AHC: Make WWI last as long as possible

BlondieBC

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Assuming you want it to broadly look like OTL war.

Need to look at order nations failed. First we have to deal with A-H which had both heavy losses and severe food issues. If you have Romania not join the war, you get a million tons of extra cereal plus less stress on A-H. Is this enough to get A-H into 1919? Maybe.

Then deal with the USA. Need them to enter some number of months later. This part is tricky. The USA needs to enter as late as possible but still save France. So maybe the USA joins the war 6 months late.

Also be nice if the blockade was looser.
 
Assuming you want it to broadly look like OTL war.

Need to look at order nations failed. First we have to deal with A-H which had both heavy losses and severe food issues. If you have Romania not join the war, you get a million tons of extra cereal plus less stress on A-H. Is this enough to get A-H into 1919? Maybe.

Then deal with the USA. Need them to enter some number of months later. This part is tricky. The USA needs to enter as late as possible but still save France. So maybe the USA joins the war 6 months late.

Also be nice if the blockade was looser.

Kill two birds with one stone and have Italy stay neuteal. Vienna gets to free up that while front and access Italian food output, and with a Great Power in Europe on the neutrals list the Brita won't be able to adopt nearly as strict a "rationing" and search policy on non-belligerents or apply a doctrine of continual journey/final destination. Italy, Sweden, and the Dutch than make a killing transhipping Latin American material to the CP
 
Could trench warfare kept on going virtually in perpetuity? Or would Germany collapse eventually, and if so, when? Or could the Allies have executed a successful flanking manoeuvre?

How about Germany take the UK more seriously and does not invade Belgium.

The Ottoman Empire and Italy stay on the sidelines as does the UK

So The Russian Emprie lasts longer and the Western Front is half the Length (Alps to Luxumburg)

The fighting along this shortened Western Front is everybit as savage but with no opportunity to manouvre every attack fails and the Trench works get more intensive

With the Darenelles open for Russian trade and Britain and the USA free to supply whome ever they like (bit flakey on exactly what this would look like but you get the idea yeah?) - Russia get the supplies it needs to keep fighting for longer and Germany is not blokaded either

But this is all turning into a European and less of a World war!
 
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