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Prince di Corsica

Just cross-posting from the MOTF to see what people have to say about it.

Prince di Corsica said:
Ok, since there was an extra week, I decided to actually finish this map I started for the challenge. I feel like it's missing something, but alas, I hope you like it.

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The full background is not decided, but the main point would be Swtizerland purchases Monaco, possibly in the aftermath of the succession crisis at the end of Prince Albert's reign, serving as a rather netural party to the territory and thereby acquiring a seaport. As it's clear from the borders that the CP won WWI, perhaps science and engineering have remained more nationally-focused, rather than acquiring the international cooperation bent of postwar, which means no big European projects in Switzerland. I can imagine that, instead, Swiss engineering could have focused on the building of this tunnel linking its sole seaport to the rest of the country. A great feat, I can imagine no better people than the Swiss to seek to accomplish it. The need for it being underground can also have some dark suppositions, such as a less stable European continent, more prone to war.

The map is far from where I wanted to get it, but I think it turned out decently, with the rest of the graphics such as the schedule, the shield, and all else. At least I help it be less boring than what would otherwise almost be a map of 1914 Europe.

Sorry I wasn't able to finish it sooner, this has been a hell of a fortnight.
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Augenis

Augenis

OcDeElot said:
Impressive... But what about my new map of Latvian Japanese archipelago, that I made for this year Proclamation Day of Latvia? Same universe with my previous map, although in more distant future.
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What an odd world.

Usually wanks at least wank real states, not, you know, entities which are pretty much just fiction...

It's like if someone made a Bielefield world conquest.
 

ShahAbbas1571

The Liberation of Tripoli - 2025

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"We urge the world to support us in our most dire time. They have slaughtered our men through deceit and threaten to rekindle the tyranny that we've worked so tirelessly to overthrow." - Mahmud Al-Walid, Prime Minister of the General Council of Tripoli

The triumphant victory over the Second Coalition during the Battle of the Plains has rippled a shockwave across Libya. With word of mouth spreading throughout the streets, not only the Green Army crushed a force larger than their own through sheer cunning and iron will, it emboldens the underlying nostalgia for Gaddafi’s rule into a euphoric frenzy. Many rallied behind Za’im’s inevitable arrival, some formed militias of their own to support him; harassing the coalition and clearing the southern hemisphere for them to march towards the capital.


Cities stretching from Ghariyan to Bin Ghashir has fallen into their hands, securing a major highway that will eventually lead them to Tripoli. With no one from the skies to oppose them; destroyed through the means of subterfuge, the capital is ripe for the taking. However, unwilling to liberate the capital through a mindless meat grinder, he ordered his forces into a standstill and accumulate as many resources to their brothers and sisters in Tripoli; infiltrating within the enemy ranks and binding their time.

This has also given the coalition the opportunity to regroup. Desperate to turn the tides, they begin accumulating as many able-bodied men as possible and dismantle any material available to form tight fortifications around the streets. However, the blow of morale during the Battle of the Plains has become a complete detriment to their ability to defend the capital. A sizable amount of their soldiers deserted from their post to avoid retribution from the Green Army. Nevertheless, the more hardened militias who fought since the first days of the revolution are willing to defend the capital, standing against the tides in the meager hope that they could win.

The Green Army, after days of deliberate scheming, marched towards the last stronghold of the coalition. Many underground cells have managed to incite sequences of uprisings across the metropolitan area, securing districts ranging from Gorje to Abu Sittah. Supported by artillery barrages, they managed to push the militias back further from the outskirts of the city, eventually leading to one of the most sluggish house-to-house warfare in Libyan history.

