Far East, Japan and UK going for Vladivostok However as i've posited, there's a whole bunch of other fronts that can be opened up by the allies to distract and weaken the Western front. Sure if they had no other theatres, the three emperors could focus all on France and overpower her. There's not going to be a short quick victory for Germany and Austria here. A larger UK naval advantage allows for potential operations into the Baltic. The UK can maintain a strong blockade, and supply men and material to the French front. So France can hold pretty well defensively, and has an offensive advantage. The UK blockade of Germany will be much easier. Austria was well behind.Īlso 1900, there's been no naval arms race yet. They had it in large numbers in 1900, while Germany was still catching up. It's a point in history where Fortifications are better than Artilleryįrance also has the 1897 75mm quick firing gun, the worlds first modern artillery piece. The extensive fortifications of Belgium and France are going to be largely immune to the artillery available to Germany in 1900. German Artillery was much more primitive than French at this stage, Siege Guns that Germany depended on to defeat Belgian and French border forts in 1914 are non existent. So not really much to counter argue.įrance is going to arguably be in a better position in 1900 than in 1914. The rest of your post amounts to throwing up your hands and saying "Bah! I disgree" with no more detail than that. Italy was only allied to Germany, so long as it wasn't an enemy of the UK. Why are you assuming France is gone? And why is it alone?Īlso Italy will flip to UK/France alliance as soon as it realizes that Germany and AUstria can't do shit to protect it's coastal shipping from the royal navy, and that virtually all it's coal comes from UK. Germany and Austria are likely to peace out, rather than having won in Europe, send gold and men to fight in some distant land wars in Asia. UK will have taken the opportunity to basically try win the Great Game in Asia with Russia. So really it's going to mostly be Austria and Germany fighting on a two front war in the Balkans and Western Europe.Įven if Germany and Austria manage to defeat Italy and France in Europe, and gain some territorial concessions, they aren't going to be seriously challenging British rule of the seas, the Russians don't add anything of note to the naval war. The European front is a bit more dicy, however Russia is going to be getting hammered in multiple places and distracted from seriously contributing to the European front, in favour of protecting it's Empire. Japan and Britain are going to take Vladivostok, China might have a go at taking back lands as well. There would also be pushes from India into Russia, and the Russian Far East is definitely a loss. Ottomans opposing the League are going to allow Royal Navy operations up into black sea. Japan is allied to UK, China is definitely not friends with Russia.Īustrian Navy gets wrecked or bottled up. Ottomans ain't staying Neutral, neither are Italy.
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