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Where to land.... Between Guneyli and Bolayir from looking at Google earth the land is flat and just under 3 miles from shore to shore. Would that be a good place for a landing intended to cut the LOS to the forts on the European side? Eventually to have say 6 divisions 4 facing...

How to get troops to shore.... Rowing ashore in open boats has limited utility and would lead to massive casualties but WW2 landing craft are out. I thought of the barges that the Germans put together for the unnamed sea annimal... The Med tends to be a lot calmer than the channel so they...

That would be the SMLE that was fast enough and accurate enough that the Germans thought it was machine gun fire? The fast-operating Lee bolt-action and large magazine capacity enabled a well-trained rifleman to perform the "Mad minute" firing 20 to 30 aimed rounds in 60 seconds, making the...

If it is seen as non-communist might it be easier to have an alliance with France and the UK? Or if early enough would it handwave support for the republicans in Spain - Hitler might still not like the Russians but could you have a Spanish-Italian-Russian Axis?

Sorry - I was assuming a European Army

Well - against the Zulu in their home territory a heavily armoured force would lose most of its soldiers from heat exhaustion before they got into combat..... 1000th post.....

Oh - one reason there is no battle of Tannenberg as OTL is that on 20th August Prittwitz does not telephone to say that he intends to retreat beyond the Vistula as he did in OTL. Instead he waits until after his subordinates have pursuaded him to not to do this an instead tells Moltke that he...

On 3 November 1914, Churchill ordered the first British attack on the Dardanelles following the opening of hostilities between Ottoman and Russian empires. The British attack was carried out by battlecruisers of Carden's Mediterranean Squadron, HMS Indomitable and Indefatigable, as well as the...

again from 1912 The old mine fields forming three barriers at Kum Kale, Chanak and Nagara were reinforced by two additional mine fields with Whitehead mines of the latest construction at Kephes. Later The Turkish government replied to the Russian protest that the Dardanelles could not be...

I voted for a Theocracy - but only as long as it is a real Theocracy and not the versions we normally get which is more of a Priestocracy.

Ok - still not found anything on which of the mine fields were added after the first naval bombardment - well I know one of them but not sure of the others. However from an account I found the Turks brought up 5 Infantry divisions as reinforcements. Since they had 6 at the OTL landings that...

Resources for this are not coming from weakening the western front and the Germans thus doing better - they are coming from the Allies doing better in 1914. For example Plan 17 being cancelled after the first week before the real slaughter of the French started. The Russians will not make...

But the British are the lost tribe of Israel they will be fine :D

Had their seniority dates been the other way around they may well have advanced to meet to the Zulu in the open - that was the Infantry solution. The Engineer solution was to dig in....

The person who suguests she was killed is tried... First, it is high treason to "compass or imagine the death of our Lord the King, of our Lady his Queen, or of their eldest son and heir." The terms "compass or imagine" indicate the premeditation of a murder; (It is interesting that at...

If the Germans achieve a fluid front would not this play into the hands of the Allied tanks? Yes I know they are not fast - even the whippets hardly deserve the name BUT would they not be even more deadly against troops out of their fortified lines? I seem to recall a few whippets got into...

Just further proof that the empire on which the sun never sets has been chosen by God to bring the benefits of civilization to the great unwashed hordes.... And the Boars will still mutter about God not trusting the British in the Dark

Possible? The fate of the Goeben. (Change to OTL where bold starts) Possible? 18th November 1914 - sailed to intercept Russian Fleet that had bombarded Tredizond on the 17th. Engaged with the 'Evstafi - hit by a 12" shell whilst the 'Evstafi' was hit 4 times. Goeben and Breslau...

I remember war gaming this on a church hall floor..... By an absolute fluke the Hood landed her first salvo directly onto the Bismark - 8 15" shells all hitting at the same time does not a happy ship make. Under the rules we were using the Bismark had to make a number of 'saving throws'...

LOL this thread just came up in a google search for 'naval actions black sea 1914' on the first page.....