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WWI Ideas and Inspiration
« on: January 27, 2012, 09:00:09 AM »
Hi folks,

A thread for your WWI Ideas and Inspiration - this includes air, land and sea ideas.

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Re: WWI Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #1 on: January 27, 2012, 10:44:11 AM »
My thoughts along WWI lines would be an extended war, although in all practicality it'd be difficult to hypothesise.  From all I've read, most nations weren't really keen towards War's end and were more than happy to see the backside of the whole debacle.

That said, a continued 'Cold War' as discussed on another thread might be an interesting venture or even something happening earlier, precipitated by other world events (eg: Crimea, Boer conflict, etc).

Either way, multi-turreted tanks and the Liberty series of the final WWI designs come to mind for starters.

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Re: WWI Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #2 on: January 27, 2012, 11:24:20 AM »
This genre is one I want to hit with a fairly serious degree of effort some day.   Steampunk-ish and anachronistic blends work so well.    GPS equipped carbon fibre Bristol Fighters,  Parasol, ski-equipped Albatrosses,  all metal Fokker D.VII's.   Steam powered guided balloons.    An Albatros D.V with spats.      Sopwith Pup or Camel that was built of laminated wood rather than the traditional means, except it's post apocalyptic shredding grey wood layers scarcely airworthy. 


And such.    8)

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Re: WWI Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #3 on: January 27, 2012, 11:29:29 AM »
Interesting you bring up this topic.  Recently going through some of stash I came up with a Spad modernization bash to do one day.
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Re: WWI Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #4 on: January 29, 2012, 04:32:15 AM »
What happens when you jumble the parts up:



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Re: WWI Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #5 on: February 04, 2012, 02:21:40 PM »
Hmmm -- Is that a pusher design?

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Re: WWI Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #6 on: February 04, 2012, 03:10:31 PM »
Considering mild-to-wild Spad bashes.  One idea is modern update with an OV-10A engine and wing tip Sidewinders.  Can make it pure air superiority or fighter/bomber.  Stealth style fueslage with V tail ?
Whatever works.
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Re: WWI Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #7 on: February 05, 2012, 02:23:12 AM »
Hmmm -- Is that a pusher design?

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« Reply #8 on: February 11, 2012, 03:30:00 PM »
WW1 based bash can be a Vickers Vimy or Gotha bomber (kits available) is stored (back of locked hanger kinda thing).  Is discovered in mid 1930s and modernized to be as combat worthy as practical.   Like re-engined, re-armed, enclosed cockpit, spats or semi-retracting landing gear, maybe 30s like rudder/stabilizers.
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Re: WWI Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #10 on: February 12, 2012, 03:41:57 AM »
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Re: WWI Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #11 on: February 12, 2012, 11:40:07 AM »
Morane-Saulnier is too good.   8)     I like it.
A follow on modified today might have a dry J-85.  Pilot has helmet with face shield and is mindful not to exceed critical Mach.

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« Reply #12 on: February 12, 2012, 07:14:01 PM »
Excellent work ! :-*

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« Reply #13 on: October 29, 2012, 01:06:10 PM »
Trench busting attack mono wheels.
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Re: WWI Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #14 on: October 29, 2012, 04:11:18 PM »
where i live, there are rellics of WW1 scattered arround the countryside for miles.
during WW1 there were about 7 to 8 airfields in a 5 kilometer radius from my home, sometimes, the british and German airfields were only seperated by 4 kilometers. today, there is pretty much nothing left, the craters left behind by bombingraids from both sides still litter the countryside, now serving as fishing and wateringholes across the farmlands.

one place in particular, that i pas on my way to work almost every morning is the site of the german "Lange Max" long range canon in Koekelare, it had a range of about 44 kilometers and could hit coastal targets in Dunkirk, it was the most inland placed coastal gun and a hard target for the allies.
it was dismantled during WW2, all that remains are the barracks (now a museum) and the implacement construction.

by the looks of the photo's and CGI rendering, it was quite an impressive piece of engineering.

Lange Max "Het groot Kanon" Koekelare juli 1917 Diksmuide, Moere, Oostende, Gistel westflandern


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Re: WWI Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #15 on: March 19, 2016, 06:09:12 AM »
Simple proposition that could lead to a couple of scenarios:  What if Germany and the Central Powers won WW1?

Potential scenarios (there are probably many others):

  • Britain financed the Allies until 1916, when it ran out of money and had to borrow from the United States - what if the US rejected this and decided to remain firmly neutral (no desire to get involved in a European civil war amongst empires)?  End result could be Britain (and by default the C'wlth) seeking an armistice in 1916/17.  Left by itself, France then either is defeated or at least seeks armistice as well.
  • French Army Mutinies of 1917 become more widespread leading to the French army essentially leaving the field of battle (quite possibly leading to revolution/civil war in France itself - maybe France goes a similar way to Russia even).  Britain and C'wlth left to fight alone and either are forced to seek an armistice or are thrown out of mainland Europe by a victorious Germany.
  • German Spring Offensive of 1918 is successful with the exhausted Allies thrown into disarray.  After 4yrs of war everyone has simply had enough and the Germans essentially have their own Hundred Days Offensive with the end result of the Allies seeking an armistice around 29 June 2018 (maybe 1 July is remembered as the new Armistice Day).

