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West Coast Alliance is the Faction you play in the tutorial
The more I look at it it does feel like an RTS campaign map like a Total War Series.
The West Coast Alliance is easy mode as it only has to fight in one direction for nearly the whole game, you scoop up unaligned territory and your first real opponents New Mexico and Colorado are already fighting each other and small. Once you get to the Midwest the other 3 factions are large and duking it out and you know how to play the game.
New England is the moderate mode. Good defensive area but you have to Squash rebels and have two strong opponents in Florida and Illinois before matching the Western Alliance in terms of power.
Illinois and Florida are more hard game modes. A challenge but once you get certain territories you can lock in.
Colorado or New Mexico are the very hard challenge modes. Quickly Squash your neighbor, before the Western Alliance attacks, fight really hard to beat them only to have Florida or Ilinois nipping at you.
Mexico in Vic 2
except in America: Vaccivil War you also have to fight against your own population that constantly wants to die from medieval diseases and will protest any attempt to build up infrastructure
West Coast Alliance will have a significant domestic terrorism problem that increases the closer it gets to the Rockies, though.
West coast holds that territory and beefs up defenses at the Cascades/Sierra Nevada's, and maybe a bit farther (as is reasonable.
Cede the territory to make peace with one adjoining country and get the new economy started while the other factions figure out something more complicated.
Minnesota will start out with Illinois. You take wisconsin ASAP to form a contiguous border, then work on Michigan.
West Wisconsin near the St. Croix River valley is deeply forested and quite hilly. It wouldn't be easy to take down
They would definitely be allied, imo. They have a ton to gain with an alliance, similar starting political values, similar geography. NM gets access to the Denver airport and military bases while CO gets access to the Mexican border. They'd both have much more to worry about from Utah and Texas than from each other.