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Post by bytor on Dec 28, 2016 16:32:39 GMT
How does California become it's own country when it was such a sparsely settled region, even before the OTL Mexican Revolution? And why does the USA get Texas/Tejas? Curse you, pointing out a flaw that I hoped nobody would point out! I don't really have a good excuse for making California independent in 1815. The best excuses I can really come up with is that 1: easier to influence California if cut off from Mexico and vice versa 2: easier to rule the small, disparate towns of California from Los Angeles (or Portioncule, as it has come to be known in this timeline) 3: easier for Mexico to rule when they don't have to worry about the vast lands of California that made up two thirds of the land but only ten percent of the population, if that. OTL, Alta Californios were a fractious bunch who kicked out more than one governor sent by Mexico City and gained more and more autonomy. Would and outright rebellion in 1848-49 to keep control of the Gold Rush wealth work in your OTL or is your ATL Mexican Empire too strong for that with their French support? USA got Texas (and Florida) as part of an agreement between France and US to try to strengthen their relations. As part of the agreement, the US would agree to give up all future claims to land that was part of the Franco-sphere, and France would pay Mexico and Spain for the American purchase OK, that makes sense. Sorry if that is written about - you've got quite an impressive amount of text up there and I have yet to read all of it. :-) Curse you, Twitter and Facebook short posts! ;-)
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Post by MinnesotaNationalist on Dec 28, 2016 20:46:31 GMT
Curse you, pointing out a flaw that I hoped nobody would point out! I don't really have a good excuse for making California independent in 1815. The best excuses I can really come up with is that 1: easier to influence California if cut off from Mexico and vice versa 2: easier to rule the small, disparate towns of California from Los Angeles (or Portioncule, as it has come to be known in this timeline) 3: easier for Mexico to rule when they don't have to worry about the vast lands of California that made up two thirds of the land but only ten percent of the population, if that. OTL, Alta Californios were a fractious bunch who kicked out more than one governor sent by Mexico City and gained more and more autonomy. Would and outright rebellion in 1848-49 to keep control of the Gold Rush wealth work in your OTL or is your ATL Mexican Empire too strong for that with their French support? Looking at a quick overview of Californian history, there was a time that Alta California declared independence in 1836 and was more or less independent. Maybe it's at this time that France intervenes telling Mexico to let it go. Baja California, Chihuahua, and Sonora y Sinaloa (for some reason). Perhaps California became the Conservative holdout while Mexico was left to the Liberals. USA got Texas (and Florida) as part of an agreement between France and US to try to strengthen their relations. As part of the agreement, the US would agree to give up all future claims to land that was part of the Franco-sphere, and France would pay Mexico and Spain for the American purchase OK, that makes sense. Sorry if that is written about - you've got quite an impressive amount of text up there and I have yet to read all of it. :-) Curse you, Twitter and Facebook short posts! ;-) Yeah, I'm just happy that I'm now on page 2. It used to take like a minute or two to get from the bottom back to the top, it was just easier to enter in the site's URL again.
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Post by MinnesotaNationalist on Dec 29, 2016 21:23:07 GMT
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Post by bytor on Dec 30, 2016 18:32:08 GMT
OTL, Alta Californios were a fractious bunch who kicked out more than one governor sent by Mexico City and gained more and more autonomy. Would and outright rebellion in 1848-49 to keep control of the Gold Rush wealth work in your OTL or is your ATL Mexican Empire too strong for that with their French support? Looking at a quick overview of Californian history, there was a time that Alta California declared independence in 1836 and was more or less independent. Maybe it's at this time that France intervenes telling Mexico to let it go. Baja California, Chihuahua, and Sonora y Sinaloa (for some reason). Perhaps California became the Conservative holdout while Mexico was left to the Liberals. Weird - why are the Liberals the supporters of Imperial Mexico in your ATL instead of the Conservatives like OTL? Or is that something I missed in your novel above?
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Post by MinnesotaNationalist on Dec 30, 2016 18:48:11 GMT
Looking at a quick overview of Californian history, there was a time that Alta California declared independence in 1836 and was more or less independent. Maybe it's at this time that France intervenes telling Mexico to let it go. Baja California, Chihuahua, and Sonora y Sinaloa (for some reason). Perhaps California became the Conservative holdout while Mexico was left to the Liberals. Weird - why are the Liberals the supporters of Imperial Mexico in your ATL instead of the Conservatives like OTL? Or is that something I missed in your novel above? Well, this isn't exactly Imperial Mexico. As far as I can tell Napoleon III only supported an Imperial Mexico so that they could have more allies in their invasion of Mexico. In this world, a proper invasion of Mexico was never needed, they just kind of went over to France naturally. So it's just a Liberal Republic ruling from Mexico city.
