Talk:Patuxent/@comment-26389738-20170320192747/@comment-25577390-20170327200717

The story I've made so far:

The backstory is that the US kept the Articles of Confederation (a proto-constitution that barely gave the federal government any power) after it got independence. This didn't work, as the federal government, which would be centered in Annapolis, couldn't do anything. The US began to collapse, and was no more by 1806. During the Napoleoniac Wars, many countries declared independence from their overlords and took a lot of their colonies that didn't. Seeing how the European Powers were unresponsive to this, many US states attacked Britain in 1810, and took some land and freed a few provinces. Other states helped Louisiana in a war against Mexico in 1818, liberating Texas, which has much more Mexican influence than OTL. The game starts in 1826. Some states in the Northeast are beginning to annex their small neighbours, as the Ohio federation begins to destabilize.