Austro-German border, 6 May 2011
''Grenzer, still awake? Grenzer, do you copy?''
''Hear you loud and clear, Jaeger.''
''I wonder when we'll get our signal.''
''Fool, shut up! Italians are listening our communications.''
''Who cares, their Ariete tanks are no match for our Leopards.''
''It's easy for you to say that, you lucky devil. Your unit is made of brand new Leopard panzers. If my brigade encounter Italian elite tank unit, they'll open our old tanks like tins.''
''What the hell is that?''
''Can't you hear? This is Preussens Gloria. Damn Germans and their glory, they have chosen their best military march for signal. Good luck my friend, now we are in war with Syndies. Start your engines, let's see who will be first in Rome.''
Mitteleuropa has joined the war. Austria has massed seven field armies on Italian border. Six air squadrons were assigned to clear the sky while Imperial Navy stayed in ports to avoid battles with superior Italian People's Navy. Altough they were already fighting Western fleets, Syndicalist navies were still very strong force.