Map Thread XVIII

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H.Flashman(VC)

H.Flashman(VC)

Cool-Eh said:
Huh. I always thought they were part of Oceania. Have I been stupid all this time?
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No, you just have played too much Risk.

Continents were so much easier when the USSR was still around. You made the divisions political, hence the caribian parts of Europe. If that's your angle, then my broad estimate would be to place Georgia in Europe, and also Armenia. Kazachstan would be more Asian oriented. This is my opinion, but i wouldn't be amazed if someone overrules me on this point.
 
Tert2567

Tert2567

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Rome was at war with Parthia: Rome had always been at war with Parthia.
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Rognvald

Rognvald

Based off of the postcard in this post:

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It looks really similar to OTL 1939, but the key differences are:

Britain underwent a Communist revolution in the 1920s (hence why John Bull is hugging the Bolshevik in the linked post), though a large portion of the armed forces stayed loyal, most frustratingly a lot of the Royal Navy.

Ireland attempted to invade Ulster in the chaos of this, but Ulsterites, combined with Scottish refugees and fleeing British military men, managed to bloody their noses bad enough to be left alone. Ulster was made a Dominion of sorts in 1936, as part of a compromise with local leaders, and remains a major base for the Empire in Exile.

Hitler got whacked in a trench, and Germany fell instead to a conservative putsch after the Soviets massacred the Poles. The Germans, under the nominal rule of Wilhelm III but really controlled by military officers, managed to grab some border regions of Poland, as well as gained Austria thanks to the efforts of pan-German societies. When Czechoslovakia started to lean too far towards the Soviet sphere, Germany bushwhacked them with Hungary.

Cyprus is home to a massive pro-Greek insurgency, but the British garrison there, strengthened by Middle Eastern station troops pulling back in the chaos, managed to establish a pro-British military state. It stared a Greek fleet down in 1928.

The Soviets (under Frunze, in my head, just so I could see this epic painting used) whacked out the Poles in an alternate Polish-Soviet War, and have been expanding their reach over the Baltic States and fighting a fairly nasty insurgency in the Ukraine. The Soviet occupation of the Baltic in August of 1939 is what triggered the beginning of hostilities.

The British Workers' Commonwealth and the Soviet Union are best buds, with the Workers' Liberation Navy in Britain being a valuable asset for the alliance. Despite not being as large as the Royal-Navy-in-Exile or the continental fleets, the WLN is very modern and much more willing to experiment.

After the British Revolution, Iraq and Transjordan were invaded by Ikhwan raiders from Saudi Arabia. The two Hashemites decided to support each other, and after instigating insurgency in the still young Saudi state, managed to drive the House of Saud back into the Nejd. Most of the Peninsula is under the Hashemite Union, as well as Palestine (which has a special status due to its nature).

Now, it is 1939, and the Red Crusade is beginning in Europe. The Continental Axis, made up of virtually every major player outside of Britain and the Soviets (Germany, France, Hungary, Belgium, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Slovakia, and Romania), is an anti-Communist alliance of security against naked Soviet aggression and efforts by the Communists to instigate unrest in their nations and in their colonies.

Will the Continental Axis succeed in defeating the Soviet-British Alliance, and enforce the status quo? Or will the Soviets and British beat the odds and ensure a Red future for Europe?

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More fun facts cause I'm bored.

Turkey is under Suleyman Shefik Pasha as the "Protector" of the Sublime Porte, who successfully defeated the Kemalist government which, in turn, led to the enforcement of Sevres. This doesn't sit too well with Pasha, however, who gets VERY angry that this is going on. So, he manages to form an alliance with the Bulgarians, who also have an ax to grind with Greece. This leads to the Third Balkan War, pitting Bulgaria and Turkey against Greece, who manage to find unofficial support with the Yugoslavs.

However, a year and a half into the war (Fall 1939, the time of this map), Bulgaria, which had been having problems pushing through Greek border defenses, cooperated with Macedonian partisans within Yugoslavia to launch a flanking maneuver, and has crossed the Greek frontier and gone around the fortifications, putting the war in a new frame.

This is, of course, the reason to explain why none of these nations are participating in the Red Crusade.

