How would this WWI look?

elkarlo

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I know, but I kinda wondered if Spain joining the Central Powers would have any kind of effect on Portugal joining the Allies.


they'd prolly want some more out of the deal. Also, they would prolly demand a corp of so be available to them.

Really, unlike OTL, Portugal would be using up Entente troops rather than adding to them on the WF.

What was Port's shell/ammo production OTL? I am sure they would have to be heavily supplemented in ATL.
 
Army:

Let's say Spain fields 400,000 soldiers by 1915. Netherlands will send 100,000 to the west front. Sweden will probably fight Russia with 100,000-150,000 troops. Let's say 25,000 Finnish nationalists will help.

With Sweden in the war Russia will be forced to mobilize at least 200,000 troops to that front.

France will be forced to send at least 350,000 to keep the Spanish force at bay in the Pyrennes.

Britain will probably send 50,000 troops to Gibraltar.

This puts the numbers in the favor of the Germans. Paris would probably fall in 1915. France probabl wouldn't surrender but it would be offer by then.

By 1916 France surrenders, Germany swings East. Possibly diverting some troops through Finland. Russia is now fighting a three pronged assualt. Russia will see defeat in Finland and German but victory gainst the Austrians.

Italy probably won't join the war.

U.S. may join allies after France falls.

Navy:

Spain will likely tie up at least a handful of British ships for a year or so. This would not really effect much but the German blockade might be a tad less effective. Gibraltar most definately won't fall. Or if it does it will be at the bottom of the sea first.

With the addition of the Swedish navy the Russian Baltic fleet will be trashed.
 
Just a nitpick:

First is the Aland Island are unfortified.

...until May 1916. In early summer the Russian "Turku-Åland Fortified Position" became operational, with 17 coastal artillery batteries made of mostly 120 mm and 152 mm guns, with attached support troops (the "Åland Sea Battalion", engineers, etc.), gunboats and support vessels. Nine of the batteries were on Åland proper, the rest in the Turku archipelago. The position also included defensive minefields, naturally.

Not that I am saying these batteries or minefields would stop the Swedish (and Germans) taking Åland. But they would provide some resistance, or at least a delay, to an invasion of Åland after early 1916. And no doubt the Russians would expedite building the position if the Swedish joined the war in 1914-15, probably also attach stronger units to it.
 
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