美利堅合眾國

美利堅合眾國

政府類型	民主共和制
執政黨	民主黨 (保守黨)
首都	華盛頓 (ID 220)
人口	4 M
主體民族	揚基人
被接受民族	迪克西人、德克薩斯人
識字率	42%
國家價值觀	自由
科研學派	商業學院與大亨資本主義
地位	列強

USA at the start of the game

「上帝保佑美國，如此偉大，如此友善，如此富饒。」
」God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.」

美利堅合眾國，簡稱USA或美國，是遊戲開局時便控制了北美大量土地，且不位於歐洲的列強。雖然它只在中等有利的條件下開始，但它具有巨大的增長潛力。對於一個新參與者來說，這是一個寬容的開始，它允許各種各樣的戰略，從追求美國的歷史道路和建立西半球霸權，到與其他大國競爭在亞洲和非洲建立一個殖民帝國。通過「兄弟鬩牆」，美國可以獲得各種針對特定國家的決定和事件。

美國一開始就把利比里亞當傀儡，但一旦利比里亞做出解放利比里亞的決定，這種情況就會改變。

它以洋基為主要文化，迪克西和德克薩斯作為公認的文化。此外，非裔美國人，切羅基人，達科他州和美洲原住民可以添加為具有事件或決定的接受文化。

歷史道路

19世紀是美國崛起成為美洲主導力量的時期。在「昭昭天命」的幌子下，美國人民註定要「征服西方」的想法，這個年輕的國家大大擴展。在西北邊境，與英國控制的加拿大的衝突和平解決，邊界線劃定在北緯49度線。在西部和西南部，美國在德克薩斯州成功從墨西哥獨立後吞併了該國，而美墨戰爭和加茲登購買（遊戲中沒有建模）導致墨西哥聲稱的土地大量割讓給美國。奴隸制和州權利問題導致了惡性的內戰，導致分離主義國家的失敗和奴隸制的廢除。現在從東海岸延伸到西海岸，隨着阿拉斯加的購買，美國將進一步增長。在國內，門羅主義和後來的羅斯福推論確保了美洲只看到來自其他大國的有限影響力，並且美國能夠維護其對該地區小國的主導地位。在國外，美國開始建立自己的帝國，在中國和巴拿馬獲得特許權，強迫與日本進行開放貿易，吞併夏威夷和大部分西班牙殖民地，並迅速殖民擁有無人居住的太平洋島嶼。

開局條件

1836年，美國已經是一個大國和列強。它的軍事、人口和經濟都缺乏，但增長的機會比比皆是，特別是考慮到美國的較高識字率和研究。

領土

美國已經遠遠超過了最初的十三個州，但對西部大部分土地的控制是脆弱的;許多地區尚未成為完整的州，居住着不被接受的文化，人口也很少。北方人口主要是洋基，這是主要文化，而南方人主要是迪克西，一種公認的文化。俄克拉荷馬州、科羅拉多州、愛達荷州和卑詩省的地區仍然開放殖民，愛達荷州的成功殖民化為俄勒岡州和華盛頓州帶來了通道。在西南部，如果德克薩斯州贏得獨立戰爭並與美國保持良好關係，它將申請建州，而更西邊的大片墨西哥領土將通過「昭昭天命」決定獲得美國的核心。一個美國核心馴鹿在英國人手中;它可以通過韋伯斯特-阿什伯頓條約和平獲得。政府

The conservative Democratic Party has broad control over America's democracy. Some of their party issues are jingoism and interventionism. No social reforms have been enacted except the 10-hour workday, while in the political sphere, the states are represented by two members each in the upper house, voting is biased towards the wealthy and suffers from gerrymandering, slavery is allowed in certain states, but unions and meetings are entirely free.

經濟

America is in the enviable position of controlling a broad range of resources, and having the option of obtaining many more. Timber is available in New England, coal in West Virginia, and iron in Pennsylvania. Meanwhile, the south is filled with cash crops like cotton and tobacco. Few factories dot the landscape, however, and its low population and interventionist economics mean that the US will not readily industrialize initially. More craftsmen and capitalists are necessary to bring the nation's full economic potential to bear.

外交關係

The United States borders Texas to the southwest, the 聯合王國 to the north, and Mexico to the west. Russia controls Alaska to the far northwest. The UK may release Canada, Newfoundland and Columbia as dominions, while Deseret and the Californian Republic may split off from Mexico. Many countries start the game with a positive view of the United States and are willing to form an alliance with it; the primary exception being the UK. Texas is especially eager for help from its large northern neighbor and once it is at peace it will seek statehood if relations are above 175. The player should improve relations with the UK from day one and work on getting them to max if no other pressing matters need attending. Occasionally, the UK may decide that a land grab of some sweet colonial states from the large, but feeble USA is in order, but good relations can somehow diminish the chances of that happening.

移民吸引

USA is by far the nation, which will attract the most immigrants. First and foremost it is a democracy in the new world with potentially a lot of reforms passed. On top of that it has the decision The Homestead Act which will give 50% immigration attraction and assimilation, and France has the decision Liberty Enlightening The World, which will USA a staggering 500% assimilation and 200% immigrant attraction.

