History Roleplay / VictoriaFalls

** The Northern Confederation's campaign against Cascadia's "radical environmentalists" was a Russo-Japanese venture to prevent China from attaining a West Coast puppet state. Rumford was an observer, but his smuggling of a (non-nuclear) bomb into Shanghai briefly caused an international flashpoint that Alexander IV was forced to mediate.

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* AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler:"Father Dimitri", portrayed in Lind's novel as the "unofficial liaison" of Czar Alexander IV, is now an Okhrana agent who was tasked with forcing the collapse of the United States by assisting Rumford and Kraft in the Civil War. Once the mission was complete, he had them both assassinated and covered up their deaths.]]
* AlternateHistory: Russia is overtaken by neo-Tsarist elements, who co-opted a fascistic movement in the US to take advantage of a series of disasters to break up America and create Victoria as a prime ally for their imperial ambitions.
* BasedOnAGreatBigLie: Many of the events of the novel are largely fictional, altered by the Victorian government to enhance its image as the heroic nation conquering the "Cultural Marxists" within the United States. The actual events are revealed to have been much more convoluted and complex:
** New York City never joined Victoria. "Father Dimitri" had in fact barely managed to dissuade Rumford and Kraft from launching a potentially costly invasion against the city.
** Rumford's war with "Azania", the Amazonian-led successor state of California, was actually a poorly-led campaign against the Pacific Republic. Victoria only "won" by exhausting California's resources through a combination of attrition and a Russian naval blockade.

* MakeTheBearAngryAgain: Imperial Russia is now the world's dominant superpower, under the leadership of Czar Alexander IV. It's a fairly open secret that Victoria is their local enforcer in the US.

%%* TankGoodness

* GreatOffscreenWar: Many of the Commonwealth's leaders are veterans of Chicago's bloody war against the Nazis, which took place at some point between the end of the novel and the start of the Quesrt.

* EliteArmy: The Devil Brigade managed to maintain training and equipment at close to pre-collapse standards, which makes them the best military unit in North America outside of the NCR. In fact they are so good that they automatically succeed at any engagement they are in.

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* MakeTheBearAngryAgain: Imperial Russia is now the world's dominant superpower, under the leadership of Czar Alexander IV.

''[[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/victoria-falls-a-post-collapse-american-nation-quest-down-with-victoria.53790/ Victoria Falls: A Post-Collapse American Nation Quest]]'' is a [[PlayByPostGames play-by-post Roleplay 'Quest']] created by [=PoptartProdigy=] on [[http://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/ Sufficient Velocity]] based on William S. Lind's Literature/{{Victoria}}. It began on 11 March 2019.

The Quest can be found here [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/victoria-falls-a-post-collapse-american-nation-quest-down-with-victoria.53790/ here]]

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!! ''Victoria Falls'' features the following tropes:

* BasedOnAGreatBigLie: Many of the events of the novel are largely fictional, altered by the Victorian government to enhance its image as the heroic nation conquering the "Cultural Marxists" within the United States. The actual event are revealed to have been much more convoluted and complex.

''Victoria Falls: A Post-Collapse American Nation Quest'' is a [[PlayByPostGames play-by-post Roleplay 'Quest']] created by PoptartProdigy on [[http://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/ Sufficient Velocity]] based on William S. Lind's Literature/{{Victoria}}. It began on 11 March 2019 and is currently ongoing.

* AlternateHistory

* BreakOutTheMuseumPiece: Russian-imported T-34 tanks, along with BMP-1s and BTR-60s, are the main armored force of the Victorian military.

* DividedStatesOfAmerica:

* EasyLogistics: Averted.

* TankGoodness
* TooDumbToLive:
** The Victorian Air Force: While competent in air-to-air combat, Lind's "Fourth Generation Warfare" forces them into this during air-to-ground combat. Not only are they lacking air-to-ground weaponry, but their doctrine calls for ''flying in close formation'' against surface-to-air batteries, the idea being that the missiles will misinterpret their formation as massive singular aircraft and fly through the center of the formation, sparing the planes. In reality, all SAM missiles since the Cold War have been equipped with proximity fuses as standard issue, [[spoiler:allowing the Commonwealth to lay waste to the VAF.]]

* FascistButInefficient: Victoria has only survived by the grace of Russian aid. Domestically, its people are poor, malnourished, and kept under constant watch by the Christian Marine Corps. Militarily, it is technologically backwards, doctrinally incompetent, and logistically inept.

* HumanTraffickers: The CMC calls the women they capture "war brides."

* StateSec / ThePoliticalOfficer: The Christian Marine Corps maintains strict control over the Victorian populace.

