Map Thread XVII

[koa_dan]

My first try with Worda (not complete with the small islands yet). I didn't think too much about the TL details so please pardon the Austrian wank and unrealistic parts. Basically just a more sane Napoleon who stopped at the right moment. The world is currently kept in a balance by 3 blocks:

- Franco-Spanish Alliance: currently are the most powerful faction in the world. France also aided Japan in the Far East to halt Russian expansion.
- Anglo-Russian Coalition: opposing France despite their own fierce colonial rivalry. Other members include Portugal, Sweden-Finland,...
- Austro-Sicilian System: playing neutral with both other blocks

Inspired by this: https://quantumbranching.deviantart.com/art/Jeckl-s-World-327832574

P/S: I tried to mess around with Africa a bit, turned out worse than I thought.

 

[ST15RM]

Yeah, I threw together a map about a hypothetical municipality of the area I grew up in - yes, it is a god-forsaken wasteland.

Lemmie guess:
Southeast finland?

 

[Clandango]

I've got another map. I don't really have a full write up for it but it's based around a South German Federation forming in the 2030s which would include Baden- Wurttemberg, Bavaria, and Austria. Here it is...
View attachment 388041

Hmmm, seems like they might want to give Tyrol its own unit in something's like this. Maybe Swabia as well. Though I suppose that covers most of Wurttenburg.

 

[UrbanNight]

To anyone who's been interested in my work from the Flag Thread, this is why I've not posted anything there for the past month.
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[The Uchronian]

My entry for this most recent MotF contest came about because I realized how odd it is to assume that if the American War of Independence failed, that the US is bound to develop politically along similar lines as Canada-which even IOTL had a couple instances of failed rebellion against the British. I also noticed the contest explicitly calls for the hundredth anniversary of 1776. (this disqualified an idea I have kicking around in my head about Andrew Jackson led second attempt at independence succeeding. Which may be worth returning to, since I think its a little more interesting an idea than this particular scenario) Funnily enough, there actually were worries of a socialist revolution around 1876-the massive 1877 railroad worker strikes scared the heck out of the American ruling class, thinking the workers on the B&O were going to try the Paris Commune thing. Additionally, assuming that slavery would be abolished earlier than IOTL in the case of continued British rule over the US is fairly logical, but not a given. After all, if the 13 colonies had either responsible government or a say in Parliament, Southern planters would have had a much bigger influence over British politics than their Caribbean cousins did. Now, in this scenario its pretty far fetched that slavery would stick around this long. But the idea of John Brown arming slaves to fight redcoats was too interesting an idea to pass on here.

Great job here, Guildencrantz!

(I should say, though, that at least the background to this scenario certainly isn't that far-fetched: not just because of what you yourself pointed out, re: the Southern planter class, but also, I'd add that the abolitionist movement gained a significant boost after the success of the American Revolution, not only because of growing sympathy with the liberal ideals of the Revolutionaries, but also, of course, because of the Revolution itself cutting Britain off from the Southern plantation lands IOTL. Without that, it isn't too difficult, sadly, to see slavery lasting to about as long as OTL in at least some scenarios.)

My first try with Worda (not complete with the small islands yet). I didn't think too much about the TL details so please pardon the Austrian wank and unrealistic parts. Basically just a more sane Napoleon who stopped at the right moment. The world is currently kept in a balance by 3 blocks:

- Franco-Spanish Alliance: currently are the most powerful faction in the world. France also aided Japan in the Far East to halt Russian expansion.
- Anglo-Russian Coalition: opposing France despite their own fierce colonial rivalry. Other members include Portugal, Sweden-Finland,...
- Austro-Sicilian System: playing neutral with both other blocks

Inspired by this: https://quantumbranching.deviantart.com/art/Jeckl-s-World-327832574

P/S: I tried to mess around with Africa a bit, turned out worse than I thought.

View attachment 388073

Interesting! Jeckl's World was an interesting little scenario, for sure. (I wonder how @jeckl is doing, btw?)

To anyone who's been interested in my work from the Flag Thread, this is why I've not posted anything there for the past month.
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You a fan of the Dominion of Southern America TL, by any chance? This is a good map, and definitely reminds me of @Glen's TL.

 

[Glen]

To anyone who's been interested in my work from the Flag Thread, this is why I've not posted anything there for the past month.
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Great job here, Guildencrantz!

(I should say, though, that at least the background to this scenario certainly isn't that far-fetched: not just because of what you yourself pointed out, re: the Southern planter class, but also, I'd add that the abolitionist movement gained a significant boost after the success of the American Revolution, not only because of growing sympathy with the liberal ideals of the Revolutionaries, but also, of course, because of the Revolution itself cutting Britain off from the Southern plantation lands IOTL. Without that, it isn't too difficult, sadly, to see slavery lasting to about as long as OTL in at least some scenarios.)