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Post by MinnesotaNationalist on Dec 30, 2016 18:57:57 GMT
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Post by MinnesotaNationalist on Jan 15, 2017 4:08:50 GMT
First new entry of this for the year! This took me longer than I intended. I originally wanted to make a speedpaint style video showing off me making the map, but I finally scrapped the idea after two weeks of procrastinating. Nonethelss, I still want to have you listen to this music (again) youtu.be/yaaRk0c-780?t=18m41s Now, just imagine for me the Russian frontier bursting to life and death as artillery and gunfire sounds. The War has finally come to Russian soil! The French are invading and they're going to burn everything in their path! Thus begins the Great Ruthenian Campaign.
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Post by MinnesotaNationalist on Jan 27, 2017 4:12:58 GMT
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Post by lordroel on Jan 27, 2017 11:31:58 GMT
A scenario where Napoleon and Alexander's Alliance of 1807 doesn't break down as early: Nice scenario so far.
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Post by MinnesotaNationalist on Feb 17, 2017 8:06:07 GMT
This one I've been meaning to do for a while, like before the invasion of Poland map. Glad I've finally got to it.
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Post by MinnesotaNationalist on Mar 4, 2017 20:11:31 GMT
For the one year anniversary of What is Europe but East and West, my most popular map, we have the first full map of Europe since the aforementioned map. I don't really have much to say in terms of proper story for this part, that will be limited to the WotRS maps. Most I got is, boy, it felt like France took a lot more in Russian than they really did, that's such a small chunk. Some of you might notice the flags lining the sides of the map. You should instantly recognize France's, Russia's should be familiar from a previous submission (the Republicans, at least for now, are sticking with with the White-Blue-Gold flag), but the final flag should scratch heads. I'm sure you figured out it's supposed to be the flag of Britain, but why? Well, like the Russians, the Brits wanted to distance themselves from the French Blue-White-Red. To do this, the Brits decided to drop the Blue and White from their flag, instead incorporating Gold. Now, they have the crosses of Saint George and Saint Patrick on Gold for England and Ireland and the colors Red and Gold invoking the Scottish Coat of Arms. Also decided to go completely in English because 1: Why not and 2: I couldn't bother undoing what I had already done when I realized I should have been using French instead of English if I wanted to be consistent. Speaking of consistency, different water color to see how it'd look.
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Post by MinnesotaNationalist on Mar 14, 2017 6:01:07 GMT
I think I can go all day saying "the Right Honourable Sir Clement Scott Abbot, 3rd Baron Colchester" in my stereotypical British interpretation. It's so much fun to say. Yes, there was an actual historical House of Abbot that were Barons of Colchester.
In other news, writing the part about Eli wasn't to much fun and it's just feels wrong. I'm going to have to go back and fix that Eli part. I just need it done so I can move on to other parts of the story. The only reason it's in right now is to (spoilers) begin America's process of leaning politically towards Russia, rather than to France or Britain.
Also, I swear if there's any jokes comparing Eli Avery to Donald Trump...
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Post by MinnesotaNationalist on Mar 22, 2017 21:44:50 GMT
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Post by MinnesotaNationalist on Mar 24, 2017 6:34:54 GMT
What do you know, there's other conflicts going on in the world other than just the War of the Russian Succession. Added 2 new colors to represent Taiping China (purple) and the Blue Banner Rebellion (sadly not blue, but green). While the Taipings are technically associated with Britain and Russia, neither want anything to do with them (especially now with the rise of the Russian Republic), and the Blue Banner isn't associated with anyone either. This is just our first look into Asia, as next time, we're looking at Japan. Also, I may have taken some "creative liberties" when it comes to the names of Chinese cities.
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Post by MinnesotaNationalist on Mar 25, 2017 8:42:36 GMT
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Post by MinnesotaNationalist on Apr 12, 2017 0:35:38 GMT
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Post by MinnesotaNationalist on Apr 13, 2017 20:20:32 GMT
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Post by MinnesotaNationalist on Apr 22, 2017 2:33:52 GMT
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Post by MinnesotaNationalist on Apr 22, 2017 4:13:44 GMT
Something feels off about the flag, mostly pertaining to how the saltire and cross interact with each other. Any suggestions to fix this? Also, screw the pinwheeling of the Saltire, that whole "this side up" thing annoyed me.
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Post by MinnesotaNationalist on Apr 25, 2017 20:45:32 GMT
Who knew that apparently in this world Hungary was such an innovative juggernaut?
Also, first use of chemical weapons in warfare in this world, yay...
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