Timeline

"We have driven them back from the sands whimpering like a dog during the Battle of Murqub, brothers and sisters. Now, the people over the capital are chanting for our triumph and we shall make it so!" - Za'im the Tuareg, Qayid of the Green Army

November 13th - The Green Army took over the fringes of the capital, occupying facilities like such as the Jalaa Maternity Hospital and the Al-Quds Mosque with little to no resistance. They were also able to take over the hospitals around the Az Zawiyah Street interstate before the garrisons could make a stance, retreating towards Garden City, a district surrounding the Museum of Libya and the University of Refak. The office of the Prime Minister was scorched to the ground by the GCT forces, with the locals speculating over its intent. The Al-Juwaili Barracks and Hnaish Mall were able to resist the assault, however.

November 14th - The battle begins to escalate over the district surrounding the Sidi Munedir Cemetary, with the Green Army struggling to take over the Government Printing Press and the Al-Dua Radio Station. An artillery barrage was considered but eventually denied due to potential backlash from the local populace. The struggle to claim Al Juwaili Barracks has ended in a peaceful note, however. The commander of their post decides to surrender in exchange for clemency for him and his men.

November 15th - After days of skirmishing, the Green Army finally took the Coral Oil Port and the Tripoli Eye Hospital from the coalition hands, with most of the garrisons either surrendered or scattering through the frontline. With most of the equipment and ammunition from the Juwaili Barracks accumulated to all of their men, they begin to march towards Garden City. The detachment from the west is struggling to secure the Al-Kurnish Road due to the Tripoli Tower; serving as an observation post for their commanders to keep their eyes on the situation.

November 16th - The Al Du’a Radio Station and the Government Printing Press has been finally secured after days of struggle, securing the eastern flank surrounding the cemetery and even taking the garrisons as prisoners. The eastern detachment begins to assault the fortifications near Zutheina Oil Company and the roundabout of Al Shat Road. Rumors begin to spread as scouts of the Green Army reported that Mahmud's civilian government are evacuating from the capital, heading towards Zuwara to be eventually escorted to France.

November 17th - The Green Army has made a breakthrough over the Refak University after one of the militias made an initiative to infiltrate the building, disguising as coalition forces to cause havoc and confusion among their ranks. As they secured the 7 October Stadium, the Green Army used it as a stationary block and rallying point for the militias and begin to plan their offensive against the Tripoli Tower. Forces from the center also begin to take stations for a massive wave against the stronghold Sidi Munedir, to hasten the battle the local populace become malcontent over the situation.

November 18th - With reinforcements from Ghariyan arrived to support them, they begin to assault the stronghold through a massive wave of attacks; supported by tanks acting as fire support. The battle has also given the Green Army the opportunity to raid the Zutheina Oil Company, attempting to cut them from the forces old Al Shat Road roundabout vulnerable to frequent attacks. This eventually forced to retreat towards the Martyr's Square, a complex within the district of the Old City.

November 19th - The situation has become dire for the coalition: the local resistance around Sidi Munedir and the following district has fallen and the rumors of their political superiors abandoning them to their fate have spread across the ranks. Defection eventually seeps through, with thousands begin to sneak from their post; brandishing themselves as ordinary civilians to escape from retribution. The City Hall was burned to the ground with the same possible intent surrounding the Prime Minister's Office.

November 20th - As victory became inevitable, the Green Army is pulling back some of its forces to prepare their next expedition to the far western regions, starting with the city of Janzur. With the eastern and western corner of the city secured from enemy threat, they were ready to march towards the heart of the Capital - the Old City of Tripoli.

November 21st - With no fleet to turn the tides and their representatives abandoning them to the wolves, the Second Coalition are making their last stand against the Green Army. The latter begins to surround the Old City, leaving no gap for them to retreat completely intact. A wave of militias begins to flood the district, accumulating into a chaotic scene of house-to-house warfare. The battlefield eventually devolved into a series of pockets for the coalition, leaving them in disarray as Green Army pick them out one-by-one, ending the battle for good.
Conclusion

"Tripoli's fucked. Now what?" - Ljubomir, Chief Commander of the Free State Army

After declaring victory over the liberation of their capital, people begin to pour into the streets as the old regime has been toppled from the throne. After years of hiding from coalition repression, the zealous crowd cheered for the Green Army as liberators and paraded the green flag once again. Gaddafi’s legacy begins to dominate the scene and Za’im has been hailed as a personified successor to his ideals despite facing scrutiny from his exiled family.

