Who are the Roscitas?For once, pretty self-explanatory I think! Just a little mini-map with some cute little mini-flags.
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A bunch of (mostly) French-and/or-English-speaking homesteaders and smallholders, mostly fairly recent immigrants, revolting for greater autonomy like everyone else, just for their own reasons. They’re not too keen on the whole “Astlan” thing due to the fact that they actually like many of the newer imperial reforms banning collective ownership of land and reorganizing the territories (they’re— mostly— liberals). They just want to be left well enough alone and not taxed too much, and they're loving the ability to "settle" on native lands much more easily. Uniquely among the federal rebels, the territory shown held by the Roscitas is less “territory controlled by an army” and more “areas that fear Roscita and vaguely Roscita-affiliated raids and banditry.” They’re more of a true guerrilla group.Who are the Roscitas?
Thank you so much, I really appreciate hearing that! I'm a sucker for weird alternate governments and ideologies, and I'd definitely like to continue that trend if I were to go further into the future of this TL.Epic as hell, and your government framework makes me want to breathe life back into my old NationStates account.
Shame, as Roscitas allegedly means "Little Rose" I was kinda hoping this might be Texans with a national anthem of "Yellow Rose of Texas"A bunch of (mostly) French-and/or-English-speaking homesteaders and smallholders, mostly fairly recent immigrants, revolting for greater autonomy like everyone else, just for their own reasons. They’re not too keen on the whole “Astlan” thing due to the fact that they actually like many of the newer imperial reforms banning collective ownership of land and reorganizing the territories (they’re— mostly— liberals). They just want to be left well enough alone and not taxed too much, and they're loving the ability to "settle" on native lands much more easily. Uniquely among the federal rebels, the territory shown held by the Roscitas is less “territory controlled by an army” and more “areas that fear Roscita and vaguely Roscita-affiliated raids and banditry.” They’re more of a true guerrilla group.
They’re named after a relatively well-known bandito federal among them, Rosco Alpente (the guy mostly responsible for those blue specks you see down in Louisiana proper), though in actuality they’re not a very centralized or organized revolt at all.
I think you should, not a lot of Hannibal wining timelines that gose in the direction your shown.Thank you so much, I really appreciate hearing that! I'm a sucker for weird alternate governments and ideologies, and I'd definitely like to continue that trend if I were to go further into the future of this TL.
Are these spheres of influence or colonies in Iran and China?An attempt of mine to create a WWI-related scenario which avoids a number of what I consider common cliches:
1) Franz Ferdinand's survival results in an endless Belle Epoque
2) The German Empire always wins against the Russian Empire, and usually wins big
3) Austria-Hungary either retains its 1914 borders or grows, or collapses entirely
4) After the trench warfare dies down France gets a get out of jail free card to exit the 20th century suffering nothing worse than the occasional relatively painless occupation. Yes, I said painless. compare and contrast Vichy France and the German Generalgouvernment. Or even perpetual neutrality.
5) If the Entente wins, Greece expands all over the Ottoman Empire
So, what happened here? FF lives, tensions decrease for a time and Britain distances itself from the Entente seeing how Russian industrialization appears to make it a counterweight to Germany. But this in turn encourages German hopes of fighting Russia and France without Britain, so it doesn't lead to peace in the long run. War breaks out in the early 20s. Germany steamrolls France, but at the cost of letting the beefed-up Russians reach the Oder and Neisse. Italy opportunistically jumps in to get some pieces of French territory but does not join the wider war. At this point Britain decides enough is enough and proposes a peace roughly along the lines of the status quo, but neither Germany nor Russia are willing to listen. Berlin thinks that after removing one front, it can finally focus on Russia and win. The Russians want a more punitive peace and expect that the Kaiser will give it to them once the sound of Russian guns becomes audible in Berlin. One final push seems doable. Neither side is correct. As the Germans stop retreating the war ceases to be a mobile one and devolves into static trench warfare. Germany slowly pushes the Russians away from Berlin and back across the Oder, and the Russians begin thinking that the British had a point, but the Germans think they're winning and still reject the peace offers. Britain eventually joins the war on Russia's side and the Ottomans are strongarmed into letting support for Russia through the Bosphorus. Without any notable successes in pushing the Pomeranian-East Brandenburg-Lower Silesian front back to the Oder-Neisse and Berlin, the Entente think outside the box and decide to focus on Austria-Hungary. Italy and Romania are persuaded to join, and the offensives across the Carpathians get deep into Hungary, but are halted before Budapest. In Berlin the situation still seems fixable. But the Italian entry and the distraction in the south prevents farther progress in Pomerania, East Brandenburg or Lower Silesia. Attempted landings in France in co-operation with rebels also fail and result in the fragmentation of France. An offensive meant to drive the Russians across the Oder entirely retakes part of Breslau on one side of the river, but fails to do much else. By this point both Berlin and Moscow are feeling strained by the war, and are beginning to consider a peace. But neither of them is interested in a return to the status quo. Germany has gotten rid of the threat of a western front against France and doesn't want to see it return. Russia sees the French as having been useless anyway and prefers to keep its gains, and also thinks that German control over Russia will automatically put Britain on its side after the war. The allies with a weaker presence on the continent (A-H, Italy, Britain) don't have that much to say if the Germans and Russians agree on something. In the end Germany agrees to concessions to Russia in the east in return for Russia consenting to full German control over France. Northeastern France is annexed and settled by Germans from East Prussia and Silesia, the rest becomes a de facto colony. Britain dislikes it but is somewhat consoled with taking over both the French and German colonial empires. This won't let the British Empire survive indefinitely of course. As it is recognized as a German client, both Britain and Germany are suited by French weakness. It is thought that France is permanently reduced to the status of a secondary power comparable to Spain or the Ottoman Empire at best - but such definitive claims are sometimes premature. The Ottoman Empire has avoided a catastrophe and gains some time to reform itself. Italy is probably the big winner here, jumping into the war and out of it at the right times thus satisfying its main irredentist claims.
