[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]To end this decade/ Kick off the new one with a bang I think an interesting and expansive AH challenge is called for so here goes.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]In OTL the colonization of the New World and planet in general was completed by five major powers; the English/British, the French, the Spanish, the Dutch and the Portuguese with somewhat belated entries by Germany, Japan, Russia and the United States. Your challenge if you choose to accept it is using a POD after 1350 to create a plausible scenario for having the greatest diversity of successful colonizing powers.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Points[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]OTL major colonizers (England, France, Spain)-1[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]OTL minor colonizers (Belgium, Sweden, Denmark)-2[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]OTL non-colonizing major powers (Ottomans, China, HRE)-3[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]OTL non-colonizing minor powers (Italian city states, Japan)-3[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]ATL (Novgorod, Kalmar, Byzantines)-3[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Unlikely ATL (Mali, India, weirder stuff)-4[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Plausibility 0-10 points[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Bonus points will be given out for interesting hybrid cultures (Otto-Aztecs), maps, images and general coolness.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]Points will be handed out by any 'Commer who cares to.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, sans-serif]The winner gets that warm fuzzy feeling one gets when one adds to the sum total of the universe, the accolades of his fellows.
Ready...... Go!
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