A project I am currently working on: Krasnacht 2
I know the title sounds silly but yes this is a project I am currently working on at the moment. I've always loved the idea of the original Krasnacht mod, and I've always kind of wanted to make my own version of it for a while. What you see here is a sort of "mockup" of what I want parts of the map to look like, using both screenshots and the little bit of modding I've done so far. Please don't get hyped or excited, as I am currently working by myself and have limited experience with modding HOI4, so if this project ever does see the light of day, it will probably be in a couple of months, with little more than skeleton content for the major countries.
LORE (I am still working on this and these are my ideas so please don't be mad)
The year is 1949. Although Russia and the 3rd Internationale won the Second Weltkreig, it was a pyrrhic victory. Communism/Syndicalism/Socialism only has footholds on areas outside of Europe, and the 3I itself threatens to split apart due to ideological differences.
-The 2nd American Civil War is currently a frozen conflict, similar to North and South Korea in our own world. The Syndicalist factions were defeated by a joint effort between the other factions, and an intervention by Canada. Despite this victory, none of the remaining sides possessed the strength to truly finish off the others, leading to the conflict settling down into its current borders. Depending on player actions, the factions could either reunite peacefully, come to blows one more and destroy the others for dominance, or perhaps even fall to another left-wing uprising.
-For Savinkov's Russia, the invasion of Central Asia was a disaster comparable to the Soviet Invasion of Finland in our own world. Turkestan holds on to its non-Kazak territories, while both Mongolia and the Far Eastern Army successfully took swaths of land of the east, but remain in a fragile position, and under threat of an immediate Russian reconquest of those territories.
-In the west, Britain is controlled by Mosley, Italy by Mussolini, Iberia by an anarchist council, and France by the Othrodox Sydicalists. Iberia was kicked out of the 3I for its refusal to adopt "true syndicalism", and its weak central government is failing to properly address the needs of its people, making another civil war, between national and political identities likely, but not certain. Mussolini's territorial ambitions also led to Italy being kicked out of the 3I, and should he fail to achieve them, he risks his downfall. Mosley risks a similar fate of downfall and/or 3I ejection if he does not tread carefully with his Totalist policies.
-Germany has been split between a Totalist North Germany, a Syndicalist South Germany, a Prussian monarchy, and a Radical Socialist Austria. It is very likely in the near future that all of them will come to arms in an attempt to reunify Germany.
-In Africa, Mittleafrika is no more, and the French State lost swaths of territories to revolts. Liberia has the potential to seize the rest of the French State's sub-Saharan territories and unite the area into a West Africa Commonwealth. However, they have to be cautious of the nearby Commune of Gabon, which seeks to unite western Africa under its own left-wing regime.
Let me know what you guys think, any suggestions yall have about the worldbuilding, and any advice yall have for trying to make a mod like this.