Altered Maps 4: Partitioning Eastern Europe Like In The Good Old Days

[Weik]

The map was made by Marc Augier (alias Saint-Loup) in 1975. He was an officer in Waffen-SS, but his claim that they created it is unfounded.

 

[Winner]

The map was made by Marc Augier (alias Saint-Loup) in 1975. He was an officer in Waffen-SS, but his claim that they created it is unfounded.

Ah.

But then I don't understand Moldova. USSR is excluded from the map, except just Moldova. Are they somehow racially superior to Lithuanians or Estonians according to the SS nutjobs?

 

[Dachs]

Moldova isn't on the map. Just the Romanian region of Moldavia (and then, only part of it).

 

[Winner]

*looks again more carefully*

Yeah, you might be right, but it looks weird.

 

[Dachs]

Well, the map is nonsense because it's predicated on the ethnic settlement of Europe and the borders as they were after 1945. So it's not an SS thing, just this Augier guy masturbating.

 

[TheLastOne36]

Bessarabia is not on the map. Bessarabia is modern day Moldova, Real Moldova is part of Romania.

 

[Tee Kay]

Too much European nationalism...

 

[Winner]

Greater Israel look similar to my map (except all that useless land between Euphrates and Jordan) Could somebody translate it?

 

[Godwynn]

Here is my European Nationalism map for the day.

Germany wins conquest victory.

 

[gangleri2001]

The Falklands still resist.

 

[choxorn]

Here is my European Nationalism map for the day.

Germany wins conquest victory.

Was Domination turned off?

 

[Winner]

Black country wins.

 

[Tani Coyote]

Figured I'd revive the thread with a sequence of images from a thread at the Paradox forums - who haven't sent me my registration e-mail despite me doing it months ago...

The dream of every European country in EU3:

Spoiler :

From what I could gather on the thread it's from...

Light green = Liege
That bluish color in the Low Countries = Flanders

 

[TheLastOne36]

Here is some images of my work on WWM:

The problem I have is the god damned map that Paradox made. They made the entire northern coastline horrible and put lake of Maracaibo way to far west. Thus we get an elongated Venezuela...

Any feedback?

Also note that I changed and played around with Colombia's southern borders a bit since that pic.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

Moderator Action: As always, recall that this thread is for maps, not discussing video games.

 

[Tani Coyote]

And, the aforementioned Marian Empire(black) described in my previous posts.

Ruled by Emperor Marius Shadouno(sometimes called "Marius I" or "Marius the Great", known as "Marius the Warmonger" and "Marius the Idealist" by critics) and created by his rule, hence it's name.

The Empire itself is the greatest example of a vast personal union since Charles V of Habsburg. Through his father, Marius inherited the British Empire; through his paternal grandmother, much of the decaying Qing Dynasty; through his maternal grandmother, the Swedish Empire and French Empire; and through his mother, the American Empire. As a side note, the maternal grandfather also willed his throne as ruler of Chippewa/Ojibwe native American tribe to Marius, setting off the annexation of countless native American reservations into the United States.

Marius chose the Eastern Seaboard and Great Lakes as his base of operations(given the lack of a political union, the Marian Empire technically had five official capitals - Stockholm, Washington, D.C., Paris, Beijing, and London), and generally had his government seated in New York City, which he said reflected the great diversity of his empire. A believer in diversity, Marius - while making English the official language of the empire, with French, Mandarin, Swedish as co-official - immediatly set about dismantling nationalist agitations in his empire, both in the colonies and the industrial nations. He sought to build an empire that would long outlive him, and would serve as a means to unify human beings, and accordingly dismantled much of the colonial political infrastructure and began to enfranchise more and more subject peoples, much to the imperial nations' chagrin.

As a result of his ideological and political threats to the global order, nearly every country on the face of the Earth aligned in an anti-Marian alliance(light gray) that dominated Europe and South America. Nearly all other countries joined the Marian alliance(brown), usually based on rivalries with anti-Marian states. In the hopes of preserving world peace, Marius made concessions to the Great Powers, such as ceding much of Northern China to Japan, and the Turkish regions of China to Russia, while granting independence to Tibet. He worked with Germany to partition the Low Countries, giving all but the French-speaking regions to the Germans, seizing most of the Belgian Congo for himself.

Japan remained outside either alliance as a great regional power, having used Marian support to conquer more of Russia in the second Russo-Japanese War. While Japanese politicians remain a bit biased towards the Marian Union, they do, however, believe in opportunity first and foremost, and will pick allies and enemies based solely on what is most profitable.

Marius has recently caused great controversy, claiming Mexico as part of his inheritance, citing his married-in uncle's claims, not to mention the husband of his own cousin. While most have not recognised this claim, Marius has nonetheless used a mix of violence and other methods to bring Mexico solidly into the Marian Sphere of Influence.

Embracing the American rhetoric of Pole to Pole being the New Sea to Shing Sea, the world looms on the edge of a Great War...

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Yes, I just raped history, as it my standard.

 

[Godwynn]

All information taken from here. Yes, I realize the numbers don't account for people knowing more than one of the target language.

With my current knowledge of English and German I am able to converse with the following percentage of people:

If I learned French as well the map improves to this:

 

[Mirc]

Great idea!!
Here's mine:

Number of people with whom I can converse in Romanian, English, German, or Italian

Note that:
1) My German is definitely limited. While I can certainly have a conversation in Hochdeutsch (= High German), and do so every day, people speaking in weird accents and dialects will unfortunately render me... impotent.
2) I am probably not able to entertain a conversation in Italian right now. I used to be fluent though, although I've never known too much about grammar. 2-3 weeks in Italy would easily fix this problem - it's not that I forgot the language, it's only that I've been forcing my brain to present German words to me as my first choice in the past 4 months or so. Once I am sure that my German knowledge is here to stay, I'm definitely gonna start practicing either Italian or Spanish (or both). Right now it's simply way too risky.

I'd say I'm doing pretty good with the languages of Europe. This map doesn't even take into account that I also understand Spanish, and to a certain extent French.

 

[RedRalph]

Mirc did you ever see this show called 'Niko' about this Romanian immigrant called Nikolai Antonescu who goes to Germany? Its used in German teaching classes...

 

[Mirc]

Mirc did you ever see this show called 'Niko' about this Romanian immigrant called Nikolai Antonescu who goes to Germany? Its used in German teaching classes...

Nope, never heard about it. Have you got a link? (yes I will google it after making this post). Random piece of info: I have to say his first name doesn't sound Romanian at all.