The first map shows what is commonly known as Westeuropa as it exists following the end of the war. The second shows the extent of British and Russian control or influence in the aftermath of the war, when both empires reach their greatest ever extent.
In Germany all this is seen as very much a temporary situation caused by the wartime blockade and attrition, and a round 2 before too long is seen as entirely probable. In fact it comes sooner than expected as a revolutionary crisis in Russia creates an opportunity to attack. This would have worked splendidly and ensured control over the continent for perhaps even a few decades if the US were not determined to prevent German control over Europe, but the fighting in western Europe, the cross-channel landings effected by both sides, the English and French fronts, and the Iberian Front which emerged once pressure from both sides to use Spain as a springboard or deny it to the other became too strong for Madrid to be able to stay out of the conflict, is another story.
Shouldn't the Korean peninsula be more or less similar to OTL's frontline or in favour of the South, with Communist China far smaller?
North Korea ITTL 'won' a pretty Short War against a much weaker South and US forces in the region in the late 40s. This Korean War was short, blunt and pretty much humiliated South Korea. There are claims of direct Soviet Support as well, "Volunteer" forces and all.Shouldn't the Korean peninsula be more or less similar to OTL's frontline or in favour of the South, with Communist China far smaller?
Spheres, Britain in particular didn't plan to inherit three sets of colonies at once and struggles to consolidate its new acquisitions at minimum cost. But returning them to their prior masters was out of the question from the moment that the landings in France failed and the Netherlands were occupied.Are these spheres of influence or colonies in Iran and China?
Those french borders are atrocious good god, anyhow I also disagree with your notion that France gets off scot free when they lose WW1. They are almost alwasy subordinate to the germans and incapable of striking back.An attempt of mine to create a WWI-related scenario which avoids a number of what I consider common cliches:
1) Franz Ferdinand's survival results in an endless Belle Epoque
2) The German Empire always wins against the Russian Empire, and usually wins big
3) Austria-Hungary either retains its 1914 borders or grows, or collapses entirely
4) After the trench warfare dies down France gets a get out of jail free card to exit the 20th century suffering nothing worse than the occasional relatively painless occupation. Yes, I said painless. compare and contrast Vichy France and the German Generalgouvernment. Or even perpetual neutrality.
5) If the Entente wins, Greece expands all over the Ottoman Empire
So, what happened here? FF lives, tensions decrease for a time and Britain distances itself from the Entente seeing how Russian industrialization appears to make it a counterweight to Germany. But this in turn encourages German hopes of fighting Russia and France without Britain, so it doesn't lead to peace in the long run. War breaks out in the early 20s. Germany steamrolls France, but at the cost of letting the beefed-up Russians reach the Oder and Neisse. Italy opportunistically jumps in to get some pieces of French territory but does not join the wider war. At this point Britain decides enough is enough and proposes a peace roughly along the lines of the status quo, but neither Germany nor Russia are willing to listen. Berlin thinks that after removing one front, it can finally focus on Russia and win. The Russians want a more punitive peace and expect that the Kaiser will give it to them once the sound of Russian guns becomes audible in Berlin. One final push seems doable. Neither side is correct. As the Germans stop retreating the war ceases to be a mobile one and devolves into static trench warfare. Germany slowly pushes the Russians away from Berlin and back across the Oder, and the Russians begin thinking that the British had a point, but the Germans think they're winning and still reject the peace offers. Britain eventually joins the war on Russia's side and the Ottomans are strongarmed into letting support for Russia through the Bosphorus. Without any notable successes in pushing the Pomeranian-East Brandenburg-Lower Silesian front back to the Oder-Neisse and Berlin, the Entente think outside the box and decide to focus on Austria-Hungary. Italy and Romania are persuaded to join, and the offensives across the Carpathians get deep into Hungary, but are halted before Budapest. In Berlin the situation still seems fixable. But the Italian entry and the distraction in the south prevents farther progress in Pomerania, East Brandenburg or Lower Silesia. Attempted landings in France in co-operation with rebels also fail and result in the fragmentation of France. An offensive meant to drive the Russians across the Oder entirely retakes part of Breslau on one side of the river, but fails to do much else. By this point both Berlin and Moscow are feeling strained by the war, and are beginning to consider a peace. But neither of them is interested in a return to the status quo. Germany has gotten rid of the threat of a western front against France and doesn't want to see it return. Russia sees the French as having been useless anyway and prefers to keep its gains, and also thinks that German control over Russia will automatically put Britain on its side after the war. The allies with a weaker presence on the continent (A-H, Italy, Britain) don't have that much to say if the Germans and Russians agree on something. In the end Germany agrees to concessions to Russia in the east in return for Russia consenting to full German control over France. Northeastern France is annexed and settled by Germans from East Prussia and Silesia, the rest becomes a de facto colony. Britain dislikes it but is somewhat consoled with taking over both the French and German colonial empires. This won't let the British Empire survive indefinitely of course. As it is recognized as a German client, both Britain and Germany are suited by French weakness. It is thought that France is permanently reduced to the status of a secondary power comparable to Spain or the Ottoman Empire at best - but such definitive claims are sometimes premature. The Ottoman Empire has avoided a catastrophe and gains some time to reform itself. Italy is probably the big winner here, jumping into the war and out of it at the right times thus satisfying its main irredentist claims.
