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No, we haven't really examined it in detail. In general terms, I expect it to have gone broadly like historical, substituting Atlantis for the United States. The British Empire would be smaller and not contribute so many troops, but the Germans have to also fight the Nordmarchians in the east, and the Atlanteans are making up the British shortages in theatres like Gallipoli. At sea, the Nordmarchian surface fleet is largely inconsequential, apart from one botched invasion attempt, because the Baltic is dreadnought-unfriendly. Atlantean and South African seapower is significant on paper, but in practice both are likely dealing mainly with submarines and occasional surface raiders. Even in the Med, Atlantis' naval contributions shouldn't change much, and they're only freeing up British and French pre-dreads that aren't going to see action against the High Seas Fleet anyway.

I think it's a mistake to assume that Wesworld's Great War was, however, the "War to end all Wars." Our WW1 included all of the world's major powers in two blocs - UK/Japan, France/Russia, Italy, USA versus Germany, A-H, Ottomans. The war left one bloc in ruins militarily, wiped out Russia for a while, and mainly left the victors to slowly turn on each other.

In Wesworld, we've had two blocs as well - UK/Japan, France/Russia, Nordmark/South Africa, Italy, Atlantis versus the same line-up of Central Powers. But we also had some major powers sit this one out: Iberia and the USA. So while we've got the same squabbling amongst former allies that we had historically, we also have two major powers that saw what happened in the war, didn't suffer much from it, and probably profited in some respects. They don't like each other, and they don't much care for most of the victors of the war either - the USA's neutrality probably meaning that relations with Britain are cooler than historical.

Whereas WW1 left our world with three blocs over time (UK/US/France, Germany/Italy/Japan, USSR), Wesworld's Great War has left us with six. These are the UK, USA, AANM, FAR, SAE/Nordmark, and SATSUMA. Two of these were essentially untouched by the war, two others only moderately affected. Makes sense to me that there will be more conflict and more arms out there, even if the participants of the Great War are exhausted and only hanging in so they don't get thrown from the top of the ladder

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-Was Belgium overrun and the propaganda of the terrible Hun put about?

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-Did the British blockade include the Netherlands as historically?

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-Did the fighting lock up in trench warfare on the western front?

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-Was there the unrestricted submarine warfare?

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-Did Wilson make his 14 points speach?

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-Was Poland carved out of Germany, AH and Russia as historic ?

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Originally posted by Kaiser Kirk

-Was Poland carved out of Germany, AH and Russia as historic ?

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No idea: the US was not in the war, so if he did it would have been an outside voice speaking to the warring nations, though there IS a League of Nations.

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Yes, or approximately so.