WIP Map Thread

[Ophois]

Honestly I’m surprised Serbia joined (or at least didn’t immediately collapse into crippling unrest) if the Eurofed required it to give up kosovo in order to join.

Or was there some overly convoluted compromise that worked for just long enough, fitting for western attempts to solve the Balkans?

It's more like Yugoslavia joined in one piece and was slowly broken up.

How dis WWIII go? What did it start over?

Honestly, I haven’t worked much on the lore, but Russia got belligerent and Europe and the US knocked them down all the pegs.

What was the rough order of joining? What’s the power balance like? What’s the administrative power division like/how loose is the union?

Well, the joining order was about the same as OTL (complete with Brexit, which Went Poorly for the former UK) and it's about as centralised as the US. Western Europe mostly calls the shots, though.

 

[Pax_Nihil]

It's more like Yugoslavia joined in one piece and was slowly broken up.

Honestly, I haven’t worked much on the lore, but Russia got belligerent and Europe and the US knocked them down all the pegs.

Well, the joining order was about the same as OTL (complete with Brexit, which Went Poorly for the former UK) and it's about as centralised as the US. Western Europe mostly calls the shots, though.

How did the world not get nuked to crapsackiness because the spiteful Russian plans for this very outcome? (conquest and balkanization = Russian oligarchy nightmare fuel)

 

[Višeslav]

It's more like Yugoslavia joined in one piece and was slowly broken up.

Ah. This definitely sounds more feasibly peaceful.

When is the POD? If late, how dis Yugoslavia survive?

Honestly, I haven’t worked much on the lore, but Russia got belligerent and Europe and the US knocked them down all the pegs.

I’m eager to hear it when you work out more details!

Well, the joining order was about the same as OTL (complete with Brexit, which Went Poorly for the former UK) and it's about as centralised as the US. Western Europe mostly calls the shots, though.

Mmm

 

[Ophois]

How did the world not get nuked to crapsackiness because the spiteful Russian plans for this very outcome? (conquest and balkanization = Russian oligarchy nightmare fuel)

Uh, let's just say Russia's nukes got really outdated + Reagan's Star Wars was put into action and worked + most of the cities that got nuked anyway were due to be flooded. But really, I just hadn't thought about that.

Ah. This definitely sounds more feasibly peaceful.

When is the POD? If late, how dis Yugoslavia survive?

There's no specific POD, but I'd say sometime in the 1980s.

 

[Iserlohn]

After I frittered with the actual MotF entry, I decided to instead switch to the All Stars Invitational...

And I'm making good progress at least.

Though I just noticed that I still had two lakes left over from when I decided to slightly reduce the map's depicted area

 

[Sharklord1]

After I frittered with the actual MotF entry, I decided to instead switch to the All Stars Invitational...

-snip-

And I'm making good progress at least.

Though I just noticed that I still had two lakes left over from when I decided to slightly reduce the map's depicted area

What's the map about? The guiana shield?

 

[Iserlohn]

What's the map about? The guiana shield?

Yeah. The entry I'm remaking is my entry for "MotF 172: The Empty Quarter", which had the challenge:​

Make a map showing a region thought to be uninhabited or sparsely populated.​

The basic gist of my entry for that was the idea of an American-supported Vichy successor state in French Guiana, since the American attitude towards both the Free French under de Gaulle and the Vichy Regime under Petain was... Let's just say complicated during the war. French Guiana was one of the pro-Vichy hotspots IOTL.

Anyway, I figured a good idea was to expand the scenario somewhat and to highlight the Guyanas as a region have a super low population density thanks to the Guiana Shield.​

 

[erictom333]

How do I make text bend in Inkscape?

 

[Falkanner]

How do I make text bend in Inkscape?

1. With the pencil or pen tool, draw an arc that traces the path you want the text to take.
2. Use Shift+Click to select both the arc and the text you want to bend.
3. In the dropdown menus, select Text -> Put on path.
4. If you're not happy with the way the text is bending, you can use the Edit Path tool to adjust the arc until it looks right.
4. Deselect all, re-select the arc, and under Fill and Stroke -> Stroke Paint, select the "No Paint" option to hide the line.

