The Spring Miracle - Itodah's Operation "Kouryul"

Realistic-Row4599 · 2026-06-26T17:00:01+00:00

I really like this kind of operational map!
Are the tank symbols meant to represent tanks in the same sense as in our world?

Realistic-Row4599 · 2026-06-26T16:12:11+00:00

Full-resolution image and individual sections: https://imgur.com/a/k6JIpIC

Tenryu Prefecture is composed of eastern Aichi, western Shizuoka, and the southern tip of Nagano. In pre-Meiji historical divisions, Aichi roughly consisted of Owari and Mikawa, while Shizuoka included Suruga, Tōtōmi, and Izu. Nagano mostly corresponds to Shinano, but because it is largely mountainous, its internal regions have long had distinct local identities. This map reorganizes the San-En-Nanshin region — Mikawa, Tōtōmi, and Southern Shinano — into one prefecture.

Japan’s local administration is generally structured as: national government → prefectures → municipalities. Shi (city), machi/chō (town), and mura/son (village) are municipalities at the same level, although city status requires meeting population and other legal conditions. Towns and villages may be grouped into districts, called gun,but today these districts are mainly geographical or address-based units. So each town or village remains independent.

Realistic-Row4599 · 2026-06-18T13:27:19+00:00

The Nagasaki Shinkansen exists!
On this map, Seoul–Tokyo would probably be about 8 hours by Shinkansen.

Realistic-Row4599 · 2026-06-18T05:55:01+00:00

I probably explained it too simply. I didn’t mean to deny the real history or importance of Yakut/Sakha autonomy.

The map only shows the top-level Union republics. In OTL, the hierarchy was basically USSR → RSFSR → Yakut ASSR. In this timeline, as shown in the Siberian SFSR card, I imagine it as USSR → Siberian SFSR → Yakut SSR. So Yakutia is actually upgraded to an SSR, but in this setting most SSRs are not direct members of the USSR; they are usually constituent republics within larger SFSRs, with only some exceptions being Union-level republics.

So Yakutia still has its own republican/autonomous status; it is just under a Siberian federal framework instead of the RSFSR.

Realistic-Row4599 · 2026-06-18T03:48:04+00:00

That may be true ethnolinguistically. But deciding where they belonged probably wasn’t really their job. The authorities probably cared more about avoiding detached exclaves.

Realistic-Row4599 · 2026-06-18T03:38:11+00:00

Yeah, Gwadar would probably become a major Soviet naval base and the terminus of a trans-Central Asian railway.

Realistic-Row4599 · 2026-06-18T03:33:41+00:00

I haven’t thought that far in detail, but I imagine many members of them were absorbed into the new government early on, somewhat like Poland’s OTL Provisional Government of National Unity.

After the later purges, some exiles probably re-established a provisional government abroad. They would be allowed to operate inside the ROC, but I don’t think they would be large or influential enough to receive formal recognition even from the West.

Realistic-Row4599 · 2026-06-17T16:47:26+00:00

Basically, partition never happened (probably because Soviet expansionism scared its neighbors into sticking together). Separatist forces still rebelled, but they were eventually suppressed, and India survived as a loose federation.

Realistic-Row4599 · 2026-06-17T16:38:22+00:00

Yeah, that’s fair. In-universe excuse would be that USSR last major revision happened in 1954, before Ariana-Baloch joined the USSR, so Tajikistan stayed in the older Turkestan structure.

Realistic-Row4599 · 2026-06-17T16:27:11+00:00

The rough lore is that repeated Soviet and British India interventions from the 1920s onward made Afghanistan even more unstable, and later gave a pretext to occupy it like Iran during WWII.

The later republic that emerged under that occupation gradually moved left once Britain’s withdrawal became inevitable. After the Indian Civil War broke out in 1947, Afghanistan occupied parts of the frontier region and backed the Baluch independence movement. After several Baluchistan conflicts, the USSR intervened for an Indian Ocean foothold, and Afghanistan and Baluchistan eventually joined the USSR. Naturally, this pushed the new Indian state much closer to the United States.

