
1919
Planning for Germany’s Great Spring Offensive had being going on for over a year. New equipment, tactics and logistics had been developed, many of which were tested in the Greek offensive. Since the fall of Greece a second offensive had also been planned, known as Operation Radowitz, which called for an envelopment of the Italian army at the Piave by an attack from Trento. Germany sent four elite divisions to spearhead the attack.
This action saw the full revelation of a dark secret that Germany and before her, Britain had held since 1888. The removal of Prince Consort Vlad Tepes from the British throne and the secret destruction of Victoria by her power hungry son, the man who was to be crowned the King Edward VII - himself a sufferer of 'haemophilia' and a powerful force at court in his own right at the time had sent Graf von Dracula straight to the court of Kaiser Wilhelm II.
The vampire quickly acted to make the Kaiser one of his own, and soon the German aristocracy was riddled with the dark seed. Still the Kaiser was by no means perfect and with the upheavals in Austria-Hungary and Romania, Dracula departed to defend his Transylvanian fastnesses against encroaching modernity. Thus the aristocracy and their powers were kept under wraps until the German war effort had no recourse but their use.

Until the arrival of German 'Special' divisions, the Austro-Hungarian forces had managed to hold their positions after the aborted attack in 1918
The elite divisions that enveloped the Italian's at Piave were the best and strongest of Kaiser Wilhelm's brood, still young by the terms of the Elders, but already deadly honed blurs of brutal and unremitting vampiric death to the utterly unprepared Italians.
The line broke. The vampires were not alone however, all along the Western front, they used their dark powers to raise the dead of Paßchendaele and Verdun, the Somme and Ypres. The zombie legions of the Kaiserreich marched to the drumbeat of their new masters. The Italians hurriedly began to pull back from the Piave line but it was far too late for many. Despite strong opposition from an Australian division that held the road to Padua for three days single-handedly the Central Powers were able to push forward and reached the Adriatic coast south of Venice on the 10th April, trapping over 60% of the Italian army in doing so.The French lines broke across the front and the Entente was in full retreat by the end of 1919.
The rest they say is history.
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