Map Request/Challenge Thread
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Thanks a lot! Being a native New Yorker, a surviving New Netherlands has always been one of the ATLs I've found most interesting.
Not necessarily: the population of New York City was still quite Dutch, as were most of the leading families, which the names of the streets of lower Manhattan attest to. The Dutch were also the most tolerant nation in Europe at the time, so if the colony had been better managed and considered worth fighting for, I wouldn't be suprised to see many of the immigrant groups side with the Dutch.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/41/First.Crusade.Map.jpgI repeat I need a map over Europe at the time of the first crusade
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I wonder if someone could knock me up a map of Ouargistan. It's a (defunct, it seems) wargaming site that draws inspiration from Africa, Afghanistan and India (and doubtless more places!), in a rather amusing and frivolous fashion! Geographical information isn't concentrated anywhere on the site, so I doubt anyone'll be up for it, unless y'like reading through half a dozen subsections to draw together scraps.
I'll do my best to collect that info here. Named geographic features and peoples are in bold.
Oh, and to repeat the site's disclaimer:
British and German Ouargistan share a border in the form of "the river Soumbada." On the German side is "Kaiserinsport, the little river port/railhead town, which is guarded by a German fort and gunboat."
"The town of Tel Debi guards the only bridge across the Al-Josen River." Nearby "is an oasis. An archaeological excavation at an ancient tomb complex is to its left. On the North are foothills leading up to the mountains at the far end.
Tel Debi sits at the edge of British Ouargistan. Native tribes, encouraged by the support of German imperial advisors (two full infantry units and a cavalry squadron of advisors, actually), have allied under the banner of Beezil the Bandit, scourge of the Ouargi desert, for a full-scale invasion of British Ouargistan."
"Near the town of Biltezi, the Residency houses Pontifex Willoughby, regional manager for The Affable East Ouargistan Co., his wife Myrtle, and various employees, both English and Native, as well as the company's warehouses and purchasing office."
An "avenue of bunny sphinxes out of the picture at lower right marks the entrance to the sacred burial grounds at Al Bunrab."
"The addled but wily Rajah Rabiid of Bunrabia has two great aims -- to spread the true religion of Mabu-raab, the God-in-Rabbit-Guise, and to foment a general uprising of all the tribes and kingdoms against the European interlopers. He sees his chance when the Americans claim Spanish Ouargistan as spoils of the Spanish American War (mostly because they liked the name of its capital, Puerto Teodoro del Ptui, which they rename, of course, Port Theodore).
Some years later, the devious prince secretly convinces the Americans that all Ouargistan would be honored by the placing of a giant granite statue of Theodore Roosevelt at the head of the avenue of bunny sphinxes in the sacred burial precinct of Al Bunrab. Of course, this seems quite plausible to the Americans, who are too naive to realize that such an act of desecration will outrage all the local peoples, for whom Al Bunrab is a holy city, forbidden to outsiders."
"Thingimi is one of the princely states lying along Lake Viktoria, separated from German Ouargistan by the fast-flowing waters of the Tinkiwinkidipsilalapo river. The Panjandrum of Thingimi has favored the Germans up to the present, allowing them to build a railroad line to the rich mine at Goldwasser. Hearing that the Panjandrum has switched his favor to the British and that a combined British/Thingmin expedition is making its way up the pass to Goldwasser, General Leopold Zinktrumpet, the hero of Watsituya, has commandeered a special train to carry out the German mining officials and the last load of gold from the mine."
"The German experimental base at Lassenwelt is made of a mine building, a barracks and two smaller buildings with low wall segments between them. It is snug against a mountain face which is pierced by a large cave. There is a tall, strong palisade across the front of the cave with a large barred gate and several prominent signs saying things like "Secretisch - Keepen sie outen" and "Ja, dieses meansen you." A short road leads to a pier extending into deep water. A narrow gauge railroad line runs from the mine to a tunnel in the mountains.
On the north end of the table is a jungle area containing a stream and the Ouazulu village.
Firkitoudl, a remote outpost of British Ouargistan, is located at the juncture of the mighty Ouazu's two main tributaries. The Young Ouazu meanders southwest through the arid veldt, while the Old Ouazu plunges deep into the jungles, swamps and uncharted mountains of Deutschouargen (German Ouargistan). Upriver on Turok, a large volcanic island in Lake Schweinteufel in the land of the Ouazulu, there has been unprecedented German activity, and rumors of a great discovery have filtered downriver to the British garrison, but the details vary wildly.
