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Great War #5 - Hapsburg Ambitions

By: Critical Hit

Type: Ziplock

Product Line: Advanced Tobruk System - Great War Series

Last Stocked on 12/12/2022

Product Info

Title
Great War #5 - Hapsburg Ambitions
Publisher
Category
Publish Year
2021
Dimensions
9x12.25x.5"
NKG Part #
2147909319
MFG. Part #
CRTGWATS-05
Type
Ziplock

Description

Welcome to ATS Great War 5: Hapsburg Ambitions. This fifth Great War module for CH’s ATS System takes the action to the Eastern Front during World War I.

A key player in the Central Powers, Austria-Hungary and its territorial ambitions represented a match to the tinderbox that become World War I. The Hapsburgs, namely Emperor Franz Josef, dreamed the dreams of conquerors. Ever an expansionist, Josef’s latest conquest was Bosnia-Herzegovina. And it was a Bosnian Serb that assassinated Crown Prince Franz Ferdinand, in Sarajevo.

The Austrian ultimatum to Serbia followed on 28 July 1914. On 1 August Germany declared war on Russia, the protector of the Slavs. Within a few days Austria declared war on Russia, then on Belgium on 7 August. By the end of 1914, Austria-Hungary and Germany would be at war with France, Britain and Japan, and later, following the attack on Serbia, Montenegro. There were setbacks in the campaign against Russia in Galicia.

The Austrian army had more success in 1915, and by the middle of 1916 had conquered Serbia and Montenegro, pushed the Russians back from Poland and by the end of 1916 a combined German-Austrian-Bulgarian attack knocked out Romania. The Austrians also had to face Italian attacks on the South Tirol and the Isonzo River. It was the success of British and French reinforcements, reaching the Balkans and Italy, that forced the Austrian Emperor to sue for peace in October 1918. On 29 October, as the Austrian Army fell back from the Piave River, British and Italian aircraft fired into the fleeing columns. The Austrian armistice took effect on 4 November 1918. A total of 1,495,200 Austro-Hungarian soldiers died during World War I.

Contents:

  • Cardstock Cover Folio
  • 6 Page Special Rules on Three 3-Hole Punched Sheets
  • 8 Scenarios (GWATS #35-42: Polish Legion, Bread Not Blood, Brzo Brzo!, Polish Hill, To the Very Last Hour, Cossack Terror, Opportunity in Bukovina, and The Rojische Bridgehead) on 4 Light Cardstock Sheets
  • 1 GWATS Austro-Hungarian Infantry and L Weapons Countersheet with 176 Counters at 5/8”
  • 1 GWATS Austro-Hungarian AFVs/H Weapons Countersheet with 134 at 5/8”
  • 4 16” x 11” Cardstock Maps (A7-A10)