after avoiding a civil war while abolishing slavery in the early 50s, i hit socialism in 1877. 3 years later the petit bourgeois, evangelicals, and southern planters got so mad that were enacting "protected speech" that they revolted. im rlly pissed and am going to pull a Sherman. i have a communist 4-star general, but the libs took some of my biggest, strongest generals. my economy is in the dump rn but my capital state Pennsylvania will keep me afloat. i have a bigger army bc of conscripts and am building 100 barracks to outnumber them 4:1.
this just happened right before the revolution
unfortunately the Communist Party fell apart with the revolution and the communists (including Karl Marx, who moved to the US 10 years ago) joined with the "People's Party" which is led by an ethno-nationalist representing the yeoman farmers.
thinking about returning to an autosave
Yeah, unless you have a lot of construction sectors and a high-tech training rate, I suspect you're not likely to train enough troops before they make significant inroads. That being said, America's mass conscription can be a bit of wildcard sometimes.
I normally only face these revolutions if I wasn't paying enough attention, and so justify my save scumming to avoid it. But if you're going to fight them, you're probably doing the best tactics available. Conscript everyone immediately, ensure your big armies have the extra supplies/support mobilizations, maybe consider a small backdoor naval invasion to put them on more fronts (especially if their capital is on the coast).
Ideally, be economically prepared to fight for a couple years at least. Don't worry if a lot of your soldiers die en masse - that just means you don't have to pay their wages. If you're near a new training rate tech, prioritise that. Bankruptcy is not necessarily loss, a 50% penalty (and penalty to training) is overcomeable if you have >3x their troop numbers by then. You can keep an eye on the bourgeois' debt by looking at the "take their debt" diplo option, if they're nearing bankruptcy, then just play it cool until they do, and push for the win.
As for Marxy boy, just bring the farmers into your government, then promote him to be leader of the party. His personal values should sway those of the party and the commie coalition might be back.
Whatever you do, save scumming or not, a glorious salute to crushing their spirits on the battlefield or in making the new socialist utopia
thanks for the effort post! yeah i tend to build my construction sectors up to the point of having a slight budget deficit. i like to keep my gold levels between 10% in debt and 10% gold reserves. also ive been rushing important military techs bc my plan from the beginning was to spread communism as far as possible.
i didnt know abt the promoting agitators to leader tho! but my trade union leader is already a communist so idk if that would do much. my gov is just farmers and trade unions, occasionally having to add petit bourg to keep gov legitimacy high.
anyways i ended up save scumming. i hit a recession for a couple years and accumulated $30M in debt but then i bounced back, paid most my debt and now im back to unlimited growth