History VideoGame / RedFlood

* AlternateHistory: There are five primary differences between ''Red Flood'' and OTL:

## World War One didn't begin with the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, but rather it began because of the Balkan war.

* ForWantOfANail: The POD is that during the Battle of Tsushima, the Russian battleship Knyaz Suvorov was hit and turned starboard, as in the OTL. However, seeing this, Tōgō Heihachirō has concluded that the Russian fleet is retreating (Suvorov was the flagship) and ordered a turn to port to cut off their presumable path. This was an error that gave the Russian fleet an opportunity to actually withdraw, making the Battle of Tsushima much less disastrous. The Japanese fleet then blockaded Vladivostok, and Nicholas II ordered a simultaneous deblockade of Vladivostok and an assault near Siping. This meant the Russo-Japanese war was a pyrrhic victory, rather than an embarrassing defeat, for the Russian side, and eventually led to the "no clear winner" board state after [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarI WW1]].

*** The same cannot be said with the IJN however, with the rebellion starting onboard IJN Mikasa in response to the failure of the Three Month Campaign, with the rest of the Imperial Japanese Navy joining the Revolutionary Cause.

** HMS Hood's crew mutinies after Sykes's government cuts down on military spending. However, whereas the Invergordon Mutiny spread throughout other ships, it seems in Red Flood's timeline, the sailors are much more willing to listen to reason.
** The same cannot be said with the IJN however, with the rebellion starting onboard IJN Mikasa in response to the failure of the Three Month Campaign, with the rest of the Imperial Japanese Navy joining the Revolutionary Cause.

* ForWantOfANail: The POD is that during the Battle of Tsushima, the Russian battleship Knyaz Suvorov was hit and turned starboard, as in the OTL. However, seeing this, Tōgō Heihachirō has concluded that the Russian fleet is retreating (Suvorov was the flagship) and ordered a turn to port to cut off their presumable path. This was an error that gave the Russian fleet an opportunity to actually withdraw, making the Battle of Tsushima much less disastrous. The Japanese fleet then blockaded Vladivostok, and Nicholas II ordered a simultaneous deblockade of Vladivostok and an assault near Siping. This meant the Russo-Japanese war was a pyrrhic victory, rather than an embarrassing defeat, for the Russian side, and eventually led to the "no clear winner" board state after WW1.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The first event of Avant-Garde France describe Artaud's celebration of 1936's new year's eve in Marseille: a very alcohol-fuelled masquerade ball accompanied by the destruction of several priceless Renaissance-era works of art (notably, Artaud ejaculating on Creator/JanVanEyck's ''Art/{{Annunciation}}'', then shooting it with a rifle loaded with incendiary rounds as a symbolic act for the destruction of the old order). It lasts for a week and ends causing heavy damage to the city. The only option to close the event is "Le Patron seemed to have fun", and it has a ''positive'' consequence in gameplay (+3% stability).[[note]]The event may also arguably count as an EstablishingCharacterMoment for the whole world, showing how screwed everyone became: it mentions a few foreign journalists gave a positive coverage of the events, while the rest of the world remained indifferent.[[/note]]

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The first event of Avant-Garde France describe Artaud's celebration of 1936's new year's eve in Marseille: a very alcohol-fuelled masquerade ball accompanied by the destruction of several priceless Renaissance-era works of art (notably, Artaud ejaculating on Jan van Eyck's ''Annunciation'', then shooting it with a rifle loaded with incendiary rounds as a symbolic act for the destruction of the old order). It lasts for a week and ends causing heavy damage to the city. The only option to close the event is "Le Patron seemed to have fun", and it has a ''positive'' consequence in gameplay (+3% stability).[[note]]The event may also arguably count as an EstablishingCharacterMoment for the whole world, showing how screwed everyone became: it mentions a few foreign journalists gave a positive coverage of the events, while the rest of the world remained indifferent.[[/note]]

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Quite a few people who were not previously aware of some of the historical personae that Red Flood props up into power are surprised that quite a few of the paths, including the less sane ones, are accurately representing the views of these people in real life.

* CommieNazis: The National Vanguardists, with the German ones being led by Ernst Reventlow. Japan can have this too under Shūmei Ōkawa, who as per Real Life, is anti capitalist, but Pan-Asian as well, with it being up for grabs whether his Asian anti-imperialism is valid or a thinly-veiled excuse for Japanese expansionism.

* CommieNazis: The National Vanguardists, with the German ones being led by Joseph Goebbels no less. Japan can have this too under Shūmei Ōkawa, who as per Real Life, is anti capitalist, but Pan-Asian as well, with it being up for grabs whether his Asian anti-imperialism is valid or a thinly-veiled excuse for Japanese expansionism.

* AdaptationalHeroism: [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-Zagged]]. The original ''Red Flood'' event in ''Kaiserreich'' depicted Alexander Kolchak as an ultranationalist (which is not quite accurate to the real-life Kolchak, who was essentially an apolitical military man). In the mod proper however Kolchak is classified as Right-Wing Authoritarian, which is usually the classification given to moderate or ideologically neutral dictatorships.

** For capitalists, the German Socialist Räterrepublik is the homeland of all things communist and the ultimate threat to their way of life.

