@bigwatcher You’re welcomed.
However, I was pondering again my suggestion of splitting the VOLOGDA territory in two, calling them VOLOGDA and KHANTY-MANSI NATIONAL OKRUG. Unfortunately, that would not fit with how and where the Ural mountains are drawn, since the current VOLOGDA territory appears to be all west of the Urals as drawn (so it cannot comprise KHANTY-MANSIA) (By the way, the Ural mountains are rather small mountains, so they are not realistically impassable.).
So now I’m oriented to see the VOLOGDA territory as being an area spanning about from the Vologda province to the Kirov province and possibly also the Perm province: it can be still split in two vertically, calling them VOLOGDA and KIROV, or it can be left as a single territory.
Here are the new rename changes for Siberia, which do not imply redrawing any borders nor splitting any territories:
NENETSIA->KOMI A.S.S.R.
URALS->EASTERN KOMI A.S.S.R.
VOLOGDA->VOLOGDA
SAMARA->KUYBYSHEV
NOVOSIBIRSK->BASHKIR A.S.S.R.
TUNGUSKA->OMSK
EVENKI NATIONAL OKRUG->NOVOSIBIRSK
YAKUT S.S.R.->KRASNOYARSK
STANOVOY KHREBET->BURYAT-MONGOLIAN A.S.S.R.
BURYATIA->WESTERN YAKUT A.S.S.R.
SIBERIA->YAKUT A.S.S.R.
SOVIET FAR EAST->NORTHERN KHABAROVSK
AMUR->KHABAROVSK
As for territory changes:
The above is, at the end, merely a compromise to temperate the huge distortions inherent in the drawing. I believe that they make more sense than my previous suggestions if you look at the Urals as drawn, but make matters some whorse with respect to western China (Sinkiang) as drawn. If you look at China and Mongolia, the current NOVOSIBIRSK territory (which I suggest to rename to BASHKIR A.S.S.R.) would be actually eastern Kazakhstan, SAMARA would be western Kazakhstan and KAZAKH S.S.R. would be southern Kazakhstan plus Kyrgyzstan, plus Uzbekistan (or at least its Kara-Kalpakian part), plus Tajikistan.
@bigwatcher said in AA50 on Steroids!:
inspired by Lt.Dan’s BBR Global40 map.
I think it would be good if you give a link to that, so one can compare.
Anyway, I think a foremost issue in how hard is to make sense of Asian Russia is the drawing of the Urals. I don’t know if you decided to draw the Ural mountains there yourself or that comes from this other map you have referenced.
Assuming you did it, I guess that you got this “Urals” territory from Axis&Allies Europe/Global and so decided actually to show the Ural mountains themselves on the map, drawing them along the eastern border of the territory. I think that, instead, if wanting to draw the Ural mountains (which is really not necessary), you should have drawn them on the western (not eastern) border of the “Urals” territory (so, having the Ural mountains between the current “Nenetsia” and the current “Urals”).
Indeed, if you look at the original Axis&Allies Europe 1940 map, you can see that straight to the south of the “Urals” territory there is the “Novosibirsk” territory. Knowing where New Siberia is, this can only sensibly mean that the territory called “Urals” is meant to be mostly or entirely east of the Ural mountains.
@bigwatcher All right. If you would either change the location where the Ural mountains are drawn or avoid drawing them at all, I can take a look at the Sovietic Union once again and give a new set of suggested names for the various territories. I’m not sure of the names I’ve given as I believe that is very hard to collocate names with the map as it is because of the relative positions of the Ural mountains and the north-western corner of China (which is adjacent to both Mongolia and the Sovietic Union and I assume is the Altai prefecture of Sinkiang). Also the Russian railway from Moscow to Vladivostok not passing through the SAMARA territory is a limiting factor to proper naming, as the city which is nowadays known as Samara was a possible albeit not obligatory hub of it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Siberian_Railway#/media/File:Transsib_international.svg
@bigwatcher I sent the proof waiting for you :D
@bigwatcher Hi, can I buy or download the beautifull map and: all the setup cards anywhere?:+1: :dark_sunglasses:
Hi there,
Yesterday I bought the map from Jaysun (Jayson) Gray.
I asked him, if he could confirm to you, that I did that.
Otherwise please send me a link, so I can copy the payment email to you.
Regards,
Wim Goezinnen.
@bigwatcher Hi Bigwatcher, I did sent you the proof, can you send me the link for the download?
@goekawar he saw my messages as well but no respond at all…
@viktor2392 that sucks. But let’s hope for the better.
@goekawar Where is Bigwatcher’s hiding place?:grin: :wink:
@viktor2392 dont have Facebook.
@goekawar And still waiting for reply from Bigwatcher.:disappointed:
@cernel Hi ,
Can you help me out, maybe you can share a link with the edited file to download the map from Bigwatcher?
I little lost hope that I ever can contact him.
@goekawar I’m not doing anything here (beside giving suggestions). To be clear, I’m not and have never been part of any ones of the projects presented at this topic.
@cernel Ok, I fully understand your answer.:+1:
Hi Bigwatcher
Are you some where or anywhere?