 

[Comte de Dordogne]

Big project in the works.
Most of these maps will be used to illustrate a larger WorldA map.

 

[TheBeanieBaron]

After I frittered with the actual MotF entry, I decided to instead switch to the All Stars Invitational...

And I'm making good progress at least.

Though I just noticed that I still had two lakes left over from when I decided to slightly reduce the map's depicted area

You could still finish the map were you were working after completing your entry for the All Stars Invitational.

 

[Iserlohn]

You could still finish the map were you were working after completing your entry for the All Stars Invitational.

I might. Though I'm gonna have far less free time in the weeks after the Invitational concludes, and I can already tell that the premise I had in mind for my entry doesn't really meet my expectations. For the record, I wanted the scenario to be that Tsar Alexander's disdain for the Bourbons and his long-shot suggestion of placing someone who is neither a member of the House of Bourbon or a cadet branch like the House of Orleans (which he wasn't a fan of either) or a direct bloodline descendant of Napoleon on the French throne... Which, according to sources on the Congress of Vienna didn't exclude Napoleon's adopted son Eugène de Beauharnais. He also apparently didn't even rule out a restored French Republic, but that's beside the point.

And while the idea of a Beauharnais France is interesting, it's... Weird. Alexander was more keen on Jean Baptiste Bernadotte, aka Karl XIV Johan , transferring him over from Stockholm to Paris, and with him and his family I could see his line surviving as French rulers. With Beauharnais... It'd be more difficult. Combine that with my desire to create an alliance map that, somehow, could cover French foreign policy in Europe over a ~150 year timespan, was just a bit too much.​

 

[TheBeanieBaron]

I might. Though I'm gonna have far less free time in the weeks after the Invitational concludes, and I can already tell that the premise I had in mind for my entry doesn't really meet my expectations. For the record, I wanted the scenario to be that Tsar Alexander's disdain for the Bourbons and his long-shot suggestion of placing someone who is neither a member of the House of Bourbon or a cadet branch like the House of Orleans (which he wasn't a fan of either) or a direct bloodline descendant of Napoleon on the French throne... Which, according to sources on the Congress of Vienna didn't exclude Napoleon's adopted son Eugène de Beauharnais. He also apparently didn't even rule out a restored French Republic, but that's beside the point.

And while the idea of a Beauharnais France is interesting, it's... Weird. Alexander was more keen on Jean Baptiste Bernadotte, aka Karl XIV Johan , transferring him over from Stockholm to Paris, and with him and his family I could see his line surviving as French rulers. With Beauharnais... It'd be more difficult. Combine that with my desire to create an alliance map that, somehow, could cover French foreign policy in Europe over a ~150 year timespan, was just a bit too much.​

Considering that you would be over the deadline for latest MotF by the time you finish your All Stars Invitational entry, you could change it to be a Bernadotte France scenario and remove features that would be unnecessary to the map.

 

[Pax_Nihil]

View attachment 921147
Big project in the works.
Most of these maps will be used to illustrate a larger WorldA map.

That thing colored in Hungarian blue that looks like an uber-Khazaria or something.... I need its backstory o:

 

[erictom333]

Wip in progress for the MOTF.

 

[Beatriz]

Much romanization

 

[erictom333]

Much romanization

You mean Latin is widespread? Quite the opposite, outside of Europe (as well as some assorted islands/island continents, and possibly parts of Africa and the Americas, neither of which are in the map) Latin is nonexistent.

 

[Altaic]

You mean Latin is widespread? Quite the opposite, outside of Europe (as well as some assorted islands/island continents, and possibly parts of Africa and the Americas, neither of which are in the map) Latin is nonexistent.

I think Beatriz pointed out at how most countries have names that end with "-ia" for seemingly no reason.

 

[erictom333]

I think Beatriz pointed out at how most countries have names that end with "-ia" for seemingly no reason.

Because it's Europe, and (a simplified version of) Latin is the lingua franca of the continent, hence Latinate names predominate. Plus the map is in English and shows each country's English name.

 

[Altaic]

An English map doesn't have to follow Latin conventions, yknow. By your "Latin logic", all countries would have to be called something ending with "-ia", but even the center of Latin, Italy, isn't called "Italia".