Major Bunton Overpass, the British commander at Firkitoudl, has received a petition from King Potrzebi, the Ouazulu chief on the island, begging for the Queen-Empress' protection from the oppression of the cruel German invaders, made even more horrible since the Germans have "brought forth the Thing Which May Not Be Mentioned."
After much telegraphic consultation, Maj. Overpass has received the orders to proceed up the Old Ouazu to Lassenwelt with Imperial infantry and colonial Fellahin, to "free the oppressed native peoples from the iron grip of the Kaiser, and, incidentally, find out what the blue-devil the Huns are up to out there."
"One end of the table contains a short section of the mighty Ouazu. Next to the river is a small clearing containing the Ookaballakonga village and a woodlot for refueling steamers. The clearing is surrounded by dense jungle, except for a single clear path, leading through the undergrowth to the grassy veldt beyond. On the veldt are a Ouazulu village and, on the high ground, Bungstarter Station, the ivory depot.
Bungstarter Station, in the wilds of the inland veldt, is the Affable East Ouargistan Company's center for the collection of ivory and the schluggining of furs. Several professional hunters and native workers call the station home, and once a year, Lord Carstairs, a director of the Company, brings a group of his friends for a hunting holiday. This year his guests include Sir Arthur Plumsett-Delving, famed archaeologist, zoologist, botanist, geologist, Victorian renaissance man, and Fellow of the Royal Society (every Royal Society). On this holiday, Sir Arthur is delighted to discover a previously unknown species of shrub, which he names Arthurius gainsii, little suspecting that its powerful medicinal and hallucinogenic qualities make it sacred to the natives of the area. Already irritated by the presence of the hunters, King Potrzebe of the Ouazulu and King Wotmiwori of the Ookaballakonga are pushed to the point of revolt by the great man's digging up a specimen of the Arthur tree for shipment back to England."
"In the valley of Tel al Taradidl, the Affable East Ouargistan Company's lead mine nestles against the the rugged Ouargi foothills. Nearby is the small town of Finolah, populated mostly by mine workers. In addition, there are three groves of trees and two areas of ruins."
"Far up the Soumbada River lies the turbulent area around Lake Wiyiata. The territory is British on one side of the river, German on the other. Both European states are ostensibly dedicated to wiping out the thriving slave trade, but something is rotten in the German regional capital of Bungalo. The notorious German administrator, Wilhelm Eisenschleim (or 'Bungalo Bill' as he is known up and down the river) makes sure his Schutztruppen are otherwise occupied whenever King Haamo's Wiyiata warriors sweep down on the villages of the inoffensive Mlari and the pygmy Nyuk-Nyuk, selling the captives to hated slaver Mehmet Wuwoob for transport to Wada Maroun and the Arab trading cities on the Anakanipanistan coast. Of the tribes in the area, only the fabled but rarely seen Mshempi have not sent entreaties to the British Governor-General, asking help against the depredations of this unholy trio.
West of Bungalo, the Soumbada forks into two tributaries. The area between the rivers is known as the Psgheti, a rich and varied hunting region, and is claimed by both the British and the Germans. The Psgheti is home to the rare Ouargi tiger, as well as the Ouargi elephant, a small, domesticable pachyderm with full ears. Wilhelm treats the Psgheti as his private hunting preserve. (Nitpickers will note that, though it MAY resemble Africa in some ways, this is Ouargistan, and tigers DO live here. Really.)
Word reaches the British that Wilhelm is organizing a tiger hunt in the Psgheti on the occasion of his mother's visit to Bungalo." Among his guests is "colonial finance minister Wolfgang Weisenheimer, the "Gnome of Gnairobi," whose main occupation is funding native rebellions in French and British Ouargistan. Captain Parian Marvell of the 23rd South Dibley Fusiliers is ordered to take a small detachment of imperial troops and sepoys, and arrest Wilhelm, Mehmet and the other guests while they are 'on British soil' in the Psgheti. It is hoped that this will settle the territorial issue and eliminate most of the troublemakers in the region at one go. Marvell can also count on help from Ukurli, the local Nyuk-Nyuk chief, whose village is in the area."
