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Post by lordroel on Jan 6, 2020 16:37:47 GMT
Their tactical approach is similar to the other Great Powers in 1914: move mobilised forces to railheads, advance by foot preceded by cavalry screens, make contact with the enemy and either defeat them in pitched battle or try and hold them whilst other units outflank and surround them. The powers of the offensive were less than those of the defensive in 1914, 1915 and even 1916. But the result will most be the same as OTL, a revolution in Russia and the end of the Tsar reign. |
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Post by simon darkshade on Jan 7, 2020 0:20:54 GMT
That much is definite, given the state of Russia prewar. The full account of their political development is in the 1947 short story ‘Reds’.
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Post by lordroel on Jan 8, 2020 16:34:52 GMT
That much is definite, given the state of Russia prewar. The full account of their political development is in the 1947 short story ‘Reds’. So Does Russia in 1914 had a good air force. |
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Post by simon darkshade on Jan 9, 2020 6:14:02 GMT
The Imperial Russian Air Service is the third largest in the world in 1914 behind Germany and France and has the best long range heavy bombing aeroplane in the world, the Sikorsky Ilya Muromets, but the majority of its aircraft are French and British planes. Some useful Sikorsky fighters are built in 1915, but the circumstances of The Great Retreat limit what Russia can do in the air.
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Post by lordroel on Jan 9, 2020 16:35:32 GMT
The Imperial Russian Air Service is the third largest in the world in 1914 behind Germany and France and has the best long range heavy bombing aeroplane in the world, the Sikorsky Ilya Muromets, but the majority of its aircraft are French and British planes. Some useful Sikorsky fighters are built in 1915, but the circumstances of The Great Retreat limit what Russia can do in the air. Would the Ilya Muromets be something like OTL design ore a Darkearth verse desgin. |
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Post by simon darkshade on Jan 10, 2020 0:04:05 GMT
It is quite similar to OTL.
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Post by lordroel on Jan 10, 2020 8:42:31 GMT
It is quite similar to OTL. A, it is a great bomber looking at it. |
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Post by simon darkshade on Jan 10, 2020 13:40:31 GMT
It is one of the better looking bombers of the initial years of the war. By 1917 and 1918, there is a lot more use of the larger British types such as the Vimy and the V/1500.
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Post by lordroel on Jan 13, 2020 4:57:25 GMT
It is one of the better looking bombers of the initial years of the war. By 1917 and 1918, there is a lot more use of the larger British types such as the Vimy and the V/1500. Always have a soft spot for the Gotha G.V bomber and the Zeppelin-Staaken R.VI, would there be bigger once like that in the Darkearth verse. |
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Post by simon darkshade on Jan 13, 2020 7:08:02 GMT
There are larger German bombers, but the overall strategic air offensive is broken and stopped earlier, with the final 18 months of the war seeing very heavy British bombing of Germany, including strikes on Berlin.
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Post by lordroel on Jan 13, 2020 15:34:10 GMT
There are larger German bombers, but the overall strategic air offensive is broken and stopped earlier, with the final 18 months of the war seeing very heavy British bombing of Germany, including strikes on Berlin. Strike on Berlin, i assume they take of from airfields in France. |
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Post by simon darkshade on Jan 13, 2020 15:49:40 GMT
No, the RAF bombs Berlin from airfields in East Anglia, as was planned for 1918/19 in @. The V/1500s have a very long range and heavy bomb load.
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Post by lordroel on Jan 13, 2020 15:57:46 GMT
No, the RAF bombs Berlin from airfields in East Anglia, as was planned for 1918/19 in @. The V/1500s have a very long range and heavy bomb load. Never knew that, thanks simon darkshade, i learn every time from you. Seems that the OTL bombing mission they had planned was a shuttle mission, to bomb Berlin, fly on to Prague as the Austro-Hungarian forces had surrendered by then, refuel, re-arm, and bomb Düsseldorf on the way back. |
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Post by simon darkshade on Jan 14, 2020 1:00:21 GMT
These missions were direct bombing raids rather than shuttle bombing.
In many ways, the fighting and way of war in 1918 bore a strong resemblance to the Second World War rather than the stereotypical image of WW1.
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Post by lordroel on Jan 14, 2020 3:50:03 GMT
These missions were direct bombing raids rather than shuttle bombing. In many ways, the fighting and way of war in 1918 bore a strong resemblance to the Second World War rather than the stereotypical image of WW1. But no Battle of Berlin then. |
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