Therefore, it is a good idea to maintain good relations (above 50) with France at least until they have enacted that decision.

決議和事件

The United States has many decisions and events relating to its historical path. Most are centered around the Civil War, as this was the focus of the expansion A House Divided. Because these events and decisions are largely related, they are grouped separately.

內戰

決議

事件

特有事件

指南

The United States' first priority is to make full use of its capacity for territorial expansion. Colonization, the annexation of Texas and war with Mexico (after enacting Manifest Destiny) are sensible directions to go in. After this, promoting capitalism and economic development will allow the US to build up a massive power-base from which to project diplomatic and military power, both in the western hemisphere and further abroad. The conscience gain from many slavery-related events may be exploited to enact desirable political reforms, but is also likely to lead to rebellion. The Civil War seems like an almost inevitable occurrence and players should prepare accordingly.

早期殖民

Colonization provides an almost free way to expand American territory, and means that fewer wars will be required to obtain all of America's Manifest Destiny cores. It is thus in the US' best interest to colonize everything it can. At the start, USA should colonize whatever "border" state Mexico is colonizing and one more, and later compete for the one that remains. That way, it should always be able to easily outcompete Mexico in all three contested states. Don't worry about the UK snatching Washington, Oregon, or Idaho, which are up for grabs while you're busy with Mexico; the AI tends to leave them alone for some reason. USA should not make any attempt to seize anything in Canada, except maybe Yukon and Northwest Territories much later in the game. Due to the starting political makeup and the AI's behavior, UK would have it all colonized anyway by the time the US got there, and spending effort even attempting it would give Mexico free pass on some of the states bordering it. Converting territories into states retrieves invested colonial points and should thus be a priority; using the national focus to encourage bureaucrats in territories containing accepted cultures will accelerate this process.

德克薩斯、美國--墨西哥戰爭

The first order of business military-wise should be disbanding the US Navy for the time being. It will not be useful anytime soon, and it costs maintenance money direly needed elsewhere. America should also secure alliance with the USCA and Colombia before unpausing. Both should readily accept and provide a very helpful second front in the upcoming wars against Mexico. Allying them will also prevent Mexico from doing so instead.

At the game start Mexico is attempting to annex a freshly-independent Texas. Texas' war goal is simply to make peace though it can demand two of its cores still held by Mexico if the war goes well. Because Texas can and will apply for statehood once it and the US are at peace it is in the US' best interest to ensure it wins the war. Unfortunately, the Texan military is much smaller than the Mexican army. Texas benefits from having a strong defensive general, Sam Houston, but will usually lose the war. Once Texas begins to lose, US can come to its aid as Texas has a "Friendly" opinion of America. Keeping troops on the Texan border, ready for intervention, is advisable.

An interesting strategy is to not intervene conventionally. Instead, at game start, justify an acquire state CB against Mexico (or some other CB) and get Texas to give your troops military access. When the CB becomes available, declare your own war on Mexico. This allows the United States to destroy Mexico's army, allowing Texas to go on to not only win their war, but add a war goal of acquiring the rest of its cores from Mexico in the process. When both wars are complete, the United States can annex the Lone Star State whole and proper, instead of just partially and later having to fight Mexico again for the remaining part, and also gains whatever its goal was from Mexico.

Upon enacting the Manifest Destiny decision the US gets cores on all of its modern-day contiguous territory. Mexico is weak and the territory is valuable, so a war with Mexico to obtain these core provinces is logical. A typical approach would be to place one's main force in Texas to defeat any Mexican armies, while weaker forces spread out of the cores to occupy them. If Mexico has developed the territories too much it may not be possible to obtain all of them in one war; their war score will total up to more than 100. In this case a second war is necessary. It is advised that the player watches out for other GPs getting influence in Mexico, discrediting them as necessary. If a GP is friendly to a country and someone attacks it, the GP in question may choose to join the war in that country's defense, and the AI will often do.

避免內戰

By pushing Northern consciousness high it is sometimes possible to bypass the Civil War by enacting the Abolish Slavery political reform prior to the Slavery Debate event. The normal way to do this is to take a state off Mexico, make it a slave state, and all colonies become slave states. This will push Yankee consciousness up very high, which will aid in getting a proper Upper House. Note, if Slavery Debate event comes up, there is no way to enact the Abolish Slavery reform.

工業化

Building factories and infrastructure can give the US an economic edge over the rest of the world. As always, industrialization requires enough resources, infrastructure, craftsmen, clerks, capitalists, and capital. The American political parties offer a choice between interventionism and laissez-faire as economic policy. The US is not shy for resources, but lacks in infrastructure and the right POPs. The US should be able to obtain more than enough funds by cutting down on the army and navy, and potentially raising tariffs. Using interventionism to build up infrastructure and to subsidize burgeoning industry can make development quicker, while laissez-faire will allow the economy to grow well once it has reached critical mass. Craftsmen tend to become available as necessary, leaving clerks and capitalists as the limitations on American industry. The population of both can be increased through use of national foci, but increasing literacy and lowering taxes on the rich is a more systematic way of encouraging their growth.