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Like I said, not a really unique map and kind of a contrived scenario, but I rather like it :p

Also almost everyone has their SUCK color on the map now. I might do the rest of the world, not sure why.
 
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wtw

S. Marlowski said:
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Europe 2050, following an Interspiecial War between Humans and Human-Wolf hybrids.

Following a devastating war between the various factions of humans and Human-Wolf people. On September 1, 2050, an Armistice was signed between the leaders and an uneasy peace was made. The Borders are the lines of the Armistice.

Wolf Nations:
Prussia
Trancaucasia
Normandy
North England
Scotland
Whales (Puppet State)
Wolf Tsardom of Russia

Communist States:
Bulgaria
East France
New USSR
Serbia
Rhineland

NATO:

Southern Germany
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Croatia
Hungary
Baltic State
South England
Ireland
New Roman Republic
South Russia
Turkey
Greece
Romania
Southern Sweden
Belgium
Austria

Other Nations:

Islamic Caliphate
Fourth Reich
Kazakhstan
Switzerland
Ukraine
Holland
Norway and Iceland
Finland
Spanish Empire
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cool what about Asia and North America?
 
S. Marlowski

S. Marlowski

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Asia following the Interspecial War

Wolf Alliance:

Indus
Central Asia
Tibet (Puppet)
Bangladesh (Ally)

Allies:
India
Iran
RoC
Turkey

Imperialists:
Japan
Manchuria (Japanese Puppet)
Siam
Indonesia
Kazakhstan

Other Nations:
PRC
Philippines
Vietnam
Islamic Caliphate
NUSSR
 
LordOguzHan

LordOguzHan

Banned
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The French syndicalist movement

Karl Marx, in his important pamphlet The Civil War in France, considered the 1871 Paris Commune as the prototype for a future revolutionary insurrection, the form at last discovered for the emancipation of the proletariat. In fact, triggered by the Parisians' resentment against the defeatist French government and after months of siege by the Prussian Army, the Paris Commune was something more of a Utopian and enthusiastic socialist experiment, having short-lived and anecdotal followings in French provinces, and later smashed in a bloodbath by the Legalist French Army.

The repression that followed decapitated for years the nascent French socialism, while the SPD developed in Germany and the Trade Unions flourished in Britain. Those left in the wake of the debacle were torn apart, divided between the Marxist-inspired Parti Ouvrier Français of Jules Guesde and the French trade unions, encouraged by the successes of Fernand Peloutier's Fédération des Bourses du Travail. The French syndicalist movement was quickly overtaken by anarchist activists, after the repressive "lois scélérates" of 1894.

In 1895, the Confédération Générale du Travail (General Confederation of Labour), vowing to be independant from all political formations, was founded at Limoges, an engagement that was renewed by the 1906 Charte d'Amiens, affirming the anarcho-syndicalist tendency within the CGT, embodied by its vice-secretary Emile Pouget.

Helped by the union of Guesde's revolutionary followers and Jean Jaurès' social-democrats into the Section Française de l'Internationale Ouvrière (French Section of the Workers' International), the French left was coming into prominence, helped by its role in the Dreyfus affair, when the Weltkrieg broke out.

First an outspoken pacifist, Jaurès was shot down by a nationalist activist four days before the French entry in the war. His successor, Léon Jouhaux, agreed to participate to the Union Sacrée government, followed by most of the SFIO leadership.

Fall of the Third Republic
The revolution was initially sparked by the CGT, who declared a General Strike in the spring of 1919, hot on the heels of a second outbreak of mutiny in the French Army. the mutineers were protesting the Conservative call for a last-ditch counter-offensive following a string of severe French defeats during the German offensives of 1918.

The CGT wanted to paralyse the nation, force the ruling Conservatives to step down and hand over power to the CGT's executive arm; the Comité de Salut Public, or CSP - led by the zealous anarchist Emile Pouget.

They were charged with the task of leading first the General Strike and then the establishment of a new government and constitution which would allow for a complete reconstruction of the French nation. They also had as their immediate aim to end "the abominable war" as soon as possible. In achieving these aims the strike was initially unsuccessful, and the CGT was unable to seize power before the fall of Paris to German general Oskar von Hutier.

