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  1. German blockade of the Baltic in World War 1

    During World War 1, why couldn't Russia continue maritime trade by routing ships through the territorial waters of Sweden? On one end Swedish territorial waters were adjacent to the Gulf of Bothnia and on the other end Swedish territorial waters were adjacent to the Skagerrak. I don't think...

  2. World War 1 air raids on the port of Pula / Pola?

    I feel like a known alternate history scenario is an early version of the Pearl Harbor / Raid on Taranto idea. The usual context this comes up in is the Royal Navy's plans to attack the High Seas Fleet while it was at anchor with Sopwith Cuckoo's launched from early aircraft carriers. However...

  3. Mobilization and conscription during World War I

    Apologies that this isn't strictly an alternate history question but I have a question about how countries mobilized manpower for their armies. I feel like I'm most familiar with how America and the United Kingdom formed their armies, presumably because of a self-centric bias of the anglosphere...

  4. The Danish Campaign: an alternate timeline

    THE GRAND FLEET IN THE NORTH SEA 1914-1915 ITS CREATION, DEVELOPMENT AND WORK by ADMIRAL VISCOUNT JELLICOE [1] Excerpted from Chapter IV, page 88 [1] The following excerpt from a narrative written in the alternate timeline, equivalent to this one in ours, and the one my writing here uses as...

  5. Occupation of the Netherlands during World War 1

    As a spiritual successor to threads about the invasions of Denmark and Norway during World War 1, I'd like to ask about an invasion of the Netherlands, especially because the main way it changes the strategic situation is that it gives Germany major ports in striking distance of the English...

  6. von Spee’s cruisers based out of Namibia (German South West Africa)

    What if by design or happenstance a German cruiser squadron was in modern Nambia when World War 1 started? - Germany had minor naval bases at Swakopmund and Luderitz Bay - Tsingtao was historically the base of SMS Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, but was vacated immediately by major German ships -...

  7. Second (Third? First and a half?) battle of Heligoland Bight

    No, not the November 1917 second Battle of Heligoland Bight. What if shortly after the first Battle of Heligoland Bight, the Royal Navy returns to try and replicate their apparent success? As far as I’m aware, the Royal Navy had no other operations in September 1914 that required their...

  8. Alternatives to Scapa Flow as a base for the Grand Fleet during World War 1

    Shortly prior to the outbreak of World War 1, Scapa Flow was chosen to be the base of the Royal Navy during wartime. Scapa Flow is a huge anchorage, but had a lot of predictable disadvantages. Infrastructure to support capital ships was essentially non-existent: ships undergoing maintenance or...

  9. Invasion of Norway World War 1

    What if Norway was drawn into World War One in a similar way to how it was in World War Two? I was reading Jellicoe’s book on the Grand Fleet and there’s a line about the uncertainty on the German fleet’s movements. The Royal Navy had to guard against an attack on English Channel ports, but...

  10. Dredging a channel through Øresund

    I admit this ocurred to me from thinking about the Baltic Project of WW1, but what if there was a desire to dredge a channel through Øresund? I believe it's historically been navigable to marine traffic but there are size limits. What if there was a desire to expand the navigability of Øresund...

  11. 1914 Royal Navy Baltic Sea or Black Sea squadrons

    Prior to World War 1 Germany's navy was mostly oriented against Britain in the North Sea, but detached a battlecruiser, 2 armored cruisers, and many more light cruisers to overseas stations where they could be (and ultimately were) cut off from a return to Germany. What if the British Royal Navy...

  12. Belgian coast not occupied in World War 1

    I'm curious about if it is even possible for the Belgian coast including ports like Ostend and Zeebrugge to hold out from German invasion. I haven't read about the Western Front in any great depth, but it strikes me as odd more effort wasn't expended to do so. I mean, Britain ostensibly entered...

  13. British invasion of Denmark at start of WW1

    I'll admit this one is a bit of a stretch because historically the British were ostensibly intervening due to German violation of Belgian neutrality. However, the British did specifically have a distant history of violating Danish neutrality (see "Copenhagening") and at least contemplated with...

  14. Mackensen class battlecruisers in WW1

    What if the Mackensen class battlecruisers (and possibly other large surface ships) had been given higher priority and completed during World War One? I think it’s an interesting POD because it seems plausible and impactful. The German fleet of capital ships throughout the war sought to destroy...

  15. Goeben Atlantic breakout

    What if instead of heading east towards Constantinople Admiral Souchon takes the battlecruiser Goeben west towards Gibraltar in an attempt to break out into the Atlantic Ocean at the start of World War One? This was a course of action included as a possibility in Souchon’s initial orders and...

  16. Battleship Minas Geraes sold during WW1

    Prior to WW1 the Brazilian navy acquired dreadnoughts of the Minas Geraes class but suffered from some buyer’s remorse. They sold the Rio de Janeiro / Agincourt. I believe they considered selling the Minas Geraes too, but I’ve never seen it discussed whether this was of concern to major powers...

  17. Powerplant upgrades of WW1 battlecruisers

    I have been considering how economically viable it would have been to upgrade the power plants of WW1 battlecruisers to keep them in service as for use as classical cruisers, in comparison to the economics of building classes of new “Treaty” cruisers. (Obviously in a no recognizable Washington...

  18. Japanese zeppelins?

    What if Japan had tried building rigid airships in the 1920s or 30s? I know the USA, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and Russia all operated rigid or semirigid lighter than air vessels during the time period. All these nations had a dirigible or two crash and then moved on, suggesting Japan...

  19. August 1914 clash of dreadnoughts

    As points of alternate history discussion, re-hashed Jutland variants are pretty common. I think there's some features of Jutland that make it an attractive point for timelines: it was indecisive, the underdogs gave a good showing, and it's pretty much set at the midpoint of WW1. I've also seen...

  20. Renown class battlecruisers converted to aircraft carriers

    I feel like conversions of HMS Hood to an aircraft carrier are considered in alternate history scenarios often enough. IOTL the Courageous class actually were converted to aircraft carriers. But I haven’t seen much speculation on the conversion of the other large fast WWI era hulls at the Royal...
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