Alternate post World War 1

Serbia to AH? No way.
A puppet serbia is most likely, but to annex them is out of the question.
(AH got her internal problems already, all they need is to make a new one)
 
A-H didnt wanted to have too much or too big colonies, they still had problems with their own empire and had to reform it, so the only wanted smaller colonies which cant led to too much trouble if they would revolve. Although A-H was very abitious to give all ethnic groups in their new colonies equal rights.

and A-H gets reformed to the United States of Greater Austria, a new serbian state will be made where all serbian majorities live so that nearly all serbians are united in one state , Serbia is a freestate and the most autonomous state of all in Greater Austria.
 
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BlondieBC

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Does A-H have the money for that? I seem to recall them constantly having training issues and recruitment problems as well...


Yes, A-H was one of the lower spenders per capita on the military. France was the largest, and Germany near the middle of the pack. The weakness of A-H related to appropriations in Hungary. Hungary was willing to lavishly spend on the military, but only for Hungarian units. The Austrians wanted to have the vast majority of the troops be under Austrian command. To the Hungarians, the Austrians were hamstring the Hungarians by limiting the number of the Hungarian divisions and really harsh restrictions on the TOE. At one time, Hungary wanted to buy artillery for its infantry divisions, but was told no, so they appropriated money for gattling guns, but the Austrians said no, that is also Artillery, but we will let you have them, but only for fortresses.

To an Austrian, the Hungarian parliament was holding the military budget hostage, for concessions on Hungarian power. A-H truly was a dual Monarchy in fact, not like Russia where the Dual Monarchy of Russia and Finland had little influences. For a modern hypothetical example, imagine the Dual Presidency (instead of Kingdom) of the USA and Mexico. Where the USA wants to tax Mexicans, draft Mexicans, but only allow them to serve under White officers and they must speak only English in the Military. Now imagine trying to get this bill through the Mexican parliament.

There is an old saying that you only find dead armadillos in the middle of the road, and the A-H government followed this pattern. They were neither an Austrian Empire with limited autonomy on local issues, nor were they a strong Austrian Empire, nor were they a true double state bound together by a common past and enemy (Russia).
 
yeah i know it is complicated but like i said, its better in my alternate A-H, maybe here they arranged an equal strenght of both militaries.
 
HI,
some questions but also suggestions
1.) you write germay (CP) wins... that is quite possible if the usa stay neutral, so either true neutral (entente crash around mid 1916 cause their economical situation is deperate (not buying goods from the usa, also they run into troubles (maybe even a threatening of war cause the brits annex american ships with non-military goods (food!) to germany)
But you really have to describe why great britain surrenders (!). I doubt they surrender, but i can think about accepting unpleasent facts (germany dominate central europe, keep or get back its colonies, get french colonies (instead of more money) or belgish congo (instead of belgish money)) and a peace, cause uk cannot harm germany
if the germans achive a breakthrough and get the bef things could work bad for the brits...
as i say you need really to explain why the brits surrender
2.) if germany win this war, force france to accept the loss of colonies it never ever will loose against a polish uprising... esp. with poland allready having the "kingdom of poland"... you also wrote that parts of prussia will be lost. Sorry - with such a powerful germany no part of prussia will be given up. this cannot happen in this way

I suggest you think about "what is my interest" and adjust the cp-victory...
 
ok i will take them in consideration.
The brits surrender because they see they lost, they are bankrupt and their colonies would cost more than they could be useful.
But as many seem to be againsti may think about that.

The Baltic states and poland got annexed though, later there are revoloutions, because polands and the baltics want to be independent, same with the german colonies, most of them (especially the afrcan ones) start to rebell.
 
ok i will take them in consideration.
The brits surrender because they see they lost, they are bankrupt and their colonies would cost more than they could be useful.
But as many seem to be againsti may think about that.

The Baltic states and poland got annexed though, later there are revoloutions, because polands and the baltics want to be independent, same with the german colonies, most of them (especially the afrcan ones) start to rebell.

Hi,
sound better :)

i suggest britain make peace after the loss of the BEF and france surrenders, like poland and italy (or let italy out of the way)
russia goes down as historically, just a year earlier (without entente support in money this could happen)

so the cp won this war, dictate the peace

Belgium loose all colonies, germany get em
france loose its colonies, germany get em
uk keeps its colonies, give back the german ones or the germans just keep the soldiers as prisioners... something like "all colonies (including the ones japan and australia took) are given back (so the germans need just one passenger ship and show the brits the finger :D) or the core of your youth rot in prisions... i bet the german colonies are given back faster as one can say "no".

after the victory the germans run into big problems...
the new countries in the east will in short time want independence... some (like poland (how surprising :rolleyes:)) will start a war and loose BIG time, others will start to get independence smarter...

the colonies the germans catched (and it look great on the map) will be a nightmare, very fast a lot independence movements (financed by the brits) start to make them unrest... some are given up (or given independence), some not.
the congo will again suffer... :mad:, in south-western africa it will be calm, also in the pacific and eastern africa...

but the rest? they will go into independence, either peaceful cause the germans recognize they cannot handle them or in unrest and war.

serbia will be destroyed, maybe parted in 3 or 4 parts and some are annexed, some are given to other neighbours (divide and conquer)...

russia will suffer big time, again as otl, but the reds will not win - or germany will strike.

that could be such a scenario (as you want it)

you still have to explain why the brits loose, why the germans catch large parts of their army and why the french surrender...
 
I am not sure, i dont think they should get all colonies, some colonies will be independent countries.
I have to plan that, i will do that later and make a map.
 
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sorry for double posting, but when i edit my old post nobody would notice it

So lets say A-H reformed, which led to much more satisfaction within the people. Greater Austria booms, has a good economy, industry and is a wealthy country.
How many inhabitants coudl Greater Austria now have under best possible conditions ?? maybe about 100 mio. ??

Also how would Lombardia look like, in the modern time Lombardian is one of the most richest and populated regions in Europe, it is only 23,844 km² big and still has over 9,93 mio inhabitants. Would this situation look different within Greater Austria ??

Imporant: In my Alt. Version of Greater Austria, it gained back Lombardia and Venetia, it also got Serbia.
 
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