Victoria 3 - USA: Episode 53, An Armored People's Militia

Our next run will be as the USA, a country with an interesting history as an Imperial power. Our strategy will be to grow strong in the early game by colonizing the Native American nations adjacent to us and leveraging immigration, and to take opportunities to liberalize as they come, allowing us to eventually blossom into a powerful democratic republic. Our end goal will be the Star-Swarmed Flag achievement, which requires us to take and incorporate one hundred states. We are aiming for a free victory in the American Civil War and maybe we’ll even indulge in some overseas empire building of our own.
Most of episode fifty-three is taken up with a massive military reform as we transition to a fully-armored army. In foreign affairs, we conquer the rest of Guinea from the newly-established state of Kaabu, just as we did with the Ashanti before them. President Alexander Quincy dies near the end of his first term, making Norris Teasman, an admiral aligned with the intelligentsia, sixteenth president of the United States, heading up a caretaker government during the general election. The 1928 election cycle ends with another narrow victory for the republicans, with Robert Johnson, a radical aligned with the Intelligentsia, being inaugurated as seventeenth President of the United States.
Episode Timeframe: January 1928 - December 1928
Recorded in patch 1.7.6 "Kahwah" with all DLC enabled.