The Balkan union(1912-Balkan countries unite)

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(Sorry for making a second thread,but I wasn't sure how many people read everything including page 2,so here is everything until 1916
PART I
After the first Balkan war in 1912 the balkan countries(Montenegro,Serbia,Bulgaria and Greece) turn into one nation-The Balkan Union(TBU),so that they could defend themselves against the Ottoman Empire.
Capital:Sofia(Yes,that is because I am bulgarian,but Bulgaria would be second in by population in the TBU)
Official Languages:Montenegrin,Serbian,Greek and Bulgarian
Population:about 13 million
Form of government:constitutional monarchy
THE BALKAN COUNCIL
The Balkan Council is made out of the monarchs of the former nations:
George I of Greece:
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Peter I of Serbia:
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Ferdinand I of Bulgaria:
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King Nikola of Montenegro:
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The most important part of the government,but not the only one. TBU constitution gives them more power,but not absolute power.
1st Prime Minister of TBU was Eleftherios Venizelos.He was considered to be the best choice by the Balkan Council (BC):
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THE SECOND BALKAN WAR:
The preparations for this war were very fast because of the first war.The war started on the 1st of March 1913.The Ottoman empire started to advance in the beginning but when TBU gathered their armies they pushed the Ottomans and after a few months(on the 15th of October 1913)the war ends with the Treaty of Constantinople-The Ottomans have to cede Constantinople to the TBU an pay war reparation of about 500 000 Ottoman lira.From now the capital of TBU will be Constantinople.That is a map of TBU after the war.
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PART II
With the end of the second balkan war,the Great Powers of Europe thought that TBU is getting too big.They agreed that they have to do something about it.The Balkan Council knew that TBU can't go to war with the great powers,that's why they decide to disarm TBU and give parts of Serbia to A-H and cede Southern Dobruja to Romania.The people tarted to hate the BC for the loss of territory.The risk of a revolution was getting higher.
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Black-Territories that TBU gave to A-H
Red-Southern Dobruja,now part of Romania
Start of WW1
Russia decides to help TBU return their territories and the two nations form the Orthodox Alliance.Very soon other countries join the OA(China,wanting to take some lands from Japan,Germany,because they want to fight against France and the UK) and on the other side are France,Austria-Hungary,Japan,because they have to defend against China,Italy(they made an alliance with France and A-H)and the Ottoman Empire(They still want Constantinople)
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Flag of TBU(thanks to occam):
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The Peace League(France,Austria-Hungary,Japan,Italy and the Ottoman Empire)decide to attack the OA on the 15th of February 1914 declaring that this is the only way to keep the peace in the world.The war starts when A-H and the Ottomans attack TBU.The Austrians move through Romania occupying the unprepared Romanians and reaching the weak positions of TBU.
CENTRAL FRONT

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The Central Front is the front between A-H , the German Empire and The Russian Empire.The first battle is the battle near Cheb,Bohemia.The Russians attack Galicia and move through the San River.The Austrians have to abandon TBU offensive and some divisions have to go to the Central Front.Some Italian divisions help A-H.This is one of the biggest fronts in the war.
SOUTHERN FRONT
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The Southern Front is the front between TBU,A-h and the Ottomans.The Austro-Hungarians don't attack for now because of the Germans and the Russians,but they sill have infantry and artillery regiments,including the Landswehr regiments.TBU has been disarmed,but with of the other OA countries they arm their people again.The Ottomans are preparing to attack ,which will result in one of the biggest battles in history,The Battle Of Constantinople.The Balkan Council says that it will never let the New Rome to fall back into the Ottoman Empire.Other OA countries go and help for the defenses of the Second Rome.
Western Theater
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The western theater is a theatre of operations that encompassed at its greatest extent the entire frontier between France on one side and Germany and the UK on the other side.Germany's focus is on the Central Front,and France (with Italian support)decide that this would be a good opportunity to attack and in the first few days they advance into German territory.The British have to move through the English channel and the French are waiting for them in France,this means that they won't be able to advance for the first few months.
Eastern Front
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The front between China and Japan.The Chinese attack Korea,but there are no big changes in the frontlines.
African Theater
The african theater will be the battles between the Ottomans and the British,but for now there are no battles.
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Dark Red-Gains of TPL
Dark blue-Gains of the OA
Can you tell me the names of some generals and where were they assigned ?
The Battle of Constantinople
One of the bloodiest battles in history.No country woul let the other take the city again.
The town is littered with shells, bodies and weapons. Red, and silver are the new colors of what was once a serene, trading town, which has now become the stage of a terrible battle.The big cross on Hagia Sophia is now red because of the battle and the soldiers that tried to protect the church.
The air which would normally be rich in the scents and sounds of hard work is now glowing red with fire and thick with smoke, ash and embers, a sight of pure nightmares.

