Recent content by WeissRaben

Ah, Italyscrew, a classic. Germany literally has to concede stuff, definition is "no-one gets everything they want", but Italy is literally forced to fight alone for being in better shape than the French and left to hang. Yet again, despite OTL being an Italyscrew already from the 1500s onwards...

I see what you mean, but honestly Austria is more likely to work itself to a nub not unlike what Italy did, because the tactics on the two sides weren't really that dissimilar. In fact, I would say that if A-H feels like they can go full on the offensive on the Italian front, this is a net loss...

Caporetto was already close to being boxcars for the Central Powers and snake eyes for Italy - as much as I like to wax poetic about the Piave as any other patriotic Italian, and there absolutely was some amazing willpower by the Italian soldiers even when everyone had taken them for goners...

Yes please. Put as many Italians as there are Germans in Austria-Hungary, this sure won't cause any issue.

I have a strong feeling that's a Communist Italy there, by the 50's at best. It's just a gut feeling, mind you, but the rage that is still pointed at the Yugoslavians even today (though by a very ideologically-defined fraction of the political spectrum) would probably go towards the Allies as...

Yeah, people overlook that part often enough. Early rearmament means you are building your stock over plans, exercises, wishes, and dreams. Rearming later does get you caught with your pants down, probably, but you will rearm across the needs of the current war.

Yes, but a cowardly idiot. The one and only reason he jumped in is because he was convinced the war was done already. If that's not a given (even less than OTL, at least), then Mussolini will keep faffing. Not that he couldn't end up in the war through other stumbles, but he won't just declare...

I think that, beyond the memes, this specific reply gives a lot of insight on that: The Italian front was... well, awful. All the way through. There are countless memes about the 87658756th Battle of the Isonzo River, but the truth is that it was literally the best option. Italy had zero good...

I mean, even in these threads there are more maps that are significantly worse than OTL for Italy than the opposite, and OTL is already kind of an Italyscrew already, so.

I mean, Mussolini was 0% interested in actually fighting a real war against France or Britain - he only jumped in when he assumed there was no more fight to be had beyond the deeply theoretical. With France holding, he will default to his base position: that Italy is in no shape to fight up to...

Imperial Japan was in an unwinnable war because it was Imperial Japan, with a given ideology and tactics. A hypothetical not!Imperial Japan in the same situation could have forced the US to throw the towel à la Vietnam, but the same hypothetical not!Imperial Japan probably wouldn't have gone to...

While acknowledging that you did specify it is not meant to be overly realistic, this really requires no Tito, as the genocidal bastard really wanted to have all Italians out of his Yugoslavian Lebensraum and had got started long before the solution of the Trieste issue. At the same time it also...

Germany was never going to be happy with any treaty saying "you lost", but yet again, they didn't need to be happy about it. They needed to be able to get resigned about it. Just don't alienate Italy, hold the wheel straight and tight on reparations and other Versailles provisions, and give...

And how useful was that 35k tons battleship, compared to the carrier? I say this as an absolute fan of battleships who thinks that they were killed some 20 years too early by the poor showing of Japanese AA: if you need to wring the most use out of a capital ship, carriers were the way to go...

Italy is a mess, in the immediate - it's just bled dry by WW1, and OTL they had put all naval construction on hold before the treaty even existed. Up to 1925 nothing changes significantly, I expect - maybe the Caracciolo isn't actually scrapped, but it sure isn't getting completed. Afterwards...