First of all, my contact with the TL 191 came first from the Hearts of Iron 2 mod, the Arsenal of Democracy mod, then the series made by the althistoryhub and Emperor Tigerstar, this forum, the series TVtropes, some reviews I readed and critics like the video below
Years ago I found a site that discussed some major roles in the history, from the military perspective like the invasion starting at the same day as barbarossa, to the fact that the CSA managed to keep fighting even after such massive defeat on the siege of Pittsburg, that in any normal case would collapse the whole fighting effort as the video above says. As the video above that site commented on the impossibility to make the genocide of the afro americans without collapsing the southern economy, so based on that I decided to come with a small scenario on the TL 191 but slightly more realistic, and I want to know what could happen in such conditions.
The rise of Featherston goes as the usual timeline 191, but instead of genociding the black population, he adopts a system close to the slave labour used by the OTL nazis to heavily increases the industrial output, this might leader to a "Featherston who" scenario since that would be against his nature, so then let be it, maybe he hits his head and got this realization that it would cripple his country or simple has a different development. The rearmment of the CSA goes as on the normal TL and the USA politics start as the same. Just as on the books the CSA invades on 1941. The campaign progresses steadily as on the books with the southern armies arriving at the great lakes and cutting the USA in two, while the canadian uprising happens as on the timeline, just like the Utah uprising. Daniel's MacArthur invasion of Virginia flops and then in 1942 the second year of the campaign start, with the Pittsburg offensive. The major PoD on the Pittsburg offensive is that the original confederate plan to encircle the city passes, maybe due a increased number of tanks and airpower since the increased industrial output (due inhuman means), cutting off the city, it's large industrial output and the city surrenders after months of relentless artillery and air bombing.
What happens next? Does the CSA still loses but later, or it wins the war? If they win what are the conditions? Could some sort of peace treaty be signed as Featherston offered to Al Smith? Maybe the loss of Pitssburg is enought to get Al Smith to give up and accept a peace deal, who knows?
Years ago I found a site that discussed some major roles in the history, from the military perspective like the invasion starting at the same day as barbarossa, to the fact that the CSA managed to keep fighting even after such massive defeat on the siege of Pittsburg, that in any normal case would collapse the whole fighting effort as the video above says. As the video above that site commented on the impossibility to make the genocide of the afro americans without collapsing the southern economy, so based on that I decided to come with a small scenario on the TL 191 but slightly more realistic, and I want to know what could happen in such conditions.
The rise of Featherston goes as the usual timeline 191, but instead of genociding the black population, he adopts a system close to the slave labour used by the OTL nazis to heavily increases the industrial output, this might leader to a "Featherston who" scenario since that would be against his nature, so then let be it, maybe he hits his head and got this realization that it would cripple his country or simple has a different development. The rearmment of the CSA goes as on the normal TL and the USA politics start as the same. Just as on the books the CSA invades on 1941. The campaign progresses steadily as on the books with the southern armies arriving at the great lakes and cutting the USA in two, while the canadian uprising happens as on the timeline, just like the Utah uprising. Daniel's MacArthur invasion of Virginia flops and then in 1942 the second year of the campaign start, with the Pittsburg offensive. The major PoD on the Pittsburg offensive is that the original confederate plan to encircle the city passes, maybe due a increased number of tanks and airpower since the increased industrial output (due inhuman means), cutting off the city, it's large industrial output and the city surrenders after months of relentless artillery and air bombing.
What happens next? Does the CSA still loses but later, or it wins the war? If they win what are the conditions? Could some sort of peace treaty be signed as Featherston offered to Al Smith? Maybe the loss of Pitssburg is enought to get Al Smith to give up and accept a peace deal, who knows?