I recently finished off a game playing as Japan. They're a really easy country to play as, but I always enjoy it. I decided to try and have a more pacifistic game this time around, and rather than conquer china, then the world, just do some light colonizing and build up a major industrial base and strong economy.
It worked out pretty well. By the end of the game I had the #2 Industry, #2 military, and #1 prestige. Some fun things going on in the map:
Almost zero major government overhauls. Everyone save Austria-Hungary are Constitutional Monarchies. Austria-Hungary decided to shake things up and go communist. Germany formed exceedingly early in this game. Right off the first unpause, Prussia went to war with Austria and seriously smacked them down. NGF was formed, Austria was decimated and collapsed, and Germany basically just cleaned up. They went to war with France several times, eventually slicing off a chunk of Normandy, and blowing Belgium apart in the process. With everyone else occupied, the Ottomans were free to colonize the hell out of Africa with little interference. Ethiopia was a little firecracker this game, taking on and beating Egypt twice. They were much larger prior to this map being made, but lost ground to the Ottoman Empire.
Around 1880 Russia invaded the Ottomans. In a nice turn of events England and Germany backed the Ottomans, France backed Russia, leading to the games one and only "real" great war. Italy joined in and was completely leveled by the Ottomans... It was the first and only game I've ever seen the Turks annex territory from the Italian peninsula. Germany beat up France one more time, and Great Britain swallowed up Alaska.
In the America's, pretty much business as usual, except for the USA actually declaring one (and only one) war against Mexico and grabbing some territory, right before the civil war started. The US horrifically lost the civil war, and the Confederate states are still clinging on to a little slice of the east coast. I've never played the US or the Confederates so I don't know the mechanics, but I found it odd that not all of Florida went to the confederates.
UPCA Stuck around as per usual, Bolivia lost the war for the pacific, and Chile disappeared under an odd wave of Argentine aggression.
All in all, it was a pretty good game!
Last but not least, a more zoomed in and stylized view of 1936 Europe, from the British perspective.
WOW. You put a ton of effort into that, those maps and graphics are amazing.
Awesome graphics, I'm a fan!
Beautiful maps Mondo.
Mondo, those are some sweet maps.
It does my heart good to see a successful (read: not Balkanized) Ottoman Empire. They usually collapse spectacularly in my games.
I swear MondoPotato, I need to be mentored by you or something. I want to make maps like these for some of my games.
Nejd annexing Abu Dubai and OE annexing Hedjaz? Interesting; I wonder how the Turks got Hedjaz out of their sphere...
I recently finished off a game playing as Japan. They're a really easy country to play as, but I always enjoy it. I decided to try and have a more pacifistic game this time around, and rather than conquer china, then the world, just do some light colonizing and build up a major industrial base and strong economy.
It worked out pretty well. By the end of the game I had the #2 Industry, #2 military, and #1 prestige. Some fun things going on in the map:
Almost zero major government overhauls. Everyone save Austria-Hungary are Constitutional Monarchies. Austria-Hungary decided to shake things up and go communist. Germany formed exceedingly early in this game. Right off the first unpause, Prussia went to war with Austria and seriously smacked them down. NGF was formed, Austria was decimated and collapsed, and Germany basically just cleaned up. They went to war with France several times, eventually slicing off a chunk of Normandy, and blowing Belgium apart in the process. With everyone else occupied, the Ottomans were free to colonize the hell out of Africa with little interference. Ethiopia was a little firecracker this game, taking on and beating Egypt twice. They were much larger prior to this map being made, but lost ground to the Ottoman Empire.
Around 1880 Russia invaded the Ottomans. In a nice turn of events England and Germany backed the Ottomans, France backed Russia, leading to the games one and only "real" great war. Italy joined in and was completely leveled by the Ottomans... It was the first and only game I've ever seen the Turks annex territory from the Italian peninsula. Germany beat up France one more time, and Great Britain swallowed up Alaska.
In the America's, pretty much business as usual, except for the USA actually declaring one (and only one) war against Mexico and grabbing some territory, right before the civil war started. The US horrifically lost the civil war, and the Confederate states are still clinging on to a little slice of the east coast. I've never played the US or the Confederates so I don't know the mechanics, but I found it odd that not all of Florida went to the confederates.
UPCA Stuck around as per usual, Bolivia lost the war for the pacific, and Chile disappeared under an odd wave of Argentine aggression.
All in all, it was a pretty good game!
Last but not least, a more zoomed in and stylized view of 1936 Europe, from the British perspective.
If you ever need any tips, let me know!
If reactionaries succeeded in Hedjaz, it would have removed them from the Turkish sphere.Nejd annexing Abu Dubai and OE annexing Hedjaz? Interesting; I wonder how the Turks got Hedjaz out of their sphere...
I think someone already said that, but : Wow, nice maps!
You used which software?