[X] Plan: Pannonian Sweep
The issue is both time and strategy. Turn the flank isn't bad but is lacking in ambition to defeat Austria now, which is what we need to collapse one front entirely and be able to redirect our forces towards Russia.
Vienna has demonstrated that 'fortified' doesn't mean much for the Austrians. They can dig all the trenches and earthworks they like; they can even fill them with as many conscripts as they can get their hands on. But they didn't have machine guns and artillery pieces to crew those defenses at their largest, most logistically and industrially important capital, and I strongly suspect that the situation has hardly improved for them since Vienna's fall.
Adding on to this, even with Vienna undersupplied we still were unable to break through frontally. The Austrians only decided to retreat because the Italian flanked them through the underdefended Alps.Their lacking defenses around Vienna we're when we were interdicting their supplies! Now that Romania has entered the war, this is no longer the case. We are attacking head on into heavy fortifications against equal numbers of well-supplied troops when they have an open flank!
Maybe we can still drive the campaign to a successful conclusion, but we'll be racking up a huge butchers bill to do it.
I do have a question: since we've incorporated the Czechs into the republic, does the republic would have a name change?
Because it doesn't feel inclusive when the name of the Republic still has a 'German' name attached to it. At least, that's my opinion.
universal republic or we start another civil war
We're not a monarchy. Only royalties and nobles do that.we could also just keep appending any land we absorb
"the Republic of Germany, Czech(oslovakia?), Poland, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Belorussia, Ukraine, Russia..."
civil war it is, thenBut "Universal Republic" implies we won't allow places to be sister republics and instead just annex everything. So I am against it. Since we should have sister republics in, for instance, poland and denmark.
If we are renaming the country we need to think of a funny acronym and work backwards from there.