Right, I don't post many maps on the map thread- because most of the time I scrap the maps. Here's an archive of them.
Pen's Trashed/Scrapped Map thread
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Woe upon the Daeva
Woe Upon the Daeva was one of the first maps I worked on after ditching my first timeline, An Alliance with the Shade. It showcased a world inspired by several SCPs, namely 4004 (http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-4004) and 140 (http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-140). It had a very similar focus to Wrong's proposal for SCP-001, however with a slight change- the Nazis, not Napoleon, were in power in Europe. The map was abandoned because of several factors- namely the lack of ideas for other areas of the planet and also my lack of skill when it comes to space filling empires.
The Treaty of Hamburg: An Alliance with the Shade
Speaking of my first timeline, here's the map in all it's "glory". Yeah, I think it's safe to say I've improved- even WUTD was leagues better than this. The whole premise was rather cliche for the average AH.com user's infancy- yep, it was a Anglo-German wank. The premise (which was done with the ill-advised method of Finding a POD, not making one and then seeing where that leads) was the failure of the Entente Cordiale in 1904- which somehow lead to Germany netting the UK (even though logically that would lead to a neutral Britain). To be honest, I just really wanted to make a German wank.
Memetic Kill Agent
Right, I made this in like April of 2018, which was when I first got a windows PC and could therefore begin doing mapping. I consider this my first map, and so let it be known I hold the title for the worst first map in existence. That blue isn't France, or the Angevins, by the way.
Kerensky's Kingdom: a Republican Russia
I didn't know much about turn-of-the-century Russian politics when I started this. The more I found out about it- the less enthusiastic I was about continuing. Note the OTL Russian Federation Autonomous Areas.
Two Europes was one of the last maps i worked on before i finally managed to get used to using the geography base map for internal borders. It was inspired by a TL I found in DA where there was a German victory in ww1, followed by a collapse and revolution causing a cold war between proto-fascists in Africa and Democractic Socialists in Europe. By the standards from this thread, one might consider it my magnum opus. It really isn't.
Rhine And Oder
Rhine and Oder was a map I made basically just to make a very dystopian setting of an American Kingdom, with some extra alt-colonization thrown in. I'm pretty sure I scrapped this because I couldn't show enough imperialism happening to China, which would have made things look even worse on the yanks had it worked.
Making Green
This was just your usual, boring alternate Cold war map with a neolib Russia and a Deleonist Russia. I trashed it because of the concept- it's not the most interesting or novel idea I could do.
Open Season on the Spanish Front
I've always meant to revisit this, so maybe one day I will. This was a timeline in which the British won the Battle of Cartegena in 1741, causing a focus in the south and a lack of aggression onto french lands. This is porbably the first map in my current style.
Imperial continents
And here's a map based on the concept of having continent-spanning empires everywhere.
Crusades
Here's the old "what if crusades!!!! map. Might continue this one actually, it's a pretty cool idea that I pulled off fairly well.
Al-Saud
Here's a map where the Saudis went on a conquest on the level that would put the caliphates of old to shame, killing off the French, Spanish, and Italians in the 1700s. Was a pretty cool map, I probably should have finished it.