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Old 07-10-2020, 06:26 AM   #4871
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The features of the setting is Napoleonic battles in Cornwall and Devon with espionage and occult battles in the background. You can more back and forth from milliary struggles to Gothic Horror.
"Captain Poldark allus said 'e saw some strange things over in the 'Mericas..."
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Old 07-10-2020, 06:31 AM   #4872
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"Captain Poldark allus said 'e saw some strange things over in the 'Mericas..."
Now throw in some inappropriate Jane Austin and we got game. Given the time period, some Blake inspired elements could be good too.
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Old 07-10-2020, 07:17 AM   #4873
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By 1650, Japan has a line of island possessions across the Pacific and eyes on Peru.
It's actually quite difficult to cross the Pacific west to east along those islands, particularly from Japan to Peru, which is not only against the prevailing winds but requires crossing the equatorial doldrums.

There is a contemporary route across the Pacific Japan actually is interested in meddling in - the Spanish silver route from Mexico south to the properly east to west Northeast Trades and the North Equatorial Current into the Philippines - Japan actually made a few attempts on that, notably the rebellion/invasion around Manila in 1606/7. The easy transpacific route for Japan is more northerly, riding the North Pacific Current and the subtropical westerlies to Vancouver or Oregon.
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Old 07-10-2020, 09:22 AM   #4874
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It's actually quite difficult to cross the Pacific west to east along those islands, particularly from Japan to Peru, which is not only against the prevailing winds but requires crossing the equatorial doldrums.

There is a contemporary route across the Pacific Japan actually is interested in meddling in - the Spanish silver route from Mexico south to the properly east to west Northeast Trades and the North Equatorial Current into the Philippines - Japan actually made a few attempts on that, notably the rebellion/invasion around Manila in 1606/7. The easy transpacific route for Japan is more northerly, riding the North Pacific Current and the subtropical westerlies to Vancouver or Oregon.
Which doesn't give them Spanish Peru gold. But it *might* discover California gold...

And it does give access to Spanish Mexico.

Is a "Pacific Great Circle Route" a thing?
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Old 07-10-2020, 11:52 AM   #4875
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Well, it is what the Manila Galleon took.
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Old 07-10-2020, 07:53 PM   #4876
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It's actually quite difficult to cross the Pacific west to east along those islands, particularly from Japan to Peru, which is not only against the prevailing winds but requires crossing the equatorial doldrums.
Easier to go up the coast of East Asia, and cross the Bering Strait to Alaska. Of course, they'd need to know that that was an option, but it's plausible for any large enough East Asian power to accomplish in that era if they think to try.
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Old 07-10-2020, 08:23 PM   #4877
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It's actually quite difficult to cross the Pacific west to east along those islands, particularly from Japan to Peru, which is not only against the prevailing winds but requires crossing the equatorial doldrums.

There is a contemporary route across the Pacific Japan actually is interested in meddling in - the Spanish silver route from Mexico south to the properly east to west Northeast Trades and the North Equatorial Current into the Philippines - Japan actually made a few attempts on that, notably the rebellion/invasion around Manila in 1606/7. The easy transpacific route for Japan is more northerly, riding the North Pacific Current and the subtropical westerlies to Vancouver or Oregon.
My goal was to bring Samurai (seriously cool) and Swashbucklers(seriously cool) into conflict. I know that Alaska is far nearer to Japan than Polynesia is. I was going strict rule of cool.
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Old 07-11-2020, 07:50 AM   #4878
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Try this one...

In the reign of Augustus a plague came through the empire. It was harsh in the Celtic lands and in the Latin lands, but it seems to have been far worse in the Teutonic lands. Some say Germanicus brought the plague North with his legions, but who knows. Within two generations southern Germania was much like northern Gaul. Even more so when the canal connecting the Rhine and the Danube was completed.

As the Rhine is better known and more frequently navigated the fisher folk living on the shores of the Northern seas are becoming more connected to Rome. They bring stories of the cold northern seas and rumors of lands beyond those.

Lately, the building of ships and their navigation have improved. Expeditions have gone south of the deserts in Africa. The Greeks long ago proved the world is round, could there be new unknown lands close enough to sail to?

Basically, a Roman Columbus and maybe a "Romans and Indians" campaign.
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Old 07-11-2020, 08:27 AM   #4879
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Even more so when the canal connecting the Rhine and the Danube was completed.
You might want to drop that bit. The route is quite long, although not impossible if the Romans got determined. You have to have them invent pound locks to get the canal up and down the watershed, but that's not totally implausible. The killer is the lack of sufficient water supply on the watershed; that was what spoiled the Ludwig Canal, which opened in 1846. The modern canal requires large-scale pumping to have a sufficient water supply.
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You might want to drop that bit. The route is quite long, although not impossible if the Romans got determined. You have to have them invent pound locks to get the canal up and down the watershed, but that's not totally implausible. The killer is the lack of sufficient water supply on the watershed; that was what spoiled the Ludwig Canal, which opened in 1846. The modern canal requires large-scale pumping to have a sufficient water supply.
I read an article on the Roman attempt to build a Rhine Danube canal, it was in a journal of classical archeology in Northern Europe. They agreed with you.
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