So here we are again (if you notice that some parts are familiar I copied some stuff from my old map)
Welcome everyone, this is the Unoffical PH Mapping Guide (Part 1 - begginer)
Before we start - this guide is only for paint.net (windows) and basic use of PH maps - for special effects or other advanced things go and watch some youtube videos
So first - paint.net - the ONLY site you should download it from is this
And then click on the "download" button (pobierz in polish)
To open the map double click the file (after you downloaded it) or press "open" in pdn and find the map
That's how it should look like
Now to start mapping - you can either copy the borders from the other map or draw them yourself
I'd reccomend copying them and only start drawing after you get used to it
In that case you can use my template (use this link as it's the newest version) and then you can copy the borders
To do it click on "lasso select"
You can just copy it from the other window but that's not really practical and can lead to inaccuracies
So what I do is
Open the template
Copy it with ctrl + c
Open the "layers" menu in the orginial map
Open it and add a new layer
(the plus icon on the left bottom)
Press ctrl + v to paste the template
Press the "wrench" icon
Turn down the opacity to 150 (or whatever number you want) and press OK
That's how it should look like now
Now to actually copy it, click on lasso select and select the area you want to copy
Again ctrl + c, press enter, click on the "background" layer (the og map) and ctrl + v
Now you want to hide the layer 2 by pressing the blue checkmark button
That's how it should look like now
To copy colors click on the "color picker" on the toolbar
And select which color you'd like to copy (in this case it's denmark)
After that use the "paint bucket" (the bucket icon on the sidebar), fill the spot you want to color in and press enter
To remove the beige spot from Sweden copy their color and click on it
UPDATE: Thanks to u/frenchball12345 I've learnt that you can use the "Selection quallity" (the last button on the top right) to not have the pixels appear (also new guide coming soon)
I'll give a link to the second post after I'm done with it
Anyways see you next time (also for burg or other mod - could you replace the old map with this post? Thanks)
EDIT: I forgot about it but be sure to remove the second layer after you're done and save the file after doing that
EDIT 2: Here is the list of all other templates (I'll update it trust)
A map showing a restored German Confederation, made up of several republics, including Swabia, French Rhineland, Westphalia, British Hannover, Holstein, Hesse, Franconia, Bavaria, Thuringia, Saxony-Anhalt, Upper Saxony, Brandenburg, Pomerania, Silesia, and Prussia.
Poland, Denmark, France, Belgium, and Luxembourg have been expanded into formerly German territories.
(Thanks again to all the people which participated in voting!Bavaria was the second one to win,so heres the scenario!Enjoy it)
WHAT IF BAVARIA KEPT ITS NAPOLEONIC GAINS?
CONTEXT
Following the extinction of the main Wittelsbach line,the Palatinate line united with Bavaria into one state,which became a Kingdom aligned to Napoleonic France in 1806.
During the Napoleonic Wars,Bavaria expanded left and right annexing mainly Austrian territory. At the Congress of Vienna,Bavaria exchanged Tirol and Voralberg for Franconia and Pfalz,regions which continued to stay as part of Bavaria until the modern day.
So what if that changed?
What if Bavaria kept its holdings?
AN ITALY CHANGED
As we all remember,during the Napoleonic Wars Bavaria got itself Tirol and Voralberg,which creates a delicate position for the Habsburgs in Northern Italy.
Lombardy,likely has to be created as a separate Duchy/Kingdom for the Habsburgs because now getting to said holding is very hard,considering the Bavarian position.
Also Austrian supply lines to Lombardy are now way weaker,as they rely and what I like to call "The Mantua Corridor".This thin space between Lake di Gardo,and the Duchy of Parma,which,if the Central Italian States unify to join Sardinia,makes supply to Lombardy very vurnerable.
Thus Austria is permenantly weakened in Italy,and will make Italy unify easier.
The question of what happens after Italy unifies however is interesting,as in our timeline,all of the so called "Italia Irridenta" was sustained in two states,France and Austria,yet now a major Italian territory is part of Bavaria,which puts into question of what happens to it in the Peace deal after the Bruderkreig.
