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This thread will be a companion thread to Wiking's Conrad thread. It will generally lag Wiking's threads by a few months since it is largely an analysis of butterflies from Austria doing better and Italy not joining the war. Initially there will be almost no butterflies, but overtime, I expect greater divergence from OTL. In the first 9 months of the war, there are two big items driving changes. One is the Austrian 2nd army went east, not south. Since the information coming out of Austria was very confused IOTL, it will be spring before I look at butterflies. If you look at NY Times reports of the eastern front IOTL, you would have trouble telling if it was talking about OTL or TTL in 1914 and very early 1915. Italy not joining the war will cause divergences by mid 1915, after the beginning of the Gallipoli campaign.
I will start writing the thread with the Ottomans entering the war. This is mainly so I get into the flow of writing the TL and so it does not abruptly start mid war. If you are familiar with the war, you can largely skip until I get to March 1915. There maybe minor butterflies (ship sunk here, regiment moved there), but they will basically be foreshadowing of where the story is going. I will also largely be copying Wiking formatting of his TL- both to try another writing style and for consistency.
If you have any butterflies you see before around May 1915 based on the other two parts of the TL or there is some area of particular interest, please post a reply. The formatting being used allows a lot of flexibility in either going to a very high summary level or writing in much more detail. I hope you enjoy the read.