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So at the start of WW1, there where quite a few important battles, with most of them going the way of the CPs:


German invasion of Belgium & northern France - limited CP victory
Germany fails to knock France out, but still manages to occupy critical areas, hampering the French war effort

Battle of the Frontiers - decisive CP victory
French attempt to invade Alsace-Lorraine and are crushed

A-H invasion of Serbia - Entente victory
Serbians repulse Austrian attempt to conquer them

Russian invasion of east Prussia - decisive CP victory
Russian efforts end in complete disaster, with the only silver lining being that some pressure was taken off France

Battle of Galicia - Entente victory
Russian forces destroy A-H pre-war army


But WI the Entente had a much better performance in 1914?

Let's say the French decide to stop the German advance into Belgium before invading A-L. They dig in somewhere in western Belgium and, after a bloody battle, stop the German advance. Casualties similar to OTL, just that the front settles much, much further east.

In East Prussia, the Russians deploy different generals, preferably ones who don't work against each other, and by sheer weight of numbers, they push the outbumbered Germans across the Vistula.

In the Mediterranean, the Goeben and Breslau are sunk, and diplomacy keeps the Ottomans neutral.

In Galicia and Serbia, the Austro-Hungarians are defeated as OTL.

Consequences ?
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