With it comes a new wave of repression as sequences of manhunts for coalition sympathizers begins to crawl over into every corner of the capital. Those who were caught were paraded across the street and humiliated by a massive mob screeching at their ear - branding them as compradors and collaborators of the foreign plot.

The reactions from foreign countries seem to be ambivalent with their triumph, with Israel and Chad being the only few to be genuinely concerned over their rise to power. The United States, under a new administration, condemned them like any forces besides the Presidential Council as illegitimate pretenders of Libya.

Their victory was a wake-up call for the rest of the factions wallowing over Libya. The Libyan National Army pleaded with the rest of the clique from Cyrenaica to join forces against the impending threat. The Islamic States, content with the power vacuum that keeps their western front safe, now preparing a valiant defense in Misrata to prevent a massive breakthrough. The Free State of Sabha, fearing a cutdown of their water and oil, collaborated with their neighbors and contain them.

Their entry to the civil war has become a turning point for the country. With Tripolitania united under a single banner, a new power has risen from the woodwork and ready reunite Libya into a single whole, galloping across the sands and trampling over their enemies with a massive cry.
 
Nizam

Nizam

Contrary said:
Malinite? I assume that's Afro-Muladian? Did the Muladian Empire have slavery?
Jews are Sephardic, I imagine.
There seems to be very few cities along the coast.
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There was quite a bit of slavery in the early years, but it was abolished in the 19th century and most of the slaves remained. There is also a large community of Migrants from the eastern country, a formerly Malian colony.

Eylondambovich said:
Is Yhwadia a Jewish province?
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Yes, there was a fairly large Jewish community that joined the Muladis after their expulsion from Iberia.
 

Tsochar

Blacklister3000 said:
Is there a link to a Worlda but with land colored gray instead of green?
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if you use paint.net or GIMP, you could make it yourself in about 5 seconds. In GIMP the magic tools are "select by color" and "fill selection with color." Doing so takes every pixel that has a certain color and changes it to a different color that you determine. paint.net, undoubtedly, has very similar tools, and undoubtedly has documentation teaching you how to use those tools.

If you use microsoft paint, you should stop using microsoft paint.
 
Ulyanovsk

Ulyanovsk

Tsochar said:
paint.net, undoubtedly, has very similar tools, and undoubtedly has documentation teaching you how to use those tools.
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Hell, in paint.net you can just go to the paint bucket tool, select your color, lower tolerance, and shift click whatever color you want to replace an it'll do it, very easy!
 
Entrerriano

Entrerriano

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Map of the World in 1940, 40 years after the defeat of Napoleonic France.
Napoleon wins the Napoleonic Wars (no invasion of Russia, no Iberian campaign) and France becomes the Hegemonic power in Europe. The USA does much worse in the war of 1812 too. After a full century of French Domination, things finally escalate and a coalition of Britain, Russia, Prussia and other minor powers declares war on France and invades them. The war ends in 1900 with the defeat of France and the restoration of the Kingdom. 40 years later, things have started to heat between Britain and Russia, the two Superpowers of the post-French era.
 

chris456

Entrerriano said:
Map of the World in 1940, 40 years after the defeat of Napoleonic France.
Napoleon wins the Napoleonic Wars (no invasion of Russia, no Iberian campaign) and France becomes the Hegemonic power in Europe. The USA does much worse in the war of 1812 too. After a full century of French Domination, things finally escalate and a coalition of Britain, Russia, Prussia and other minor powers declares war on France and invades them. The war ends in 1900 with the defeat of France and the restoration of the Kingdom. 40 years later, things have started to heat between Britain and Russia, the two Superpowers of the post-French era.
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Do you have a link for the basemap?
 
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