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In world war 1 naval minefields grew throughout the war. Early in the war the minefields were much smaller so there was more room for strategy and wild ideas.
So for a crazy idea at Sea happens, Germany commits the entire High Seas Fleet into the channel in August 1914. It gets sunk in its entirety but they manage to sink 12 predreadnoughts of the Second Fleet and 2 dreadnoughts and a battlecruiser of the Grand Fleet. They also manage to lay mines on a number of French channel ports.
The fleet splits into smaller squadrons when necessary to escape superior British forces.
End result at Sea the German navy is gone and the Royal Navy takes minor casualties.
End result on land the build up of the British Expeditionary force is delayed by two weeks.
Is this enough to change the fate of world war 1 on land in the early battles like the race to the sea.
I know Germany probably wouldn't do this for the simple fact that the Kaiser wouldn't want to throw away his ships. That said I'm curious as to the result on land.