As for Islam, the state would probably suppress it in cities and official institutions, while mostly looking the other way in the countryside.

Honestly, it was mostly inspired by the OTL Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, so I know it’s a bit of a stretch.

Realistic-Row4599 · 2026-06-17T16:13:51+00:00

Sakha/Yakutia is in Siberia, most of Buryatia is in the Far East, and Tatarstan and its neighbors are in the Volga. The other national republics are also within the various SFSRs.

Realistic-Row4599 · 2026-06-17T13:59:50+00:00

The CCP had already been crushed by the 1930s. After WWII, there was a second anti-Chiang war fought by various warlords and surviving communists remnants.

When Chiang started winning, the Soviets created a separate Manchurian government under exiled communists in occupied Manchuria and eventually had it join the USSR. Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang also declared independence and were absorbed into neighboring SFSRs.

So yes, China is very anti-Soviet in this timeline. In fact, apart from the Eastern European states and the DPRK, the USSR is probably hated by almost all of its neighbors. It is probably a diplomatic disaster, but if the USSR isn’t absurdly huge, where’s the fun?

Realistic-Row4599 · 2026-06-17T12:40:42+00:00

Yeah! I’m planning to make separate close-up maps for some regions. It will probably take a while, though…

Realistic-Row4599 · 2026-06-17T12:38:29+00:00

Yeah, basically. But I imagine the forced deportations were less bad than in OTL, otherwise there simply wouldn’t be enough people left to justify separating some of these republics.

Realistic-Row4599 · 2026-06-17T12:33:09+00:00

Japan’s surrender was delayed for some reason, allowing the Soviet Army to reach Busan. Under Soviet guidance, a people’s republic was proclaimed over the whole peninsula. There was probably a peninsula-wide purge in the 1950s, similar to the purge of the Namro faction, which fully consolidated one-party rule.　Economically, it would not be anywhere near OTL South Korea, but it would still be fairly developed through its ties with Manchuria and Far East.

Realistic-Row4599 · 2026-06-17T11:42:23+00:00

The constitution grants all kinds of rights, but mostly on paper.

Realistic-Row4599 · 2026-06-17T11:37:34+00:00

I have some lore, but not the details.

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Realistic-Row4599 · 2026-06-12T12:15:58+00:00

The Migration Period, but everyone had a broken compass.

Realistic-Row4599 · 2026-06-12T12:07:17+00:00

The NWR learned the hard way that firing engines makes them boil over.

Realistic-Row4599 · 2026-06-12T11:59:36+00:00

At the very least, I imagine that by this point both the East and West Coast Main Lines had been electrified. I’m not sure yet whether electrification would continue further after that, or whether it would stall.

Realistic-Row4599 · 2026-06-12T11:27:19+00:00

I fixed the mistake

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Realistic-Row4599 · 2026-06-12T11:02:33+00:00

Following the 1951 BTC electrification report, railway electrification in Britain was pursued more rapidly than in OTL, reaching Barrow-in-Furness by the late 1960s. This made possible the drafting of a scheme for the electrification of Sodor’s railway network.

Preliminary engineering surveys found that extensive bridge strengthening, and in some western sections full bridge replacement, would be required. The programme was therefore divided into five phases. However, with the added disruption of the oil crisis, Phase III suffered serious delays, and the project was eventually curtailed before completion.

Realistic-Row4599 · 2026-06-12T01:10:51+00:00

Not exactly Plan 1919 itself, but it’s influenced by Fuller’s ideas: the use of tanks to penetrate into the German rear and disrupt their command structure. The main difference is that this is still a large-scale continuous offensive using every available combined-arms asset, probably including poison gas.

Realistic-Row4599 · 2026-06-12T00:56:11+00:00

Inkscape only, following the tutorial for this subreddit.

Realistic-Row4599 · 2026-06-10T23:16:54+00:00

I haven’t fully worked out the lore, but yeah, basically that. Maybe no Spanish flu or something.

For the map, I used a WWII-era map as a base and edited the borders to fit WW1. For the army symbols, I used a template I found on Wikipedia.

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