DBWI: Franco-Prussian War

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For that they'd need the Bavarians and other South German States to join. One reason they lost was that they couldn't achieve German unity. Also allying with Italy could have been a good idea.
 
To see Prussia dominating the German states is something Frederick the Great had started, but his successors failed epicly.

Not to mention that the House of Bonaparte could have been thrown off the throne if Prussia somehow managed to get to Paris.
 

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To see Prussia dominating the German states is something Frederick the Great had started, but his successors failed epicly.

Not to mention that the House of Bonaparte could have been thrown off the throne if Prussia somehow managed to get to Paris.
Probably earlier, Nappy III was already losing support. The Second Empire gained some steam by beating Prussia, but if they had lost the Third Republic would have been proclaimed earlier.
 
Probably earlier, Nappy III was already losing support. The Second Empire gained some steam by beating Prussia, but if they had lost the Third Republic would have been proclaimed earlier.

Paris might even go crazy - socialists could conceivably take control of it.

Also, I think the NGF could expand its influence to the southern states, especially Bavaria.

And wouldn't a Prussian victory be a diplomatic coup for Bismarck?
 
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Probably earlier, Nappy III was already losing support. The Second Empire gained some steam by beating Prussia, but if they had lost the Third Republic would have been proclaimed earlier.

I beg your pardon, but Napoleon III did never lost support. The Second Empire was stabilizing in those years. In fact, it could have lasted had the Republicans not won the 1896 election, which was 16 years after Napoleon III's death.
This is was quite tragic for the Imperial family... Being forced out of France like they were when the Third Republic came around. Poor Napoleon IV died three years after he was overthrown.
 
To see Prussia dominating the German states is something Frederick the Great had started, but his successors failed epicly.

Not to mention that the House of Bonaparte could have been thrown off the throne if Prussia somehow managed to get to Paris.

Would this bring about a British intervention on the Continent? Prussia unites the German states, allies with Italy, then conquers France?
 
WWI as we know it could not happen without France controlling the industrial rheinland. The British- (north)German alliance would be butterflied away, too.
 
This is horible Monsieur, I do not see how those weak and arrogant Prussians could have dealt with our great emperor Napoleon III we we, the Prussians were bound to lose messiers cause we French had the superior army and are the dominent power of Europe.... You are lucky Op that the French gov has not caught this you know how they crack down on anything that brings up those nasty Germans nationalism, we can't let those greedy Germans any room for nationality for if we do they will revolt......
 
Sorry to say this but don't DBWI's go into sandbox :(

OOC: No! DBWI's belong in the forums. It's those silly RPs pretending to be DBWI's that belong in the Sandbox.

IC: What would Prussian victory mean for the other nations of Europe? A united Germany of that extent could quite feasibly make attempts at becoming a greater European hegemon, not to mention a colonial powerhouse. Would we see the United Germany make attempts at absorbing German Austria or Bohemia? What would they focus on?
 
How well could Protestant Prussia have integrated the Catholic South German states? I imagine they would've done less colonization, not more. How would Prussia have afforded to settle Samoa or Namibia if it's busy integrating the South and trying to play hegemon? Not to mention, colonization would've meant possibly stepping on British toes, as it did in East Africa.
 
How well could Protestant Prussia have integrated the Catholic South German states? I imagine they would've done less colonization, not more. How would Prussia have afforded to settle Samoa or Namibia if it's busy integrating the South and trying to play hegemon? Not to mention, colonization would've meant possibly stepping on British toes, as it did in East Africa.

Not to mention Bismarck's opposition to colonisation in general, but we all know what the Prussian King thought about it.
 
This is horible Monsieur, I do not see how those weak and arrogant Prussians could have dealt with our great emperor Napoleon III we we, the Prussians were bound to lose messiers cause we French had the superior army and are the dominent power of Europe.... You are lucky Op that the French gov has not caught this you know how they crack down on anything that brings up those nasty Germans nationalism, we can't let those greedy Germans any room for nationality for if we do they will revolt......

Oh please, France stopped being important when you lost the Great War against North Germany and Britain.
 
Oh please, France stopped being important when you lost the Great War against North Germany and Britain.

Of course, then they lost another war against the Swiss and their Greater Alpine Alliance. The Swiss are brutal fighters though...

OOC: And it becomes a roleplay :rolleyes:. The question is clear: What would happen if the Prussians won the war? This universe doesn't need developed beyond events that directly correlate to the Franco-Prussian War's outcomes. What Great War? What Greater Alpine Alliance? These need not exist (the latter is just... well, silly).
 

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OOC: And it becomes a roleplay :rolleyes:. The question is clear: What would happen if the Prussians won the war? This universe doesn't need developed beyond events that directly correlate to the Franco-Prussian War's outcomes. What Great War? What Greater Alpine Alliance? These need not exist (the latter is just... well, silly).
OOC: Blah, blah, blah, it's not a DBWI, blah, blah. With that said we can continue.

IC: Well the Alpine Alliance of course defeated a France already crippled by the war. Also a France that at this point switched between Imperial and Republican government once a year. I'm not saying the Third Republic would do any better if France lost the Prussian war. It would probably, like OTL, be a short lived experiment. However the French were growing so tired of the emperor, that they needed to experience how bad and fucked up democracy is before they could appreciate the Bonapartes again.
 
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