Two armies fight each other due to a difference in beliefs, but there's no hint of which side will win. The dead and wounded of one side are scattered across the town and the faces of the fighters are hopeful with their muscles tense and anxious and nervous, yet steady breathing, they push harder and harder on the enemy.

With a strong possibility of pain or death the other side ferociously battles their enemies. Some have succumbed to exhaustion and are sleeping amidst debris, rubble and their wounded, while others just wish all this was over.

The toll on both nature and humanity is immense. It'll likely take a lifetime before this town will have recovered. It's clear weaponry, rubble and blood have taken the place of parks, buildings and gardens.
The Soldiers of the Union manage to push the ottomans back,but this will be the first of many battles
Battle of Prague
The Germans continue to advance in Austria-Hungary and when they are close to Prague,they see the Austro-Hungarian trenchlines.They have to dig in and defend themselves.This will be a war of attrition.
France
The wars in here take a different approach and and aren' so static.The French win victory after victory,but the British invade.
Russia
The trench wars in here are more successful.The Austrians become weaker and weaker.
China
The Japanese are far more trained and destroy the Chinese armies.The Chinese might surrender soon.
1915
August von Mackensen(leading the German operations in the Balkans) creates the Mackensen offensive.The plan is to attack A-H occupied Romania and A-H and reach Vienna with TBU army and the 9th army which is the army that von Mackensen had command over.Initially the plan worked,they pushed the Austro-Hungarians out of Romania with Russian help,but stopped advancing in the middle of Hungary when the biggest TPL armies arrived to help A-H push the OA out of Austria-Hungary.The Germans on the German keep pushing into A-H as well.The Austrians are losing their hope.The Austro-Hungarians were dispaired of their offensive
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August von Mackensen before the Mackensen offensive,Belgrade,1915
The Russians help the Chinese push Japan out of Manchuria and turn the tide on the Eastern front.The Japanese(through propaganda)manage to gather a big army-The ground trembles as an army of 500,000 marches forward. An endless barrage of the sound of thousands of feet marching onwards, like a giant snake sliding smoothly across the lands.The front is lead by the infantry ready to fire.They're followed by cavalry armed with swords and rifles, who in turn are followed by the artillery armed with howitzers and in battle they would be accompanied by the Japanese Airforce.
The ranks are filled with many other regiments, including mercenaries and allied soldiers, including several defensive units, various charging units and various flanking units.
The war wasn't popular in Britain and after the casualties they back off from the war but are oficially stil part of the OA
The french advance came to a halt when they met the German Artillery
In order to end the stalemate on the Central Front,The Germans had to invent a armoured car that can move through all types of terrain .The German engineers led by Joseph Vollmer created the Kaiserpanzer-a bigger version of the armoured car with a 57mm gun and many machine guns as a secondary weapon.Most generalsbelieve that the panzers won't be used in the trenches a lot,but soon they find that they are important on the battlefield

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Vollmer-German panzer engineer
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The first kaiserpanzer, about to engage austro-hungarian armies in Brünn, Moravia
The panzer was a massive success on the front at first not because of its power,but because of the fear that it caused in the ranks of the Germans and the Austrians.The battle would be won by The OA a few months later and the Germans will continue to advance in A-H.The desertion rates were high for a few weeks before things calmed down.The German War ministry ordered 10 panzers,because after it's initial success they didn't think they would need many panzers.On TPL side the situation is pretty bad - the Germans are winning the battle and the OA is close to Wien.The conscription age is lowered and the Austrian army is growing
Italian and French Armoured cars are being delivered to Austria-hungary in massive amounts,together with Austrian cars.TPL's scientists,engineers and designers are working on something to fight against the panzers.Some of the panzers are sent to the Western Front to defend against French forces.
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German officers in front of a panzer,1916,Freiburg
Tell me if you liked it and how can I make it better:)
 
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BooNZ

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Thanks,but it's not ASB,it's just extremely unlikely or almost impossible, but that doesnt make it ASB.

For an after 1900 POD you actually require a camp of ASBs...

...as an aside, the red team looks like it was made up of those allies no one else wanted.
 
