History WhatCouldHaveBeen / TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope

* Planned Turkish Presidents who ended up being scrapped are Celâl Bayar (now dead since the 1950s), Behice Boran, and Türkân Akyol (both of whom are now supporting characters instead).

* Reichskommissariat Pazifik, a Reichskommissariat that could only be formed through [[PlayerExclusiveMechanic a successful War Plan C]], use to have [=PinkPanzer=] (as Lonely Knightess was known at the time) themself as Reichskommissar as an EasterEgg CreatorCameo. Following an unidentified patch, the cameo has since been replaced with Otto Ernst Remer taking the role as Reichskommissar.

* Rumania used to be able to [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rdt_20240311_1713417702774532088922331.png join]] Turkey's faction before this was cut.

* A number of planned Turkish Prime Ministers ended up being scrapped, including Celâl Bayar (now a posthumous character), Behice Boran, and Türkân Akyol (both of whom are now supporting characters instead).

* The Aryan Brotherhood in early leaks and the original demo was led by "Andreas Maier", real name Alexander Medvedev, a Hero of the Soviet Union from Perm. As this portrayal of Medvedev (who was a loyal Soviet soldier and anti-fascist in real life) was unacceptably [[HistoricalVillainUpgrade out-of-character and offensive]], especially with the risk of his surviving family found out due to constantly seraching the Internet for mentions of him, Medvedev was rewritten into an anti-AB fighter, and his old role is now fulfilled by Alexey Dobrovolsky (an actual neo-Nazi in real life).
** According to the original leader bio of Andreas Maier, the Aryan Brotherhood originally aimed to unify West Russia before "submitting themselves to RK Moskowien in the west". It's unclear how this would impact the general Russian/German gameplay, and by the time Medvedev was replaced by Dobrovolsky, the Aryan Brotherhood was changed to a conventional Russian unifier. Presumably, this was scrapped because doing so would mean that whoever unified the other three regions would have to fight Moskowien to reclaim West Russia, and doing so would likely [[CurbStompBattle trigger a war between the Russian unifier and Germany before full preparations were made for the Second West Russian War]], to say nothing of how this would impact ''other'' things that could be happening in Germany.

* Turkey was originally a National Socialist dictatorship ruled by Başbuğ Alparslan Türkeş at the game's start, with its own [[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1072264986375757854/1116538850047692820/image.png incomplete focus tree]].
* The Penelope's Web diary described a path for when the CHP manages to hold on to power after losing the Second Italo-Turkish War. It was cut because the developers think that it's redundant to have two CHP paths (victory and defeat, with only minor differences) and that it doesn't make a lot of sense for them to lose the war without being voted out of power.
* Armenia was changed from being fully occupied by Turkey at game start (and capable of rebelling to achieve independence during the game) to a nominally independent puppet of Turkey.
* The Great Eastern Islamic Raiders' Front was removed from the Turkish civil war because [[https://discord.com/channels/286752091429535756/1139217166156181524/1200887992265482443 its leader Salih Mirzabeyoğlu was deemed too young]] (born in 1950, he would have been the youngest leader in first decade content).

* Hans Hüttig was planned to be a potential [[https://i.redd.it/12wmlx8f2mc61.png Reichskommissar of Ukraine]] under Speer after the South African War.

** Proletarian Nationalism (used by Hilding Hagberg and John Bean)

* Renamed subideologies include: Bolshevism, Marxism-Leninism and Bolshevik-Leninism (formerly Bukharinism, Stalinism and Trotskyism, now called by names used by their creators instead of political opponents).

** After the Anarchy was cut, there were initially plans to retain Speidel and Schörner as potential leaders (who can overthrow the incumbent Führer) before they were cut for good. One teaser for Schörner shows the annexation of all Eastern European [=RKs=] into Germany. Some elements in Schörner's planned path survive in Heydrich's reworked one (other than being described as a "Diet Speer" Speidel never had much at all planned in the first place).

** After the Anarchy was cut, there were initially plans to retain Speidel and Schörner as potential leaders (who can overthrow the incumbent Führer) before they were cut for good. Some elements in Schörner's planned path survive in Heydrich's reworked one (other than being described as a "Diet Speer" Speidel never had much at all planned in the first place).