"A railway line connects the canal port of Prince Albert with the inland trading city of Inakan. The PA-I Railway crosses the Blue Ouazu at Point Wytouki, a promontory of hard rock on which sits an ancient signal tower. Late in the year, emir Qarman Mirandhi fortifies the crumbling tower, extracting high tariffs for allowing Her Majesty's commerce to pass by land or water.
Maj. (later, General Sir) Bindon Mudd and Capt. Eugene Crumpudding lead an expedition up the river to capture the strongpoint and reopen the line and the river. Setting out from Firkitoudl on Boxing Day 1889, they reach the tower late in the afternoon of New Year's Eve."
"Sher-Li is an unhappy region on the east coast of southern Ouargistan. Though the British occupy it, it is also claimed by the Germans and by the Fuzwah of Dobro, potentate of the Arab trading state immediately southward on the Anakanipanistan coast. The Sher people feel no love for any of these powers but they are happy to coexist with anyone who will protect them from the raids of the savage pirates from the Skumzzolean Archipelago, far to the east.
At the mouth of the Tinkiwinkidipsilalapo river lies an ancient temple with a large elephant idol of wicker and wood sheathed in thin copper, whose enormous ruby eyes have gazed over the coastal savannah for hundreds of years. The region has stabilized under British occupation, and since the colonial Governor built a small fort near the temple site, the natives' confidence has been restored sufficiently that they have brought the giant rubies out of hiding and replaced them in the elephant's eyes. The low palisaded installation manned by a small garrison of Punjabi sepoys under British command is known in the native language as Tanxtu Bran-di, which translates (wait for it...) "The Fort of Jewel Eye."
Near the temple is the mission station of Sister Clarissa, "the six-gun nun" from Arizona, a former sharpshooter for Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show who found her calling and now operates a school for the native children. Sister Clarissa is an American national heroine. For the last month, Priscilla, the daughter of the British Governor has been staying at the mission school while her father has been on a diplomatic journey to Inakan."
"Beezel el Amid has returned to Karoram, the valley of his fathers, after making a name for himself on the Ouargi plains.
Consolidating his hold on the local hill clans, Beezel with his brother Hasib, at once begins to launch raids on the neighboring valleys, only recently pacified by the British. The Ouargi frontier is once more in turmoil, and Gen. Sir Garment Wooleys and Maj. Webley 'Bulldog' Kaufmann lead a punitive expedition to burn the three villages that have harbored Beezel, and, if luck is with them, bag the wily villain himself."
In summary: British Ouargistan, German Ouargistan (the disputed Psghetti between them), Spanish (later American) Ouargistan, French Ouargistan, Thingimi, Anakanipanistan, and the Skumzzolean Archipelago (and possibly Inakan) are the major states in region.
Hope that's of some use. If nothing else, enjoy! It's a dashed funny site!
I'll do my best to collect that info here. Named geographic features and peoples are in bold.
Oh, and to repeat the site's disclaimer:
British and German Ouargistan share a border in the form of "the river Soumbada." On the German side is "Kaiserinsport, the little river port/railhead town, which is guarded by a German fort and gunboat."
"The town of Tel Debi guards the only bridge across the Al-Josen River." Nearby "is an oasis. An archaeological excavation at an ancient tomb complex is to its left. On the North are foothills leading up to the mountains at the far end.
Tel Debi sits at the edge of British Ouargistan. Native tribes, encouraged by the support of German imperial advisors (two full infantry units and a cavalry squadron of advisors, actually), have allied under the banner of Beezil the Bandit, scourge of the Ouargi desert, for a full-scale invasion of British Ouargistan."
"Near the town of Biltezi, the Residency houses Pontifex Willoughby, regional manager for The Affable East Ouargistan Co., his wife Myrtle, and various employees, both English and Native, as well as the company's warehouses and purchasing office."
An "avenue of bunny sphinxes out of the picture at lower right marks the entrance to the sacred burial grounds at Al Bunrab."
"The addled but wily Rajah Rabiid of Bunrabia has two great aims -- to spread the true religion of Mabu-raab, the God-in-Rabbit-Guise, and to foment a general uprising of all the tribes and kingdoms against the European interlopers. He sees his chance when the Americans claim Spanish Ouargistan as spoils of the Spanish American War (mostly because they liked the name of its capital, Puerto Teodoro del Ptui, which they rename, of course, Port Theodore).
