Judgement Day: Aftermath of the Red Flood is a Hearts of Iron IV Alternate History Game Mod. As its name would indicate, it is an unofficial sequel of Red Flood, describing a three-way Cold War set in one possible aftermath of the events of the original mod.
The year is 1956. The Red Flood, this timeline's equivalent of World War II, saw the old order swept away and the establishment of a new system. In Japan, socialist revolutionaries overthrew the government and spread the revolution across large parts of East and Southeast Asia. Russia emerged from its warlord era as the ultra-reactionary Russian National Peasant Republic under Vozhd Pavel Gorgulov, who defeated all rival warlords and subsequently renamed the country Great Scythia. In Europe, after the accelerationists won the civil wars in Italy and Spain, they joined the France-led Ligue Solaire; after defeating the United Kingdom, the Ligue Solaire crossed into the German Socialist Räterrepublik, and with a Scythian intervention in the Red Flood, the torch of Leninism was extinguished in the name of the new Future and old Reaction. The United States of America, after decades of economic downturn and domestic unrest, utterly collapsed into warlordism in the aftermath of a military coup led by reactionary officer George Van Horn Moseley against the unpopular anarchist President Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. With the world growing heated and chaotic, each passing day brings humanity closer to its Judgement Day.
The mod's demo can be downloaded here
; the full release has no set release date. Its community can be found on Discord and Reddit.
This Game Mod provides examples of:
- Alternate History: Beyond being an unofficial sequel to Red Flood where no one truly won World War I, Judgement Day is an alternate history to the OTL Cold War between NATO and the Warsaw Pact.
- Divided States of America: The old United States of America is gone. In the aftermath of a military coup against anarchist President Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, no central authority exists; the country is divided between numerous petty warlords who all want to be the American Garibaldi or Bismarck, who would reunify America with fire and blood.
- Invaded States of America: In 1949, France, Italy and Spain launched a land invasion of the United States in the hopes of establishing global empire across North America. As of 1956, roughly one-thirds of mainland America (east of a line crossing Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas and Louisiana) remain under control of pro-France warlords.
- Space Cold War: The main focus of the mod is a three-way Cold War between the Ligue Solaire (an alliance of accelerationist countries led by France, Italy and Spain), the Green Pact (Scythist Russia and its satellites) and the Pacific Red Front (Japan's alliance of socialist states in East and Southeast Asia).
