The corollary what if: What if Canada joins the Central Powers and declares war on the United States?
And just how is Germany going to get those arms to Pancho Villa? Zeppelins?![]()
The corollary what if: What if Canada joins the Central Powers and declares war on the United States?
Canada as a belligerent against the UK? In the 1910's? Before the statute of Westminster? When foreign policy was still handled by the UK's government AFAIK? Canadians of the board forgive me if I am seriously misunderstanding the situation in Canada in the time, but this strikes me as even more implausible than Mexico invading the United States in the same period.
Good point! A Zeppelin would add a cool 'Diesel Punk' angle, but I was thinking of a more mundane approach, say freighter ships going through the Panama Canal, offloading to smaller vessels off the West Coast of Mexico and up the Gulf of Baja - literally a back door route.
Good. Sweet. Christ.
Freighter ships full of arms leaving Germany. During WW1. Crossing the North Sea. Through the Entente blockade. Crossing the Atlantic. Through the Entente blockade. Passing through the Panama Canal. Which is owned by the US. Delivering arms to Mexico. To be used against the US.
Good. Sweet. Christ.
Are you trolling? You must be trolling. I hope you're trolling, because the only other option which explains what you've written is much much worse.
Please say you're trolling.
Yes DL, just speculation. Please don't freak! I'm of the opinion, if there's a will there's a way, even through difficult obstacles.
If you were in the Kaiser's Intelligence in this scenario, and needed to get arms to Pancho Villa, by what methods would you attempt it it?
Thx loughery111
Please don't freak!
I'm of the opinion, if there's a will there's a way, even through difficult obstacles.
If you were in the Kaiser's Intelligence in this scenario, and needed to get arms to Pancho Villa, by what methods would you attempt it it?
Thx loughery111
Put it all in a barrel put the barrel in the ocean and hope it lands on a Mexican beach.
I just had this mental picture of Pancho and his men clad in old time, striped, bathing costumes complete with inner tubes around their waists and sombreros on their heads splashing around in the surf off Matamoros dragging ashore hundreds of 55-gallon drums full of Mausers...
I guess this thread has been good for something.![]()
Not really no; not when the Royal Navy had the German Fleet bottled up and the German merchant navy was either trapped in port or had been seized by the British or French.Yes DL, just speculation. Please don't freak! I'm of the opinion, if there's a will there's a way, even through difficult obstacles.
For starters Pancho Villa was not the Mexican Government, he was in rebellion against the Mexican Government so the best you can do for him is smuggling, which is going to be very limited and probably will not involve sufficient arms and ammunition to significantly improve his chances of toppling the government of Mexico let alone effect any change in his chances against the United States.If you were in the Kaiser's Intelligence in this scenario, and needed to get arms to Pancho Villa, by what methods would you attempt it it?
It was good enough for all the losers that payed money to watch ‘Tomorrow when the bullshit begins’.But... all they need to to is sneak one transport full of infantry in, right? They can leave it nearby for decades first. Oh wait, are we not playing Civ IV?
People are assuming that Mexico would decalre war in order to defeat the US, and that 1916 US is the same is 1918 US. Perhaps Mexico declares war on the US to prove a point and give them licensce to openly fight the US, who were engaged in the Punitive Exepition at the time.