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No, but then if the Germans succeed in the west then them being crippled no longer matters.Depends when it gets beaten. In 1914 the BEF is six infantry and one cavalry division. Losing that just won't cripple the British
No, but then if the Germans succeed in the west then them being crippled no longer matters.Depends when it gets beaten. In 1914 the BEF is six infantry and one cavalry division. Losing that just won't cripple the British
How about post-WWI Lithuania ruled by the Urachs? I fucking hate that. It's both impossible and boring.
Because it appears pretty much everywhere where a CP victory takes place, even in timelines which should know better (*cough* Hakko Ichiu *cough*), and in pretty much all of these cases, nothing unique is done with Urach Lithuania. It is just presumed that they are doing fine as a German puppet and the population does not question it.You've talked about impossible before, but why is Urach-ruled Lithuania boring?
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunnyThat the Kaiserreich mod, designed for a game and fun, is somehow at fault for or the cause of cliches within alternate history timelines or larger failures of imagination within the AHC simply because it came out relatively early. At best it is an inspiration, but no one would would blame a HRE timeline on EUIII if the Author mentioned the Emperor revoking the priviligia as a single piece of legislation, it would be their own research failure.
As an aside, while an avid player of such, I am unassociated with the mod.
How about post-WWI Lithuania ruled by the Urachs? I fucking hate that. It's both impossible and boring.
I don't think China comes up in too much detail in these TL's, so make of that what you will. Russian Civil War, I think Whites winning with more foreign support is a cliche, since it presupposes a significantly higher burden than any of the other Great Powers were willing to bear IOTL somehow fixing all the problems with infighting they had.
...Elaborate please.Does that also include Rommel in Lithuania?
...Elaborate please.
Urach Lithuania scenarios assume that Lithuania only has a German king and the power is handed over to a local government - ignoring that Germany planned to colonize and integrate Lithuania and never agreed to this proposal in the first place - so Rommel would have no place there.Rommel coincidentally enough was Wilhelm Karl's, aide de camp.
True, therefore : no reason to "panick" in an early oss of the "ww" BEF of 1914.Depends when it gets beaten. In 1914 the BEF is six infantry and one cavalry division. Losing that just won't cripple the British
With China, you either get more warlords, separatists everywhere as well, or a resurgent Qing. That is If any of chaos of the 1910's isn't assumed to happen on schedule.
I will admit I am not particularly strong in my knowledge of 20th (or previous centuries for that matter) Chinese History, but what forces were at work to stabilize China any earlier than OTL? Granted the Japanese invasion did much to push that back, but even before that, did the KMT really have China on the road to stability?
Honestly, yes. The Nanjing Decade had its problems, but was far more stable than what came before and after, and provided steady economic growth as well as considerable progress modernizing coastal China. I've seen pictures of Nanjing from the time, and you could almost mistake it for any contemporary Western city. If anything, I've come to suspect that the main reason the Japanese invasion in 1937 was to put a stop to the KMT's progress before they could become a real threat.
I will admit I am not particularly strong in my knowledge of 20th Century (or previous centuries for that matter) Chinese History, but what forces were at work to stabilize China any earlier than OTL? Granted the Japanese invasion did much to push that back, but even before that, did the KMT really have China on the road to stability?
The KMT largely suffered setbacks from Yuan Shikai screwing thing up and throwing the country back into chaos with not bothering to do anything about the 21 demands and even accepting them to the whole Great Chinese Empire which was farcical. There was also the issue of regional control in the form of both Mongolia, well Outer Mongolia at this time and Xinjiang which hard to control for the young state.
The second part is not happening, but if it does Canada is screwed. It may not get annexed though.Canada always gets annexed or balkanized if the US joins the Central Powers.
Its really hard to come up with something better even with our hindsight. The plan does have a slim chance of working to the point of crippling France if a French army's retreat is blocked or the French abandon Nancy. If that leads to Italian neutrality or them joining the CPs then victory is possible. All other plans really just end in disasterThe Schliefen Plan was not per se a bad idea, just change this and that and Paris will fall and France and the BEF will surrender unconditionally.