* In TFL's old plans, the British Free Corps coup against the sitting PM was originally meant to serve as collaborationist UK's NonStandardGameOver--the BFC only has a small focus tree lasting a year that mostly serves to demonstrate how screwed up Britain is. After a proposal document was submitted, the BFC was upgraded into a full path and can now take power immediately after HMMLR is put down.

* Like William Joyce, Colin Jordan was originally intended to be a failstate with no playable content beyond his coup. However, the developers came up with unique ideas and themes to explore with his path, so he is now planned to have 10 years of content, similar to the rest of Nall-Cain's successors.

* Igor Shafarevich used to be Komi's Fascist leader after pretending to be a Conservative Democrat, but his true ideology was later updated to National Conservatism, as Fascism was considered to be too extreme for a person like Shafarevich to adopt, even with his real-life chauvinism and anti-Semitism. Notably, his real-life theory of "small-nations" was actually a conventional anti-Semitic conspiracy theory, seeing the "small-nation" as all part of one big Jewish plot to undermine Russian interests; this is heavily downplayed in favor of more traditional anti-minority sentiment in the game proper, although it includes anti-Semitism. His ideology was later changed back to Fascism (in particular Fascist Populism) in a later revision.

* Mamadou Dia was a leader in Wolofia who would be installed if the FMA won the West African War, before he was replaced by Cheikh Tidiane Sy.

* Scotland was originally intended to be a German puppet state, as seen in [[https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/806277775551234098/903887786728370226/original_rp.jpg this]], but in the final mod starts off independent and not aligned with either the Pakt or the OFN.

* Igor Shafarevich used to be Komi's Fascist leader after pretending to be a Conservative Democrat, but his true ideology was later updated to National Conservatism, as Fascism was considered to be too extreme for a person like Shafarevich to adopt, even with his real-life chauvinism and anti-semitism. Notably, his real-life theory of “small-nations” was actually a conventional anti-Semitic conspiracy theory, seeing the “small-nation” as all part of one big Jewish plot to undermine Russian interests; this is heavily downplayed in favor of more traditional anti-minority sentiment in the game proper, although it includes anti-Semitism.

** Nationalist Stratocracy (a cut National Socialist subideology)

** Alfred Rosenberg was an unorthodox Nazi who could've taken power by either being invited by Oberländer or couping the government if their treatment of the natives got too cruel. Once in power, Rosenberg would've focused on reducing Nazi influence in Ukraine and the rest of Eastern Europe, promoting cooperation between Germans and Slavs. Rosenberg is now depicted as an old pensioner who lives in Germany proper, no longer has any influence in politics, and only appears in some events in his disciple Georg Leibbrandt's path.

** The power struggle between Hitler's potential successors was described as a full-fledged civil war, with Hans Speidel declaring neutrality in the area around Germania while the rest of Germany is divided between the supporters of each Führer candidate. Since it was deemed too implausible for the Reich to remain a superpower after a civil war, the succession crisis was changed into a period of instability during which Germania is paralysed until the new Führer ascends.

* Ireland's second iteration is led by Taoiseach Éamon de Valera, who has held power for around 30 years. He's portrayed as an aging, paranoid man who grew increasingly authoritarian due to the threat of the fascist Fine Gael, and many in his party began defecting to a rival faction led by the reformist Seán Lemass. Current Ireland is instead led by Taoiseach Lemass (who keeps de Valera's character of being an increasingly authoritarian Taoiseach), while de Valera now holds the ceremonial position of President; Fine Gael is now a liberal party and the fascist plot has been cut.

* Old versions had Germany reclaim Northern Schleswig, whose predominantly-Danish population voted to secede from Germany and join Denmark in a plebiscite in 1920, even though in real life it was the only territorial loss that the Nazis accepted (the Denmark developer attributes this to '[[https://discord.com/channels/286752091429535756/1139217166156181524/1204899116522668064 devs mappainting]]').

Throughout the development of ''The New Order'', the devs released many teasers on official media channels, and released two Demo versions of the mod. These early content shown in the teasers and demos show that the early TNO had significantly different directions compared to the current TNO, with many cut and rewritten ideas and content.

* One of the pre-rework partisan groups in Ukraine were the Cossacks led by Ivan Kononov, a band of raiders who would've temporarily [[https://media.moddb.com/images/articles/1/246/245977/auto/KeU8EhW.png taken]] Donbass, requiring the Reichskommissariat to put them down and initiate a process of Decossackization.

