WW1 still going strong in 1930 or 1940's

A-H, Serbia, Russia and the Ottomans have Colonies to raid?

They might, depending on the POD. Or WW1 might start as historically and then evolve in a strict colonial conflict as European powers realize going after each other's homeland will result in massive losses for little gain. What if Kaiser Willi has listened to Bismarck this time, and has not annexed Alsace-Lorraine? Then France has no lasting quarrel with Germany, and hasn't courted Russia as a result. Russia and Great Britain may have much closer ties than in OTL, and WW1 could see an Anglo-Russian alliance pitted against a Franco-German one.

Also, the Ottomans have their extensive Arab possessions. The Russians have vast territories in Siberia, and well, there's the Polish and Finnish part of the Russia Empire that could be considered colonies in a way. There's every major power or the time carving up China. The alternatives to WW1 as we know it are many...
 
This entire thing is almost impossibly ASB; ....
Simplest way to a much longer war is if the French Army mutinies and collapses in 1917 just as the USA declares war. If the British are driven out of France and Italy collapses before the USA mobilizes, you can have a 1942-3 analogue which could last much longer because it will be much harder to land in Europe with no Eastern Front and little air power. You can also have a larger and longer Anglo-American intervention in Russia. However, I agree that to carry it on into the thirties would imply that the leaders were idiots ... Oh dear! They were idiots!
 

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Simplest way to a much longer war is if the French Army mutinies and collapses in 1917 just as the USA declares war. If the British are driven out of France and Italy collapses before the USA mobilizes, you can have a 1942-3 analogue which could last much longer because it will be much harder to land in Europe with no Eastern Front and little air power. You can also have a larger and longer Anglo-American intervention in Russia. However, I agree that to carry it on into the thirties would imply that the leaders were idiots ... Oh dear! They were idiots!

Well... there's idiocy and then there's "you-deserve-to-be-shot-in-the-head-because-you're-clearly-not-using-it-right-now" idiocy. The war itself was the former; continuing it into 1930 as a semi-naval stalemate when neither side can DO anything is the latter.
 
Well there alot of good ideas and I like the Dieselpunk touches of Tannhauser board game, if the Great War was still going on in 1965 like in Iron Storm PC game the Allies sell shares on the Stockmarket to fund the war sort like a hyper version of a War Bond.

Now in this setting which I think should be late 40's to early 50's, which is perfect Dieselpunk setting. One the subject of fortfided trenches yes they would have that on the battlefield armed with Lighting gun towers, like in Gear Krieg there called Tesla Guns. Each year the Centeral and Entre powers arimes would for most of the time be in there treaches taking pot shots at each other and they would have Two to Three pushes each year and that hit run tactics as well mention previous posts.

Yes there will be Supertanks on both side would use them these great land battleships would have crew of 50 and power by four Diesel engines power plants.

Now on the homefront there would be anti German feelings and actions in North America, for example in the USA like the 9/11 aftermath they renamed foods and removed German sign and town names and removing German music and books from the public. German North Americans and British were harassed and beaten up by viglante groups.

In the USA Prohibition would still going on, due to the fact that most major breweries were own by German Americans and were seen as possable agents of Imperial Germany and most of wealthy German americans to were forced to buy war bonds to prove there national loyality.

So in this setting there would be cigerates with no filters and no chemical dips, and no American Lager.

LW
 
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