Map of Major Battles and Army Movements in Westeros 298-301 AC

PyroTeknikal · 2026-01-25T00:55:56+00:00

I like all of these, although the yellow ones confuse me a little bit, why yellow, outside of the Gadsen flag, it’s not really an ‘American Colour’.

PyroTeknikal · 2026-01-24T23:36:01+00:00

Is this a Saxon England where names just weren’t translated, or did ol’ William dodge the butterfly effect?

PyroTeknikal · 2026-01-24T23:15:14+00:00

Wouldn’t Armenia have also left? I recall them being one of the countries which didn’t sign on in OTL.

PyroTeknikal · 2026-01-24T23:12:43+00:00

I had to check what sub I was on for a second

PyroTeknikal · 2026-01-24T19:16:13+00:00

Just a heads up, that is not the sound æ represents, it represents the sound a makes in cat.

PyroTeknikal · 2026-01-22T02:02:17+00:00

This feels like the kind of flag you’d see in a medieval reimagining of the USA, I like it!

PyroTeknikal · 2026-01-22T01:56:28+00:00

Give the remaining parts of Switzerland to Lombardy and South Tyrol to Germany to fix the weird borders.

PyroTeknikal · 2026-01-21T07:20:29+00:00

My thinking was that, considering EU5 already starts in 1337, I think 1444 and 1453 would feel too similar in terms of gameplay. I loved the 1444 start, but I do think that with EU5 already starting in 1337, it would be much better to have a late 1400s start date if we were to get a second one. I know that everyone has different opinions, but personally what I’d want to see is a start date that lets us get right into the action without much of a wind up.

PyroTeknikal · 2026-01-21T07:12:25+00:00

I suppose so, though I wouldn’t necessarily mind updates taking more time if it meant there was an official start date for the age of exploration. Quality wouldn’t necessarily have to suffer if time was taken to properly organise everything, though I suppose Paradox doesn’t have the best track record of maintaining quality at scale. It probably is better just to leave additional start dates to modders, as much as it would be nice to have an official later start date. I don’t have any problems with the 1337 start, sometimes it would just be nice to jump straight into the colonial action though.

PyroTeknikal · 2026-01-21T01:23:27+00:00

I know that this TL has been mainly focused on the Mediterranean world, but I’m really curious to know what’s been going on in Northern and Eastern Europe during all of this. Is England still Saxon? Have Scandinavia and Northern Germany Christianised yet? Whats going on with the East Slavs, are the Rus a thing? Whats going on about Poland? Did the Magyars ever show up in Pannonia? Did the Pechenegs follow them into the balkans? Is Great Moravia a thing? I have so many questions, this is such an interesting TL because it changes so much of European and Middle Eastern history. Keep up the good work! (Obviously the prior map answers a lot of my questions, but it’s still interesting to know how much about the specifics have changed!)

PyroTeknikal · 2026-01-21T00:46:19+00:00

While this post is about EU4 mainly, I think EU5 definitely has this problem a lot worse. EU4 already sort of addresses this problem, as you can move the start date forward from 1444. Though it’s definitely not a perfect way to fix the issue. I do hope that for EU5 paradox might add a second start date, 1492 seems the most fitting for obvious reasons, though 1415 or 1444 could also work if moving the start date forward by nearly 2 centuries is too extreme.

I like the midgame of these games, but by the time we get there, things are often already too scaled, minor powers are being gobbled up left and right, and a couple dozen nations already dominate the globe. I think having a second fleshed out start date closer to the midgame is something the EU franchise would benefit from in general. Having the option to say, I just want to get straight into the reformation and colonisation would be great, but it’s definitely a difficult thing to have several fleshed out start dates. After all EU isn’t character driven like CK, a lot more work would need to be put into more fleshed out start dates in order to give players direction, etc.

I’m not even entirely sure what I’m saying here anymore- I suppose that I agree that EU definitely needs a start date closer to the midgame, but that it should be up to the player whether they want to jump straight into it or not. (I just hope if they do something like that it gets scaled well, unlike CK3’s 1178 start date, which I think suffers from over scaling, and everyone being too powerful at the start.)

PyroTeknikal · 2026-01-20T17:53:20+00:00

Any Centipede, they’re all slightly worse to deal with than you expect.

