Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-13740085-20140322054844/@comment-4206034-20140408125617

If I may interject - I watched multiple programs which all stated the war in the Alps was close - as in it could have gone either way for Italy and AH. They all repeated mentioned AH without Germany. All these programs stated the war was a stalemate from 1915, when Italy joined and the AH fought against them. Now AH is not interested in the naval campaign - and any advantage Italy has on the sea will be negated by the fact AH would just divert some troops and create problems for Italy. Add the fact it would be almost impossible for the Italians to supply their troops if they opened a front in this fashion.

I am pretty sure if AH could outhink the Italians, they could break through and possibly achieve great victories on the front. And why would the allies support Italy? And why would Germany not support AH? Did I misread something?

There is no doubt AH were not the most competent bunch - but they were competent enough to fight well and win victories. The senario I can see occuring here is AH collapsing because of its own weight - not because of Italian victories.