kingmbutu said:
yay... good victory. How dare the Poles ask for independence though.
Ungrateful bunch of people, they should take a closer look at the Finns. They were loyal and only rose up once during the war, they might actually be rewarded for their loyalty.
Gnost said:
HA! I started thinking the same thing after I posted the comment. I set myself up for that one.
I'm doubting Germany will demonstrate the same rise as real life fascist Germany. I think they are pretty much done.
And good job on keeping Poland. I was going to be irritated if you just let them go.
You said you'll be continuing this on through HOI2, right ???
Not allowing an independent Poland can come to haunt me, though. As for Germany, they lost about 30% of their industrial capacity and a lot of valuable resources. With a decent leader they can become a stronger nation again, but they won't become as strong as the Nazi's ever were, and I'm sure Russia will intervene if Germany grows to strong.
Continuing into HOI2 is definitely a possibilty which I'm considering. Russia is now in an interesting position.
Ksim3000 said:
The war is certainly over! However, I do not like the division of the OE. Controlling Constantinople and Trabzon would be okay but wouldn't creating an independent Turkey made up of several territories be a better idea over all? Just for historical and realistic purposes, of course.
Also, what did Japan gain? And both Britain and France? And Italy, for that matter, aside from Anatolia?
The OE is indeed pretty awkward, although they're lucky Greece didn't join yet, then they would lose parts of Smyrna as well. This division comes from the Revolutions itself and I've not altered it. Although I don't see any reason from preventing Atatürk to seize power, although the Turkish War of Independence might become more interesting with Russia, France and Italy controlling large parts of Anatolia.
Japan gained most of Germany's pacific islands. Britain and France took all the remaining German colonies (Togo, Cameroon, Tanzania, some pacific islands) and the Middle-East from the Ottoman Empire. South-Africa gained Namibia and Italy gained some Turkish Islands, if they still held any as well as some provinces from Austria (South-Tyrol, Istria)
hasskugel said:
Looks good! I am interested to see the consequences for Eastern Europe!
Probably Russia in TTL would go about asserting its dominance in places like Persia and Afghanistan after such a successful WWI.
Unfortunately, Afghanistan is a satellite of Britain in the 1914 scenario (and thus in my mod as well). I could of course write an event which sets Afghanistan free in 1919 (as historical). Persia had already been devided by Britain and Russia in 1907, IIRC. The Great Game is virtually over, there are other places where we can successfully assert our dominance.
Wenis said:
I think a by denying the poles independence, they may have made enemies of all the minorities in their empire.
I can honestly say the russians will desire to take the rhineland (and maybe alsace-Lorraine) from france in some way or form in the future.
The Poles have rebelled a dozen of times under Russian rule, without it affecting other minorities too much, with the possible exception of the Baltic people. Denying their independence won't disturb Tatars, Ukrainians, Byelorussians, Finns or Armenians too much.
I have absolutely no desire in taking the Rhineland. It would be a logistical nightmare as I don't have direct access to the Rhineland. Although the only thing I can see happening is that Russia will put pressure upon the French to release a Rhenish state, which will remain under French influence. For now Russia has no business in Western-Europe.
NikkTheTrick said:
Russians? Rhineland? There is whole Germany in-between and Russia does not have any special interest in the area... If Russia gets Rhineland, it would be an enclave locked by France, Germany(ies) and Belgium form all sides...
It won't be if I annex Germany before taking the Rhineland