''Victoria Falls: A Post-Collapse American Nation Quest'' is a play-by-post Roleplay 'Quest' created by PoptartProdigy on [[http://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/ Sufficient Velocity]] based on William S. Lind's Literature/{{Victoria}}. It began on 11 March 2019 and is currently ongoing.

* AdaptationalVillainy:[[spoiler:"Father Dimitri", portrayed in Lind's novel as the "unofficial liaison" of Czar Alexander IV, is now an Okhrana agent who was tasked with forcing the collapse of the United States by assisting Rumford and Kraft in the Civil War. Once the mission was complete, he had them both assassinated and covered up their deaths.]]

** The Commonwealth of Free Cities, a [[TheFederation parliamentary republic]] based out of Chicago and expanding into the Great Lakes region.

** The New California Republic, a democratic Russian client state seething at Moscow's control, forced into producing aircraft for Victoria.

* FascistButInefficient: Victoria has only survived by the grace of Russian aid. Domestically, its people are poor, malnourished and kept under constant watch by the Christian Marine Corps. Militarily, it is technologically backwards, doctrinally incompetent and logistically inept.
* HeroWithBadPublicity: During his tenure as Commonwealth's first President Burns was too busy juggling internal matters and military build-up to give attention to foreign (meaning non-Commonwealth Americans) diplomacy, and this allowed the Victorians to spread propaganda to nearby communities that the Commonwealth were warmongers that wanted to conquer them, making them stay neutral during the Victoria's Invasion of Detroit.

* TheFool: Victoria's entire existence can be summarized as this.

** Rumford's war with "Azania", the Amazonian-led successor state of California, was actually a poorly-led campaign against the Pacific Republic. Victoria only "won" by the direct intervention of the Russian Navy, which threatened to level California with nuclear weapons.

** The Victorian Air Force: While competent in air-to-air combat, Lind's "Fourth Generation Warfare" forces them into this during air-to-ground combat. Not only are they lacking air-to-ground weaponry, but their doctrine calls for ''flying in close formation'' against surface-to-air batteries, the idea being that the missiles will misinterpret their formation as massive singular aircraft and fly through the center of the formation, sparing the planes. In reality, all SAM missiles since the Cold War have been equipped with proximity fuses as standard issue, allowing the Commonwealth lay waste to the VAF.

** The Victorian Air Force: Not only are they lacking air-to-ground weaponry, but their doctrine calls for ''flying in close formation'' against surface-to-air batteries, the idea being that the missiles will misinterpret their formation as massive singular aircraft and fly through the center of the formation, sparing the planes. In reality, all SAM missiles since the Cold War have been equipped with proximity fuses as standard issue, allowing the Commonwealth lay waste to the VAF.

* TheFool: Victoria entire existence can be summarized as this.

* TheFool: Victoria entire existence can be summarized as this.

* BigApplesauce: Contrary to the events of the book, New York City is an independent city-state free of Victorian control and acts as a haven for anti-Victorian refugees.

** The Commonwealth of Free Cities, a parliamentary republic based out of Chicago and expanding into the Great Lakes region.

** The Free City of New York, an independent city-state kept alive by European aid, currently in control of NYC proper and all of Long Island.

** An unknown democratic enclave in Miami

** The Victorian Air Force: Not only are they lacking air-to-ground weaponry, but their doctrine calls for flying in close formation against surface-to-air batteries, the idea being that the missiles will misinterpret their formation as massive singular aircraft and ''fly through the center of the formation'', sparing the planes entirely. In reality, the SAM missiles are equipped with proximity fuses as standard issue, and lay waste to the VAF.

** New York never joined Victoria. "Father Dimitri" had in fact barely managed to dissuade Rumford and Kraft from launching a potentially costly invasion against the city.

* FascistButInefficient: Victoria has only survived by the grace of Russian aid. Domestically, its people are poor, malnourished and kept under constant watch by the Christian Marine Corps. Militarily, it's technologically backwards, doctrinally incompetent and logistically inept.

** Imperial Japan currently maintains control over the Hawaiian Islands, Oregon, Washington, and all of British Columbia west of the Cascade Mountains.

* TooDumbToLive

** The New California Republic, a democratic Russian client state seething at being controlled by Moscow, forced into producing aircraft for Victoria.

The players take control of the Commonwealth of Free Cities, a Chicago-based successor state on a mission to bring Victoria to is knees and restore the United States to its former glory.

* AlternateHistory:
* BasedOnAGreatBigLie: The events of the novel are largely propaganda
* BigApplesauce: Contrary to the events of the book,

** Victoria
** The Commonwealth of Free Cities
** The Free City of New York
** The New California Republic
** Alaska
** Hawaii
** Canada

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