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  1. Ghazghkull

    Grasping the Thistle: A Scottish Series

    Very much alive - just on a longer than intended hiatus 😬. Totally vaild question! I'll admit I've kinda been using people's questions to periodically keep the thread alive rather than focusing on producing the next section of updates. Couple of real world things have delayed me publishing...
  2. Ghazghkull

    Grasping the Thistle: A Scottish Series

    As it currently stands - as of around 1743 - no, Scotland's not attempted any sort of colonisation efforts in South America. In the very first wiki box on the Dissolution, you can read a bit about Scotland's decision not to undertake the OTL Darien Scheme and instead invest in Scotland's...
  3. Ghazghkull

    Alternate Wikipedia Infoboxes VII (Do Not Post Current Politics or Political Figures Here)

    Love it! Although Richard Leonard as Prime Minister is a real ASB thought experiment! As an aside though, is it possible that we maybe can have some common sense action on the need for TLs/postings like this censoring out current/modern day figures? I know the headline says not current politics...
  4. Ghazghkull

    Grasping the Thistle: A Scottish Series

    Suppose the answer to that question is yes and no. The reason I'm going chronologically with this TL, rather than jumping around time periods posting stuff like most other TL's of this kind do, is because I don't want to have to retcon huge sections of the TL as we get further in. So I have...
  5. Ghazghkull

    Grasping the Thistle: A Scottish Series

    Glad you enjoyed it, there will be more updates coming soon (I hope). Just been on a little break with other things, been planning out this TL for a while so lots to come. In terms of the political groupings, there's information in each election post about the groupings. The main reason I...
  6. Ghazghkull

    Some day maybe, I just don't have the time or capacity right now to run an election game to the...

    Some day maybe, I just don't have the time or capacity right now to run an election game to the level of detail and involvement I tend to put into my games. More focused on getting back to updating my Grasping the Thistle TL if I can.
  7. Ghazghkull

    Grasping the Thistle: A Scottish Series

    I love Flora MacDonald! She is such an interesting figure, would have made an interesting Canadian PM I suspect. However, the only Thatcher-analogue she offers is the "woman fighting against male-dominated politics" theme. She was an incredibly different figure to Thatcher in almost every regard...
  8. Ghazghkull

    Grasping the Thistle: A Scottish Series

    Oh when I say the major effect being immigration, I more mean because of the absence of notable individuals. The American colonies and future United States, much like the OTL, will still be attracting large numbers of immigrants to their shores from Ireland and many other places. But there's a...
  9. Ghazghkull

    Grasping the Thistle: A Scottish Series

    Truthfully, I don't yet know exactly how different the US's borders (both nationally and with the states) are going to be. Florida's expansion is likely to make a change but we'll see how things develop. For America, TTL's major effect so far is not on geography but immigration. Many...
  10. Ghazghkull

    Grasping the Thistle: A Scottish Series
    Threadmarks: Map of southern Colonial North America (1742)

    Map of southern Colonial North America Dated 1742, aftermath of the Spanish Conquest of New Douglas Following the Spanish victory over the Scottish colony of New Douglas, Spain established control over the territory south of the Altamaha and Coosa Rivers. England had originally claimed large...
  11. Ghazghkull

    Grasping the Thistle: A Scottish Series

    Ideally been trying to do a update once a week, bit of a delay in this one just because I had to do a little research and planning for the events involved in the War of the Austrian Succession. Hopefully you enjoy TTL's version of Scotland's Darien Disaster. Scotland most certainly won't be...
  12. Ghazghkull

    Grasping the Thistle: A Scottish Series
    Threadmarks: Invasion of New Douglas (Darien Disaster)

    Invasion of New Douglas Darien Disaster
  13. Ghazghkull

    Grasping the Thistle: A Scottish Series
    Threadmarks: War of Jenkins' Ear

    War of Jenkins' Ear Part of the War of the Austrian Succession (1739-1748) The War of Jenkins' Ear, or Guerra del Asiento, was a conflict lasting from 1739 to 1748 between England, Scotland and the Spanish Empire. The majority of the fighting took place in New Granada, New Douglas and the...
  14. Ghazghkull

    Grasping the Thistle: A Scottish Series
    Threadmarks: 1739 General Election

  15. Ghazghkull

    Alternate Wikipedia Infoboxes VI (Do Not Post Current Politics or Political Figures Here)

    When did Ireland break free?
  16. Ghazghkull

    Grasping the Thistle: A Scottish Series

    Gosh darnit, it is indeed. Fixed it... should have been 1739, not 1939 🤣
  17. Ghazghkull

    Grasping the Thistle: A Scottish Series
    Threadmarks: Colony of New Douglas (Darien Disaster)

    Colony of New Douglas Darien Disaster The Colony of New Douglas, also known as the Darien Colony, was an unsuccessful attempt, backed largely by Scotland and investors in the Georgia Trustees, to establish a viable border colony in Colonial North America between the English and Spanish...
  18. Ghazghkull

    Alternate Wikipedia Infoboxes VI (Do Not Post Current Politics or Political Figures Here)

    Surely the 22nd Amendment will prevent Cheney from running having been President for the last eight years 🙃
  19. Ghazghkull

    Grasping the Thistle: A Scottish Series

    Yes, although nothing as powerful as the East India Company. Like the OTL the current major players in the colonial and trading game are the English, Spanish, French, Dutch and Portuguese. Scotland is very much a second tier player in the colonial game, at least for now. Currently Scotland has...
  20. Ghazghkull

    Grasping the Thistle: A Scottish Series
    Threadmarks: Treaty of Versailles-Hamilton (1733)

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