Defensive engineers can repair gaps in the barbed wire defences, construct additional heavy machine gun nests or add other defensive measures. If the attackers capture a line of defences, there’s a pause in the fighting before the next sector opens up, giving both attackers and defenders a chance to reorganize and prepare for the next onslaught. Of course you also have to bear in mind that if you take the capture points first, the defenders will naturally concentrate around the demolition objectives - maybe it’s smarter to try for the demolitions earlier? We’re curious what strategies players will come up with!Īn artillery piece is demolished in a victory for the attackers. Permanently destroy difficult demolition objectives, or the more exposed capture points which offer a new spawning location, but are vulnerable to counterattack. This leads to some interesting strategic decisions for the attackers about which objective to attack first. Objective capture points can however be re-captured by defenders, unlike demolition objectives, and can be spawned on by the attackers if captured. This will follow similar rules to what we have done in Tannenberg, where the more people are in a capzone, the faster the capture will go. Caporetto and the Isonzo Campaign examines an aspect of the First World War that was pivotal in the history of Italy, Austria and the Balkans.A forward post, established by the attackers.Īnother objective type is capture points, which will have to be conquered by the attackers using sheer weight of numbers and a firm presence. The intervention of British, French and German troops is covered, as are the parts played by famous individuals, including Erwin Rommel, Benito Mussolini, Pietro Badoglio and Luigi Cadorna, the notorious Italian commander in chief.
The text is supported by a selection of original photographs that record the terrible reality of the conflict. Historian John Macdonald chronicles the Isonzo battles with vivid descriptions of the battlefields and of the atrocious conditions in which the soldiers fought. The twelfth and final battle, Caporetto, was a major victory for the Central Powers as they broke through the Italian Front. The campaigns were fought in unforgiving terrain, with casualty counts that exceeded those of the Great War's more famous battles.
WHO FOUGHT IN THE BATTLE OF ISONZO SERIES
From 1915 to 1917 the armies of Italy and the Austro-Hungarian Empire were locked in a series of battles along the River Isonzo, a sixty-mile front from the Alps to the Adriatic Sea. This illustrated WWI history sheds light on a major campaign fought along the significant yet often neglected Italian Front. Caporetto and the Isonzo Campaign examines an aspect of the First World War that was pivotal in the history of Italy, Austria and the Balkans.
Produktdetails Verlag Pen and Sword Erschienen 2011 Sprache English Seiten 208 Infos 208 Seiten ISBN 978-1-78159-930-3 Hauptbeschreibung
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