** For Marxists and capitalists, Avant-Garde France is the ultimate villain for the whole mod, being that their entire foreign policy is ultimately based around the bloody conquest of Europe and that they're dedicated to spreading their revolutionary philosophy of "Accelerationism" around the world.
** For capitalists, the Socialist Republic of Germany takes the place of the real Soviet Union as a homeland of all things communist, because council communism is not compatible with free market capitalism.

** Antonin Artaud is the leader of Avant-Garde France, and serves as the leader of the FNAG that rules it.

## The Russian monarchy was able to fight off the Russian Revolution, but effectively became a puppet of the military dictatorship in Moscow set up under Kolchak as the rest of the country disintegrated into various warring states.
## The First World War was three times as brutal and refused to end for an extra few years, in part because both France formed an independent peace deal with Germany relatively early on in the conflict and the United States refused to join (causing a worse Great Depression later on due to a lack of British and French loans helping drive further economic development).
## After the end of the Great War, France fell into CivilWar and Germany was wracked with a popular uprising, leading to France becoming Accelerationist and Germany going Communist.
## And because of Britain getting utterly wrecked by the Great War, the age of decolonization hits India a lot earlier, resulting in the whole subcontinent being a massive clusterfuck of warlords.

''Red Flood'' is a mod for the strategy game ''VideoGame/HeartsOfIron'' IV. ''Red Flood'' is set in an alternate timeline where [[WonTheWarLostThePeace nobody won World War I]].

The timeline diverges from our own when the Russian Empire achieves a more favorable outcome from the Russo-Japanese War, resulting in a longer and deadlier World War I where Germany eventually defeated France, but was then themselves defeated by Russia. The war ended in a messy state of affairs as both the UK and Russia were weakened by the length of the conflict, meaning that nobody technically won World War One.

In the aftermath of the war without victors was great political turmoil across the globe. Political chaos and extreme ideologies rose on all corners of the Earth. A successful Spartacist Revolution turned Germany into a Communist state, France was overtaken by the radical ideology of Futurism led by avant-garde art movements, and Russia became a right-wing dictatorship under Alexander Kolchak.

* AdaptationalHeroism: [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-Zagged]]. The original ''Red Flood'' event in ''Kaiserreich'' depicted Alexander Kolchak as an ultranationalist (Which is not quite accurate to the real Kolchak, who was essentially an apolitical military man). In the mod proper however Kolchak is classified as Right-Wing Authoritarian, which is usually the classification given to moderate or ideologically neutral dictatorships.

* TheAlliance: The mod starts with the existing alliances of the Third International (made up of the socialist countries of Germany, Hungary, and Brazil), the Commonwealth of Nations (consisting of the United Kingdom and all of her colonies, most prominently Canada and Australia), and the League Solar (an alliance of Accelerationist nations made up of Avant-Garde France and Fiume).

** Ethiopia has been split into five countries, one of which (Beta Israel) is a Jewish state.

* {{Cult}}:
** Cult of Kali and the Theosophic cult in India.
** After the fall of Belgian Congo, one of the groups fighting for control over the ruins is a cult worshiping Karl Marx as the Messiah. They have very little understanding of Communism and mix it with Christianity and tribal beliefs.

** Creator/ErnstJunger is the leader of the Prussian Congo.

** Westralia (Western Australia split from Australia) is based on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secessionism_in_Western_Australia an actual OTL secessionist movement which even resulted in a secession referendum in 1933]] (it led nowhere). Westralia's flag in ''Red Flood'' is identical to the one proposed in the context of OTL's secession movement.

* EnemyMine: Marcus Garvey's attempt to move oppressed African-Americans to Liberia is more successful than in our timeline thanks to cooperation with the KKK and similar groups willing to help in raise money just to get rid of blacks. Can go into GoKartingWithBowser territory when the Liberians outright emulate the Klan when dealing with native tribes.She

* ForWantOfANail: the devlopers identify a clear bifurcation point. During the battle of Tsushima, the Russian battleship Knyaz Suvorov was hit and turned starboard, as in the OTL. However, seeing this, Tōgō Heihachirō has concluded that the Russian fleet is retreating (Suvorov was the flagship) and ordered a turn to port to cut off their presumable path. This was an error that gave the Russian fleet an opportunity to actually withdraw, making the battle for Tsushima much less disastrous. The Japanese fleet then blockaded Vladivostok, and Nicholas II ordered a simultaneous deblockade of Vladivostok and an assault near Siping. This meant the Russo-Japanese war was a pyrrhic victory, rather than an embarrassing defeat, for the Russian side, and eventually led to the "no clear winner" board state after WW1.

* AdaptationalHeroism: [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-Zagged]]. While Kolchak never had ultranationalist tendencies in real life, original ''Red Flood'' event in ''Kaiserreich'' depicted him as one. In the mod itself, however, Kolchak is Right-Wing Authoritarian.

%%* EmperorScientist: Several examples such as Howard Scott in the United States and Albert Einstein in Israel.

%%* MadArtist: Antonin Artaud, ''le Patron'', is the leader of Avant-Garde France. After a successful artistic career and witnessing the destruction of France the War, he becomes the leader of the Front National de L'Avant-garde.

%%* SociopathicSoldier: The Belgian army remnants in the Congo range between this, JustFollowingOrders and OmnicidalManiac.

* TitleDrop: The quote accompanying the "A Sea of Blood" super event, which heralds the beginning of World War Two.