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It doesn't really matter how nationalistic the defence forces are. The plan would effectively require them to be either suicidal or to have absolutely no clue about the military realities of the operation. As you note in the OP Ireland was tremendously outmatched - a relative handful of troops...

Seems I shall be unable to participate in this round of the competition - starting univeristy's proven a tad too hectic for me to work on anything that could surpass my lacklustre performance in the last couple of rounds

While there isn't a 1566 basemap there is, handily enough, a 1560 map, here:

Eh, don't worry, I'll be behind you, and likely to make it a hat trick of "Rounds in which I get zero votes"

It's TL-191 I believe, so Texas is independent but the north-west is the amputated US state of Houston (which was taken from the Confederacy after the Great War).

I'm an Irish Catholic from a predominately Nationalist area of Northern Ireland - that's Shinner green all the way :p

Hmm, elections is it? I'll have to give this one a bit of thought. That Republican green is making me think of giving something with an Irish theme a go

If you want a British colony directly integrated into the UK (in other words, with representation at Westminster, rather than the OTL examples like Bermuda or the Falklands, which are mostly independent but with Britain handling foreign policy and the like) then Malta is likely your best bet...

Likewise only a quickie from me - I was forced to give up on Inkscape (which proved an irritatingly unintuitive, temperamental and generally frustrating product) and getting ready to go back to university meant I wasn't able to put together something more interesting, plausible or...well not...

I'm trying something completely new for this round to see how it goes. On a related note, Inkscape is an utterly infuriating programme

Finally added that wall of text to my map at the last minute. It's far from my best work (both the map and the text), but at least it's done. Hopefully I manage something better for round D

Well here we have my somewhat rushed entry for this round of the competition (since I don't expect to be able to do much work on it later in the week, though I may edit it if I do get some time). Wall of text to come later EDIT: Never got around to editing or improving upon the map itself, but...

Operation Armageddon was never a real possibility. The men who planned the operation knew themselves that they had no capability to fight Britain conventionally - Ireland had half a dozen old jets, some World War II surplus howitzers, a couple of armoured vehicles and were severely outmatched in...

Whatever merits it does or does not have I shall remain astonished that my day's fiddling about in paint with something that isn't a worlda managed to attract more than one or two votes. I remain quite unhappy with quite a bit of it, especially the Anglo-French border and the positioning of the...

Jesus, I'm in second? I can't say I was expecting that

Hmm, communism is it? I think I've an idea or two, though I may retreat back from my QBAM experimentation (for this round at least) and give the worlda another whirl

I do believe he was referring to Mumby's map rather than yours

Here we are - quick, dirty, not particularly attractive and of dubious plausibility. But I don't think it's too bad for my first attempt at using the QBAM, and at least I got something done this time *** The partition of the Ottoman Empire was a rather bitter affair. The Treaty of Bern...

I've got something in the works - it won't be too impressive but I'm trying to actually get something submitted this time around

"Catholic" and "Protestant" aren't political ideologies. Those should be "Nationalist" and "Unionist". Otherwise, as a Catholic Unionist, I am a walking, talking contradiction in terms And there's already a UK election colour scheme, used by Thande in his excellent election maps. See the...