Some years later, the devious prince secretly convinces the Americans that all Ouargistan would be honored by the placing of a giant granite statue of Theodore Roosevelt at the head of the avenue of bunny sphinxes in the sacred burial precinct of Al Bunrab. Of course, this seems quite plausible to the Americans, who are too naive to realize that such an act of desecration will outrage all the local peoples, for whom Al Bunrab is a holy city, forbidden to outsiders."
"Thingimi is one of the princely states lying along Lake Viktoria, separated from German Ouargistan by the fast-flowing waters of the Tinkiwinkidipsilalapo river. The Panjandrum of Thingimi has favored the Germans up to the present, allowing them to build a railroad line to the rich mine at Goldwasser. Hearing that the Panjandrum has switched his favor to the British and that a combined British/Thingmin expedition is making its way up the pass to Goldwasser, General Leopold Zinktrumpet, the hero of Watsituya, has commandeered a special train to carry out the German mining officials and the last load of gold from the mine."
"The German experimental base at Lassenwelt is made of a mine building, a barracks and two smaller buildings with low wall segments between them. It is snug against a mountain face which is pierced by a large cave. There is a tall, strong palisade across the front of the cave with a large barred gate and several prominent signs saying things like "Secretisch - Keepen sie outen" and "Ja, dieses meansen you." A short road leads to a pier extending into deep water. A narrow gauge railroad line runs from the mine to a tunnel in the mountains.
On the north end of the table is a jungle area containing a stream and the Ouazulu village.
Firkitoudl, a remote outpost of British Ouargistan, is located at the juncture of the mighty Ouazu's two main tributaries. The Young Ouazu meanders southwest through the arid veldt, while the Old Ouazu plunges deep into the jungles, swamps and uncharted mountains of Deutschouargen (German Ouargistan). Upriver on Turok, a large volcanic island in Lake Schweinteufel in the land of the Ouazulu, there has been unprecedented German activity, and rumors of a great discovery have filtered downriver to the British garrison, but the details vary wildly.
Major Bunton Overpass, the British commander at Firkitoudl, has received a petition from King Potrzebi, the Ouazulu chief on the island, begging for the Queen-Empress' protection from the oppression of the cruel German invaders, made even more horrible since the Germans have "brought forth the Thing Which May Not Be Mentioned."
After much telegraphic consultation, Maj. Overpass has received the orders to proceed up the Old Ouazu to Lassenwelt with Imperial infantry and colonial Fellahin, to "free the oppressed native peoples from the iron grip of the Kaiser, and, incidentally, find out what the blue-devil the Huns are up to out there."
"One end of the table contains a short section of the mighty Ouazu. Next to the river is a small clearing containing the Ookaballakonga village and a woodlot for refueling steamers. The clearing is surrounded by dense jungle, except for a single clear path, leading through the undergrowth to the grassy veldt beyond. On the veldt are a Ouazulu village and, on the high ground, Bungstarter Station, the ivory depot.
Bungstarter Station, in the wilds of the inland veldt, is the Affable East Ouargistan Company's center for the collection of ivory and the schluggining of furs. Several professional hunters and native workers call the station home, and once a year, Lord Carstairs, a director of the Company, brings a group of his friends for a hunting holiday. This year his guests include Sir Arthur Plumsett-Delving, famed archaeologist, zoologist, botanist, geologist, Victorian renaissance man, and Fellow of the Royal Society (every Royal Society). On this holiday, Sir Arthur is delighted to discover a previously unknown species of shrub, which he names Arthurius gainsii, little suspecting that its powerful medicinal and hallucinogenic qualities make it sacred to the natives of the area. Already irritated by the presence of the hunters, King Potrzebe of the Ouazulu and King Wotmiwori of the Ookaballakonga are pushed to the point of revolt by the great man's digging up a specimen of the Arthur tree for shipment back to England."
"In the valley of Tel al Taradidl, the Affable East Ouargistan Company's lead mine nestles against the the rugged Ouargi foothills. Nearby is the small town of Finolah, populated mostly by mine workers. In addition, there are three groves of trees and two areas of ruins."
"Far up the Soumbada River lies the turbulent area around Lake Wiyiata. The territory is British on one side of the river, German on the other. Both European states are ostensibly dedicated to wiping out the thriving slave trade, but something is rotten in the German regional capital of Bungalo. The notorious German administrator, Wilhelm Eisenschleim (or 'Bungalo Bill' as he is known up and down the river) makes sure his Schutztruppen are otherwise occupied whenever King Haamo's Wiyiata warriors sweep down on the villages of the inoffensive Mlari and the pygmy Nyuk-Nyuk, selling the captives to hated slaver Mehmet Wuwoob for transport to Wada Maroun and the Arab trading cities on the Anakanipanistan coast. Of the tribes in the area, only the fabled but rarely seen Mshempi have not sent entreaties to the British Governor-General, asking help against the depredations of this unholy trio.
