Elusive Italians

[Marcello]

Originally Posted by Imp

Hungary does indeed look a logical force so I will now take the Italians out for a spin.

Some relevant quotes from Warsaw Pact plans/wargames, by the parallel history project http://php.isn.ethz.ch/

When the nuclear and chemical exchange is over, the Warsaw Pact swings to the offensive and both sides move their forces forward and fight a classical close combat in Austria, where the Pact divisions smash through the NATO ones and then split their forces in two directions, towards the North of Italy and Bavaria. In about 11-13 days, most of Northern Italy is seized as far as Brescia and Bologna - then a pause is enforced before deciding whether to go ahead and grasp the rest of the peninsula or switch to the defensive.

I don't believe that the italian plan was marching into Austria but the soviets seemed to think otherwise.

According to this plan the Hungarian armed forces-together with the "Southern" Army Group of the Red Army stationing in Hungary and the Soviet forces from the "Kárpát" military district- would have to defeat the West-German 2nd corps and the Italian 3th army. After the victory the Hungarian People's Army would have to be able to occupy Italy for a long period.

It gives an idea of what sort of forces would have been committed towards Italy.

Not that going throught Austria would have been a cakewalk...

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/showt...ght=spannocchi