End result of this would be a victorious Germany and the Central powers.  What implications might this have?
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Re: WWI Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #16 on: March 28, 2016, 04:03:16 AM »
Possible results from above:




I could imagine a couple of scenarios for these:

  • A new extreme France or UK (imagine Nazi style France or UK - Turtledove style perhaps) thus resulting in renewed Deutsche Luftstreitkräfte; or
  • A scenario whereby there is ongoing peace and thus the above are Deutsche Luftstreitkräfte platforms from the late '40s/early'50s...
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Re: WWI Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #17 on: March 28, 2016, 05:01:05 AM »
In a short or medium term Germany attacks Soviet Union to defeat communists, maybe with the help of right wing of France.

What if a Luftwaffe '19, Panzer '19, aso ...?
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Re: WWI Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #18 on: March 28, 2016, 05:24:27 AM »
In a short or medium term Germany attacks Soviet Union to defeat comunists, maybe with the help of right wing of France.


So basically a replay of what happened with the Western intervention in Russia in 1919 but with a German flavour instead?
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« Reply #19 on: March 28, 2016, 05:48:12 AM »
Yes, but victorious Germans would be more involved IMO.

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« Reply #20 on: March 28, 2016, 07:07:12 AM »
Yes, but victorious Germans would be more involved IMO.

Maybe...but on the other hand, given Germany already had dealings with Lenin and had already agreed a peace treaty (Treaty of Brest-Litovsk) would they necessarily tear it up or would they simply be happy to draw a line under proceedings and let peace have a chance?  I suppose the issue would largely depend upon when the German victory occurred.  If early, then the above may not occur.  If in 1918 though, the victorious Germans may be simply relieved that it was over.
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« Reply #21 on: March 28, 2016, 09:26:24 AM »
I recall reading somewhere that an allied victory in WWI was inevitable, with or without US assistance, it just would have taken longer.  The RN blockade was starving Germany and while the French and British were both bleeding their empires could still be cannibalised to keep going, where Germany had lost most of hers and definitely any access to them.

I have also read that US industry benefited massively from transferred technology, processes and procedures from the UK and Europe.  For example the faulty RN shells we hear and read about so often were actually predominantly sourced from the US prior to their factories getting up to speed on the latest quality standards.  There is a school of thought that in two consecutive world wars the UK and Europe bankrolled the expansion and modernisations of, not only their own industries but also, US industry.  I am not suggesting in any way that the US was behind or backwards, rather that circumstances handed them, lock stock and barrel, the full sum of British knowledge and expertise on top their own.  Had the US stayed out of it they would have received none of the benefits of foreign orders boosting their own expansion and modernisation efforts, none of the technology transfers, tactical insights, access to detailed battle and damage reports, let alone intelligence obtained from the Central Powers.

The flipside is France and Britain would have bled deeper and for longer and would have had to make greater use of their empires, the British in particular having to invest in their larger, richer dominions to obtain what the US was not supplying.  Thus Canada primarily and to a lesser degree Australia and NZ would have seen their industries expanded and modernised to make up for short falls in the UK.  Many of the tactics used to end the war had been developed earlier than they could be effectively used due to lack of material, in particular artillery, this short fall was eventually made good by the US, had they stayed strictly neutral the short fall would have had to have been made up by the dominions meaning that all they treasure and credit the US earned during WWI would have ended up within the British Commonwealth instead. 

The war would have lasted longer, losses would have been greater, but the allies would still have won and the wealth and IP transfer from Europe to the US would not have occurred.  Also the US would not have earned the international prestige of being on the winning side and likely would not have had the diplomatic and financial weight to drive the Washington naval Treaty meaning the UK likely would have called it instead with a somewhat different outcome in terms of ship size and numbers.
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« Reply #22 on: March 28, 2016, 09:35:59 PM »
My point is not to be involved in the Russian Civil War but to begin Operation Barbarossa 20 years ealier; because soon or later, Germans will perceive communism as a menace.

IMO Germans trusted on Soviet Union after WWI because they have no choice.
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« Reply #23 on: March 29, 2016, 02:54:24 AM »
My point is not to be involved in the Russian Civil War but to begin Operation Barbarossa 20 years ealier; because soon or later, Germans will perceive comunism as a menace.


Fair enough.  As I said above, I think it would really depend upon when this alternate German victory might have occurred.  If earlier in the war then I believe a German invasion to eliminate the Bolshevik menace would be definitely possible.  If however, it occurred in 1918 (following a presumably successful spring offensive) then I believe the German forces/people would simply be glad the war was over and would have no desire for  a new offensive.  That's not to say one would occur in the mid 1920s or so though...
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« Reply #24 on: March 29, 2016, 04:31:35 AM »
Sorry. I think that this is pertinent.









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