Thanks,but it's not ASB,it's just extremely unlikely or almost impossible, but that doesnt make it ASB.
You could maybe pull it off, but you'd really have to justify why all these culturally, linguistically, and ethnically different countries would give up their sovereignty to form a single nation in such a short period of time. It's not impossible to get a Balkan Union, but one just straight up forming like here is not realistically possible.
 
so that they could defend themselves against the Ottoman Empire.

You could maybe pull it off, but you'd really have to justify why all these culturally, linguistically, and ethnically different countries would give up their sovereignty to form a single nation in such a short period of time. It's not impossible to get a Balkan Union, but one just straight up forming like here is not realistically possible.
I know that's not enough,but I didn't want them to lose a war,it would have been easier if they lost the first balkan war.
 

BooNZ

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You could maybe pull it off, but you'd really have to justify why all these culturally, linguistically, and ethnically different countries would give up their sovereignty to form a single nation in such a short period of time. It's not impossible to get a Balkan Union, but one just straight up forming like here is not realistically possible.
Also,
  • Why do the Ottomans kick-off a second Balkan war against this Balkan Union after they have only just lost the first Balkan war?
  • Serbia and Bulgaria gifting away core territories with strong majorities? Really?
  • Why has China decided to attack Japan when it is clearly outmatched?
  • How has Italy become allied with France, A-H and the Ottomans - and against GB?
  • How does A-H faced with the Balkan Union, Germany and Russia - not only survive, but casually capture Romania?
  • How do French bayonet charges suddenly become effective against entrenched German machine guns?
  • OTL Russia was probably the most belligerent great power, but appears to have done nothing?
As an aside, the picture King Nikola of Montenegro looks quite striking. I recall reading somewhere he did a good job marrying off his daughters - I wonder what the hell they looked like?
 
Also,
  • Why do the Ottomans kick-off a second Balkan war against this Balkan Union after they have only just lost the first Balkan war?
  • Serbia and Bulgaria gifting away core territories with strong majorities? Really?
  • Why has China decided to attack Japan when it is clearly outmatched?
  • How has Italy become allied with France, A-H and the Ottomans - and against GB?
  • How does A-H faced with the Balkan Union, Germany and Russia - not only survive, but casually capture Romania?
  • How do French bayonet charges suddenly become effective against entrenched German machine guns?
  • OTL Russia was probably the most belligerent great power, but appears to have done nothing?
As an aside, the picture King Nikola of Montenegro looks quite striking. I recall reading somewhere he did a good job marrying off his daughters - I wonder what the hell they looked like?
1.It really looks like the Otttomans started the war,but that isn't what I meant,I shouldn't have said that that they had to gather their armies
2.They couldn't afford a war with A-H
3.I will focus more on the Eastern Front in the next part,the Chinese hope that other members of the OA would help them.
4.If TPL they will take some lands from TBU
5.That was before the OA attacked,I wrote that the Russians and the Union push A-H out of Romania,and the Mackensen offensive pushed them deeper into Bosnia,Dalmatia and Croatia-Slavonia
6.They weren't ready for that attack
7.They are in the middle of Hungary and Transylvania now,so they did a lot on the Central Front,I just didn't make another map,but I wrote it
I don't think Nicola looks strange,George I looks more interesting
 

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I know that's not enough,but I didn't want them to lose a war,it would have been easier if they lost the first balkan war.

Please note that you need to put everything into the SAME thread, at least until you hit 500 posted pages (that is generally around 10,000 posts) when you will need to start a second thread. As such, this thread will be locked.

Making some event happen just because you want it to is called Handwavonium. That is NOT acceptable in the "main" Forums, you have to come up with something that is remotely plausible, by your own statement here you do not feel it is plausible as written.

As posted this is either the opening of an impossible without divine intervention T/L (i.e. ASB) or something that should go into the Writer's Forum where massive handwaves are a matter of due course since the work there is pure fiction and is not expected to be plausible in any way, shape or form.

RE: The original post- Board policy is that posts must be text based since this is NOT an image board (there are lots of those that delve into AH, at least as part of their overall postings). In pre & post 1900 that means at least one solid (not one sentence, but a good amount of text) paragraph for every image (outside of Pre/post the limitation is THREE images PER DAY). You didn't even come close. The OP is closer to a slide show than any sort of text based T/L.

So, you have three options: Move to ASB, move to Writer's or rewrite the OP to get a plausible POD.
 
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