Interesting! Jeckl's World was an interesting little scenario, for sure. (I wonder how @jeckl is doing, btw?)

You a fan of the Dominion of Southern America TL, by any chance? This is a good map, and definitely reminds me of @Glen's TL.

Thanks for the shoutout, CaliBoy1990! So...many...sharp...borders!!! And what is up with New Mexico?

So as to CaliBoy's comparison, I give you the Post Population War World of the Dominion of Southern America...

 

[Ivoshafen]

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Oh hey fellas look, Glen's alive

 

[Reepicheep]

Does anyone know how to do the alliances box and PoI format in omallys map?

View attachment 388116

Is there a guide for WorldA maps?

You just have to make it yourself in GIMP or Inkscape creating the boxes and text yourself.

 

[Pipcard]

You just have to make it yourself in GIMP or Inkscape creating the boxes and text yourself.

Inkscape is for vector art, not pixel art. Also, the font is 04b03 (use a font size of 6)

 

[Deleted member 108228]

Inkscape is for vector art, not pixel art. Also, the font is 04b03 (use a font size of 6)

The only thing I know uses pixel is Paint

 

[Deleted member 108228]

Inkscape is for vector art, not pixel art. Also, the font is 04b03 (use a font size of 6)

The font. Which program do I use?

 

[Pragmatic Progressive]

Does anyone know how to do the alliances box and PoI format in omallys map?

I like it very much! And I think that the Internationale in this case is quite a bit more powerful than the Deutsches Weltsystem...

 

[Deleted member 108228]

I like it very much! And I think that the Internationale in this case is quite a bit more powerful than the Deutsches Weltsystem...

This is omallys. I used it for reference

 

[Pipcard]

The only thing I know uses pixel is Paint

GIMP allows you to work in different image layers. You can edit on a pixel-by-pixel basis with these settings.

edit: also, the button with blue, red, and green allows you to select by color (perfect when you don't want to recolor all the little islands), and [Ctrl]+[,] allows you to fill

 

[B_Munro]

Now, in this scenario its pretty far fetched that slavery would stick around this long. But the idea of John Brown arming slaves to fight redcoats was too interesting an idea to pass on here.

Given that it's the Americans who are invested in keeping them enslaved, shouldn't the slaves be fighting for the Redcoats?

 

[Reepicheep]

Inkscape is for vector art, not pixel art. Also, the font is 04b03 (use a font size of 6)

Sorry, you're absolutely right, I don't know why I said Inkscape - maybe it's just on my mind because I've got a new laptop and am able to use it properly again. In my head I typed MS Paint

I've already told Ernak a lot of this in the WIP Map Thread, so again - @Ernak please take a look at/take your questions to the Advice Thread.

 

[Deleted member 97083]

Given that it's the Americans who are invested in keeping them enslaved, shouldn't the slaves be fighting for the Redcoats?

If Britain kept the Thirteen Colonies, then the British Empire would have taken longer to become abolitionist, because they would have a vested economic interest in slavery continuing.

 

[Deleted member 108228]

Sorry, you're absolutely right, I don't know why I said Inkscape - maybe it's just on my mind because I've got a new laptop and am able to use it properly again. In my head I typed MS Paint

I've already told Ernak a lot of this in the WIP Map Thread, so again - @Ernak please take a look at/take your questions to the Advice Thread.

Sorry, I'm just really new to making maps. Thanks for the advice though!

 

[B_Munro]

If Britain kept the Thirteen Colonies, then the British Empire would have taken longer to become abolitionist, because they would have a vested economic interest in slavery continuing.

But it's the American colonies where the slaveholding voters live, not Britain, and in a scenario like this it's their influence that has kept the empire slaveholding: abolitionism was already enough of a force by the OTL revolution that a major incentive for well-off southern "patriots" was fear that the British soldiers would free their slaves and turn them against them.

To put it another way, unless the opinion of the British public has for some weird reason reversed itself over the 19th century so that they're now more pro-slavery than the Americans, the slaves have all the reason in the world to think that they'll be freed sooner if they back the British rather than the revolutionaries.

Unless the revolt is specifically abolitionist as well as socialist? In which case things get messy and John Brown will be arming slaves, as OTL, to fight white southerners as much as any Redcoats.

The Peculiar Institution is calling from inside the house, heir to the line of Cyrus.

 

[Deleted member 101966]

Been plugging away for too long at a system of fictional counties for Northwestern Canada, here's a WIP; most county-based worldbuilding tends to be inaccessible at best but hopefully the locations of the smaller counties indicate that the population density patterns here lean kind of post-apocalyptic.