TL-191: Featherston's Finest - Uniforms, Weapons, and Vehicles of the CSA and Freedom Party

As I understand, Hughes Aircraft is one of the main CSA Aircraft producers. (based more on Howard Hughes being born in Texas, i reckon, as the IRL Hughes aircraft was based in California)

Vought did have an HQ in Texas, but Chance M. Vought was actually born in New York State, so he'd be for the "Yankees" and so would his company.

Fairchild is another Southern US company, based in San Antonio, Texas, and it was in operation from 1925, so i could see them being mixed up in the "Confederate Citrus company" shenanigans and other such subterfuge.

Well, seems like that I have missed something as I was doing research on the Vought Company.
 
Had an idea for the CSA to use licence-built Panhard 179s as recon vehicles, they could use the Zouave name - someone suggested that would be good for something adopted from France.

For 12.7mm MG cartridges, the South could always use the Vickers .50 (12.7x81mm) cartridge, adopted for whatever Southern!Browning they are using.

I would also call the CSA STuG equivalent the Rifleman, while the jagdpanther counterpart would be the Sharpshooter but that's my opinion.
 
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Some weapon that the Confederates might end up using, a Grenade Launcher for their Tredegar Rifles.
 
Had an idea for the CSA to use licence-built Panhard 179s as recon vehicles, they could use the Zouave name - someone suggested that would be good for something adopted from France.

For 12.7mm MG cartridges, the South could always use the Vickers .50 (12.7x81mm) cartridge, adopted for whatever Southern!Browning they are using.

I would also call the CSA STuG equivalent the Rifleman, while the jagdpanther counterpart would be the Sharpshooter but that's my opinion.
Maybe the Stug is the "Boone" after Daniel Boone? I named the Jagdpanther the "Elephant" in my drawings of CSA barrels.
 
Some fictional barrels inspired by TL-191

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Model of a Black Bear Barrel, a legendary Confederate barrel whose design was copied from U.S. barrels.

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Model of a U.S.-inspired Confederate Jaguar Barrel. These types mostly saw action in Sonora, Chihuahua, and western Texas.

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Model of a Confederate Barrel, often called the "Grey-Fox Barrel" or the "M4 Jackson Barrel"
 
OTL that happened often in WW II: the Germans and Japanese often had sailors fighting as infantry-either in extremis as in the Germans' case, or in the Japanese, "Naval Guard Units"-coastal defense and AA units that defended many a Pacific Island. They also had the "Special Naval Landing Force" sailors trained as infantry to spearhead amphibious landings; when writers refer to "Japanese Marines," it's these guys.
 
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Here's something that I could see being use during the SGW, Barrel Turret Bunkers, more so with the Confederates as an attempt to impede the Northern Invasion of the South.
 
OTL that happened often in WW II: the Germans and Japanese often had sailors fighting as infantry-either in extremis as in the Germans' case, or in the Japanese, "Naval Guard Units"-coastal defense and AA units that defended many a Pacific Island. They also had the "Special Naval Landing Force" sailors trained as infantry to spearhead amphibious landings; when writers refer to "Japanese Marines," it's these guys.

Not to mention the Soviet/Russian Morskaya Pekhota (which Vasily Zaitsev started off in), and ongoing USN/RN use of ship-generated landing parties where the Marines would be a hammer too heavy (mostly in the pre-WWII era and somewhat afterward). It's actually a pretty normal thing for many navies, units like the USMC are distinctive in part due to their size and separate identity compared to many other such branches.
 
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Some more Confederate Small Arms

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Ferguson Model G-55 SMG - Used by the Confederate Police and the Freedom Party Guards.
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Tredegar M1916/42 LMG - Originally an aircraft mounted machine-gun, adapted for ground use when the 7.7mm Confederate round was deemed obsolete in the AA role.
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Tredegar M1916 Aircraft Machine Gun - Developed in the early 1930s, the design was used on many Confederate designs with a high rate of fire.
 
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M9 General Jackson (The Stonewall).

In the spring of 1944 the Confederate States of America was facing certain defeat but CS President Jake Featherstone refused to accept the reality of the situation and continued to draw up new battle plans and ordering new weapons systems into production, there were few in the CSA who tried to get him to see reason.

Great Britain for one did all they could to encourage the CS leader that all was not lost and continued to share new technologies and weapons with their CS ally.
One new weapon that was given to the CS was the long barreled 77 HV cannon, Featherstone immediately ordered a new barrel be designed to take the gun and be put into production as soon as possible.

The new barrel was designed with as much proven technology as the CS had accumulated during the war but their was debate over which tech's to use which to forgo but in the end a considerably decent medium barrel was built and was accepted into service in late 1944.
CSA President Jake Featherstone was known for not being one who reveled in the glorification of the Generals of the War of Succession but in spite of this (or perhaps because of it) the new barrel was dubbed the "M9 Gen. Jackson" and was nicknamed the "Stonewall" by CS troops.