內戰

A picture of CSA and USA in 1861

The various slavery-related events almost unavoidably lead to A House Divided, which releases the Confederate States of America and starts the civil war. Players get the choice to continue as the USA or switch the CSA. Because the player has foreknowledge of the Civil War it can be stacked against either side. Only slave states will get CSA cores, and soldiers from CSA states will come under CSA control when the war happens. Depending on the side the player intends to choose they may limit the CSA to only the original slave states and have a large blockade in place at the start of the war, or they may grant it cores on all newly acquired states and rob the USA of its navy. Either side's army can be neutered by disbanding Yankee or Dixie troops sometime before the war breaks out. Winning the Civil War as the Union allows the Afro-American culture to be added as an acceptable culture. Rarely, the civil war may be prevented if the player manages to declare slavery illegal before the civil war has triggered.

進一步擴張

Once the Mexican cores have been acquired and the Civil War has been dealt with(and even before, in the interludes between Mexican wars, but before the Civil War looms close enough), the US has a lot of options open to it. Encourage bureaucrats in continental homeland colonies(if they have some primaray/accpeted culture folks in them already, otherwise it's of no use) to turn them into states to free up colonial points. Encourage soldiers in the most populous states to gain a more sizable manpower pool.

Sindh and Panjab are interesting early game grabs, with fairly rich and populous states, yet without a GP protecting them. If the US builds a well-composed army and ships it over to Sindh, it will be able to easily annex the country. Ask France for access and amass the army piecemeal on some island nearby if you don't want to build a large transport fleet. Sindh can then be used as a beachhead to launch an invasion into much stronger Panjab. Be wary of fighting the Panjabi in the mountains though, your armies are not invulnerable to irregulars yet. The fact that Panjab can be gobbled up in one go makes this option all the more tempting.

Decisions allow for the Alaska purchase and annexation of Hawaii, the latter being a useful jumping board for colonization of the Pacific islands. Pacific isn't the most profitable colonial venture, but with any luck, the islands can be realistically turned into full states later in the game, as opposed to almost all African and Asian colonies.

If the Ostend Manifesto decision was enacted before the Civil War, Cuba will be an American core, and can be wrestled from Spain.

Sphering Colombia and building the Panama canal as a sensible choice. Suez, along with some other land while you're at it, can be gained from Egypt, although this is not a priority. At the start, Egypt often fights with Ottomans wanting their cores back, and its army gets annihilated. This is your chance. Get there before the UK does. Do not bother sphering, Egypt will call you into its defensive wars against the Ottos and the UK is hell-bent on sphering Egypt once they can build the canal themselves, making it a pain in the butt to hold.

Expanding into Mexico is no great military challenge, nor is annexing other countries in the western hemisphere, but the infamy is an everpresent limitation. Seizing colonies from other GPs or expanding into Canada, however, requires careful thought and military preparation, though they are by no means out of reach for a player willing to take the infamy penalty.

States can be taken from China with one well-composed army of roughly 25 regiments(Infantry/guards supported by artillery, cavalry, and engineers) and some second or third tier army techs researched. The player has to go on defeating small 10-regiments strong Chinese armies to gain warscore and wait for China to beg for peace, which happens pretty fast. Do not add wargoals though, the Chinese will for some reason never accept them based on battle warscore alone and you are not yet in good enough shape to truly occupy China. A Chinese state is an incredibly valuable prize, with just one having population close the entire US combined and being capable of solving all of your money problems forever.

If planning to participate in the Scramble for Africa, the player should prepare ahead of time by seizing some starting land there before it happens. The leading candidates are Oman along with its African holdings, the Portuguese starting colonies, or the richer parts of Egypt. Don't bother with Maghreb or the Egyptian hinterlands, they're poor and not worth the infamy. Same goes for starting colonies of various European nations that dot the coast, the infamy and work required is too much for one measly colonial province. Note that without gaining something in Africa beforehand or at least securing a naval base at a close enough range like Arabia or India, the US will not be able to colonize anything on the continent by the time other GPs get to it.

國家

列強： 奧地利 • 法國 • 奧斯曼帝國 • 普魯士 • 俄羅斯帝國 • 西班牙 • 聯合王國 • 美利堅合眾國

次強： 比利時 • 巴西 • 丹麥 • 墨西哥 • 尼德蘭 • 葡萄牙 • 薩丁-皮埃蒙特 • 瑞典 • 兩西西里

好玩的國家: 巴伐利亞 • 大清 • 埃及 • 希臘 • 日本 • 旁遮普 • 教宗國 • 波斯 • 瑞士

可成立國家: 阿拉伯 • 拜占庭帝國 • 捷克斯洛伐克 • 德國 • 大哥倫比亞 • 印度 • 意大利 • 波蘭 • 波蘭-立陶宛 • 羅馬尼亞 • 斯堪的納維亞 • 波羅的聯合省 • 南斯拉夫