The first map shows what is commonly known as Westeuropa as it exists following the end of the war. The second shows the extent of British and Russian control or influence in the aftermath of the war, when both empires reach their greatest ever extent.
In Germany all this is seen as very much a temporary situation caused by the wartime blockade and attrition, and a round 2 before too long is seen as entirely probable. In fact it comes sooner than expected as a revolutionary crisis in Russia creates an opportunity to attack. This would have worked splendidly and ensured control over the continent for perhaps even a few decades if the US were not determined to prevent German control over Europe, but the fighting in western Europe, the cross-channel landings effected by both sides, the English and French fronts, and the Iberian Front which emerged once pressure from both sides to use Spain as a springboard or deny it to the other became too strong for Madrid to be able to stay out of the conflict, is another story.
My my, the Spanish directly administer Florida and the islands? Well, I suppose it would still be a colony so not like it is getting the rights of the provinces in the homeland, for what little those were. Did we never end up with the Five Civilized Tribes here since the US didn’t control the areas of Mississippi and Alabama? Makes me almost wish that the borders were rounded instead of straight down there. It would be interesting to see those tribes ending up with a respected status (probably with a lot of mestizos down the line), used as border troops against invading American filibusters. Does seem a bit unfair that the British would annex all of Maine, considering they neither claimed all of it nor did New England get too involved in the War of 1812. Then again, I suppose a long line of Virginian Presidents are hardly going to mind losing some New Englander land. And why it has nothing really to do with pods or such, I love how the Indian Buffer state has a slight difference in the northwest borders and does not have that little American exclave around Lake of the Woods.View attachment 832007
Not entirely sure of a plausible PoD for this scenario (suggestions are welcome). Premise is that the US fails to become more centralised after the Revolution and remains a loose confedertion of states. Interstate conflict and diverging interests cause many of the states to go their separate ways in the next few decades, leaving a rump US in the Mid-Atlantic states and New England. New England then secedes after a disastrous war with Britain (the UK was busy in a continental war in Europe and the US thought a quick push into York and Montréal could coud force a quick peace and get them the Northwest Territory plus maybe parts of Upper Canada). Later secessions in the early 1820s see New York and Vermont also go their own ways. Also, there is no French Revolution and the Ancien Régime has gone on, leaving both Spain and France in better positions than OTL. The map is set in 2000 AD.
You just aren't used to seeing terrible borders in Western Europe As for not being able to strike at the top dog on the continent, well, that's always a pretty high bar to reach.I
Those french borders are atrocious good god, anyhow I also disagree with your notion that France gets off scot free when they lose WW1. They are almost alwasy subordinate to the germans and incapable of striking back.
You could say that this happened because the Constitutional Convention fell apart because they couldn't reach the agreements that they did IOTL. The convention came close to collapsing a few times so it's plausible to imagine that it failed. If it failed, the country was doomed to break apart because the Articles of Confederation were completely useless. So yeah 👍🏻View attachment 832007
Not entirely sure of a plausible PoD for this scenario (suggestions are welcome). Premise is that the US fails to become more centralised after the Revolution and remains a loose confedertion of states. Interstate conflict and diverging interests cause many of the states to go their separate ways in the next few decades, leaving a rump US in the Mid-Atlantic states and New England. New England then secedes after a disastrous war with Britain (the UK was busy in a continental war in Europe and the US thought a quick push into York and Montréal could coud force a quick peace and get them the Northwest Territory plus maybe parts of Upper Canada). Later secessions in the early 1820s see New York and Vermont also go their own ways. Also, there is no French Revolution and the Ancien Régime has gone on, leaving both Spain and France in better positions than OTL. The map is set in 2000 AD.