political ideas were set aside, but the two were an integral part of the 'Red scare' of the 1920s."
date = { day = 1 month = july year = 1920 }

action_a = {
name = "Anarchist rabble."
command = { type = alignment
            which = communist
            value = -10
}
command = { type dissent
            value = 3
}
}
}

Steele
 
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Steele said:
I like that idea, but are we going to hav nominations for the other elections as well? It would seem kind of weird to only have 1 nomination, but 3 elections...

Steele
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I'm sure we will do eventually - but I thought that was the most prominent.

I think your Sacco and Vanzetti event should be labelled '58428' as opposed to '54428' - which would technically be a Swiss event by our numbering system :eek:
 
Get your pinstripe suits, Thompson guns and violin cases ready....

Code: 
# Gangsterism

event = { 
    country = USA 
    id = 58429 
    random = no 
    style = 0 

    name = "Gangsterism" 
    desc = " The National Prohibition Act or the ‘Volstead Act’ of 1919 banned
 the trade of alcohol in the United States, which has concurrently led to
 gangsterism and crime in many of America’s most densely populated cities.
  Enforcing prohibition has proven to be a difficult task for the authorities,
 largely due to the United States’ extensive coastline and border with
 Canada.  This has allowed for a growth in illegal drinking establishments in
 various cities, now termed ‘speakeasies’.  With the trade being driven
 underground, ‘moonshiners’ have taken to the distillation of alcohol, with
 bootleggers selling the alcohol as well as importing it from abroad.  In
 Chicago, the new reformist Democrat mayor, William E. Dever has vowed to
 stamp out the illegal trade, with the result that one of the city’s most
 prominent gangsters, John Torrio has moved the headquarters of his
 business to the Cicero district of Chicago with Al Capone, his ‘confrere’ and
 chief lieutenant being put in charge.  With an intense rivalry with Dion
 O’Bannion building, bloodshed can only be expected."

    trigger = {
	event = 58426 #Prohibition
	}

    date = { day = 1 month = july year = 1923 } 

    action_a = { 
        name = "Don't mess with the family."  
        command = { type = dissent value = 2 }
        command = { type = province_manpower which = 187 value = -1 } #Chicago
    } 
}
 
I know that I promised to do various events for Republican and Democrat party nominations, but I've come to the conclusion that because there are so many permutations and possibilities, that the events are too complicated to do. Also, I tend to think that the 1920 Presidential election (where such events would come into effect) was not really worthy of having so many hypothetical possibilities attached to it with regards to different presidents, when the only two conceivable different policy shifts would have been for the US to be more isolationist or less isolationist in peacetime.

As a consolation, I've written an event for Warren G. Harding snuffing it:

Code: 
# Death of Warren Harding

event = { 
    country = USA 
    id = 58556 
    random = no 
    style = 0 

    name = "President Harding dies" 
    desc = "Warren G. Harding, the President with two mistresses, who played
 poker and kept liqour in his cabinet throughout the beginnings of prohibition
 has died of a heart attack.  Upon winning the Presidential election, Harding
 appointed many of his old colleagues - the 'Ohio gang' - into important
 positions, even though few had any political talent.  Although Harding did
 not know it, corruption was rife in his administration, with one member
 involved in selling public oil fields in return for personal loans and another
 running profitable drugs and alcohol operations." 

    trigger = { 
        government = democratic
	headofgovernment = 58033 #Harding
	random = 80
    } 

    date = { day = 2 month = august year = 1923 } 

    action_a = { 
        name = "Harding dies - Silent Cal becomes President"  
	command = { type = headofgovernment which = 58034 } #Coolidge becomes President
	command = { type = headofstate which = 58032 }
        command = { type = sleepminister which = 58031 } #Harding dies
        command = { type = sleepminister which = 58033 }
	command = { type = dissent value = 1 }
    } 
}
 
Perhaps a fine brand of Appalachian whiskey?
 
Shadow Knight said:
Perhaps a fine brand of Appalachian whiskey?
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Being a consumate whisky drinker, I ought to know :eek:o

This event is an alternative 1915 Republican nomination. Essentially, if the Germans proved unrepentant after the Lusitania and just carried on with unrestricted submarine warfare, then the chance that Teddy Roosevelt gets nominated as a candidate above Charles Evans Hughes increases, as opposed to the other way round. Admittedly, many in the Republican party were still very anti-Roosevelt after he ran against Taft in 1912 and split the right-wing vote to allow Wilson in, but I think they might realise a good candidate when they see it, especially given Germany's aggressive stance.

Code: 
# 1915 Republican nomination - Hughes vs Roosevelt (Ahistorical - US keen to enter war)

event = { 
    country = USA 
    id = 58557 
    random = no 
    style = 0 

    name = "EVT_58558_NAME" 
    desc = "EVT_58558_DESC" 

    trigger = { 
        government = democratic
	event = 58508 #Germany recalcitrant after the Lusitania
    } 

    date = { day = 9 month = june year = 1916 } 

    action_a = { 
        name = "ACTIONNAME58558B" #Teddy Roosevelt
        command = { type = sleepevent which = 58560 } #Wilson vs Hughes
        command = { type = sleepevent which = 58558 } #Hughes vs Roosevelt Republican Nomination (Hughes likely to win)	  
    } 
    action_b = { 
        name = "ACTIONNAME58558A" #Charles Evans Hughes
        command = { type = sleepevent which = 58559 } #Wilson vs Roosevelt
        command = { type = sleepevent which = 58558 } #Hughes vs Roosevelt Republican Nomination (Hughes likely to win)	
    } 
}
 
And if Roosevelt becomes President, then I think we can just assume that the United States would get involved ;)

Code: 
# Teddy takes America in

event = { 
    country = USA 
    id = 58507 
    random = no 
    style = 0 

    name = "EVT_58507_NAME" 
    desc = "EVT_58507_DESC"

    trigger = {
	event = 58502 #Lusitania
	headofgovernment = 58096 #TR
	war = { country = GER country = ENG }
	alliance = { country = FRA country = ENG }
	NOT = { alliance = { country = FRA country = USA } }
	NOT = { alliance = { country = GER country = USA } }
	}

    date = { day = 29 month = january year = 1917 } 
    offset = 1 
    deathdate = { day = 1 month = january year = 1925 }	  

    action_a = { 
        name = "ACTIONNAME58507A" 
        command = { type = alliance which = FRA } 
    }
}
 
Can't argue with that Allenby. If Roosevelt had his druthers the US would have been over there once the fighting began. I do hope that you have a better text description that "Teddy takes America in"...to be honest it sounds kind of dirty. :)
 
Shadow Knight said:
"Teddy takes America in"...to be honest it sounds kind of dirty. :)
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er.....quite :wacko:

Here's the description:

"True to his promise that he would propel the United States to a more prominent position in the world, President Theodore Roosevelt has decided to end America's isolation with regard to the world war, and lend the country's support to the Allied cause. Always critical of the previous administration's handling of European affairs, it would seem that Roosevelt will revive his old policy of projecting his country's might across the world, despite the insistance of many Republicans that the United States retreat into isolation."
 
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