Map Thread IX
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Plausibility does not matter in this situation, it is a horrid map.
This was a pretty good effort. I especially like what you did with West Virginia. The one thing that kinda ruined it was Mexico annexing Texas & Oklahoma......sorry man.
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Or, the map would have to be much better looking to make up for the plausibility issue. Plausibility can keep an ugly map's head above water: it complements but is far less important for a first-rate bit of map art.
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I'm afraid you've created a rather ugly map there. It looks like you've made a map and then shrunk it, making the entire thing pixelated and blocky. There are numerous islands that I assume are meant to be part of the countries shown, but have been left uncoloured (for example in Alaska, the Great Lakes, and around Canada). The names of the various countries do not look well placed either, rather looking like they've been slapped on at somewhere vaguely near the middle of the country. "The Wild Lands" area is simply coloured in with patterns produced by the MS Paint spray tool, which looks inconsistent, amateurish, and unpleasing. Your borders seem to rely almost entirely on rivers, which was rarely if ever the case in any place or time - there are many other geographical boundaries to consider (watersheds, mountain ranges, deserts, etc.) that would produce more plausible and aesthetically pleasing borders.
I suggest you attempt a remake of this map using a different basemap (or at least without shrinking the map after making it), and this time taking the history of each country and the geography of North America into consideration when determining borders, being more thorough with the islands, thinking more about the placement of the country's names and so forth.
Because straight lines in the Sahara always pleases this community.
What about:
Algeria-Morocco
Algeria-Mali (To an Extent)
Algeria-Libya
Algeria-Tunisia
Algeria-Western Sahara (To an Extent)
Chad-Niger (To an Extent)
Mali-Niger
These borders follow the Geography of the Land, and only a few borders in the Sahara actually ignore the landscape completely (Like a straight line going through a Mountain).
The world and its system of alliances before the Great War (1913-1918). The Triple Alliance of Russia, the North German Confederation, and Italy balances the Entente of Britain, France, a stronger Ottoman Empire, and Austria. Ethnic revolts in the Balkans, as well as tensions between the United States and the Franco-Confederate Alliance over the former's protectorate rule over Mexico.
Krall
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Because straight lines in the Sahara always pleases this community.
I did say that the geographical boundaries of a desert would produce more plausible and aesthetically pleasing maps - not straight lines drawn across deserts.
Besides, straight lines can be nice sometimes.
So did Chile ever fight a War of the Pacific analogue in this?
Crossposting from TL-191: After the End. It's the world of Doctor Lexington, an in-universe nihilist "spec fic" asking "what if the Entente won the war?" Yes, it's meant to be as bleak as possible, as that's what the nihilist movement is all about.
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I took the comparison to The Man in the High Castle and the nature of the nihilist movement and ran with it. The PoD is the Snake giving Professor FitzBelmont the funding he wanted in 1941. The US superbomb program is attacked earlier and with more success. Meanwhile, in Europe, the British invasion of Norway succeeds. The war ends with the Entente launching crippling superbomb strikes against the Central Powers. Many of the cities bombed are still ruined and the Entente occasionally uses them for testing bioweapons (I assume that Unit 731's actions make testing bioweapons on civilians is a cheap way to draw parallels to the Ishii regime). The Central Powers have been utterly dismembered and become playgrounds for the sociopathic leaders of the Entente.
After the war, the Entente turned on one another. The French have defended Quebec against the machinations of Canada's McGregor regime, and as payback the Anglo-Japanese alliance moved against the French in Indochina. The French and Russians have formed the Continental Entente to curb the British and Japanese, while the Freedom Party works on consolidating its power in the New World as an unaligned kingmaker. The Continental Entente and the Anglo-Japanese alliance faced off against one another in what was called the "Silent War," where the two sides feared superbomb and sunbomb annihilation. However, by the beginning of the book, conflicting interests in Afghanistan have started a war between the Russians and British-aligned Afghanistan. It's only a matter of time before the war expands and the entire world is plunged in another death struggle.
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I took the comparison to The Man in the High Castle and the nature of the nihilist movement and ran with it. The PoD is the Snake giving Professor FitzBelmont the funding he wanted in 1941. The US superbomb program is attacked earlier and with more success. Meanwhile, in Europe, the British invasion of Norway succeeds. The war ends with the Entente launching crippling superbomb strikes against the Central Powers. Many of the cities bombed are still ruined and the Entente occasionally uses them for testing bioweapons (I assume that Unit 731's actions make testing bioweapons on civilians is a cheap way to draw parallels to the Ishii regime). The Central Powers have been utterly dismembered and become playgrounds for the sociopathic leaders of the Entente.
After the war, the Entente turned on one another. The French have defended Quebec against the machinations of Canada's McGregor regime, and as payback the Anglo-Japanese alliance moved against the French in Indochina. The French and Russians have formed the Continental Entente to curb the British and Japanese, while the Freedom Party works on consolidating its power in the New World as an unaligned kingmaker. The Continental Entente and the Anglo-Japanese alliance faced off against one another in what was called the "Silent War," where the two sides feared superbomb and sunbomb annihilation. However, by the beginning of the book, conflicting interests in Afghanistan have started a war between the Russians and British-aligned Afghanistan. It's only a matter of time before the war expands and the entire world is plunged in another death struggle.
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