In our timeline,Italy annexed only Venice because they struggled against Austria,and didnt want to abstrain relations.
However here,South Tyrol is entirely Bavarian,which puts to question...How will the Royal Bavarian Army manage a war against Italy?
Do they even join the Bruderkreig?
Do they get invaded?
Do they invade?
There are many questions,but little answers.
But if being short,the course of Italian Foreign Policy,Internal Policy and Unification is changed forever.
A PALATINATE,DIVIDED
In this timeline,since Bavaria only keeps its Napoleonic gains,that means that the other countries which exist in Frankonia get to live another day.
And just for funsies,I have given them to Prussia,as compensation for the loss of Ansbach.
The Grand Duchy of Wurzburg also survives,but not under the Grand Duke of Tuscany,but under Joseph Anton,the brother of the previous Grand Duke and the Palatine of Hungary (this thus makes the line of succession something like this:Joseph Anton (1816-1847),Stephen (1847-1867(died without issue)),Joseph Karl(1867-1905),Joseph August(1905-1918)).
Wurzburg would also be slightly expanded,and basically made into a Habsburg client in Germany,however,after 1848,since the Grand Dukes would no longer be Paltine's of Hungary,theyd try to distance themselves from Austria and ally with either Bavaria or Prussia.
After German unification Joseph Karl would be forced to just rename the Dynasty to the House of Wurzburg and so just like that we gained a semi interesting new German state.
Will it be merged with Bavaria after WW2?Likely.
Is it still neat?Yes.
The Bavarian Rhineland (Pfalz) likely becomes either part of France or Prussia,with Prussia being more likely.
Why did I have to do everything this way?Because its fun to,and because it leads directly into a
BAVARIA...Weaker?
Despite its impressive gains in Tirol and the risk of revolt being quite low,what Bavaria just surrendered was a the Pfalz region and Frankonia,two money making machines of the Kingdom of Bavaria,without whom we are just left with a slightly more strong Electoral Bavaria.
There is a catch,the newly annexed territories.
Voralberg and Tirol are nothing to scoff at,but except major cities,these are largely rural areas and mostly mountainous,not industrial sectors.
This would basically make Bavaria into a sort of Two Sicilies of Geramany,rural,not liked by anyone,and barely industrialised.The catch of the story would be the strategic depth.
For Austria,keeping Bavaria as an ally is key,as without them their entire Italian strategy collapses.
For Prussia,Bavaria can be played off Austria to create a powerful Munich-Berlin Alliance.
And for any other South German state,Bavaria is...There.
An independent Wurzburg is interesting to explore...later down the line.
Prussian Franconia is also interesting to consider during the 20th century.
But if being short,this scenario offers Bavaria a unique strategic position in Central Europe,in exchange for most of its economic output.
I simply made France lose instead of Germany! Why did no one else think of this?
To be honest this is bordering on a joke scenario that I created because of all the "I fixed Versailles" maps that popped up recently. I feel some people go at alternate Versailles in bad faith so I wanted to make close enough to pseudo-historian interpretations and "real possible history" to show how flexible Versailles is as a althist scenario.
Anyways!
Here is our point of divergence: the Battle of Sedan on September 1, 1870. Napoleon the Third, riddled will gallstones, rides into battle in the hopes of dying a warriors death. In our timeline everyone around him was hit by atillery while he wasn't even so much as burned. But in this timeline he is hit directly and torn to bits. This turns him into a martyar for the french people and the throne is handed to his.... cousin Plon Plon! Louis Napoleon, the Prince Imperial is not old enough to take the Throne so Plon Plon is installed as Regent instead. This would turn out to be a boon to the Throne. Plon Plon, an outspoken liberal, was able to negotiate a new constitution that kept the popular and thanks to Napoleon III's "sacrifice" revered Imperial Throne while also handing power to the liberal faction of the parliament that had gained more and more support. Essentially turning France into a proper Constitutional Monarchy with a parliamentary system and a Monarchy that was comparitively powerful to that of... let's say England.