* In old versions, Mohammed Reza Shah is assassinated shortly after the Oil Crisis begins, plunging Iran into a civil war between the Pahlavi dynasty (led by the late Shah's wife, who serves as regent for their young son) and an alliance of assorted opposition forces: the Democratic Republic of Iran (pro-USA liberal republicans, led by Karim Sanjabi), the Shahdom of Iran (constitutional monarchists, led by Shapour Bakhtiar, who in real life was a republican and ally of Sanjabi), the Islamic Republic of Iran (pro-Japan Islamists, led by Ruhollah Khomeini), the Socialist Federation of Iran (communists, led by Iraj Eskandari) and the Balochi Liberation Front (led by Sher Mohammad Marri, who was classified as an Islamic Conservative, despite his real life counterpart's Marxist views). If the Pahlavis are defeated, the revolutionary alliance will collapse; the Balochs will peace out and declare independence, while the other factions declare war on each other until only one is left. The entire civil war and all of these paths have since been removed.

* Old versions had Germany reclaim Northern Schleswig, which was transferred to Denmark after a plebiscite in 1920, even though in real life it was the only territorial loss that the Nazis accepted.

* In the original release, the Sichuan clique led by Tian Songyao, which split from Xikang in the lore to side with Japan but failed to conquer them completely, controls the whole province. It was initially cut (with Sichuan being represented as a demilitarised territory of Nanjing), then re-added but only controls the western half of Sichuan. %%By the game's start, Songyao has had a very "hands-off" approach to governing Sichuan and rarely makes anymore public appearances, to the point that some wonder if he's still even alive.

** The power struggle between Hitler's potential successors was described as a full-fledged civil war, with Hans Speidel declaring neutrality in the area around Germania while the rest of Germany is divided between the supporters of each Führer candidate. Since it was deemed too implausible for the Reich to remain a superpower after a civil war, the succession crisis was changed into a period of instability during which Germania is paralysed until the new Führer ascends.

** In early development, Ultranational Socialism was split into Ultranationalism (for nationalist, militarist and religious fanatics) and Burgundian System (a fanatical, ultra-dystopic, SS-centric style of Nazism), initially to prevent GameplayAndStorySegregation from arising as a result of the simultaneously ultranationalist and ''virulently'' anti-Nazi Black League.
** In the Toolbox Theory ideology rework, Burgundian System was expanded to and made a subideology of Esoteric Nazism, turning it into something resembling an actually coherent ideological grouping. Esoteric Nazism could then be used for far-right esotericists who are comparatively milder than normal Nazis or have no ties to the SS, like José López Rega (for the record, Heinrich Himmler, the creator of the Burgundian System, was actually slightly less racist towards Slavs than Martin Bormann, the orthodox Nazi, in real life).

* In early versions, the Moskowien SS's fiefdom after the RK's collapse was led by a diarchy consisting of Herbert Backe and Richard Walther Darré, who were in turn replaced by Globočnik (again) and Rudolf-August Oetker.

* Before being recharacterized into a standard IJA-occupied territory, Tsuji Masanobu's warlord state in Gansu was a weird country called "Hui"; presumably, it was supposed to be a nation state for China's Hui Muslims (in the same vein as Manchuria) established under Japanese pan-Asianism that eventually degraded into Tsuji's warlord state.

* Muti was originally set to be a trap path designed to always fail, but when his unique ideology of Sansepolcrismo was created, this was changed so that he could succeed, albeit with much difficulty.

* In the original release, the Moskowien SS's fiefdom after the RK's collapse was a mostly empty placeholder led by Odilo Globočnik, who was replaced by a diarchy consisting of Herbert Backe and Richard Walther Darré, who were in turn replaced by Globočnik (again) and Rudolf-August Oetker.

** During pre-release development, Ultranational Socialism was split into Ultranationalism and Burgundian System, initially to prevent GameplayandStorySegregation from arising as a result of the simultaneously ultranationalist and ''virulently'' anti-Nazi Black League, and eventually to generally differentiate between "normal" nationalist, militarist and religious fanatics and SS dystopian hellstates.
** In the Toolbox Theory ideology rework, Burgundian System was expanded to and made a subideology of Esoteric Nazism, turning it from what amounted to merely a fanatical, SS-centric style of Nazi governance to something resembling an actually coherent ideological grouping. Esoteric Nazism could then be used for far-right esotericists who are comparatively milder than normal Nazis or have no ties to the SS, like José López Rega (for the record, Heinrich Himmler, the creator of the Burgundian System, was actually slightly less racist towards Slavs than Martin Bormann, the orthodox Nazi, in real life).

