WI: WWI Central Powers win the Balkhan front.

What if in early 1916, the Serbs are forced to surrender after the Bulgarians join the Central Powers? Also Albania and Greece remain completely neutral.
 

JAG88

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What if in early 1916, the Serbs are forced to surrender after the Bulgarians join the Central Powers? Also Albania and Greece remain completely neutral.

You mean 1915? BEcause the Serbs were crushed later that year.

If its 1915 yes, what he said, likely no Italy, no evacuation and no Salonica either.
 
My mistake.

Would this have any major benefit for a Central Power victory? As in would Austria Hungary and the little German troops devoted to that front concentrate on a specific front or just spread out amongst the west and east?

An Austria Hungary concentration on the west may put too much pressure on the French and British and would Bulgaria send troops to support the Ottomans or go after Russia? Considering they know the Greeks are devoted to neutrality and see no way of entering the war.
 
No evacuation and no Thessaloniki would be extremely bad for Serbia, which would be devastated by the CP occupation even worse than IOTL...but it won't be a major benefit for the Central Powers war effort and, depending on how things proceed, it might not be a benefit to the Central Powers at all.

It frees up troops for other fronts - some CP troops, but also over a dozen French and British (and Italian) divisions. According to some estimates, the lack of a Macedonian front would even actually benefit the Entente - I'm not 100% sure, but it's quite possible. Especially as Bulgaria will almost certainly declare it has done its part of the job and spend the rest of the war sitting on the sidelines.
 
At least German and Austro-Hungarian troops could go to the Western, Italian or Eastern Fronts. Bulgarians would watch the Greek and Romanian frontiers and Entente troops would reinforce the Western and Ottoman fronts.

For Serbia to fall means Italy didn't join the Entente, the question is how? The Germans made a deal? The CPs did better in the West and Italy became less interested in joinning the suppossed "losing side"? Lot of variables.
 
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