Re: [DL] What happened to the Union?

["Matt Maybray" <reginald_q_bumbershoot@hotmail.com>]

>Now, looking overy my map of the Deadlands world, I'm truly perplexed.
>Looking over Tales o' Terror: 1877, I'm even more perplexed...
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>What Happened to the Union? In the real world, it had a massive 
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>and population advantage. Even freeing the slaves in the CSA wouldn't stop
>that. The Union, historically, should be powerful enough to keep most of 
>it's
>territory except for the CSA proper- namely, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado,
>Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona. Now, as far as I know, the rationale is...
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>I'd just like a rationale, or a cool reason.
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>So where's the Union's forces? The manufacturing capacity?
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>I only ask because this kind of thing needs some backup. I'm certainly not
>demanding Deadlands be historically accurate. I'd just like to know what 
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>Reckoners did to "ruin the Union...."

Alot of this get's explained in various sourcebooks; for example, due to the 
actions of some crazed Union general (I forget his name), most of Missouri 
is galvanized against the Union (re: River o' Blood).

And if you read the Marshal's section of The Agency sourcebook, it flat out 
says that more often than not abominations will get an urge to lay the 
smackdown on Union forces to help prolong the war (i.e., zombies will eat 
Yankee brains, gremlins will blow up Union gizmos, etc.)

As for NM & AZ, the Union's forces are stretched pretty thin; all Jeff Davis 
had to do was send out enough forces to rally the area to the Confederate 
cause until such time that they could be considered Confederate territory.

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