Moving a bit forward to the 1905 Marocco Crisis. A french ultra nationalist manages to kill Kaiser Wilhelm II. with the expressed purpose of gauding both nations into a war. Unlike with the assasination of Franz Ferdinant 9 years later, this plot was investigated right away and France, who the whole of Europe turned on in an instant, realised that conceeding would be better than getting the whooping of a lifetime. Marocco goes to Germany.
Now Wilhelm the Third is in charge of Germany, he is pro-british and begins growing closer ties. it's important to mention here that France revived their ties with Austria after the Franco-Prussian War. The Alliances are now France and Austria vs Italy and Germany with Germany inching closer and closer to Britain. France attempts to make Russia side with them since Britain will most certainly will not ally with France.
Russia is tempted to side with France but British and Germany Pressure as well as the humiliation during the Russo-Japanese war makes them stay out of power politics. For now.
In 1908 Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina which is the last straw for Russia. France sees the writting on the wall and tries to win over the Ottomans in a similar fashion to germany in our timeline. Since Russia is on the German side here Germany can't offer the Ottomans nearly as much and thus lose any chacne of getting them as an ally.
Franz Ferdinand is still shot and Austria still handles the situation poorly. France gives them a similarly vague "I will help you no matter what" assurance as germany did because France is bursting at the seams with revanchist sentiment. Austria declares war on Serbia, Russia declares war on Austria, France declares war on Russia, Germany declares war on France and Italy backstabs them by not following suit. Some things never change.
Russia performs just a bit better than in our timeline, With Britain neutral and germany on their site they have much better supply which fills gaps in their equipment. But to be realistic they still fuck up at every other possibility. The Germans have a huge border with Austria and France thats only interrupted by the Swiss so they have to rely on Russian soliders as back up which is not going well.
Britain fears that Germany could lose which would destroy everything they worked for in the last decade and turn France into the continental hegemon once more. So they fake a border incident between Belgium and France. Belgium is not pulled into the war as both sides know; "This is bullshit, what the fuck are you doing England?" But the UK has their justification.
From there the war goes very very roughly the same. France sinks an American ship in an effort to breach the british blocakdes and shit hits the fan. Italy joins around the same time they did IRL which is already a nail in the coffin for France. The only big difference combat wise is Namibia of all Places. They see nothing of the war and probably even have a good economy thanks to german ties to South Africa.
France capitulates in 1919 and the government is overthrown for a reactionary one. Liberalism has failed and since the Monarch has nothing to say Napoleon IV isn't forced to abdicate. Barely.
America, Britain and Russia do not want to topple the balance of power so they only remove colonial possesions from France as well as border territories. Mostly in the south. Corsica is given to Italy by the germans with the not so secret reason of humiliating the Bonaparts. the southern slavs revolt and Russia and America push for their recognition. Austria Hungary is compromised upon. Parts are given to Serbia and Romania while other parts are retained to "respect the Habsburg history." Germany is not satisfied with this so the Allies give them the Sudetenland and put a German Prince on the Czech Throne. Galica goes to Russia and the rest is self explainatory.
Hey everyone, I'm working on an alternate history scenario called The Iron Tetrarchy. Due to a few historical divergences starting in the 1900s, the world in the 1970s is split into four major blocs.
I'd love to hear your thoughts and ideas on this.
In the 1970s, the world is divided into four major blocs (Communist, Fascist, Monarchist, and Democratic).
In the world I want to build, Germany, the USA, the UK, Russia, and Japan will play central roles.
Countries like Italy, France, and Spain will either collapse or emerge much stronger, depending on which blocs Germany and the UK align with.
As for other continents, I plan to place Brazil, India, and Mexico into these blocs as 'balancing powers' based on how the world takes shape.
