WI: Confederate Tank Offensive in Great War.

[Snake Featherston]

We all know that in Turtledove's Great War series, the USA wins due to Custer's (as Wikipedia calls it) Barrel Roll Offensive, but what if the CSA had launched that sort of offensive on the Roanoke front in 1916? How would warfare have changed? Would the Confederate States have had a World War II-type tank battle in 1917, as opposed to the Turtledove timeline's 1941 battles?

 

[Fenwick]

I don't think the confederates could have made such an offensive in 1916. The book made a point how it didn't have the industry to make more then a few dozen.

 

[Snake Featherston]

In alternate history, anything can and does happen. So, the question remains, if the CSA had launched a Tank Offensive, how would that have changed war? And if they could only make a few dozen in 1916-1917, how did they make all those tanks for Blackbeard in 1941? Plot hole alert!

 

[robertp6165]

And if they could only make a few dozen in 1916-1917, how did they make all those tanks for Blackbeard in 1941? Plot hole alert!

No plot hole. They were able to do so because Jake Featherstone built a whole lot of factories to build tractors to replace the negroes on the farm and also, not coincidentally, to create the industrial base to build tanks.