Map Thread XVI
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Yeah, Oromia has always been weird; it has something like 30-40% of the population and cuts the country straight in half.
That's the sort of annoying stuff that happens when you do the Volkswanderung thing but don't maintain any political unity.
Skallagrim
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The HRE was a very nice thing. It's close to my heart. So I'd rather say: if only the Reformation had not happened (or had happened in a non-divisive way, actually reforming the Church itself). Those wars of religion left scars that never fully healed, and then Napoleon eventually pulled the plug... A sad affair.
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Well, more specifically everyone and their dog goes a Volkswandering into eachother.
Never liked the name MEC. They wouldn't call themselves that; they'd probably call themselves the Southwest Asia Coalition of something along those lines.
My impression was that the Amhara (before their 19th century expansion) were more wandered on than wandering onto.
Map of "Ruina Imperii" featuring Afro-Eurasia and Australia. Questions are very much appreciated.
How is Luxembourg surviving being completely surrounded by wasteland?
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What's the POD? Who fought in the nuclear war? Why is China disunited if it didn't participate in the nuclear war?
Luxembourg is the Gibraltar of the North. It can survive anything.
Alex Richards
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There does appear to be some debate over the extent to which the Amhara was a group to which supporters of the Ethiopian Emperors assimilated to from the other groups in the area, rather than necessarily being a distinct group in their own right.
Been far to long since we had a map with the Rogue States category. I don't see Iraq or Venezuela placed there though... guess it hasn't quite reached the level of Axis of Evil?View attachment 343733
I'm nearly done with this map...
I mentioned in the comments of RvBOmally's Battlefield 2142 map that I'd probably do a cover of the pre-War Battlefield 2 world.
I've obviously decided to take some liberties here and there as the game doesn't seem to give much of a background to the 'War of 2007'. The way I see it is that the Cold War probably ends differently, while the Middle East takes a different turn with Iraq and Syria reconciling with the Saudis and form the basis of the MEC in the late 90's or early 2000's. The EU grows to be more politically and militarily centralised much earlier than OTL - albeit without becoming Nigel Farage's worst nightmare.
I don't think the War on Terror* as we know it happens ITTL. Instead the Chinese and the MEC (at this point it's a Saudi-Iraqi led EU-lite + military alliance to keep those filthy Western kaffirs out) team up to keep the US (and probably Russia, as Moscow probably avoided the Yeltsin era, retained some Soviet territory and is more Western friendly) out of their respective spheres of influence. The Chinese are taking advantage of their status as Superpower II: Electric Boogaloo to reign in any possible US allies (read, Vietnam and the Philippines).
POD is the Early death of George III, in the 1790's after never recovering from his first insanity thing.
China fractured after the fall of the Qing, who was beat up rather badly by the Imperial powers. China has been in a 3-way civil war, and thusly a 3 way stalemate, unable to really participate in the End War.
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