Inspired by how awesome Baconheimer's take on a DBWI was, I decided to do one of my own.
[ A Turn for the Worse
Interesting! And I like all the alt-terminology. What's north America like in the "original" timeline, aside from being more fragmented?
Inspired by how awesome Baconheimer's take on a DBWI was, I decided to do one of my own.
[ A Turn for the Worse
Russian Civil War in Antarctica (1919)
Russian Civil War in Antarctica (1919)The request for Allied intervention was accepted the United Kingdom, France, and the United States, but didn't arrive soon enough to prevent communist agitation and outright rebellion. Called the "Red Army of Antarctica" by themselves, and "The Rash" by the Whites of Antarctic Russians, by 1919 they had controlled almost the entire Ross Gulf coast and surrounded the de facto capital Russian Antarctica. White forces managed to evacuate to Mirny closer to the Border of British East Antarctica, passing by the Midnight Coast Oblast as it again erupts into violence in response to attempts at Russianization of the population.
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The base map was created by @Gian, and used with their permission.
The timeline this map is based in is Devon Moore's The Great White South, and can be found here at Alternative History Wikia.
None of the writing and graphics I post in relation to the Great White South are canonical, but do have his approval to be posted.
Notes:
1) The White forces have begun a retreat from Yuzhnaya Zemlya, having lost the Russian- and Creole-Majority settlements to the Red Army of Antarctica
2) Communism was very popular within the mining towns of the Trans-Antarctic Mountains, little do they know their siege of Novopetrograd is about to be broken by forces from across the sea...
3) Descendant of settlers from the days of Nederlands Middernachtkust and the Boers deported from the Cape of Good Hope have been generally complacent under Russian rule, but attempts at russianization to combat communist sympathies have produced the opposite result
Below 60 Degrees South...
Russian Civil War in Antarctica (1918)
Russian Civil War in Antarctica (1919) (you are here)
I'd like to see a world containing a nuclear standoff between the Tsalal and an über-Inuit Empire. Now that's what I would call a "Cold War"...Fun stuff. Do you have the blank original of that map? Want to do some sort of Green Antarctica map/scenario one of these days...
I'd like to see a world containing a nuclear standoff between the Tsalal and an über-Inuit Empire. Now that's what I would call a "Cold War"...![]()
I found myself liking Timor surprisingly wellThoughts?
Different Racism (more racially mixed, a “mulatto” south) a lot less migration from Europe or Africa after 1700, so a bit more culturally distinct from Europe as well (no concept of “the West” or anything like NATO), less capitalist, less evangelical (much more Espicapalian or Catholic rather than Baptist or Presbyterian). Every cowboy with enough guns declared himself a King in the 19th century (democracy being a bit of a foreign concept), and the eastern seaboard was briefly reconquered by European powers in a World War equivalent. The Lakota and the Comanche and a few other natives survive as independent states. There’s also some Muslim minorities (early abolition of slavery at a time when Blacks could still remember Africa changed things up). Alaska is still part of Russia. Hispaniola is all English now. More of Central America was English at one point or Scottish (no acts of Union). North America is generally poorer than Europe and about on the same level as Asia.Interesting! And I like all the alt-terminology. What's north America like in the "original" timeline, aside from being more fragmented?
Here is Gian's original post of the base map!Fun stuff. Do you have the blank original of that map? Want to do some sort of Green Antarctica map/scenario one of these days...
In the Great White South canon the POD is just "Antarctica is warmer starting in 20,000 BCE," but personally I ascribe to geothermal activity being the source, which just might make an appearance in later material for my renditionWhat's the POD here. it a very unique idea I hope to see more of!
Green Antarctica vs the Lands of Ice and Mice?![]()
I once had a Nazis vs Tsalal one. I made some edgy maps for a whileThat's a grim combo. The only equally grim one I can think of (other than RL stuff like Nazis vs Imperial Japan, ofc) is that one scenario RvBOmally did featuring Draka vs DoD America.
I found myself liking Timor surprisingly well
Different Racism (more racially mixed, a “mulatto” south) a lot less migration from Europe or Africa after 1700, so a bit more culturally distinct from Europe as well (no concept of “the West” or anything like NATO), less capitalist, less evangelical (much more Espicapalian or Catholic rather than Baptist or Presbyterian). Every cowboy with enough guns declared himself a King in the 19th century (democracy being a bit of a foreign concept), and the eastern seaboard was briefly reconquered by European powers in a World War equivalent. The Lakota and the Comanche and a few other natives survive as independent states. There’s also some Muslim minorities (early abolition of slavery at a time when Blacks could still remember Africa changed things up). Alaska is still part of Russia. Hispaniola is all English now. More of Central America was English at one point or Scottish (no acts of Union). North America is generally poorer than Europe and about on the same level as Asia.
it ain't a Lithuania wank if Klaipėda is not LithuanianThoughts?
Oh wow, I actually made into the top twenty! Thanks to everyone who liked that map!15. The Tripartite Indenture - By Gwrtheyrn Annwn, 83 Likes
I knew you'd show up to comment on that Lithuania.it ain't a Lithuania wank if Klaipėda is not Lithuanian
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Good riddance. Riga would be bigger than Vilnius and that's not how nature is supposed to beI knew you'd show up to comment on that Lithuania.
Oh by the way Riga isn't Lithuanian either heh
Woo! Top 100! barely.The Map Thread XVII Retrospective.