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Started by Kcrimsonsim, January 24, 2011, 11:47:06 PM

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Kcrimsonsim

Has 'what if?' ever inserted itself into the landscape of one's daydreams, and by sheer force of will, broke through the veil into the wasteland of the real? Could a notion go from a wisp of smoke in the fires of imagination to a brick-and-mortar world-class metropolis? Could any of this possibly have a point? Riddle me this, noble citizen...

http://www.facebook.com/pages/River-City-Mayors-Office/150639828323500



Such a place can exist, my friend. Where the Daley River meets Lake Voluminous, where gangsters hobnob with politicians... where there's something for everyone and it's all for sale at the right price. A proud little city that grew from the fires of war into a head-stompin' Gordon Gekko of a town, where murder is a spectator sport and you can't beat fresh blood on the walls (or so we were told by Richard Gere). Gifted with special access to the tropical delights of the Carob Bean Islands and the mineral riches of the heartland; boosted by the connections of Hizzoner Da Mayor, and carving out its own place in history...

the one and only is reborn, and exclusively on SC4D. Cue the music (Also Sprach Zarathustra by Strauss will work, thanks)...

I present to you...

River City!



(edit: pic not showing? meh, got more lined up and bettin' we'll find a way to bring 'em to you.)
never mind, got it ;)
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Kcrimsonsim

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Terring7

Good start :)
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#3
This well-known plaque in town will shed some light on the city's role in history...



and the destroyed bridge ahead of the Nazi invasion force:

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Kcrimsonsim

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                                         The story of the Freiheitskampfer Army

In 1944, Project Valkyrie had been a partial success. Hitler was critically wounded, and the Nazi army was in chaos. The surprise victory at Stalingrad (with the help of Nazi agents within the Soviet government) had given the Wehrmacht new life and the resources of the Caspian Sea, but had failed to prevent the fall of France into Allied hands.  Stalin fell deeper into a pathos of paranoia that brought about his assassination, by officers fearful for their own lives. The new Soviet regime seemed less endeared to Communism and more interested in the survival of their very homeland. It took exactly 2 weeks for the coup leaders to announce the 'End Of Bolshevism', and it took an even harder nationalist edge.

Late in 1944, while US and British troops were still battling for every square inch of ground in France, a set of new surprises turned the war on its head yet again. First, the evaporation of the hated Communism had shaked the morale of Nazi troops, and when the hardships of occupying a frightfully cold nation while battling guerilla warfare in the streets and constantly failing supply lines were added in, some elements of the Wehrmacht and Panzer Elite defected to the Allies and turned against their former regime. Calling themselves the Freiheitskampfer, or 'freedom fighters', they included some of the best-trained and educated of the Nazi officers. Fed up and disillusioned with Hitler's rule and purely evil brand of madness, some defected outright while others simply deserted. 

Within days, pockets of resistance within the Nazi forces had turned into all-out mutiny. An entire armored regiment simply got out of their tanks and walked away in Lyon, while a battalion of SS with battle decorations from the first half of the war drove their vehicles and all into an Allied base in Italy and offered their services to a stunned US commander. While it represented only a small percentage of Nazi forces overall, the morale effects were enormous for both sides. Some of the surrendering former Nazis brought with them their equipment, many brought valuable information. The value of this information was so great, it forced the nearly-incapacitated Hitler to tip his hand early, and set loose a plan no one on the Allied side saw coming...

In early 1945, a secret Nazi invasion force based in Central and South America, with help from agents planted deep in the Mexican government, invaded the US from the South with the same blitzkrieg strategy that found so much success in Europe. The three-pronged assault targeted the oil fields of Texas, the secret US government laboratories of New Mexico and naval bases in California, and key bridges along the Mississippi River and its connected freight routes. 



The first 2 bogged down quickly, even though they were staffed with veterans of the desert campaigns in N Africa and accustomed to the terrain and conditions. US Army regulars and National Guard troops managed to blunt the shock and fought hard in places like Oceanside, CA and Midland, TX, slowing the Nazi advance long enough to build a defense and save vital defense research projects, including work associated with The Manhattan Project. Local civilian militias proved to be a thorn in the invader's sides, claiming thousands of enemy lives with little more than rifles and molotovs.

The 3rd prong, however, found very little organized resistance as it catapulted North into the flat, wide heartland. The 551st and 564th Panzergruppen divisions, with the 331st Fallschirmjaeger Battalion, led the spearhead, followed closely by more heavy armor and regular Wehrmacht. They seized control of the main north-south US highway in the region at the time, US 33. It just so happens that US 33 connects the entire region to a city, a city with canals and freight ports and railroad hubs. That city had a bridge where US 33 crossed the Conway Shipping and Sanitary Canal, called the Central Avenue bridge. River City had a date with history, 65 years ago.
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The Victory Park neighborhood as it is today...

