Crazymachines
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i'm working on an AH cold war map where the UN is never formed and having a devil of a time deciding which of these is more plausible for 1950
WIP Map Thread
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Something (loosely) based on Tirant lo Blanch, a chivalric romance notable for being an early alternate history story and also apparently one of Miguel de Cervantes' favorites in the genre. The story goes that an exceptional knight from Brittany goes around fighting Arabs and Turks in North Africa and the Middle East, and manages to resurrect the Eastern Roman Empire but dies just before he can become Emperor. The scenario I'm going with here follows that in broad strokes (including the ERE returning to something of its former glory and a 100-year peace with the Turks, both from the epilogue), but is closer to actual history in the details (for instance, the Emperor that asks Tirant for help wouldn't be "Frederick" but, probably, John VIII Paialogos). The ERE gets back on its feet and consolidates its holdings in Europe, and, now that I think of it, might end up taking some of the former Serbian Empire based on a highly questionable claim via Helena Dragaš; in any case, the real star of the show in Eastern Europe is the collection of lands under Jagiellonian rule, an immense military and economic power that's extended its considerable influence into the Balkans and the Russian states.
I'm planning on the final map to be vector-based, so this is basically just a sketch.
I'm planning on the final map to be vector-based, so this is basically just a sketch.
The backbones are done. Doing the political borders and city placement now
I am redoing an "updated" version of the Runeterra map from LoL due to the most recent lore, still in quite WIP
SuperZtar64
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So I was re-reading Look to the West and I realized, to my horror, that in the year of our lord 2021 Thande is still using the old rectangular worlda map from well over a decade ago as the base for his world maps.
And, to my knowledge, somehow no one has tried to apply the timeline to the modern worlda format, so i'm taking it upon myself to fix that conundrum. I decided to start with a 1727 map, the POD year, to get my bearings and make all the future maps far easier to make, but it's... hard. North America is killing me and I don't even want to think about Central Asia or what to map in the Caucasus. Germany is still staring at me like a black hole on the face of Europe too but I am absolutely determined to make this into something workable. I plan to swiftly go onto 1748, 1759, 1766, 1772, and 1793 before reassessing from there.
(If anyone has any sources for these areas, please, let me know, thanks...)
And, to my knowledge, somehow no one has tried to apply the timeline to the modern worlda format, so i'm taking it upon myself to fix that conundrum. I decided to start with a 1727 map, the POD year, to get my bearings and make all the future maps far easier to make, but it's... hard. North America is killing me and I don't even want to think about Central Asia or what to map in the Caucasus. Germany is still staring at me like a black hole on the face of Europe too but I am absolutely determined to make this into something workable. I plan to swiftly go onto 1748, 1759, 1766, 1772, and 1793 before reassessing from there.
(If anyone has any sources for these areas, please, let me know, thanks...)
There was this old thread where some others tried to create a series of maps for LTTW. If this doesn't supplant your project, I think their work should come in handy.
SuperZtar64
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thank you, i'll keep it in mind when I get to the 19th century. I like to do all my maps from scratch even when I have a basemap but I'll use the borders in my later additions, if I ever get that far.
Well, still working on the Runeterra map, in general now I just need to put the cities and region names, I'm not sure about the aesthetic I chose, maybe I'll change it; I updated the coasts and rivers of Ionia with a better render than the official map
PS: Taking advantage of the occasion, I was never sure but I suspect that the projection of the official map is a Mercator projection, but it seems wrong? Supposedly the two lines above the equator (the three lines were taken from a development image of the official map) are the tropic and polar circle of the northern hemisphere of the planet, but I'm not sure about that (nor if these lines are canonical today), besides that supposedly this whole map is only about 1/6 of the entire planet? So idk, if anyone can confirm that it is a Mercator projection I would be very grateful
