Flocculencio
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Is there a link for the TL in the "Timeline and Scenarios" section of the forum?
No- I was under the impression that the TLs and Scenarios forum was only for completed and edited TLs.
Is there a link for the TL in the "Timeline and Scenarios" section of the forum?
Wow- an excellent effort. Some details need to be ironed out (e.g. N. German Taipei isn't likely to bear that name, but rather something along the lines of Formosa) but all in all I like it!
One thing I'll be interested in exploring is how Vijayanagar gets over it's energy poverty. They're pretty dependent on imported coal and the situation isn't going to be much better with not much oil in their Empire. Now might be a good time for biofuel to come into play.
Wow- an excellent effort. Some details need to be ironed out (e.g. N. German Taipei isn't likely to bear that name, but rather something along the lines of Formosa) but all in all I like it!
One thing I'll be interested in exploring is how Vijayanagar gets over it's energy poverty. They're pretty dependent on imported coal and the situation isn't going to be much better with not much oil in their Empire. Now might be a good time for biofuel to come into play.
Regarding Oil in order for Vijayanagar to get a hold of it they would need to get the Omanis to agree. They have almost all of the Persian Gulf oil, sans Persian oil itself, under their control, including the Saudi oilfields.
Well the problem is that India's coal is really shitty and really deep/mountainous, and unsuitable for steam engines or smelting - but post electrification this shitty coal can be burnt in power stations quite comfortably, and then the electrical power turned towards industrial ends.
Now we're coming to the 1940s the technology to access, transport and use native Indian hydrocarbons is complete (having been developed elsewhere in more easily accessible coal fields). Its 19th century Indian industrialisation that's really difficult, much like south american - once electricity is the name of the game everything is easy.
Its coal is all in the extreme north of the eastern ghats and thus on its border, but Vijay now has 10% of the world coal supply within its domain. It will have little power problems once the infrastructure is built.
All its heavy industrial cities are going to be on the north east coast because of this I guess.
@ B_Munro, I really like the map, but is light turquoise the right colour for South India?