Major miss in my first write up was Pantex. Will upload the update tonight. It changes things a little bit, since I do not think MilGov would have ever abandoned it and there are simply too many nuclear warheads and/or pits there to safely relocate. So in the revised version, MilGov maintains a battalion sized presence there and Pantex is one of the few remaining facilities where MilGov can manufacture limited quantities of 105, 120, and 155mm projectiles (Pantex has advanced explosives and components manufacturing capabilities).
So, thesis here: MilGov would have nuked any enemy forces threatening to advance on Amarillo. So either the Mexicans stopped their advance well short, they were stopped by US forces, or their advancing forces were hit with tactical nukes. Still working on that narrative.
Re: Texas State Guard, yes they will make an appearance. Also will cover what happened to the various military bases (Hood, etc) during the spin up for war and what happened after the major host units were deployed (Hood and Bliss in particular would have been turned into major training bases). One of the TSG brigades will be part of the constituents of the Texian Legion that defeats the 85th Infantry Division. The 85th will get a write-up as well (some of the training divisions, at the very end, were filled up with convicts released from prison to make manpower quotas and the 85th is going to be one of the units that provokes a regional uprising - not that the Legion is a good guy - there are no good guys).
I also have a fairly long history of Mexico that I am writing up. For example, if Mexico wasn’t nuked in late 1997, why would refugees be streaming into the US? If Mexico was nuked, who nuked them? If it was the USSR why would Mexico ally with them 6 months later? If it was the USSR why, why?
Not to give it away, but I am leaning towards - Mexico was NOT nuked in 1997, but was already suffering from a civil war combined with a narco war. The EMP strikes exacerbated conditions in north Mexico, refugees plus narco marauders cross the border causing chaos resulting in a heavy handed American response. US demands oil from Mexico, Mexico refuses. Marxists come to power, make a deal with Division Cuba, mobilize and invade the US. US nukes Mexico’s oil and industrial centers in Autumn/Winter of 1998 when the strikes against 2nd tier belligerents occur in canon.
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