I really, really like this one, and I think it's different from anything done before.
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I really, really like this one, and I think it's different from anything done before.
Krall
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Two words: hell yes.
Now this I like.
The main two challenge suggestions I like at the moment are the above Islamic Scientific Revolution and the Not French Revolution.
I have a notion for the current round, but you say that it must be a _powerful_ nation that develops the doomsday device: is that a definite condition for the contest?
Bruce
What about this? Could be Carthage, or anything.
Epitome of Classical Antiquity
Instead of the Romans, some other people or nation dominated some, most, or all, of the Mediterranean. Create a map of this Mediterranean empire, the states arising from its legacy, like the Christian/Latin/Romanic nations of Europe in OTL, or a country that claims to recreate this empire in a different location, like the Holy Roman Empire of OTL.
Krall
Banned
That clause is mainly to prevent people just doing Ameriwanks, but also to prevent people creating ridiculous situations where minor countries develop The Weapon. If you've got an idea for a map where a country that you're not sure would be considered "powerful" develops The Weapon, then send me a PM or post it here and I'll say if the idea seems permissible.
Ah, now that I do like.
The list of challenges I'm seriously considering now consists of "Epitome of Classical Antiquity", "Not French Revolution", and "Islamic Scientific Revolution".
I like "Epitome of Classical Antiquity" a lot, but I feel like "Islamic Scientific Revolution" could wind up being too similar to "The Caliphate of Rum" from MoF 16.
Well, the idea I had was that we have roughly simulatanous scientific revolutions in Islam and Christendom, so it's not necessarily an Islamowank. (OTL, after all, was a Christowank
)Bruce
OTL was an Islamowank until 1492.Well, the idea I had was that we have roughly simulatanous scientific revolutions in Islam and Christendom, so it's not necessarily an Islamowank. (OTL, after all, was a Christowank
Bruce
Nah - bit of a Ottomanwank 1250-odd to mid-1500s, mayhaps, but Islam's true wanking days were over by the late 900s.
Bruce
"Freedom, Equality, Sisterhood!"
A country where women are not allowed to vote, hold property etc continues into the latter quarter of the 20th Century, the status quo maintained by increasingly repressive methods. With the 'covert' assistance of a large nation on another continent, where women's emancipation has progressed roughly as in OTL, 1990 (when did apartheid end?) sees an armed uprising by militant women and their male supporters and the establishment of a new republican order. After a period of consolidation, the new republic wages cold and hot wars on its neighbouring male dominated nations.
Maps could be based upon the original nation and/or progress against chauvinist nations. Or whatever, it's never good to stifle imagination, is it?
Hardening of the Islamic mental arteries vs Europe, 1000s on.
Humiliating losses in their own heartland to Crusaders, 1100-1170s.
Loss of most of Spain, 1100-1270s.
Horrible stomping and dreadful damage to the heartlands by pagan Mongols, 1200s.
Increased dominance of Med trade by Christians, 1200s on.
Not an IslamScrew, but not an Islam-wank, either: steady growth in Asia, but nothing as spectacular as the first century. Islam in 1453 looks wanky from the persepective of 632: from that of 1100, not so much. (And I'd say the screw started by the early 1700s and just went full steam ahead after the Napoleonic wars.)
Bruce
I like this one too.
Or to make it a little broader, a world in which gender conflict plays nearly the same role as racial conflict in OTL. This is tough to do since for the species to continue men and women need to have some interaction (so gender segregationism/separatism isn't feasible), at least until cloning is invented and people actually don't NEED the opposite gender