Russia, Germany and France vs Britain and Japan

1905: France, Germany and Russia vs Britain and Japan


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Given the fact that they are loosing A LOT of money due to the trade disruptions AND are bound to lose ALL of their colonies if they keep their war up, the mainlanders are running against the clock.

Well, Germany lasted 4 Years fighting Russia(Men Bleedout), France(Trench Warfare), Britain(Heavy Blockade) and the USA(Infinite MOney). While the Mainlanders might not be able to invade Britain at first, I'm certain that will change when their combined industrial might slowly alter the naval strengths to the point where Britain is, Sea-lioned, to say the least.
 
Well, Germany lasted 4 Years fighting Russia(Men Bleedout), France(Trench Warfare), Britain(Heavy Blockade) and the USA(Infinite MOney). While the Mainlanders might not be able to invade Britain at first, I'm certain that will change when their combined industrial might slowly alter the naval strengths to the point where Britain is, Sea-lioned, to say the least.

Assuming this war is started in 1904 under the Tories, how will the Liberal and Labour parties as well as popular opinion react in Britain. What about the Irish nationalists, both the constitutional and Revolutionary ones?
 
Off the top of my head I think the pre dreadnought breakdown at the time was 48:18:15:12:10

Britain, Germany, Russia, Japan, France

The Russian fleet is roughly split 5, 5, 5 between Baltic, Black, and Pacific.

We can safely assume the Japanese will account for the Pacific fleet and that the Turks will close the Black Sea.

The best recollection I have of British fleet deployments in the era in that in 1904 16 battleships were deployed at home and 10 in the med and 7 in the far east (india, singapore, ahong kong and Australia).

Imagine that major French fleet movements to the Atlantic would be shadowed by British redeployment to the home fleet.

European fleet action is probably 40 Royal Navy pre dreads against 35 continental powers vessels assuming that the continental powers didn't have any battleships in the colonies..

Furthermore I would imagine that British Eastern Fleet vessels would be rushing west as soon as possible to reinforce at leat the med in case of a Russia break out from the black sea.

All in all advantage to the islanders it depends on if Russia can get their stuff together to invade India and Korea whether they can hurt Britain and Japan enough to offer some form of reparations.
 

Ryan

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All in all advantage to the islanders it depends on if Russia can get their stuff together to invade India and Korea whether they can hurt Britain and Japan enough to offer some form of reparations.

given how otl russo-japanese war went I highly doubt the Russians will be able to pull off any worthwhile invasion in those regions.
 
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