West of Bungalo, the Soumbada forks into two tributaries. The area between the rivers is known as the Psgheti, a rich and varied hunting region, and is claimed by both the British and the Germans. The Psgheti is home to the rare Ouargi tiger, as well as the Ouargi elephant, a small, domesticable pachyderm with full ears. Wilhelm treats the Psgheti as his private hunting preserve. (Nitpickers will note that, though it MAY resemble Africa in some ways, this is Ouargistan, and tigers DO live here. Really.)
Word reaches the British that Wilhelm is organizing a tiger hunt in the Psgheti on the occasion of his mother's visit to Bungalo." Among his guests is "colonial finance minister Wolfgang Weisenheimer, the "Gnome of Gnairobi," whose main occupation is funding native rebellions in French and British Ouargistan. Captain Parian Marvell of the 23rd South Dibley Fusiliers is ordered to take a small detachment of imperial troops and sepoys, and arrest Wilhelm, Mehmet and the other guests while they are 'on British soil' in the Psgheti. It is hoped that this will settle the territorial issue and eliminate most of the troublemakers in the region at one go. Marvell can also count on help from Ukurli, the local Nyuk-Nyuk chief, whose village is in the area."
"A railway line connects the canal port of Prince Albert with the inland trading city of Inakan. The PA-I Railway crosses the Blue Ouazu at Point Wytouki, a promontory of hard rock on which sits an ancient signal tower. Late in the year, emir Qarman Mirandhi fortifies the crumbling tower, extracting high tariffs for allowing Her Majesty's commerce to pass by land or water.
Maj. (later, General Sir) Bindon Mudd and Capt. Eugene Crumpudding lead an expedition up the river to capture the strongpoint and reopen the line and the river. Setting out from Firkitoudl on Boxing Day 1889, they reach the tower late in the afternoon of New Year's Eve."
"Sher-Li is an unhappy region on the east coast of southern Ouargistan. Though the British occupy it, it is also claimed by the Germans and by the Fuzwah of Dobro, potentate of the Arab trading state immediately southward on the Anakanipanistan coast. The Sher people feel no love for any of these powers but they are happy to coexist with anyone who will protect them from the raids of the savage pirates from the Skumzzolean Archipelago, far to the east.
At the mouth of the Tinkiwinkidipsilalapo river lies an ancient temple with a large elephant idol of wicker and wood sheathed in thin copper, whose enormous ruby eyes have gazed over the coastal savannah for hundreds of years. The region has stabilized under British occupation, and since the colonial Governor built a small fort near the temple site, the natives' confidence has been restored sufficiently that they have brought the giant rubies out of hiding and replaced them in the elephant's eyes. The low palisaded installation manned by a small garrison of Punjabi sepoys under British command is known in the native language as Tanxtu Bran-di, which translates (wait for it...) "The Fort of Jewel Eye."
Near the temple is the mission station of Sister Clarissa, "the six-gun nun" from Arizona, a former sharpshooter for Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show who found her calling and now operates a school for the native children. Sister Clarissa is an American national heroine. For the last month, Priscilla, the daughter of the British Governor has been staying at the mission school while her father has been on a diplomatic journey to Inakan."
"Beezel el Amid has returned to Karoram, the valley of his fathers, after making a name for himself on the Ouargi plains.
Consolidating his hold on the local hill clans, Beezel with his brother Hasib, at once begins to launch raids on the neighboring valleys, only recently pacified by the British. The Ouargi frontier is once more in turmoil, and Gen. Sir Garment Wooleys and Maj. Webley 'Bulldog' Kaufmann lead a punitive expedition to burn the three villages that have harbored Beezel, and, if luck is with them, bag the wily villain himself."
In summary: British Ouargistan, German Ouargistan (the disputed Psghetti between them), Spanish (later American) Ouargistan, French Ouargistan, Thingimi, Anakanipanistan, and the Skumzzolean Archipelago (and possibly Inakan) are the major states in region.
Hope that's of some use. If nothing else, enjoy! It's a dashed funny site!