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  1. Fishing for map ideas

    The wank series will continue, no fear, but I for various reasons would like to do some more original maps and not covers of other people's work. So I'm hoping to get some suggestions for new maps I could do, whether something fairly specific or a general AH scenario. Hit me.

  2. Planning to start a patreon: pitch me some map ideas, please!

    Greetings and salutations! Thinking of starting a Patreon over at my Deviantart account, and it occurred to me that if I'm going to be paid for it, I should be providing rather more original content and less of my usual mix of map covers and maps of published AH or SF scenarios. I'm currently...

  3. Habsburgs don't inherit Spain: Greater Netherlands with Habsburg monarch in residence?

    Greetings and salutations. Been working on a Spainwank involving, among things, the Trastamara dynasty surviving. Habsburgs still get the Burgundian inheritance, and have that plus Austria, and maybe Bohemia depending on how things fall out in Hungary with the Ottomans later. Under the...

  4. Early non-Habsburg unification of Iberia: language of colonies?

    Greetings and salutations. Say there's a 15th century unification of the Spanish peninsula (Say the Trastamara dynasty survives and rolls sixes in the dynastic sweepstakes - which they came close to OTL). Now, presuming this Iberian state conquers eventually-to-be-Latin America as OTL...

  5. Question: French borders without the 100 days?

    Just thinking of some notions for a quick map: anyone care to venture what France might have managed to hold onto in an alt-Congress of Vienna if Napoleon never made it off Elba? (Come to think of it, Prussia probably doesn't get quite the same stuff either with no Waterloo. Someone must have...

  6. Map Question: color for Ireland with Home Rule

    Do we have a specific color for this? It's not the same situation as the Dominions, after all.

  7. Question: importance of South African gold on world economy before 1914

    Just a question for those better informed on economic history than myself. Working on a map/scenario, and one bit has (no Zulu Mfecane) the most important gold-bearing areas in South Africa still under native control in 1911. Sure, there are some concessions by this point, but overall the...

  8. Turtledove's Bigfoot Politics (Tor.com stuff)

    Some short slice of life stories of the Sasquatch governor of Jefferson. https://www.tor.com/2016/06/15/typecasting/ https://www.tor.com/2020/01/08/something-fishy-harry-turtledove/ https://www.tor.com/2020/01/08/always-something-new-harry-turtledove/...

  9. Islamwanks shouldn't require genies: book reviews.

    I foud this review and comparison of three recent books interesting: your mileage may vary. https://nathangoldwag.wordpress.com/2020/01/30/dar-al-islam-ascendant-visions-of-an-islamic-present/#more-5345 "Over the last few years, I’ve read three alternate history books about a world in which...

  10. The Diamond Map Thread

    Just a place for old Diamond maps. To start with: Diamond: POD/events include Tartessos being able to hold off Carthage; a surviving Alexandrine Empire (which is now limited to the Balkans & Anatolia, but is still the 'cultural grandfather' of Europe); the Celts banding together and smashing...

  11. Remembrance of Map Contests Past: Help me find lost maps

    Greetings and salutations! People had complained a lot of the maps on the "Remembrance of Map Contests Past" thread had gone missing, so I finally looked into it, and it turns out a lot of the internal links (to maps attached to other on-site pages) were broken by the forum update, so I need to...

  12. Biggest Inca Wank Ever found in Stephen Baxter book (Some spoilers, evidently)

    It turns out I dropped out of Stephen Baxter's "Ultima" too soon (I kinda bounced off the absurdly low-tech interstellar ships of the Space-Romans), before he _really_ turned up the crazy: not only is the Space-Roman Empire more vigorous at interstellar colonization than our timeline is, but in...

  13. For Want of a Nail: CNA population?

    Just a question for anyone who has a copy handy: what's the most modern ('70? '72?) population numbers we're given for the confederation of North America? I recall there being such statistics. Thanks!

  14. More divided post-British India

    I see there's a recent thread on a unified sub-continent: have there been threads on the opposite, India leaving British rule as more than the two (disregarding Nepal, Sri Lanka, etc,) states of OTL Pakistan (later Pakistan and Bangladesh) and India? Of course, if Britain didn't sweep the...

  15. MOAR COMMISSIONS

    Paint 16^6 Pixels, and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt. Hello, folks. I know I already have a thread for this, but I started a new one for more visibility. I could really do with some map work right now, two and hopefully three commissions before the end of the month...

  16. Question for Readers of Empire Games and Merchants Princes

    (Also posted in general chat thread since more people show up there) Hello. The introductory material to "Empire Games" includes info on I don't recall from the earlier series, but I may have missed (I, alas, sort of skimmed the last book in the "Merchant Princes" series, partly because the New...

  17. Read 2 chapters of Stross's new "Empire Games"

    The inter-dimensional intrigue Charles Stross kicked off in the Family Trade books is back: The year is 2020. It’s seventeen years since the Revolution overthrew the last king of the New British Empire, and the newly-reconstituted North American Commonwealth is developing rapidly, on course to...

  18. For All Nails is OVER 300!

    Episodes, that is. For those who read and enjoyed that TL back in the day but don't know where it's archived nowadays, here's the latest complete edition. http://fwoan.wikia.com/wiki/For_All_Nails (Edit: for those who don't know what I'm talking about, For All Nails was an epic effort to...

  19. AHC: United Kingdom of France and the Two Sicilies

    General opinion seems to be that a union of French and Spanish Bourbon Kingdoms is ASB unless you at least gank the UK, and even then would be difficult to maintain. How about a more modest union of Bourbons crowns - France and Bourbon Italy (1735-1860, with some revolutionary interruptions)...

  20. Likelihood of early Japanese unconditional surrender (aside from the Emperor thing)

    I think he's talking through his ass, but I suppose I should be open to different viewpoints: what do you WWII mavens think of OnlyTheGhost's arguments here? http://quantumbranching.deviantart.com/art/Fascist-Australia-348618954 Was it in fact likely we could have negotiated a surrender...
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