Firepunk 2230

[AI apocalypse + military fantasy + Third Reich + Soviet Union goes berserk + This Is So America]

Every regime vanished in the world war, yet two hundred years later, an AI-controlled bomber still flies through the sky. Its pilot has long since become a skeleton, but it must still carry out its 3,779th bombing mission.

There are drones in the sky and unmanned combat vehicles on the ground. Even in the lightless depths of the sea, AI-controlled ghosts with shaftless pump-jets prowl the waters. Humanity, whose entire industrial infrastructure was destroyed two hundred years ago, must struggle to survive under the watchful eyes of AI-controlled warlords.

Starting with the technology tree of World War I, then moving on to the MG42, and eventually to countless SIG Sauer M7s, he will become the helmsman of civilization...

“Humanity never wanted to rule the world. We simply believed the world was already our territory.”

(The first 30 chapters use World War I technology. After that, he builds a World War II-style combined-arms brigade to take on the AI.)