* In the original release, the Moskowien SS's fiefdom after the RK's collapse was a mostly empty placeholder led by Odilo Globočnik, who was replaced by a diarchy consisting of Herbert Backe and Richard Walther Darré, who were in turn replaced by Rudolf-August Oetker.

* In old versions, the starting Reichskommissar of Kaukasien is Josias, Prince of Waldeck-Pyrmont, who succeeded Arno Schickedanz after he committed suicide in the West Russian War. Unlike his real life counterpart, a moderate by Nazi standards, Josias has adopted the Burgundian System and become one of the most brutal colonial administrators in the Reich, as a result of being tortured to near death by Lavrentiy Beria. After the German Civil War, he could even go so far as to distance himself from Germany entirely and crown himself King of Caucasia (which is likely the reason why the original developers put him, a NaziNobleman, in the Caucasus in the first place).

* Denmark was originally a puppet of the Reich, ruled by the Departementschefstyret, whose leader Werner Best was characterized as a PunchClockVillain who was open to compromise and opposed to the Holocaust.

* According to a [[https://discord.com/channels/286752091429535756/806276324297539586/1071354601804156949 developer for Guangdong]], one subplot that was cut from Guangdong's content involved [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuan_Geng Yuan Geng]] (in OTL, a Shenzhen-based CPC war hero and spy who would become a state-backed entrepreneur and major proponent of Deng Xiaoping's market reforms) as a spy sent to Guangdong by Communist Party of China remnants who would eventually go onto to form his own company and build up Shenzhen with it, while also preparing for the Great Asian War. Yuan would find his loyalties conflicted as the story went on and he was even meant to be able to take over Guangdong in [=TNO2=], having his own [[https://imgur.com/a/ueeHpLa portraits]]. The subplot was eventually cut however, as there was not enough time and space for it.

%%* Original lore stated that Benito Mussolini welcomed thousands of Jewish refugees escaping the Holocaust as a jab towards Adolf Hitler and Germany. This was later retconned.

* Early plans for Tomsk (before its "Salon democracy" lore was developed) characterized it as an intelligentsia-ruled democratic republic with two major parties, each encompassing multiple ideology blocs. The first was the Modernists (who are unrelated to the current Modernists), who were pro-modernization and pro-westernization, and encompassed Liberal, Conservative, Social Democracy, and Market Liberalism. The second was the Novgorodians, who supported agrarianism, isolationism, and Russian communal-based traditional democracy, and ideologically encompassed Authoritarian Democracy and Libertarian Socialism.

** Pavlodar, a bourgeois nationalist democratic republic led by famed writer Sabit Mukanov. The concept survives in the form of the Free Kazakh Clans, a post-Midnight warlord.

* In [[https://www.reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/90lknh/development_diary_xiv_the_spice_in_a_dumpster/ Dev Diary XIV]], one ''unusual'' Indian Communist faction are the Raoists. They're officially the Telanganites (named after the Telangana rebellion), and are agrarian socialists led by Chandra Rajeswara Rao, who subscribe to [[PunnyName Raoism]] as an equivalent to Maoism. They can take power if the Communists won the Indian Civil War, and would've implemented Maoist/pseudo-Pol Potist policies, including launching a Cultural Revolution in their bad path. A few other socialist paths, notably the Libertarian Socialists under Harold Wilson in HMMLR Britain, referenced their ideas internationally at release. Since Maoism still exists in the new post-TT TNO lore, and because the real Rao wasn't a Maoist, the Raoists appear to have been cut in the India lore reworks.

* [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/the-new-order-last-days-of-europe-thread-ii.508299/page-195#post-23395248 According to a conversation]] between a Brazilian contributor and [=CSS=]'s original Brazilian Dev, Vargas would be in power in 1962, as the Brazilian starting leader under Despotism and Tancredo Neves would be his head of government with Felinto Müller as the security minister. Vargas would die in the carnival of 1962 and this would cause a government collapse that would result in a coup made by Lott that would put Tancredo as the head of a interim government to call new elections. The original Dev also recalled that the other presidential candidate would've been [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affonso_Arinos_de_Mello_Franco Affonso Arinos]] and the capital would still be in Rio (with Brasilia only being built if Juscelino Kubitschek became President).