It was rumored after the war by those of the High Command that survived the war that Featherstone after learning of the new barrel's name, proclaimed that this was the final act of betrayal by his unfaithful and unworthy countrymen.
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It was rumored after the war that when Featherstone learned of the new barrel's name that he proclaimed that this was the final act of betrayal by his unfaithful and unworthy countrymen.
After the war I thought he was shot by Scipio's son in Madison to be fair though I haven't read all the books.
 
After the war I thought he was shot by Scipio's son in Madison to be fair though I haven't read all the books.
I meant to write that it was rumored by those who survived the war that this was one of his final statements before the end of the war, my bad.
 
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An illustration of a Freedom Party Guards Field Officer in his grey uniform and without his camouflage belonging to the 1st Honor Guards Division, circa 1943.
 
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The Freedom Party Guards, in their role as Featherston's personal bodyguards, still retained this role with gusto even as their duties began to branch outwards. Close to the President's office were the "Cardinals" division, named for their symbol, the State Bird of Virginia. With Featherston's sympathies to the state after his wartime role in the First Richmond Howitzers, he made sure the division was made up of "Hearty Virginia Stock" and personally ensured no "Highbrow Fourth Generation Fops" were enlisted into the division.
Physical requirements meant each member of the unit was the exact same height as Featherston, and were well-built but not muscular (It wouldn't do to make Featherston look like "a shrimpy farmboy" when they were escorting him up close) and had prior combat experience, either in the Great War or in Mexico afterwards.

The unit earned the nickname "Bloody Birds" for their rumored side duty of silencing critics of the Featherston Regime. It was said men from this unit were the ones who personally slew or arrested Whig officials who criticized the Featherston Regime after Jake's election, and hunted down Willy Knight's co-conspirators after the Stalwart leader's coup attempt.

The 3rd was among the few FPG units not deployed as combat troops or as guards over the Population Reduction camps, being kept close to Richmond to both protect Featherston and ensure a core of loyal men were close by in the event of a coup or, as the war progressed, Yankee Breakthrough.

the Unit met their end in the battle of Richmond, where the last 300 of the division held off Yankee troops from taking the Confederate Capitol Building for a good three days after the city's nominal surrender. Not one of the men surrendered.

their Red-winged Cap Badges are among the most prized of FPG emblems to collectors and museums, as so few were minted and even fewer were captured intact, as the guardsmen tried to ensure the badges were destroyed as to not end up as "Yankee Souvenirs."
 
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What I envision a Freedom Party Guardsmen who were serving as Concentration and Death Camp Guards would looks like.

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The Freedom Party Guards, in their role as Featherston's personal bodyguards, still retained this role with gusto even as their duties began to branch outwards. Close to the President's office were the "Cardinals" division, named for their symbol, the State Bird of Virginia. With Featherston's sympathies to the state after his wartime role in the First Richmond Howitzers, he made sure the division was made up of "Hearty Virginia Stock" and personally ensured no "Highbrow Fourth Generation Fops" were enlisted into the division.
Physical requirements meant each member of the unit was the exact same height as Featherston, and were well-built but not muscular (It wouldn't do to make Featherston look like "a shrimpy farmboy" when they were escorting him up close) and had prior combat experience, either in the Great War or in Mexico afterwards.

The unit earned the nickname "Bloody Birds" for their rumored side duty of silencing critics of the Featherston Regime. It was said men from this unit were the ones who personally slew or arrested Whig officials who criticized the Featherston Regime after Jake's election, and hunted down Willy Knight's co-conspirators after the Stalwart leader's coup attempt.

The 3rd was among the few FPG units not deployed as combat troops or as guards over the Population Reduction camps, being kept close to Richmond to both protect Featherston and ensure a core of loyal men were close by in the event of a coup or, as the war progressed, Yankee Breakthrough.

the Unit met their end in the battle of Richmond, where the last 300 of the division held off Yankee troops from taking the Confederate Capitol Building for a good three days after the city's nominal surrender. Not one of the men surrendered.

their Red-winged Cap Badges are among the most prized of FPG emblems to collectors and museums, as so few were minted and even fewer were captured intact, as the guardsmen tried to ensure the badges were destroyed as to not end up as "Yankee Souvenirs."

You two are great at creating TL-191 characters!

As for the latter image, I'm not sure if the Freedomites would use an arm band, but that's okay. There should be 16 or 15 stars on Confederacy's St. Andrew's Cross. Everything else is excellent.

I look forward to seeing more art from you guys. :)
 
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A bit of an update to my Confederate Air Force Sheet. I redesigned the "Alligator" and gave them some more appropriate company names.​
 

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