AiF - America In Flames (Alpha Release 1.04.01)

[Breadboy]

What if the Axis had achieved all of their goals? What if the Swastika flew high over all of the Europe, and the Rising Sun through all of the Pacific? America in Flames explores this what if scenario. America and her remaining few allies are left alone to defend against the incoming onslaught of the Axis powers. Frenzied and high on victories around the world, Germany, Italy, Japan (and… others?) look towards the America’s.

In this mod, players will be tasked to simulate "What if the Axis Powers invaded North America in WW2". Playable factions include the Axis Powers of Germany, Japan and Italy (Along with Minors), with new friends such as Axis-Aligned Mexico, as well as the Allied Powers of the United States, and Canada, along with the British loyalists who escaped German occupation. Featuring a fully custom made and highly detailed 1:25km scale map of North American from Northern Canada to Venezuela, the world war will finally arrive in the western hemisphere. It will be up to you to decide the fate of the New World.

America in Flames has been a passion project for me on and off for about a year now, and finally I feel as though there is enough work completed that I have a playable version to present to the community.

PLEASE BE AWARE – THERE IS CURRENTLY NO PROGRAMMED AI
The scenario at present is designed as a multiplayer only experience. I hope to eventually add an American AI. This is daunting task, and I am unsure if I will be able to do it. If anyone is interested in helping with this, please let me know.

What is included:

• ~1:25km scale map of North America (About 95% completed) with only parts of Central America that need finished or polished. This is what I have spent much of the past year working on and I am very proud of the results. The map attempts to recreate the conditions of North America in 1942. I used as much historical data for railways, production facilities & factories, resources, rail lines, and city sizes in order to create as close as possible the conditions that existed in the 1940s.
• Vanilla like experience, with very little changes given to how units perform and function, but on the grand North American scale.
• Plausible order of battle given the alternative history scenario. Historic populations, army and naval sizes, and production capacity were considered when designing this.
• The lore bible for this scenario is nearly finished, and will be uploaded for reading soon. This document will describe the alternative history and points of divergence from the historical timeline that make this scenario plausible.

What is in-Progress?

• Currently, the largest thing I am working on is creating and writing events. Most of the year one events are completed at this time. Ideally, I ultimately want to have a very "Alive" scenario with events and decisions for 4-6 full years of content.
• Limited playtesting by myself and friend have taken place to ensure minimum viable playability, but I really hope the community will be ready to help playtest and guide future development once the Alpha is released.
• Time and patience permitting, I may put out a series of videos or posts about how to do these events/scripts as I learn them myself in order to help folks in the future, since I am finding a real lack of good tutorials/discussion surrounding this stuff, beyond these forums and manuals.

How to play!?

• UPDATE 12/05/25: I am happy to say that I am planning for a January 1st Alpha release of the mod. This would include a playable scenario with event content for the first year. It will likely feel barebones in comparison to things like TRP or Orb & Crown, but flavor and additional content will be added over time. I will be taking into account player feedback to help craft and create the scenario.
• UPDATE 12/20/25: Christmas has come early! I have opted to release the current version of the mod in somewhat playable state. I am hoping to have some updates once I get some initial feedback. You can download the mod at the link below.
• UPDATE 02/06/26: I have taken a hiatus for a few months from this project to work on another unannounced Strategic Command mod I am working on. But I plan to do an update to AiF here this month with some bug fixes and new events.

LINKS

Discord
https://discord.gg/X3skpFAakP

Download Link
Latest Version: Alpha 1.04.01
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing

I'm really looking forward to getting this out for folks to see. A big thanks to Lothos, as he was a major inspiration to embark on this project after having played so much of TRP - World. Another shoutout to Elessar2 and his 20km Europe map, which was another big inspiration for me to start this project!

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Latest Version: Alpha 1.04.01

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[Breadboy]

Download Link
Latest Version: Alpha 1.04.01
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing

[Lothos]

very cool

[Beriand]

So, the final capital somewhere in the Rocky Mountains? One wonders if in this world someone makes an implausible scenario about lucky Allied victory

Sounds great, any big mod is nice, though people tend to hug main WW1/WW2 campaigns tightly and not that many try out other scenarios.

Can I ask what is the dynamic of the campaign? That is, which side is on the clock? Such an Axis is probably stronger than US, so are there some revolts/internal problems crippling Germs/Japs if they do not smash Americans quickly enough? Just curious, almost all scenarios start with one aggressive side considerably stronger, but then with relative strength changing over time due to mobilisation/allies.

[Breadboy]

@Beriand

To answer your question, the Axis really are 'on the clock' so to speak. You are correct regarding changes over time in relative strength, as in the mod the intention is to have the United States & Canada start in a very weakened state, and rapidly be able to come up to strength with the invading forces. Success for the Axis will depend heavily on the first year of the campaign, as early failures will likely spell an eventual defeat, but early success could bring a quick victory. I think the best parallels is that on the Atlantic side (the Germans & Italians vs the Eastern US & Canada) will resemble a Barbarossa campaign, wherein the Axis forces are much stronger at the onset, and should be able to rapidly establish a foothold in the mainland, but the US player, like Russia, if it can survive the onslaught, can grow into a giant on its own, and be very competitive to the Axis forces. The Axis have another major disadvantage, which is that all reinforcements will need to be shipped overseas, which adds 2-4 additional turns for additional troops. In addition, occupation of the mainland will exact a heavy toll on the Axis, through partisans and resistance, so even though the Axis Army will be large and powerful, it can still be ground down over the course of the campaign.

This scenario was also made first and foremost for my group of friends (the four of us) and we like to play these games as a 2v2, so the intent is to balance around this, and the scenario really feels like two distinct fronts, almost like two different 1v1s. Ideally, both sides have an equal chance at succeeding. For the US, victory is loosely defined as kicking the invaders back into the sea, and for the Axis, taking over significant parts of the US. The US East capital can go from DC -> Pittsburgh -> Chicago. So if the Axis player can reach Chicago, that is a decisive Axis victory. Even crossing the Appalachians could be considered a minor Axis victory.

[Breadboy]

Taking a break from some of my normal tasks with the mod to make some art. Here is one of the background screens.

[Breadboy]

I have fixed the discord invite link. It looks like I set the original one to expire.

Discord
https://discord.gg/X3skpFAakP

[Breadboy]

After a few month hiatus after the initial release, I am planning on getting a few small bug fixes and new events out there in a update soon.

If anyone has had a chance to try and play, and has some feedback/suggestions/things they would like to see, I am looking for ideas. I am especially looking for any game balance feedback, as I can only play so many times to test everything.