* [[WordOfGod ThePinkPanzer]] [[https://www.reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/bb3dh7/has_anyone_thought_of_creating_a_tno_booknovel/ekgg68z/ has stated]] that they originally thought of writing an alternate history novel before deciding to develop the novel's ideas into a proto-TNO game mod instead.
* At one point, head writer [=ThePinkPanzer=] had an [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/the-hearts-of-iron-megathread.15402/page-490#post-19517888 internal canon]] for a second start date in 1972. This plan has since been scrapped from the mod but would have included:

* Reichskommissariat Pazifik, a Reichskommissariat that could only be formed through [[PlayerExclusiveMechanic a successful War Plan C]], use to have [=PinkPanzer=] themself as Reichskommissar as an EasterEgg CreatorCameo. Following an unidentified patch, the cameo has since been replaced with Otto Ernst Remer taking the role as Reichskommissar.

** [[https://www.reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/ias9dy/alternative_hyperborea_flag_with_the_infamous/g1sxzsx/?context=3 Former lead developer ThePinkPanzer]] indicated that their original plans for Komi's [=BurgSys=] path involved Neo-Pagan extremists trying to create an artificial Russian culture completely free of any foreign influence[[note]]The cut "[[https://www.reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/f5if8e/russian_reunification_future_compass/ Hyperborea symbol]]" was originally developed for this path, being a fictional combination of several Slavic neo-pagan symbols.[[/note]]. It's unknown how much of it manifested in Dikiy's [=SS-LARPing=] [=BurgSys=] path, but many elements of the idea would be folded into the Aryan Brotherhood's Hyperborea route.

*** Said route would progress across the world, [[SpaceFillingEmpire turning various parts of the globe into]] [[https://imgur.com/a/jEpNIYx various Reichkommissariats or puppet states]] to loot and extract resources from, with the economy in absolute shambles, a glorified PonziScheme where {{plunder}} from new conquests was used to try to patch the leaks from previous conquests. This would continue until either your invasion of a nuclear power led to thermonuclear war, the bottom finally falling out of the economy from taking too long to conquer another country resulted in Schörner seizing power in a coup, or an incompetent attempt to sideline Schörner by making him the Reichskommissar of Reichskommissariat Fernost in Kamchatka resulted in a massive Second German Civil War.

** Heydrich, in the first German diary, utterly commits himself to Ultranational Socialism (the old name for the Burgundian System), and will turn Germany into a triply-Spartanist state before handing over the nukes to Burgundy. In the final game, Heydrich's path has been completely overhauled into [[spoiler:a new Heydrich-vs-Himmler plotline.]] Due to the controversial reception of this path (most notably the perceived HistoricalHeroUpgrade of a Nazi), it was once again reworked, with Heydrich now being given a more conventional path (in which he can stay in power until after the game ends in 1982) and portrayed as the monster he really was.

* One cut successor for Tixier-Vignancour was Pierre Gaxotte, leader of the monarchist Action française, whose platform is to invite the Orléanist pretender (Henri, Count of Paris) to the French throne. He was replaced by Henri Barbé, as a leader who could take power half-way through the first decade.

* Pierre Sidos was changed from leader of the French Popular Party (the main opposition party to the PN) to a member of the traditionalist wing of the RRN; his old role is now fulfilled by Jacques Doriot.

** Red Star United Army, a band of ex-Red Army soldiers who turned to banditry (but kept their aesthetics), and were commanded by OTL veteran-turned-corrupt bureaucrat Mkhitar Ambartsumyan.

** Marco Pannella (a progressive liberal who formed the Radical Party after splitting the Italian Liberal Party; in TNO, there's too little time after the restoration of 'democracy' for such a development to happen)

* [[https://www.reddit.com/r/TNOmod/comments/c3gupf/croatia_and_yugoslavia_map_leak/ A Yugoslavia teaser]] apparently showed Montenegro seceding from Yugoslavia, while both countries (it is unclear who leads who) are under partisans Andrija Hebrang (a Croat, for what it's worth) and Josip Broz Tito. No dev explanation have been provided for the exact circumstances behind this strange setup.

* Otto Ohlendorf was originally the security minister for the Ahnenerbe Antarktis Gruppe but was later replaced because it conflicted with his role in Ukraine’s content.