What countries would be in this alternate Triple Entente and Central Powers if France had defeated Prussia
How would France win the Franco-Prussian war?
The French tried that IOTL, but it didn't work: generally, after the first few waves of Prussian infantry were shot down, the Prussians just got their guns to blast the French into smithereens. Getting a better artillery arm would be a better bet, IMHO.More defensive tactics that will the superiority of the Chassepot and a better use of the machines-guns the French owned.
Mmh, that is basically how WWI went in the Bonaparte's Legacy mod for Darkest Hour (though there the Franco-Prussian war was avoided instead), with the exception of Britain. In that mod the British had declared war on France over their invasion of Belgium in WWI. The creators apparently were fond of parallelisms.So if a Balkan crisis leads to a general European war, its essentially Austria and France against Russia and Prussia. But southern Germany will be in the Austro-French sphere. Italy will be neutral at first, but will want to join Russia and Prussia if it looks like they are winning. Turkey will lean towards joining the Austro-French side, however both Turkey and Italy will want to be careful to wind up on the same side as Britain.
The French tried that IOTL, but it didn't work: generally, after the first few waves of Prussian infantry were shot down, the Prussians just got their guns to blast the French into smithereens. Getting a better artillery arm would be a better bet, IMHO.
What countries would be in this alternate Triple Entente and Central Powers if France had defeated Prussia
Why do you think Napoleon III would insist on giving land to Russia if he won the war?Austria hungary and russia would probobly get silesia , Russia getting lower silesia, Posen, Krakow, mostly polish majority areas, for congress poland, to reward the poles and keep them loyal. and congress poland being one of the richest regions in Russia, I assume they would do that
Russia would join em if Prussia seems to be doomed. To gain prestige and a quick victory, And france is like austria who is isolated in Europe, If he gave that land, well it's gonna go into france's favoirWhy do you think Napoleon III would insist on giving land to Russia if he won the war?
The "smartest" option feels like the Wettin one. But I could see France taking more land than that and it's perhaps more plausible they go for one of the first two.If France wins enough to impose terms, which of these old territorial borders is France more likely to claim from the German states if it wins, a relatively modest increase to get the borders of 1814 (in orange) or a much more dramatic increase to get the border of 1801 (in blue)?
How well, or poorly, would either of these impositions be received Europe-wide or in Britain?
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Yet a third option, perhaps more sensitive to the divisions between German states, might involve French annexation of Prussian Rheinprovinz only, leaving Bavarian Palatinate alone, while resurrecting all the states liquidated by Bismarck in 1866 like Hanover (a sop to Britain & Hanoverian/Guelph sentiment?), Electoral Hesse, Lauenberg, etc.
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A fourth option might be France being restrained and taking no territory for itself, but resurrecting all the states liquidated Bismarck in 1866, and then brokering an exchange of the Rhineland-Westphalia to the Wettin Dynasty of the Kingdom of Saxony, to get the Prussians off France's border, compensate the Wettins with a larger Kingdom, and keep the Prussians and Austrians in each other's faces.
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