Originally posted by Allenby
Thanks. Taking the piss always wins me over.
Besides, I think Vulture wrote the Austro-Hungarian leader list.
yeh well, im always offensive, sorry

wasnt beein serious tho, the work you do is incredible and i cand wait for the mod to finish
Originally posted by Allenby
Well Haig won on the Western Front, Conrad won....
...Tarnów - Gorlice, Montenegro, Flitsch - Tolmein (Caporetto)
ofc there was always german involvement, but guess what the germans wouldve done in belgium w/o austro-hungarian heavy fortress ordnance
when im in the war archive again next week ill look up who really created the caporetto plans, as far as i know, the operational plans were done by the sucessor of Generalmajor Metzger, who was Chief of the k.u.k. operations in italy until the 2nd AOK.
Originally posted by Allenby
At the start of the war, he concentrated all his efforts on trying to crush Serbia, therefore neglecting the Russian front, in which he relied upon the Germans to hold back the Russians, even when told that they would implement the Schlieffen Plan. Conrad then decided on a strange compromise whereby several Austrian divisions would stay on the Serbian front before going to the Russian front to fill the gaping hole he had left. Potiorek on the Serbian front wrote those troops into his invasion plan, only for Conrad to take them away and then transport them to the Russian front at the speed of a bicycle, whereby he took the offensive against the Russians, even though he was outnumbered. I think it would be reasonable to say that Conrad's blundering would have ensured Austria-Hungary's destruction in August 1914, if it wasn't for some equally terrible command and execution on the Russian side.
actually, it was a bit different to that

when war with serbia was declared, Conrad deployed his troops after Kriegsfall B (Balkan), which means he brought the troops who were supposed to defend the balkan borders + the first operational reserve to the balkans. when russia declared war, the troops of the reserve were already on the move and therefore, and because of the limited train connections the monarchy had at that time, logistically it was easier to unload the troops at the balkans and then reload them into the trains and carry them to Ost-Galizien.
Ofc, Potiorek really fked up and i would give him only 1 or 2 skillpoints
The problem was that the russian mobilisation was far faster than both germany and austria thought and the eastern front had a crisis right in the beginning because the Schlieffen Plan was supposed to be finished in a few weeks fighting and the german OHL was supposed to send forces to the eastern front 6 weeks after the war started. After Tannenberg, Conrad waited some months before the first german reinforces finally arrived from the westfront.
Originally posted by Allenby
Skill 4, even being extremely generous, would be reasonable for him. 
i still demand 5 with logistic wizard
Originally posted by Allenby
Concerning von Bojna and the Isonzo. I was always under the impression that the stalemate on that river was the product, not of brilliant Austrian command, but the inefficiencies of the Italian army (especially artillery), not to mention their not-so-brilliant commander, General Cadorna. Surely the victory at Caporetto was more to the work of Otto von Below - commander of the 14th army?
Isonzo: see top
ofc, the inefficiencies of the Italians was one of the causes that the monarchy had the chance to fight a 3 (later 4) front war (how many did germany have? right: 2)
still if you look at pictures of the isonzo at that time, and maybe walk around in the area you will not see any chance for the soldiers to dig in as good as they could at the western front.
large parts of venetia and the isonzo are stony and the soldiers got easily killed by even the worst artillery, just because they had virtually no cover.
The italians had far more men than the austrians (some Grenzabschnitte in Südtirol were covered by only one brigade against 1-2 whole italian divisions and still the austrians gained ground rather than losing it)
before the declaration of war from germany, the german alpenkorps was only sitting duck far behind the austrian front where austrian soldiers died, it was only fair that in 1917 the 14th army paid back some of their debts.
Originally posted by Allenby
Unfortunately, I've never heard of Alexander Brosch
http://www.austro-hungarian-army.co.uk/battles/hujcze.htm
ofc there might be some strong patriotistic views in there, but i doubt you see Haig any different
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