The French Civil War
With the fall of Paris however, the General Strike turned violent, as frustrated Unionists became desperate to end the war before the Germans were in a position to occupy the whole country. Skirmishes with police turned into riots across much of the country, and the government was forced to resign, marking the beginning of a transitory period between the Third Republic to the Fourth.

This period was characterised by a dualistic power structure much like that of Russian between the revolutions of 1917 - on the one hand a Provisional Government of Liberals and Socialists, and on the other the CGT, claimed a "legitimate right to power" via their Trade Union structure and a new system of local councils. (However, unlike in Russia - where the Revolutionary Left's gains proved ephemeral - in France this provided the revolutionaries with the chance for permanently taking power.)

This uncertain situation continued through the summer of 1919 until things came to a head in the early autumn when the Provisional Government attempted to disarm and demobilise the French Army following the conclusion of a truce with the Germans. Fearing the Government was attempting to stifle the revolution (the Army was largely supportive of the Left) the Socialist Party began a boycott of the Parliament, and declared itself an ally of the CGT, followed thereafter by a number of the more radical Liberals.

Following this decision the Bolshevik Jacobins declared the Provisional Government an enemy of the Proletariat, encouraging Party members to begin a policy of agitation in favour of a "great purge of France, to forever destroy her class enemies". Inspired by Lenin and his revolutionaries and the outbreak of the Russian Civil War between the Reds and the Whites, gangs of working men and army units sympathetic to the Jacobin cause began to attack and loot the property of the aristocracy and upper middle classes - seizing land by force and holding the Establishment to account in revolutionary "courts".

Although they wanted to put a stop to this policy (they had hoped to negotiate with the Provisional Government), the CGT was unable to prevent the Jacobins from carrying out their attacks, or prevent an escalation of the crisis, as the Provisional Government gathered together the "forces of reaction" to respond with force and attempt a counter-revolution.

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Skallagrim

Skallagrim

Banned
The Hesperides​


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Just a little something that's been on my mind for a while now. In the last map thread, two existing ideas were separately re-visited: the Nebraska Sea, and a map showing what North America might look like if the North-West Passage had actually existed as it was once imagined to exist. Those ideas were unrelated, but in my head, an idea formed: what if those two things were both real? I set out to mock something up. It didn't look that great, so I made some more alterations. Soon enough, it became a North America that consisted of large islands, separated by twisting straits and encircling its very own Middle Sea.

The climate would sure be different. I imagine a much more Mediterranean climate on the southern shores of the Middle Sea, giving way to something more like France, whereas the northern end of this sea enjoys a climate more like Germany. The land masses north of that are much more like Scandinavia. All in all, this very different North America -- these Hesperian Isles -- would lack the inland climate of the OTL interior. Meteorologically speaking a much milder place, I'd say. (Well, the inland sea would certainly carry major storms up north from the Caribbean, but OTL's "Tornado Alley" is no better in that regard!)

This is obviously very ASB, but I imagine the wider world being miraculously unaffected by the change. The ancestors of the Native Americans still cross the Bering Bridge, but they find a very different home awaiting them. I can easily picture them, spreading out over these insular territories, engaing in trade and in naval war with ever more refined ships. I see empires arising, hoping to encircle the Middle Sea, while cautiously interacting with the crude barbarians who inhabit the north and the Outer Isles that stretch along the exterior coasts of this Continent-Archipelago. Would there be a rivalry with the surely different cultures of this (also different) Caribbean? I'm still contemplating the kind of cultures that could arise. (And if anyone wants to "play in the sandbox", so to speak: be my guest!)

In any case, I theorise that -- although the region they explored in OTL is also different -- the tentative ventures from Iceland and Greenland would still find a mostly cold and inhospitable place. By a twist of fate, these explorations would be drawn into the frigid Circle Sea, surrounded by icy coasts. Had they ventured south instead, going around the bend of the New-Found-Lands, they'd have encountered a culture very much like their own, originating from what we'd call New York and New England...

Alas, that's not how it goes. We have to wait until the familiar year of 1492, when a man sails West to discover that the world is whole lot bigger than he had imagined.
 
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