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And now, a Colonial map of Africa in my francewank alt-hist setting. (map was made in a hurry, not everyone is included in the Legend. sorry!)

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Contrary to our timeline, Britain doesnt dominate the Dark Continent. Instead, France swoops in and takes a large swath of land, because the British were busy fighting each other (again). The Netherlands and the dual monarchy of Germany also have large colonies, and Spain seems to have seized control over the coastal areas of West Africa.
Also worth noting is that Italy has a few colies, Togo and Cameroon. they arent great colonies, but the Italians are at least happy that France has'nt outright destroyed them for this. Poland also has a small part of Angola, given to them by Germany because it was worthless at the time of colonization, and to satify the Polish Colonial Dream.
Britain has 3 unprofitable colonies; Senegal, Liberia and Upper Kenya. the fact that these colonies bring more trouble than they are worth only fuels the Cromwellist British "revenge policy" against France.

Holy Britscrew Batman! But I like that Ottoman Empire. What year is it? Prussia-Bavaria is also a fascinating concept (and real nice). What happened to Portugal thought? They had presence in Angola and Mozambique for long time. Also the third British colony isn't Senegal. That's Guinea-Bissau.
 
Holy Britscrew Batman! But I like that Ottoman Empire. What year is it? Prussia-Bavaria is also a fascinating concept (and real nice). What happened to Portugal thought? They had presence in Angola and Mozambique for long time. Also the third British colony isn't Senegal. That's Guinea-Bissau.

Good questions!

The year is 1908.

Portugal went through a civil war, and Spain took the opportunity to annex them and create the Kingdom of Iberia. Portugal went into exile in Brazil, but they proclaimed a monarchy of their own. so now there is a small Cold War scenario between Portugal-in-exile (Amazonia) and the Brazillian Kingdom (All of brazil except Rio Grande and Amazonia.).

Thanks for correcting me on the Guinea-Bissua thing, BTW.
 
Good questions!

The year is 1908.

Portugal went through a civil war, and Spain took the opportunity to annex them and create the Kingdom of Iberia. Portugal went into exile in Brazil, but they proclaimed a monarchy of their own. so now there is a small Cold War scenario between Portugal-in-exile (Amazonia) and the Brazillian Kingdom (All of brazil except Rio Grande and Amazonia.).

Thanks for correcting me on the Guinea-Bissua thing, BTW.
I should note that the Portuguese had posts, influence, etc in Africa for over five hundred years. The Spanish or Portuguese would have been bound to keep Angola.
 
I should note that the Portuguese had posts, influence, etc in Africa for over five hundred years. The Spanish or Portuguese would have been bound to keep Angola.

Eh, the timeline is still a WIP. might find a reason for portugal to lose their colonies later. thanks for the Info, though!
 
ok so here's a quick question: Where's the most plausible place that the mormons will settle if utah was invaded by crop worshiping (Kansan if that makes a difference) Neo-Wiccans
 
ok so here's a quick question: Where's the most plausible place that the mormons will settle if utah was invaded by crop worshiping (Kansan if that makes a difference) Neo-Wiccans
Maybe they'd go up the Snake River to Idaho? There's a substantial amount of Mormons there IOTL, and it's a lot more hospitable than the deserts and saltwater lakes of Utah.
 
ok so here's a quick question: Where's the most plausible place that the mormons will settle if utah was invaded by crop worshiping (Kansan if that makes a difference) Neo-Wiccans
Perhaps it was because I had just woke up from a nap, but this question made me laugh like a madman.

And the correct answer is Valles Marineris, Mars.
 
In "Back of the USSA" TL, the USSA collapses in 1991 in several states and it could givethis:

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I have GOT to find a copy of that book someday.
 

That’s this isn’t it? Very sleek and simple.

Yes, this is indeed an epic 2016 DeviantArt post self-reference. Well spotted, I'll spill the rest of the beans.

The British American Republic is Canada as a foul gulag state, founded sometime in the 1930s. Initially loyal to the Western Allies, it has profitably exploited a postwar Anglo-American rift, and the authorities in Washington find its continued existence to be a useful enough provocation against the Europeans. A nuclear power ever since the Rutherford-1 test lit up the Manitoban tundra in 1963, the country's low-quality arsenal mostly finds remarkable civilian use in the mining sector, although its intercontinental Sedna missiles have threatened London and Paris since the mid-90s.

I don't really like trucking in shitty timelines, but whenever I take a remote sensing class, I spend a lot of time thinking about all the ways I can creatively mis-interpret satellite imagery. (Anyway, the B.A.R.'s brand of totalitarianism is too quirky to rank as complete fascism - bilingualism is mandatory for counter-intelligence reasons, and the ruling junta is mostly just concerned with turning the country into a completely made-up picture of imperial nostalgia.) The sudden transition between fields and forest in this picture is real, but for a much more boring reason: it's the northern border of Riding Mountain National Park, a few hundred kms north of the 49th.

Canada as North Korea equivalent? I'm in love!
 
Alternate Poland, 1926. In this scenario, Poland acquires the Upper Silesia and East Prussia plebiscite areas, Gdansk territory, Zaolzie/Cieszyn Territory, Union with Lithuania, as well as greater territorial concessions at Peace of Riga.




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Alternate Poland, 1926. In this scenario, Poland acquires the Upper Silesia and East Prussia plebiscite areas, Gdansk territory, Zaolzie/Cieszyn Territory, Union with Lithuania, as well as greater territorial concessions at Peace of Riga.

