Hammerstein’s Revolution
This is a simple mod that exchanges August von Mackensen with Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord as the provisional leader of the Wehrmacht Coup in the German alternate history path.
This is done for the simple reason that von Mackensen might’ve had a lot of influence within German society, not unlike his former colleauge Hindenburg, but also not unlike Hindenburg was a Nazi symphathiser and would never have been the one to launch the rebellion against the Nazis, especially in 1936.
Von Hammerstein on the other hand was not only a big critic of the Nazi regime from day one and a close ally of Kurt von Schleicher, but also a conservative General with major influence in the Reichswehr and Wehrmacht. With his conservative political leanings but moderate, sometimes even described as progressive social convictions, the "Red General" would’ve had a far easier time bringing together the military and civilian opposition to the Nazis than the aristocratic von Mackensen.
This is why I chose him as the more likely candidate to lead a provisional government of the opposition, especially seeing as the Focus Tree in-game is not hard-coded as monarchist but also allows the player to go democratic, something von Mackensen would’ve never allowed.
As you might’ve guessed, this is a very niche mod for only the weirdest of history nerds, but I hope you still have a bit of fun with this.
Since only the text of the event and the gfx file for von Mackensen was changed, this mod should be compatible with most anything, as well as being Ironman and achievement compatible, but don’t quote me on that. I did after all throw this together in an evening.
– Credit goes to the Kaiserreich Team for the portrait of von Hammerstein
Required DLC:
These DLC should be installed in order to use this item.
Hearts of Iron IV: Waking the Tiger