Victory Bridge and Pillars (featuring the only known double-drawbridge in the US), a monument for a hero yet to be introduced, and MegaTeleComm stadium (home of 'The Fire' local baseball team)



Fountain Of The Patriots, the Monument To Courage, and paddleboat rental concession
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noahclem

Nice start here! I like the extra material you've included and you've done a nice job with the cal-canals. Looking forward to catching the Local Nobodies show  :D

Nikom

Nice pics, I really enjoyed your story  :thumbsup: Look forward to see more

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(edit: tried to make all the jps match in size, but the PB servers don't seem to recognize that they are all the same width :( it was supposed to be seamless!)




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Kcrimsonsim

sneak peek at goings-on in the Carob Bean Islands...
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ldvger

Interesting premise for your back story, well-written as well.  I'm curious where your "photographs" of the invasion came from...they look like very carefully drawn replicas.  Did you do the artwork?  If so, wow, that's a LOT of work.

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Aaron Graham

Lovely history. People like you makes me want to do something like that. Keep up. :thumbsup:
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Kcrimsonsim

Quote from: ldvger on January 27, 2011, 01:47:21 PM
Interesting premise for your back story, well-written as well.  I'm curious where your "photographs" of the invasion came from...they look like very carefully drawn replicas.  Did you do the artwork?  If so, wow, that's a LOT of work.

Lora/LD

the originals are from Company Of Heroes: Opposing Fronts, and I used the Cheat Mod to replicate German and Allied units in the same army, more pics to come. I used MS Paint to convert to jpegs so I could convert to sepia and add film grain with Picasa. It's free and a bit unruly sometimes but it's one-stop shopping for some basic and common effects, without navigating the less user-friendly Photoshop or GIMP.  Ever wonder what a cityscene would look like by a famous impressionist painter? The saturation and other color effects can make a reasonable facsimile from a simple screenshot. Oops, I tipped my hand... &mmm

Thanks for the comments yall, I have big stuff going on all over River City but these things take time. Meanwhile...





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Kcrimsonsim

Skin that smokewagon and see what happens!

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River City!

Kcrimsonsim

Skin that smokewagon and see what happens!

Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.


River City!

Kcrimsonsim

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my, what a mute audience I have. Hmmm. (edit: oops, repeated a pic. Lotta trouble to fix, just forget it lolz)










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ldvger

Interesting war/battle history!  One thing, though: I don't think (but am not at all certain, I would very well be wrong) Nazi Fascism was/is technically/politically defined as a form of Socialism.  Rather, I think Nazism falls into the area of Totalitarianism, despite the fact that the Nazi party named itself something along the lines of "Social Democrats" or "Democratic Socialists" at the time.  Been a very long time since I studied the various political/governmental movenments of the early and mid 20th century, though, so my memory could be faulty. 

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Kcrimsonsim

Quote from: ldvger on February 05, 2011, 01:53:51 PM
Interesting war/battle history!  One thing, though: I don't think (but am not at all certain, I would very well be wrong) Nazi Fascism was/is technically/politically defined as a form of Socialism.  Rather, I think Nazism falls into the area of Totalitarianism, despite the fact that the Nazi party named itself something along the lines of "Social Democrats" or "Democratic Socialists" at the time.  Been a very long time since I studied the various political/governmental movenments of the early and mid 20th century, though, so my memory could be faulty. 

Lora/LD

Gotta tiptoe carefully here to stay within site rules... the word 'Nazi' is short for 'Nationalsozialisten', or national socialism. Socialism can be right or left. On the far left it's Communism, on the far right it's fascism. Either way, it is still socialism. In fact, Marx and Hitler did agree on many points related to gov't control of the means of production and all facets of the banking industry. To put it another way, socialism is where Hitler and Stalin meet, and agree. Sorry if that was inflammatory for some, just trying to put it in a succinctly American way.
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Port activity has increased as well, independently verified:


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ldvger

QuoteGotta tiptoe carefully here to stay within site rules... the word 'Nazi' is short for 'Nationalsozialisten', or national socialism. Socialism can be right or left. On the far left it's Communism, on the far right it's fascism. Either way, it is still socialism. In fact, Marx and Hitler did agree on many points related to gov't control of the means of production and all facets of the banking industry. To put it another way, socialism is where Hitler and Stalin meet, and agree. Sorry if that was inflammatory for some, just trying to put it in a succinctly American way.

K-

I think you are/were well within site rules and I did not in any way find your use of either the word "Nazi" or "socialism" to be inflammatory at all.  Like I said, my knowledge of socio-political classifications comes from peering back through the fog of 40 years memory to a high school History class which I probably didn't pay much attention to at the time, so please excuse my confusion and thank you for your clarification. 

I love that big new hotel on River City's newly revitalized North Side!  Is that a Maxis "auto-grow" lot or a custom ploppable? 


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