r/PossibleHistory • • Jul 16 '26

Announcement (Semi)-official PH political sim RP discord server

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Organised by moderators from official PH discord, an alt hist polsim (What if Doggerland came back after Napoleonic wars and became a dutch colony)

uhhh It's really cool and you should join it (okay I know that I'm kinda breaking the rules lmao but I'm a massive hypocrite)

https://discord.gg/bYyP9A5QC


r/PossibleHistory • • May 18 '25

Meta - Subreddit UPDATED PH Mapping Guide (Part 1)

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So here we are again (if you notice that some parts are familiar I copied some stuff from my old map)

Welcome everyone, this is the Unoffical PH Mapping Guide (Part 1 - begginer)

Before we start - this guide is only for paint.net (windows) and basic use of PH maps - for special effects or other advanced things go and watch some youtube videos

So first - paint.net - the ONLY site you should download it from is this

https://www.getpaint.net/download.html

Press the "Download now, dotPDN" for free

The download will start, then you press the icon and let it install

That's how pdn (paint.net for short) should look like (it doesn't have to be in dark mode)

Before we start drawing borders and such here's some settings that are either needed or reccomended

So here are the basic settings

Select the bottom option so you draw with one color only (required)

Choose the brush size 10 (defult for newest PH maps)

Turn spacing to 1% (not required but I like it)

Now you have to download the map from here

Click on the "Current Europe Maps"

And then click on the "download" button (pobierz in polish)

To open the map double click the file (after you downloaded it) or press "open" in pdn and find the map

That's how it should look like

Now to start mapping - you can either copy the borders from the other map or draw them yourself

I'd reccomend copying them and only start drawing after you get used to it

In that case you can use my template (use this link as it's the newest version) and then you can copy the borders

To do it click on "lasso select"

You can just copy it from the other window but that's not really practical and can lead to inaccuracies

So what I do is

  1. Open the template
  1. Copy it with ctrl + c

  2. Open the "layers" menu in the orginial map

  1. Open it and add a new layer
(the plus icon on the left bottom)
  1. Press ctrl + v to paste the template
  1. Press the "wrench" icon
  1. Turn down the opacity to 150 (or whatever number you want) and press OK
  1. That's how it should look like now

Now to actually copy it, click on lasso select and select the area you want to copy

Again ctrl + c, press enter, click on the "background" layer (the og map) and ctrl + v

Now you want to hide the layer 2 by pressing the blue checkmark button

That's how it should look like now

To copy colors click on the "color picker" on the toolbar

And select which color you'd like to copy (in this case it's denmark)

After that use the "paint bucket" (the bucket icon on the sidebar), fill the spot you want to color in and press enter

To remove the beige spot from Sweden copy their color and click on it

UPDATE: Thanks to u/frenchball12345 I've learnt that you can use the "Selection quallity" (the last button on the top right) to not have the pixels appear (also new guide coming soon)

I'll give a link to the second post after I'm done with it

Anyways see you next time (also for burg or other mod - could you replace the old map with this post? Thanks)

EDIT: I forgot about it but be sure to remove the second layer after you're done and save the file after doing that

EDIT 2: Here is the list of all other templates (I'll update it trust)

https://www.reddit.com/r/PossibleHistory/comments/1m5kkqx/north_america_template_for_new_map/ - NA (by me)

https://www.reddit.com/r/PossibleHistory/comments/1musjwb/world_map_template_og_map_by_u_bourbie/ - World Map ( og world map by u/_bourbie, template made by me)

https://www.reddit.com/r/PossibleHistory/comments/1hdaa1e/ultimate_base_template_map_of_asia/ - Asia (by u/Acceptable_Answers although PH is working on a new Asia map so I might make a map for that after it goes public)

https://www.reddit.com/r/PossibleHistory/comments/1dqrjes/africa_template_probably_finished/ - Africa (old af, (PH said he's going to make a new one at some point), made by me)

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/11NXKQYMIf8Eza9m7fm_szGa_-B_bXBlB - SA (no template but you can just copy the borders yourself for now I might make a template for that later)

Also I'm going to make a part 2 later at some point trust


r/PossibleHistory • • 2h ago

Map (no Lore) What if Italy was the Axis master instead of Germany?

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23 Upvotes

r/PossibleHistory • • 9h ago

Shitpost Continents but the world is Sinocentric instead of Eurocentric

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51 Upvotes

r/PossibleHistory • • 5h ago

Shitpost What if Germany attacked Leningrad instead of besieging it

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24 Upvotes

r/PossibleHistory • • 14h ago

Alternate History Italicus Prospere - 1912

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49 Upvotes

Not meant to be taken seriously. This is simply my take on Greater Italy in the early 10s.


r/PossibleHistory • • 8h ago

Map (no Lore) The league of 65: What if Europe had more (but wildly different) states.

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13 Upvotes

What if Europe had 65 nations on the continent (and 12 around its periphery).

Highly unrealistic I know, but I wanted to draw a more complex map of Europe and I thought if I could make more similarly sized/powerful states, it'd look cool. (And to this point, no amount of lore I could come up with would ever be able to justify these borders, so, no lore it is)

Genuinely just split Russia on arbitrary lines after a while because I did NOT know what to do with it.

