Panzer Grenadier Battles on May 29th:
Alaska's War #9 - Yamasaki's Attack Last Days of May #9 - Great Caesar's Ghost
Desert Rats #47 - Khamsin Road to Dunkirk #33 - Yser Line
Fall of France 1 #42 - Iron Fist Road to Dunkirk #34 - Costly Rearguard
Last Days of May #4 - La Vieille Garde Road to Dunkirk #35 - Most Unpleasant
Last Days of May #8 - Rendering Unto Caesar
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Citizen Soldiers
Hopeless, But Not Serious #10
(Attacker) Germany vs Austria (Defender)
Formations Involved
Austria 2nd Reserve Brigade
Germany 7th Infantry Division
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Scenario Rank: --- of 968
Parent Game Hopeless, But Not Serious
Historicity Alt-History
Date 1938-03-01
Start Time 07:00
Turn Count 26
Visibility Day
Counters 87
Net Morale 1
Net Initiative 1
Maps 2: 20, 23, 24, 7
Layout Dimensions 86 x 56 cm
34 x 22 in
Play Bounty 172
AAR Bounty 167
Total Plays 1
Total AARs 1
Battle Types
Bridge Control
River Crossing
Urban Assault
Conditions
Off-board Artillery
Randomly-drawn Aircraft
Scenario Requirements & Playability
Eastern Front Maps + Counters
Elsenborn Ridge Maps
Hopeless, But Not Serious Base Game
Road to Berlin Maps
Introduction

Austria's front-line forces were solid formations, if short of manpower and artillery, but woefully outnumbered by their potential German enemies. The state subsumed the former party militias into an official reserve of eight brigades, armed with even fewer heavy weapons than the regular forces and led by officers of dubious quality and loyalty. But in the event of a German attack, they would be rushed forward to man the Traun Line all the same.

Conclusion

The Austrian regular army had become highly anti-Nazi by the spring of 1938, but some in the Defense Ministry had doubts about the militia's political reliability. Nevertheless, just as in 1914 the reserve brigades would be committed to front-line combat as soon as they could be made ready, or even sooner. Whether they could slow Hitler's newly-remade Wehrmacht was an open question, though the Poles would prove 18 months later that the German Army was far from invincible on the tactical level.


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