WI:Greeks at Galipoli

What if Greeks had landed at Galipoli instead of ANZAC forces?

Would the Greeks preform better? Would the Greek Goal of liberating Constantinople influence the soldiers to much better fighting men than they normally would be?If they prefrorm better (maybe even reaching Constantinople), could Greece make more Post-War gains?(assuming allies win)

Where would the ANZAC forces end up if they didn't land in Galipoli?

How does the course of the war develop if the Greeks won at Galipoli?
 
Uh, if anything, the Greeks would do worse than the Anzac forces. No amount of fighting spirit is going to outweigh shoddy logistics and supply lines, which I think would trouble the Greeks if they attempted a landing.
 

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What if Greeks had landed at Galipoli instead of ANZAC forces?

I take it from this that all other forces, British and French, remain the same and the landings are conducted in the same way but with the Australian and New Zealanders being replaced by the Greeks?

The result is the same or worse.

Where would the ANZAC Corps be deployed instead? Probably on the Western Front as they’d originally been intended to and ultimately went after Gallipoli or in Sinai, pushing through to Palestine.
 
The Gallipoli campaign happened months before Greece actually joined the war on the side of the Entente, so first you would have to get them to actually join the war.

Which, though possible, I can't see happening. In fact, getting Greece to join earlier could very well weaken it's fighting capability (what little it has) due to the strife it could cause.
 
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If Greece loses a lot of manpower and materiel in a botched Gallipoli campaign, then Greece probably wouldn't be able to mount their post-WWI incursions into Turkey
 
Uh, if anything, the Greeks would do worse than the Anzac forces. No amount of fighting spirit is going to outweigh shoddy logistics and supply lines, which I think would trouble the Greeks if they attempted a landing.

Plus "Fighting Spirit" and "Machine Guns" are an ugly mix. No amount of Byzantine irredentism is going to overcome the cold hard physics of Mr. Maxim's gun.

Biggest butterfly is maybe a lot of the more fanatical Greek Irredentists die in the war, which could mean no Smyrna war post WWI.
 
A better bet, plausability-wise, would be that after the landings Greece joins the Entente and THEN it replaces the battle-worn ANZAC with its own army as fresh troops at the Gallipolli front...

That would make sense, because it would be looking at the landings as a sign that it was time to jump in, a sign that Britain is on the offensive and not the defensive, and that it mustn't miss its chance for glory

Maybe Constantine dies early so Alexander gets to make the decision

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If Greece doesn't invade Turkey after the Great War, does that hurt Ataturk's efforts to rally the Turks? Enough, perhaps, to allow the British-French partition plan (a really bad idea IMO) to go forward?
 
Gallipoli would be a decisive Ottoman victory instead of a year-long comedy of errors on the part of the Allies and a crowning moment of awesome for the Ottoman Empire. It would likely be as ignored in the ATL as the Mesopotamian Front of WWI is IOTL.
 
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