AHC: Make WW1 A Bloodbath

A counterpart to this thread.

I have read that Austria-Hungary took 90% casualties within its armed forces. Somehow make it so that this statistic is true of the majority of each nations combatants.
 
Well, one case of Ebola on the Western Front and it gets rather red and messy in a hurry. Especially if it finds one side pressing into the other and the disease gets spread to both sides. How about an earlier gatling gun with semi-modern technology, i.e. car batteries powering very fast rotating turrets that can mow down legions of troopers at one time. Have Yellowstone go off while Europe's farmers are on the front, starvation and exposure by the thousands means everyone's screwed. Etc.
 
Well, one case of Ebola on the Western Front and it gets rather red and messy in a hurry. Especially if it finds one side pressing into the other and the disease gets spread to both sides. How about an earlier gatling gun with semi-modern technology, i.e. car batteries powering very fast rotating turrets that can mow down legions of troopers at one time. Have Yellowstone go off while Europe's farmers are on the front, starvation and exposure by the thousands means everyone's screwed. Etc.

Hell while we're at it have a meteor crash into France!
 
Well, I figured a reverse Sealion with Byzantine shock troops and support from capital ships of the Confederate Navy was over the top...
 
Have every battle be like the disaster at Beaumont-Hamel, where the Newfoundland Regiment was massacred when they did some parade drill before charging a line of machine guns alone in open daylight, on a clear day, with no artillery support. 110 men out of 780 survived!!!
 
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