Return to the Isonzo

 Winter Quarters in FLW land is filled with the Campaign books and other editing questions, but there is room for a winter game or two.  In 2020 we played a game set in the 'immobile' front; the Alps in 1916/1917.  And the hope is to return again, in the coming weeks.

The original game was a mini campaign, and TG and JW faced off (virtually) as the Italian and Austro Hungarian armies.  Like many of our 'Big War' (HG's description of the Great War) it was palyed in three phases;

• Aviation recce
• Bombardment
• Attack

The sceanrio.  

Winter, 1917, and the stalemate continues on the immobile front.  The Italian army is expected to launch an offensive to capture the SOFA mountain - peaks 130, 103 and 113, a fortified mountain peak that would allow the Italian army to have an undisputed field of fire towards the Austrian road network beyond the mountain below. 

The Italians have the men, the Austro-Hungarians the summits.

The Austrian front line

The Front runs from HILL 130 – across the valley to the feature called ‘the Table/La Tavola/Der Tisch’ and runs up to HILL 113 at the south of the perimeter.  HILL 103 is on the opposite side of the valley to HILL 13O, and is the central high point of the mountain.

 

Please note HILL 130 &c are 130cm above floor level.  SOFA montain is a sofa.  The Table is so called because it is a table. The tree line stops here.

 

View from 130

View from 103

The Italian Front Line

 The Italian front line runs along the tree line A – B – C.

View from 'B'

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