Editing Dystopian Wars (section)

=== The Alliance ===

The Latin Alliance is France’s faction, with Italy, Spain and Portugal among its members. The Socialist Unity of South America is also here kind of.

In Dystopian Wars, Napoleon was assassinated by the Knights Templar before he could invade Prussia. After Napoleon dies France descends into another civil war while the Imperium takes its place in terrorising Europe.
After a period of rebuilding the descendant of Napoleon’s brother (who fled to Spain) reclaimed the French crown (why?) & began reviving the nation, however even a reborn France could not feasibly stand up to the other global powers (mainly the Imperium & Crown) and so, upon realising that the Italian’s had reached a similar conclusion, Napoleon proposed that the two nations form the Latin Alliance as a rival power block to make sure neither country got left.

While each member has its own Navy & fighting style, Napoleon is silly.

'''France'''

The Main Alliance Faction. Like in the Spartan lore, France has undergone a major revival after getting stomped & humiliated during the post-Napoleon fiasco (Prussia & Britain using their lands as a battlefield for their own conflict is particular sore spot) & is now determined to prove itself still a force to be reckoned with. The the French fleet comes in 2 parts, a fleet of regular boats that lack in defence but are better at supporting one another than other ships and a touch faster than some of their opponents & the “Levant fleet” of skimmer anti-grav ships that very manoeuvrable, if fragile. Play like a glass cannon of the shooty variety, aiming to zip around shooting lasers and using cover to protect themselves. At the moment though they're a little too fragile and tend to get mangled before the end of turn 2. Definitely in need of their allies to tank some damage for them. 

'''Italy'''

The League of Italian States has joined the Alliance out of pragmatism & are doing the same things they were in the old lore, slowly expanding their Mediterranean empire without provoking major war & only sending their good ships to aid the other Alliance members when they’re sure it’ll benefit Italy as well, happily enjoying from all the perks of membership (like shared technology) while they’re at it.

The Italians prefer tough, high-quality ships that don’t sacrifice speed for their survivability. They don’t have many bells & whistles, but they do have rams & ablative armour. Their tough nature make them a great Anvil to Frances’s hammer that the frogs really need,but they can still throw down on their own no problem. 

'''Spain'''

The Kingdom of Spain joins the Alliance through the use of a single unit, which does not yet have a model just artwork & rules. Their one unit is a single airship, it’s an old class of “aero galleon” that’s been retrofitted with newer technologies to become a much more modern flying warship (Putting French Levant tech into airships to just make them better at being airships is an interesting concept). Maybe in the future Spain will get models & become the Alliances aerial sub faction. But for now it’s just 1 unit with no model.

'''SUSA'''

The Socialist Unity of South America is Finally Here! 
Kind of… 
First of all the Socialist Unity consists of Brazil & not much else, The Union has invaded central America & Most of Northern South America, the Empire has taken Chile & the Imperium has somehow managed to annex Peru. The only reason SUSA became semi-official member of the Latin Alliance in the first place is because they needed help fighting the Union & the Alliance wanted to prove that it was a competent military threat, <s>so anyone hoping for a “Unity” Faction based out of Southern America, too bad it’s just Brazil</s>. There are no “SUSA” models yet, & the SUSA fleet you can field is just a bunch of other Alliance ships with susa written on the sides & their special rules replaced with the “Conscript Crew” & “Rebel Yell” rules from the Confederate Ships.

'''The Confederates'''

When the North won the Civil War, many Confederate captains refused to surrender, instead taking their ships South to Brazil, when the Union invaded further south the former Confederate Navy apparently acting as the Brazilian navy until the Alliance showed up, all the SUSA exclusive ships are confederate ships with special rules that make it seem like they’re still being crewed by confederates, so it’s not like the defecting captains brought blueprints with them & the SUSA is using old confederate designs. A “Confederate expats” minor nation is cool idea, but not cool enough to effectively replace the SUSA in-game.

The Confederate navy and by extension the SUSA navy is just the Union navy but without any of the more modern units, just the old workhorses. They can mount Heat Lances but those are really good at point blank range & American Paddleboats don’t close in very fast, also prime heat lance range is very close to boarding range & the “Conscripts” rule that all SUSA units get makes them extra bad repelling boarding actions. They also mount Alliance cannon batteries and broadsides so they can't to the party trick Americans do with their big guns and don't have any carriers, so no Alliance fighters without bringing French models. In practise they play like a worse Union but at least they can act like a meat shield for France’s ships. I mean so can Italy but the mixed nature of the SUSA battlefleets could be handy in smaller games. Maybe. 

'''Portugal'''

Portugal (Britain's oldest ally you daft idiots WC) is also here. Every faction has 3 different static “ocean platform” units for mission types that involve them. One big gun platform, one regular gun platform & one support platform. For some reason these are all being given to a random minor power that only exists in game as the crews of these immobile platforms, & in the Alliance this is Belgium’s job, I guess the French just ship Belgium crews out to the Platforms & Belgium just controls all Latin Alliance platforms & that’s it.