IMNSHO, Douglas Haig was one of the worst Generals of all time; despite evidence to the contrary, he persisted in the utterly useless offensives, throwing away British lives for no or minimal advantage. He also consistently lied to the British Government about what was happening, suppressed press reports from the scene, passed on only those which showed the British in the best possible light, well and truly acknowledged intelligence reports which showed the Germans 'about to crack' (for literally, months on end). To this day, the German casualties on the Somme are vastly exaggerated. After the war, Haig wrote a self-apologetic memoir, claiming that his strategy all along was to wear down the German Armies, costing them inordinate amounts of manpower in exchange for all those British casualties. Utter rot, and honestly, Haig should have been court-martialled and shot for being one of the most effective German commanders of the war. And he was, of course, the British Commander-in-Cheif at the time.



Romania hasn't entered the war yet; their utterly cynical entry-entering the war only because they were bribed by the Western Allies, mainly with promises of territorial aggrandizement at the expense of Austria-Hungary-will be on the agenda soon. The Central Powers were utterly unsurprised by this; hence, the formation of the Transylvanian Army.

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