The aesthetic quality is dope, but I think if Poland is fused with Lithuania then Germany will keep Danzig
 
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I usually don't post WIPs, but... here we are. This is one of the maps I'm currently working on, entitled "Hinode 2279." It's a cyberpunk take on the future, though the map is only complete in North America, most of Europe, and most of East Asia. Some things of note:

  • To combat Japan's demographics problems in the 21st century, the government pretty much goes the opposite route of China and dives into science and genetics for an answer. They manage to create a gene that would, if successful, double the population of the nation by 2070. Unfortunately, it works a little too well, and Japan soon has a serious overpopulation problem by 2100. By that point, the islands are at their breaking point, so Japan decides to amend its constitution and go snag some easy land in the simultaneous Russian and Chinese Civil Wars. Overpopulation is still a serious issue for Japan, so much so that Korea and Hawai'i have cut off all Japanese emigration to keep themselves from being overrun, and the Philippines and northern Chinese provinces are now majority Japanese.
  • China broke apart in the early 2100s during the Great Troubles, in which the three biggest powers of the last century (Russia, the PRC, and the USA) broke down and collapsed, leaving behind their successors to their thrones (Japan, India, and either Brazil or an African union, I haven't decided yet). That blue China is a flawed democracy, but far better than the oppressive PRC, while orange China is basically Hong Kong on steroids.
  • That big purple Canada-Great Plains blob is a totalitarian North Korea nightmare state, the product of a ruinous Second American Civil War in the 2120s that spilled over into Canada and Mexico. Most of the other North American states (Deseret and the Union of Midwestern Socialist Republics being the exceptions) are actually some of the most progressive and ecologically-minded countries on Earth.
  • Florida, Cuba, Haiti, Dominica, Jamaica, Louisiana, Mexico, Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica, and Panama are all members of an EU-style Caribbean Union.
  • The European Federation is largely dominated by a Paris-Berlin-Warsaw axis (by design), leaving Brussels and the rest of the union its puppet.
More to come.
 
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The aesthetic quality is dope, but I think if Poland is fused with Lithuania then Germany will keep Danzig
I still haven't decided as to how Lithuania enters Union. It was either at Paris Conference as Dmowski at one point proposed, or in 1919 Polish Military Organisation's coup attempt in Lithuania, but better prepared and more lucky. You bring up a good point, which is why I am inclined to go the latter route with it being a coup after Versailles which leads to the Union with Poland. Another cool note is that my very rough estimate of population for this Polish state is ~42,000,000. That is a crazy amount for 1920's Poland, especially as Poles could be a minority in their own country (National Democrats would be raging). In this scenario, Poland would get likely another 10,000,000 Russians, Byelorussians, and Ukrainians living within their borders, and potentially around 1,000,000 Germans as well.
 
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Alternate Poland, 1926.

Great quality! In any case I would have still expected Ukraine to be set up as a separate state. The way it is the National Democrats will not just be raging, they will also be very afraid of a disastrous civil war sometime down the line. And a minor nitpick: federalists, who are clearly in charge here, would call the entire former Grand Duchy "Lithuania", so the Lithuanian Voivodship would probably have a different name.
 
Great quality! In any case I would have still expected Ukraine to be set up as a separate state. The way it is the National Democrats will not just be raging, they will also be very afraid of a disastrous civil war sometime down the line. And a minor nitpick: federalists, who are clearly in charge here, would call the entire former Grand Duchy "Lithuania", so the Lithuanian Voivodship would probably have a different name.

In this scenario, the Poles come to the conclusion that with the territory their acquired, the Ukrainian state would not be stable or unreliable, especially after witnessing the motivation (or lack thereof in any substantial quantity) of their Ukrainian allies during the Bolshevik war. As for a civil war, I don't want to spoil anything :p As for who is incharge, this map is on the eve of Pilsudski's coup, which will occur on the same date as OTL. Likely before this, it would just be unstable parliamentary coalition. In the timeline, I plan for the Poles to offer special minority protection rights for the Lithuanians, for language and education. These would vary by Voivodeship, where in Lithuanian only Lithuanian is taught, while in Sulwaki and Wilno both Polish and Lithuanian is taught. I was thinking as part of new constitution, Lithuanians could be guaranteed a number of seats in the Sejm and Senate.

Anyways, there will be a lot of parallels and things occurring as they did or similarly as OTL. Germany will also suffer a bit more with Versailles, and I have been inspired by some old posts of fasquadron's which make me want to increase the size of the Polish navy a bit as well, whether by some ships granted with Versailles, or at the Peace of Riga.
 
Alternate Poland, 1926. In this scenario, Poland acquires the Upper Silesia and East Prussia plebiscite areas, Gdansk territory, Zaolzie/Cieszyn Territory, Union with Lithuania, as well as greater territorial concessions at Peace of Riga.
I feel if there were a 'union' with Lithuania that something would need to be done about the name of the country. Perhaps something like United Commonwealth. It would be Polish dominated, but as the majority of the Lithuanian and Belarusian population are in the country, I would say over 95% each, they would need to be able to make the other decide the union is in their interests. Having Vilnius as a capital might also act as a good neutral place, though I suppose it is a bit too close to the Russian border.
The aesthetic quality is dope, but I think if Poland is fused with Lithuania then Germany will keep Danzig
There would be a long detour from the Vistula to get to Lithuania's ports. Having Danzig is vital for Poland's economic security. I half think it would be even better for the poles if they had those two long strips lot land in Prussia, as then they would be the ones able to threaten economic stronghold rather than the other way around.
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Bit of a meme. Probably ASB. Still fun to do! :)
Fun, but I half wished one of those was called the Kingdom of Bohemia, though with the Silesians calling the shots. Granted, unless they also had the Archduchy of Austria they might not have enough Germans to keep things balanced, but- Ahhh right. Are you going by German Silesians or Silesians as in the local group?
 
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