![]() I am in the process of modding the Texas models file further with more fictional but realistic enough aircraft. I started to mod some things for my own enjoyment and as part of learning more of the inner workings of HoI Managed to help Republican Spain to win the civil war by sending them a lot of military aid without hurting the Texan economy. Special thanks to hgt for the technical help.Īllright, I've been playing this mod for a while. It's short on events but I'll add more later. It does not modify any files used in other scenarios. This mod includes modified and expanded tech teams, expanded historical leaders, new historical ministers, historical unit models, and elections based on the Republic of Texas model of 3 year terms where an incumbent cannot immediately run again. It is up to the player to chart it's course. Texas starts as relatively weak with a small industrial base and a small modern Navy, but very resource rich. This is an alternate history mod where you can play as Texas starting in 1936. ![]() As the world stands near the brink, Texas will once again make a choice of whether to stay out or ride in. Still fueled by high global demand for oil it's companies and government expanded led by a visionary group of new young leaders, including the eccentric manufacturer Howard Hughes. It's public works programs were expanded under the young interior minister Lyndon Johnson and were emulated by the United States. When the Great Depression started Texas stood on the strongest ground of any of the Democracies. In order for the other powers to agree Texas had to drop status as a British protectorate and agree to construct no battleships. So far did this desire reach that they refused to be classified as part of the British Empire in the Washington Naval Treaty, instead signing as an independent. Texans no longer felt isolation was possible, they needed a Navy to defend their interests and their shipping. ![]() The second initiative was building a Navy. One was rural and domestic development spending vast sums of oil money building highways, educational institutions, and public works. The new Liberals pursued two major policies. Post war Texas politics were radically different. While Texan contributions were limited, several divisions helped lead the final push in France. The sinking of the tanker Corsicana killing all 80 on board a week before the 1917 election swept the Liberals into power, and led to a swift declaration of war. German uboat attacks against Texan tankers strenghthened the position of a new liberal interventionist bloc in Texas politics. The years between the election in 19 though, radically shifted Texan politics. With the new War in Europe the isolationist conservative government again declared neutrality. From Beaumont to Corpus Christi refineries and chemical plants were built and ports were expanded. Lack of strong protectionist sentiments lead to large foreign investment in the petrochemical industry. Texas, following the lead of Pennsylvania passed strong regulation of the industry and taxed it. What had once been a quiet agricultural country became in a decade the world's first oil state. That all radically changed in 1901 with the Spindletop Oil strike in East Texas. Throughout the 19th century it had difficulty internally with Indian raiders and in settlement. However good it was at avoiding war Texas was still a relatively poor conservative agricultural country. Neutrality and the Northern blockade of the South led to a prosperous time in agricultural Texas where it was able to dominate the cotton trade. Texas declared neutrality in the American Civil War after the Dallas Treaty of 1861 in which the United States and Texas agreed to their present day international boundary. In addition Britain agreed to forgive Texan War debt in exchange for Texan ending of slavery and trade concessions. Britain agreed to cease recognition and support of the Republics of the Rio Grande and Yucatan. This decision led to a cooling of tensions with Mexico and made possible the British-Texan-Mexican El Paso treaty of 1841 in which the border with Mexico was permanently defined as the Rio Grande river. Instead it accepted an offer to become a British protectorate. Congress' refusal to pay Texan debt in exchange for New Mexico. After it's successful war of independence it rejected annexation by the United States over the U.S. Modern Texas stands at a crossroads with what seems a bright future.
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