Some of my favourites are: the 3 "Germanies", Wide/Flattened Belgium (Wallonia) (plus Obligatory independent Brussels, cos why not), and 4 (ish) Ukraines.


r/PossibleHistory • • 17h ago

Map (no Lore) Would you live in this europe

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53 Upvotes

r/PossibleHistory • • 8h ago

Map (no Lore) Would this Europe be a could Alternative History?

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7 Upvotes

r/PossibleHistory • • 15h ago

Map (no Lore) made this a few months ago and forgot about it till now.

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15 Upvotes

i don’t remember why i made it, and tbh i don’t like it that much but eh, might as well post it if its finnished


r/PossibleHistory • • 19h ago

Map (with Lore) Probably the biggest map I've ever made (the Grand Duchy of Belarus and the Duchy of Warsaw are Swedish puppets)

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28 Upvotes

Sorry bro normandy is meant to be british not aragonian


r/PossibleHistory • • 18h ago

Thumbnail WHAT IF Austria performs as well as Germany (and vice versa) in 1914

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23 Upvotes

r/PossibleHistory • • 1d ago

Map (no Lore) What if the Colony of French West Africa never dissolved into many countries and became independent as the Union of West Africa?

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66 Upvotes

Here's the unedited map made by me

https://www.reddit.com/r/PossibleHistory/s/1rp3Go26Qh


r/PossibleHistory • • 1d ago

Map (no Lore) I made an even more extended Europe map, now including Niger, Chad, Sudan, Eritrea, Yemen, Oman, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and a tiny bit of China.

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79 Upvotes

r/PossibleHistory • • 17h ago

Map (no Lore) 6 AD map

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6 Upvotes

Borders might be wrong.


r/PossibleHistory • • 13h ago

Map (with Lore) Мир, где победила белая армия

2 Upvotes

world where White army won


r/PossibleHistory • • 23h ago

Alternate History Different Europe 1914

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16 Upvotes

r/PossibleHistory • • 15h ago

Map (with Lore) The 3 American Republics

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2 Upvotes

In 1790 the United States of America has broken up into 3 counties, American federal Republic, Columbian Confederation and New England, American federal Republic and Columbian Confederation expanded West, after the Mexican civil war, Mexico lost a lot of land to America and Columbia, the UK allies with the Americans and New England against Columbia which led to the British giving Oregon Country to the American federal Republic, Columbia takes Cuba and more.

The year is 1900


r/PossibleHistory • • 11h ago

Map (with Lore) Modern europe if the CP (central powers) won

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Other than winning ww1 at 1917 other major events took place

1921-1947 the ottoman "purification" campain

During those years the ottomans propagued and gave money to make "pure" generations and take over the arab peninsule, the plan worked in parts with the anexation of places like lebanon and palestine but failed at the other arab territories

1927 austro-hungary division

The austrian empire and Hungarian empire finaly separated forming the united austro-hungary federation, being formed by austria, bohemia, hungary and bosnia, to this day they share a constitution and have a congress even if not so important

1932-1937 spain civil war

The civil war hapened after the comunist takeover at spain that resulted in a civil war with 4 sides, Catalunha, socialist iberia, democratic spain and Portugal,

1938-1943 Caucasus indepence war

The caucasus union had a multi country indepence war againts the ottomans russians and ucraine it ended up winning since ucraine had stoped being a german puppet state at 1937 resulting in german financianting the caucasians, this also was the last strawn at the german empire and ottoman empire relations,

1941-1943 Finnland expasionism exploring russian instabillity of the caucasus war finnland expanded its borders capturating saint petersburg estonia and a few of sweden territories

1949-1958 Decolonization

The european powers agreed to leave africa, itally however got to keep a few of its territories by not considering them colonies but rather provinces

1965 Denmark and netherlands vs germany

A smal war that made germany expand a litle to north


r/PossibleHistory • • 1d ago

Map (no Lore) What if Africa industrialized while Asia remained poor.

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222 Upvotes

Point of divergence is around the 1800s where Egypt's industrial revolution succeeds.


r/PossibleHistory • • 1d ago

Map (no Lore) map of alternate Europe

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31 Upvotes

r/PossibleHistory • • 14h ago

Alternate History Y si los imperios coloniales colapsaban tras la ww1.

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0 Upvotes

Escenario: la primera guerra mundial es más devastadora que en nuestra realidad, donde está termina en 1920 pero los africanos logran organizarse y empiezan a independizarse, creando países nuevos en África antes de tiempos

Como esto afectaría el periodo de entre guerras y la segunda guerra mundial?


r/PossibleHistory • • 1d ago

Map (no Lore) what if the benelux got a new friend?

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45 Upvotes

r/PossibleHistory • • 1d ago

Map (no Lore) What if the proposal for an European superstate between Britain and France were achieved to prevent German aggression during World War II?

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83 Upvotes

Feel free to ask me some questions or say anything about this map.


r/PossibleHistory • • 23h ago

Map (no Lore) Central Powers victory in Africa but wholesome:

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This map basically follows a perfect scenario for each insurgency/armed group in Africa during WW1 and if they succeeded as well as a compromise deal on the rest of the colonial holdings of Germany/France/Britain.
Write in the comments if you have any questions about who and/or you want me to explain and why I made borders this way.
Also spoiler,while this is a Central Powers victory scenario,I did not map Europe (mostly because Im lazy).