Map Thread X

[Goldstein]

An ISOT/ASB one. Basically, a time traveller from the future travels to 1864 Paraguay, in the eve of the War of the Triple Alliance, and gives Francisco Solano López advanced weaponry from his time and privileged information about the future. Hilarity ensues.

[TheSevenLeggedFallyDowner]

Originally Posted by Goldstein

An ISOT/ASB one. Basically, a time traveller from the future travels to 1864 Paraguay, in the eve of the War of the Triple Alliance, and gives Francisco Solano López advanced weaponry from his time and privileged information about the future. Hilarity ensues.

Even if they had advanced weaponry, does Paraguay really have the resource base and population to do something like that? Plus they're going to need boats to get to the Guianas. Their land-link is deep in the Amazon Rainforest and I am given to understand it is almost entirely impassible for human beings.

[Tallest Skil]

Originally Posted by Goldstein

An ISOT/ASB one. Basically, a time traveller from the future travels to 1864 Paraguay, in the eve of the War of the Triple Alliance, and gives Francisco Solano López advanced weaponry from his time and privileged information about the future. Hilarity ensues.

And the US lost Florida… how?

[Goldstein]

Originally Posted by TheSevenLeggedFallyDowner

Even if they had advanced weaponry, does Paraguay really have the resource base and population to do something like that? Plus they're going to need boats to get to the Guianas. Their land-link is deep in the Amazon Rainforest and I am given to understand it is almost entirely impassible for human beings.

Mind that IOTL the War of the Triple Alliance utterly destroyed Paraguayan industrial capacity and population base. With enough time, yes they could do that, as well as getting a decent enough fleet to get the Guayanas. Mind that the map is the aftermath of a Great War that has lasted decades.

Originally Posted by Tallest Skil

And the US lost Florida… how?

By means of overwhelming Spanish military superiority, of course

[B_Munro]

The map seems to imply multiple time travelers, given the multitude of wanks...

Bruce

[Coyote Knight]

Originally Posted by Beedok

Something I haphazardly tossed together. Not really satisfied with it though.

*Sigh*

If only Ottawa had a Metro...

[metastasis_d]

Originally Posted by black_0

This map was inspired by round C of ABC map contest.
I'm sorry about those atrocious borders.

Attachment 185810

I don't remember this one...

[metastasis_d]

Originally Posted by kasumigenx

Hohenzollern Poland

Union of Four Nations sorry for bad German because I just used Google Translate.

Google Translate missed the word 'Four'?

Should be vier.

[metastasis_d]

Originally Posted by B_Munro

The map seems to imply multiple time travelers, given the multitude of wanks...

Bruce

And the time travelers clearly brought a modern atlas, and forced the world at gunpoint to put up borders that follow OTL very closely in Africa.

And they dismantled New Caledonia and moved Hawaii closer to North America. Also the Maldives got a makeover, and what the fuck is Micronesia?

[VT45]

Next up in the series: the 1981 general election.

[Goldstein]

Originally Posted by B_Munro

The map seems to imply multiple time travelers, given the multitude of wanks...

Bruce

I thought about a Paraguayan-led axis, and the future technology being too advanced to be easily reverse-engineered, allowing great power shifts by the time that was possible. But mind that I did this one very fast and with ASB-ish themes in mind.

Originally Posted by metastasis_d

And the time travelers clearly brought a modern atlas, and forced the world at gunpoint to put up borders that follow OTL very closely in Africa.

I pictured it in a way the butterflies really started to flap outside South America in the 1890's.

Originally Posted by metastasis_d

And they dismantled New Caledonia and moved Hawaii closer to North America. Also the Maldives got a makeover, and what the fuck is Micronesia?

Hey, blame the basemap, not me.

[Thande]

Originally Posted by VulcanTrekkie45

Next up in the series: the 1981 general election.

You know I find your New England obsession faintly worrying, but I am pleased it produced something as beautiful as that map.

