Trying to figure out realism in our exaggerated Great War has been an exercise in bashing our head against a brick wall for about four years now :P. It's kind of gotten to the point for us old fags that we pretty much gave up trying and are working with it, though a few helpful things happened in mainland Europe to make it more believable. As Vilage has said, our Great War compliments the over all absurdity of the Precipice brand, where Spain can be the US, and China can become a thing in ten-fifteen years, where Ethiopians who never heard of 'food' can dominate the entire center of the African continent, and where the Germans decide to elect in referendum a construction worker to be the Kaiser because he's related to House Hohenstaufen.

But there's a lot of empty space in the lore concerning the Great War that from a story standpoint there's a lot that could have gone on. I think on and off we've tried to do something to explore that period, but we never got around to it.