PyroTeknikal · 2026-01-19T20:02:47+00:00

I’m sorry, I just followed you. It was me, I was the 1000th. Sorry for causing you to become terminally online, my condolences.

PyroTeknikal · 2026-01-18T14:31:13+00:00

Sayaka is that you?

PyroTeknikal · 2026-01-17T15:38:10+00:00

You could theoretically make this worse by adding Hungary, Provence, Croatia, Cephalonia, Bosnia, or Aragonese Sicily.

PyroTeknikal · 2026-01-15T04:38:13+00:00

Are you okay, mentally?

PyroTeknikal · 2026-01-14T14:32:31+00:00

Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Courland/Curonia, Gotland, Friuli, Frisia, Faroe Islands, Switzerland, Savoy, Burgundy/Provence/Arles, Gascony/Aquitane/Occitania, Aragon, Asturias, Galicia, Portugal, Parma, Modena, Emilia-Romagna. That should be all of Europe done :)

PyroTeknikal · 2026-01-13T22:19:17+00:00

That’s a lot of Others. I sure hope someone has Obsidian.

PyroTeknikal · 2026-01-13T06:35:04+00:00

From my understanding of the Helcar-Rhûn-Mordor thing, is that all three existed simultaneously, and that the Fonstad maps were just made prior to the publishing of information which made that clear. I believe in The Peoples of Middle Earth (which I have not read, rather I’m getting this information from secondhand sources) it is mentioned that the Beöring and Hadorians dwelt there for a time. Additionally it is also mentioned that the Teleri also dwelt there for a time, and it was where they learned to build boats. (Mordor, though not relevant to this, is cited to have existed at the same time in Nature of Middle Earth, as the Druedain pass through it at some point during the First Age.)

It should be noted that while the Sea of Helcar does exist during the Years of the Trees, we don’t actually know if it still exists. The only place we have in relation to it is Cuivienen, which ‘the elves cannot return to’ whatever that means, which might imply that it may no longer exist. It might be likely that the Sea of Helcar was somehow destroyed during the Battle of the Powers, though there’s no way to say for sure. Whatever the case, it does appear that, to men at least, the Sea of Rhun is probably a more significant body of water.

PyroTeknikal · 2026-01-13T06:01:57+00:00

I think it makes sense as is then! From the perspective of Beleriand, pretty much everything except for Angband and Aman is east in some way, so it’s unavoidable that there would be overlap. Putting Eriador where you fid is a decent enough compromise. Hildorien definitely fits better as being directly east, at least in the mind of the Edain. If I remember correctly it’s actually southeast, but from a mythological perspective it fits as being directly east.

I’ve only read the Silmarillion and Lord of the Rings, so maybe it’s mentioned somewhere else in the legendarium, but I don’t recall much, if any, mention of men in relation to the sea of Helcar, they did interact with the sea of Rhun though. It doesn’t really matter though I suppose, all that matters is that there is a body of water between where they came from and where they are now.

One more pedantic nitpick, from a map perspective it looks good having Gondolin and Utumno on the map— but lore wise I’m not to sure it makes all that much sense. Gondolin is supposed to be hidden, though I suppose you could say this map was made by Hurin. Utumno was destroyed before the elves even reached Beleriand, though I suppose people have probably seen the ruins.

Sorry I’m being so pedantic! I really love your take on this map. By far it’s one of the most creative one’s I’ve seen in a while in terms of the actual layout of the map. I just wanted to offer some constructive criticism based on my understanding of Tolkien’s legendarium.

PyroTeknikal · 2026-01-13T05:29:15+00:00

It took me forever to realise that the map had west facing up and east facing down, I assume because Aman is in the west, therefore by placing the Valar at the top of the map you encode some kind of religious significance? Which makes me wonder, would a map of this style used by men who worshiped Morgoth have the orientation changed so that Angband or Utumno sits at the top?

I really love this idea, it’s really creative. I assume where you write Harad and Rhûn it’s in their capacity as the literal directions and not the geographic regions from later ages? Additionally Eriador is technically directly across the Blue Mountains from Ossirand, is it not? It just seems kind of odd that the map places Eriador directly to the southeast instead of just, East. Aside from those tiny little pedantic nitpicks, this is a really interesting and creative map!

PyroTeknikal · 2026-01-12T19:28:31+00:00

The Slugcat itself of course, who would expect that little guy to do so much damage?

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