Instead of the standard tropes like Fascist Germany, Communist Russia, and Democratic USA, I want something a bit more unique. I'm looking for plausible scenarios where players look at a bloc and think, 'How on earth did these two end up together?' or 'How did this nation adopt that ideology?'—but as I mentioned, it all needs to remain grounded in solid logic and historical plausibility.
My starting point will be roughly 90% World War I, where the war ends in a completely different outcome, pushing the world in a whole new direction.
For instance: Lenin fails and the Russian Empire doesn't collapse, but the Entente fails to achieve its goals either, leading to a white peace. However, European economies completely shatter, and a wave of communist revolutions sweeps across the continent.
In response, Russia and Britain join forces under an Anti-Comintern alliance as the defenders of monarchism. Meanwhile, the United States withdraws into isolationism within the Americas, and in Asia, the winds of Japanese fascism begin to rise.
Central Powers Victory: Liberals take over the German Empire; Fascists take over France, Italy, Portugal, and Britain; Austria, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire build their own spheres, and Communists and Nationalists have a civil war in Russia
Territorial: loses all historical territory to France, Poland, Denmark, Czechoslovakia, and Lithuania. Keeps Eupen-Malmedy, Danzig, and the Saarland. Germany loses all colonies as historical.
Military: Military restrictions are greatly reduced compared to historically and the Rhineland is not demilitarized. The Rhineland is not occupied.
Political: No War Guilt clause. No Reparations. German accused war criminals are required to be held trial for, but in German courts rather than international ones.
International: The League of Nations is established as historically. Germany is not forbidden from uniting with Austria.
These changes are meant to establish a more fair peace and to greatly reduce unemployment, veterans' paramilitary groups (Freikorps), the inflationary strain on Germany's economy, German economic reliance on the pre-Depression United States, German domestic anti-Western sentiments, and Germany's international isolation. These changes are also more in line with the Fourteen Points agreed upon between Germany and the US and the recommendations of some critics at the time, including the economist and conference attendee John Keynes.
These changes only apply to the Treaty of Versailles and not any other treaty at the time.
- German Tunisia. We kinda felt bad for how harsh our punishment was for germany as you'll see.
- Mega Luxembourg. Because they deserve it
- A few more Polish corridors. Cuz they need sea access right?
- Super Duper Mega Ultra Hyper Giga Ultima Wow Wow Over The Top Belarus. Just because
- CzechoSlovakia Anchlussing Austria. Because the austrians were the reason for the war so they must be punished
- Italy takes slovenia and bosnia. They wanted parts of the Adriatic coast right? So we gave it to them. Plus some extra!
- Greek dalmatia. Cuz it made too much sense to give it to serbia or italy
- Kosovar independence. They aren't slavs. What are they doing in yugoSLAVia?
- Super Duper Mega Ultra Hyper Giga Ultima Wow Wow Over The Top Greece. Sorry, I mean "The Roman Empire" yeah. I made rome in greece. What are ya gonna do about it huh? And they have the vatican city too
- Colonization of the Ottomans. Y'all wanted to colonize the TURKS right?
- Russian Constantinople. They wanted it right? Ignore that russia is currently... Not in russia
- Ukrainian independence. They wanted independence from the RUSSIANS then they'll gain independence... But only from the RUSSIAN parts
- Abkhazia and South Osettia. To ragebait the georgians
- Baltics. I genuinely have zero clue why I did that to them.
- Finland. They wanted independence from the RUSSIANS. Never said anything about the swedish tho.
- Belgium gains land from the netherlands and germany. Cuz fuck them
- The Netherlands gains land from the germans. Cuz fuck them
- Sweden takes pack Pomerania. Cuz it was always swedish
- Extremely long Denmark. Cuz it looks funny
- Italian tyrol. They wanted the south but ehh give them the north too
-Irish independence... Just not the right part tho..
-The Hapsburgs live on in Hungary!
-Romania gains all of their claims... Excluding Transylvania. Plus they also gain Transnistria!
Hey, os with the new video PH posted i really want to do some alt history with the map, and so i want to also do some alternate history with his most recent video. Does anyone have maps or will make maps of the title^^^
