1918

The May offensive of the royalists failed, as soon as it began. Canadian and Australian units in Scarborough refused to engage their brothers - the British proletarians. General Pershing at a secret meeting of the commanders of the troops of counter-revolutionaries and interventionists admitted...

Ok, so this was kind of brought up a few years ago, but I had some specific thoughts - even putting aside the role of shipping troops around had in spreading the disease OTL, we should also remember the role that the affected countries commitment to the ongoing Total War also seriously hindered...

So apparently the WAllies attempted to kill Kaiser Bill by bombing run in 1918. Saying this succeeds, how does it change the fate of the monarchy in Germany? Will the WAllies be more or less favourably disposed to the Hohenzollerns if Kaiser Wilhelm II is definitely off the scene? What of...

Basically what it says on the tin, what were the allied war plans for 1918. I know that previously, the allied forces made their plans during the winter in Chantilly, to my knowledge they did this in 1914-16, but I haven’t found anything about a 1917 conference. I have recently been trying to...

OTL, a week after the Imperial family was murdered (17 July 1918) the town of Ekaterinburg fell to the Whites (25 July 1918). Is it possible for the Czechslovak Legion to get there early. I don't say that they would ncessarily rescue the emperor etc (as the Bolsheviks falsely believed), but I...

I was watching a new episode from the Youtube The Great War series, which led me to this scenario. The Battle of Baku, right at the end of World War I's Caucasian Campaign, was a rather fierce engagement between the forces of the Ottoman Empire's Army of Islam on one side, and a coalition...

In a scenario where the Spartakists successfully took power in 1918-19, creating a German People's Republic, who would be the leaders of such a Communist Germany be? Would there be a single dictator on top or would it be more of a "government by committee" dealie where the leader of such a...

IOTL, at the end of World War I, Turkey was allowed a free hand in the Caucasian Isthmus after the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk and the Treaty of Batum, which stipulated that the Ottoman Empire was allowed freedom of movement of goods and persons through the territory of the modern Republic of...

The german high command in 1918, wary of the imminent entry of the US in the war, decided to try and knock off the entente as quick as possible before the americans could enter instead of offering peace negotiations. The subsequent series of manoeuvers was known as the Spring Offensive...

Native American resistance what if's come up fairly regularly on the board, and, as I often respond, I don't think there is any real chance for North American Natives to effectively resist European encroachment past maybe the mid 18th century. That said, an interesting, if rather depressing...