Map Thread XXI
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Here to remind people about the OTL Map Thread in this forum; it's surprisingly underused, considering its nature.
Made a Worlda Version of TheMexicanHistorian's "Most Cliche Map Possible" from Reddit, a collection of the most commonly-used cliches in AH maps all stuck together in one map
I did post my Anbennar map in this thread without people complaining, and that's a D&D-inspired fantasy setting, so if the setting is developed enough, sure.
Only cliches missing include:
Made a Worlda Version of TheMexicanHistorian's "Most Cliche Map Possible" from Reddit, a collection of the most commonly-used cliches in AH maps all stuck together in one map
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- communist Great Lakes area
- Cascadia
- New Africa (probably not feasible, due to the existence of the CSA)
- Somaliland (for future history maps)
- Celtic Union (not feasible, with the existence of the Imperial Federation)
- Balkanized Italy (not feasible, with the existence of this Italy)
I managed to count around 30 cliches in the map
Made a Worlda Version of TheMexicanHistorian's "Most Cliche Map Possible" from Reddit, a collection of the most commonly-used cliches in AH maps all stuck together in one map
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well done!
Here's my count:
- Imperial Federation
- Russian Alaska
- Quebec
- Vinland
- New England
- Pacifica
- Deseret
- Texas
- Oklahoma owned by Texas
- Confederacy
- Rio Grande
- Yucatan
- unified Central America
- Gran Colombia
- imperial Brazil
- Peru-Bolivia
- Argentina
- unified Ireland
- communist France
- big Germany
- divided Belgium
- balkanized Spain
- unified Scandinavia
- Yugoslavia
- Danubian Federation
- big Greece
- small Turkey
- Kurdistan
- Lake Congo
- East African Federation
- Barotseland
- displaced Israel
- USSR
- balkanized Pakistan
- north and south India
- big Bengal
- Tibet
- Xinjiang
- big Mongolia
- Manchuria
- big Japan
- Indochina
- balkanized Indonesia
- unified New Guinea
- no New Zealand
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Add Texas owning Oklahoma for some inexplicable reason to that list
don't forget Portugalicia that always happen no matter what!
I dunno... I think "Austria will always end up united with Greater Germany" might be more of a cliche than the Danubian Federation 
I see that they completely removed the Falklands to avoid the obvious.
It's commonly seen in scenarios that need to pump up the number of nations in Africa.
That's considered under most Big Germany maps; the Danubian Federation is commonly seen in "no WW1" scenarios.I dunno... I think "Austria will always end up united with Greater Germany" might be more of a cliche than the Danubian Federation
I'd say Fandom AH and Shared Worlds would fit the description, but, as far as I checked, FAH seems to head toward known franchises while SW focuses on roleplay. I'm still trying to get the gist of how AH.com works, and my explanation could be completely wrong, but that's all I understood now.
Surprisingly, the "Most Cliche Map Possible" could be considered original due to its simple but unique concept.
Made a Worlda Version of TheMexicanHistorian's "Most Cliche Map Possible" from Reddit, a collection of the most commonly-used cliches in AH maps all stuck together in one map
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I think fantasy maps would go fine here unless they're explicitly based on an existing franchise
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Made a Worlda Version of TheMexicanHistorian's "Most Cliche Map Possible" from Reddit, a collection of the most commonly-used cliches in AH maps all stuck together in one map
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Add internal boundaries to Russia so you can see the Kazakh border is identical
Making a map-with-all-the-cliches is itself a cliche at this point.
At this point, the problem is being able to fit enough cliches into a single map, without having them override one another
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