[Noravea]

The World of New York, New York in 2012, which I am renaming Watch on the Hudson.

After 117 years of Independence, the Second Republic of New York was founded in October 2011 during a wave of Revolutions that rocked the Western world, particularly Western Europe and North America. The National Revolution (October 1st to October 25th) saw the dissolution of the Confederation of New York, and the resignation of President John Matthias, who had rigged the 2004 Presidential election to take power. New York has now completely recovered economically from the disastrous Matthias Presidency, and is now in the beginning of a Second Golden Age. With New York City, her capital, the center of the United Nations, a center of culture, government, education, and commerce/trade, her power is now being compared to the height of Venice or Phoenicia during their heights.

Currently, she possesses South New Jersey and Vermont as protectorates, along with Bermuda as a territory. Her former colonies from her colonial empire include Liberia (1905-1945), Congo-Brazzaville (1919-1949), and Gabon (1920-1949). The National Republican Party has controlled the Presidency since October 2011, and is poised to defeat the Social Democratic Party and Union Party in the 2012 Presidential election.

New York's closest allies are New England, Canada, New Hampshire, Texas, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Poland, Italy, Turkey, the Democratic People's Republic of China, Japan, New Zealand, Australia, and South Africa. Relations have been normalized with the United States, the USSR, and both North and South China, while Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, and Iraq remain the enemies of New York politically.

[Beedok]

Originally Posted by Thande

You know I find your New England obsession faintly worrying, but I am pleased it produced something as beautiful as that map.

The bit I find worrying is the stealing of Atlantic Canada. Like how the Cascadians want to steal BC. Are they trying to make us landlocked?

[Kaiphranos]

Originally Posted by Goldstein

An ISOT/ASB one. Basically, a time traveller from the future travels to 1864 Paraguay, in the eve of the War of the Triple Alliance, and gives Francisco Solano López advanced weaponry from his time and privileged information about the future. Hilarity ensues.

I'm just going to imagine super-Mexico is some sort of Paraguayan ally, and that's how they managed to regain the Southwest...

[Æsir]

Originally Posted by Thande

You know I find your New England obsession faintly worrying, but I am pleased it produced something as beautiful as that map.

Me and him should start a New England Independence Party some time. We will accuse conservatives who complain about "Massachusetts liberals" and moderate Republicans of talking New England down, make newspapers rue the day they publish anything critical of us, and refuse to take oaths of office without complaining about it, just like a real separatist party.

Originally Posted by Beedok

The bit I find worrying is the stealing of Atlantic Canada. Like how the Cascadians want to steal BC. Are they trying to make us landlocked?

Are you talking New England down? Atlantic Canada, or as it is properly called, the Islas Newenglandvinas , are as New English as Berwick-upon-Tweed and the HMS Invincible are Scottish! As New English as Aragon and Valencia are Catalan! as New English as Wiltshire is Cornish! You will rue the day!

[Noravea]

Don't worry, I countered with a New England-screw in my map.

[Beedok]

Originally Posted by Æsir

Are you talking New England down? Atlantic Canada, or as it is properly called, the Islas Newenglandvinas , are as New English as Berwick-upon-Tweed and the HMS Invincible are Scottish! As New English as Aragon and Valencia are Catalan! as New English as Wiltshire is Cornish! You will rue the day!

Acadie toujours!

[VT45]

Originally Posted by Thande

You know I find your New England obsession faintly worrying, but I am pleased it produced something as beautiful as that map.

If you think my New England obsession is a bit worrying, check my location. That should allay your fears for a little bit. And besides, this is the farthest I've ever gotten back in time on an election series!

[Noravea]

Originally Posted by VulcanTrekkie45

If you think my New England obsession is a bit worrying, check my location. That should allay your fears for a little bit. And besides, this is the farthest I've ever gotten back in time on an election series!

You're in Turkey? So, you're a Turk with a New England obsession?