@picard's Middle East 1974 Dip Variant

[Dr. Hendrei Gromsinger]

Changelog:

Gave Turkey a third home SC, redid internal borders of Turkey.
Removed A Suez, put it in Greece, so Israel and Egypt can go to war.
Realigned borders around the southern Arabian peninsula, esp. Yemen.
Added new provinces along the perimeter of the map, such as Balochistan, Sub-Saharan Africa, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, the Black Sea, and the Caucasus. This is to avoid StP-style choke points.
Realigned naval borders near Djibouti and in the Persian Gulf, to improve mobility by Iranian fleets.
Redrew most borders for aesthetic effect, mirroring local administrative divisions in most cases.

To be fixed soon:
Will enlarge Qatar to make it more visible.
Will redraw the "Africa" space to properly include the Chad-Sudan border.
Will widen the Suez space.
Will add land-bridges between:
1. Sharm-el-Sheikh and Hejaz
2. Djibouti and Aden
3. Anatolya and Greece
4. Abu Dhabi and Qatar
Will add massive, non-SC "Russia" and "Ukraine" spaces in the north, to facilitate movement between Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Bulgaria+Yugoslavia, avoiding chokepoints at Tehran and Turkey and mirroring the effect of the Cape Passage down south.
Will relocate SC markers in certain spaces (Dubai, Lebanon) for enhanced visibility.
Will redo some unit markers (and/or adopt unit markers by nopunin10did ) for certain countries.

[Dr. Hendrei Gromsinger]

Introducing the new connectors, wider Suez, and Thicc Qatar.

[Dr. Hendrei Gromsinger]

Some of the colors, and most of the units, are new.

[Santa Anna]

All the white on the new Egyptian units plus the background is a little hard on the eyes (mine, anyway).

[Dr. Hendrei Gromsinger]

Feb 21, 2020 2:42:32 GMT Santa Anna said:

All the white on the new Egyptian units plus the background are a little hard on the eyes (mine, anyway).

I'll have to think of a new color, then. Yellow doesn't work, red is taken, black won't fly, so I may need to give up on historicity again.

[Dr. Hendrei Gromsinger]

Aaaaand, I misplaced an Iraqi army. It's supposed to start in Mosul

[Frederick the Great]

The Egyptians shouldn't have a Libyan Coat of Arms (that I spotted immediately). I can link a better Arab Coat of Arms if you want?

[Dr. Hendrei Gromsinger]

Feb 21, 2020 5:03:57 GMT Frederick the Great said:

The Egyptians shouldn't have a Libyan Coat of Arms (that I spotted immediately). I can link a better Arab Coat of Arms if you want?

That is in fact the Coat of Arms of the Federation of Arab Republics, a 1972-1977 confederation of Egypt Libya, and Syria.

[Frederick the Great]

Feb 21, 2020 5:06:04 GMT Dr. Hendrei Gromsinger said:

Feb 21, 2020 5:03:57 GMT Frederick the Great said:

The Egyptians shouldn't have a Libyan Coat of Arms (that I spotted immediately). I can link a better Arab Coat of Arms if you want?

That is in fact the Coat of Arms of the Federation of Arab Republics, a 1972-1977 confederation of Egypt Libya, and Syria.

While I did search for a better Coat of Arms for Egypt, only the actual Egyptian CoA would actually be good for us. The Yemeni and Iraqi ones are good but they have "Jamhuriyatul Iraq/Jamhuriyatul Yemen" (Republic of Iraq/Yemen) written below them, which is useless for us.

upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Coat_of_arms_of_Egypt_%28Official%29.svg/170px-Coat_of_arms_of_Egypt_%28Official%29.svg.png

This is probably the best we've got.

[Dr. Hendrei Gromsinger]

Feb 21, 2020 5:33:09 GMT Frederick the Great said:

Feb 21, 2020 5:06:04 GMT Dr. Hendrei Gromsinger said:

That is in fact the Coat of Arms of the Federation of Arab Republics, a 1972-1977 confederation of Egypt Libya, and Syria.

While I did search for a better Coat of Arms for Egypt, only the actual Egyptian CoA would actually be good for us. The Yemeni and Iraqi ones are good but they have "Jamhuriyatul Iraq/Jamhuriyatul Yemen" (Republic of Iraq/Yemen) written below them, which is useless for us.

upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Coat_of_arms_of_Egypt_%28Official%29.svg/170px-Coat_of_arms_of_Egypt_%28Official%29.svg.png

This is probably the best we've got.

Using the actual, current Egyptian CoA would be anachronistic, though.

[nopunin10did]

I'd suggest tweaking the green color of the stars in the Iraqi units to match the territory color. Or switch that territory color to something near-black (but not totally black) and adjust that part of the unit to match instead.

Also you might want to shrink the seal in the Iranian army a tad.

[nopunin10did]

As for the Egyptian seal, you could just change the colors of the eagle to black. The symbol would still remain intact.