Recent content by AP246

Kishi's Dream and the new Japanese Empire - Neo-colonial Cold War Japan In the post-war period, there was a concept, championed especially by politicians like Nobusuke Kishi (who was heavily involved in the wartime Japanese Empire and subsequently became Prime Minister again in the 50s, which...

Pretty morbid scenario I know, but hopefully interesting. While the old Kai Tak Airport was open in Hong Kong, planes flew extremely low over the Kowloon area, including sometimes Kowloon Walled City, then the most densely populated place on earth, an area of 50,000 people within barely 120m by...

Cheers! I find this alternate economic stuff really interesting too. I imagine Persia would be economically and institutionally ahead of where they were in OTL from spillover from the Ottomans, and trying not to fall behind, but I think they'd be behind both Egypt and the Ottomans. IIRC Persia...

In the meantime for anyone still here, have some recent teasers for the next major HOI4 mod update:

Steamships on the Nile - What if the Middle East Industrialised early? Finally finished my first alt history work for ages, this has been on hold for so long while I've been busy but I finally finished it. Like the Russia map from ages ago, a bit of a niche, economic history type thing. In...

I guess so... To be honest, I've been pretty busy IRL recently so haven't worked on much, not even the mod much (as in direct coding - still managing to get some done though, and other devs are doing really good stuff) Sorry for the lack of content and such, maybe I'll reboot this one day or...

Yep! Russia overhaul is very, very close to finished and will be out in a few days

China ends up officially a democracy but it's relatively illiberal and dominated by the KMT for a long time. There is a bit of a long-90s after the 60s though, yeah, with a powerful American hegemony that starts to wane relatively speaking into the 70s and 80s because other countries begin to...

It was originally in 1941, but for the purposes of the mod the date was moved forward to a short time after the Dunkirk evacuation. It'll probably stay there, and maybe an exact date will be established for the Toronto Accord update, for the purposes of the mod

I don't think I ever established what happened to them canonically in the original timeline. In the current version of the mod they're controlled by Iceland, but we think that's pretty silly now, so in future their fate will probably be different - most likely they'll become some kind of...

Hey guys, just wanted to say that the old TWR timeline server that died and went dormant for a while is back, kinda. It's a broader worldbuilding server now, with future TWR stuff that I might do (I have ideas, though it depends if I can get round to it) as well as other worldbuilding stuff from...

That's interesting. I have noticed that interpretations of the exact way in which Nazi eastern Europe is broken up do tend to differ between different maps, even contemporary ones. I can only assume that planned borders were never concretely established.

Yeah some of the old Russia stuff was odd. Looking at the mod, we are going to rework Russia, which we're in the process of doing right now.

Thanks! Yeah I really agree, the late USSR is something that's underutilised in my view as it's different, and a lot more mundane and temperate than the 'flashy' excesses of Stalinism and all the brutality and ideological extremism that came with it. The later period of the Soviet Union, while...

Yeah that's correct for the mod. In the original lore, as well as mod, the Dutch East Indies start as an unstable government in exile, before an Indonesian insurgency and then open uprising begins, that usually succeeds due to the Dutch being in the tricky situation of not having their homeland...