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Roads enable much faster movement, but decrease the unit's defense score. In each area there are various forms of terrain, each with its own effect on how a unit moves.
SHATTERED UNION MANUAL
Each side can choose to either manually place their units on the battlefield where they want them to be, or have the computer do it for them automatically, with the Manual and Auto buttons on the deployment screen. If a unit is deployed to one area, it cannot be redeployed to another until that round of attacks is over. When attacking a territory, the player selects which of his units to deploy to that area on the Deployment screen. The amount of income the player gets each round of attacks is based on how many territories he controls. The various factions left over when the country broke apart (see below) wage warfare in numerous territories. transforms into a new fascist state, "one that will never again feel the sting of dissent". If the player faction's reputation is very bad, the U.S. If the invasion succeeds and the player faction's reputation is very good, the troubled American states are "united again under uncommon greatness" – a leader whose merciful acts and strategic and tactical brilliance will be spoken of for centuries to come. is still suffering unrest and faces an uncertain future. If the invasion fails, the reunified U.S. A closing cinematic depicts the aftermath of the war. Vladekov refuses to cede control of Alaska, so the faction's forces prepare to invade the state and drive the Russians out of North America. Protests throughout Russia force Vladekov to declare martial law in Moscow.Īfter the former contiguous United States is unified under one faction, the independent Commonwealth of Hawaii agrees to join the new government.
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bombing as part of his goal to disrupt the world economy, so that Russia could regain its military dominance, and more easily control Europe. President Vladekov had been dealing weapons on the black market for more nearly thirty years, and masterminded the D.C. Later, Interpol reveals the results of its investigation regarding the Inauguration Day bombing. What little resistance does occur is confused and disorganized, making the invasion largely unopposed. The invasion is personally led by President Nicholai Vladekov, an ex-general and former Soviet hardliner, who claims that Alaska was never really part of the United States, and that Russia is merely reclaiming its former territory. Other factions form in the following months, and by 2014, all hopes for a peaceful resolution are gone and the Second American Civil War begins.Įarly in the war, Russia invades and occupies Alaska, using the expanded operations of the European Union as an excuse. Texas follows a few days later on April 17, 2013, taking neighboring states with it and re-forming the Republic of Texas. As secessionist sentiment rises in America, the governor of California declares home rule, and California secedes from the Union on April 15, 2013. The European Union Parliament meets in an emergency session, and votes to send peacekeepers to the Washington Metropolitan Area to secure international interests and protection of European citizens in the United States. Congress, effectively wiping out the presidential line of succession, resulting in the United States being thrust into total chaos. The yield is sufficient to destroy most of the city, killing Adams, his cabinet, and most of the U.S. on the night of January 20, 2013, a low-yield tactical nuclear weapon is detonated in an apparent groundburst, presumably having been concealed there in advance. The public reacts violently when incumbent Adams accepts a second term.ĭuring the Inauguration Ball in Washington, D.C. Presidential Election, the Supreme Court of the United States disqualifies all the popular presidential candidates from several states, effectively handing Adams his reelection. In response, President Adams uses the Homeland Security Act and declares martial law on many areas of the country, but it is particularly concentrated in the West Coast.įour years later, during the 2012 U.S. As a result, rioting springs up all throughout the United States, resulting in domestic terrorism. A combination of foreign terrorist attacks and poor economic conditions contributes to civil unrest. In 2008, David Jefferson Adams has been elected as the 44th President of the United States following a disputed election and a tie vote in the Electoral College (and subsequent tie-breaker by the United States House of Representatives), becoming the most hated and unpopular president in U.S. Shattered Union is set in an alternate history version of the United States.
SHATTERED UNION SOFTWARE
Shattered Union is a turn-based tactics video game developed by PopTop Software and published by 2K Games in 2005.