AUSTRIA Control | VP | UMP | German Confederation (11.5)* |
15
|
+1 eacha
|
Bavaria
|
10
|
+3
|
Wuertemberg
|
10
|
+2
|
Baden
|
10
|
+2
|
Venetia
|
10
|
+2
|
Lombardy
|
10
|
+2
|
Saxony
|
5
|
+2
|
Flanders
|
5
|
+2
|
Switzerland
|
5
|
+1
|
Tuscany
|
5
|
+1
|
Naples
|
5
|
+1
|
Silesia
|
5
|
+1
|
Bosnia
|
5
|
+1
|
Poland controlled by any other power
|
-10
|
(-1)
|
German Confederation (11.5) controlled by any other power
|
-10/-20b
|
(-2)
|
Kingdom of Italy (11.2) controlled by France
|
-10
|
(-2)
|
Each lost home nation province
|
-10
|
+2
|
a) +1 for each potential constituent of the Confederation except Bavaria and Saxony. The Confederation may not be ceded as a unit.
b) The higher victory point penalty is used if Austria has ever activated its landwehr (see 12.11.3.1).
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Commentary: In the early 19th c. the House of Habsburg inherited a wide range of interests and responsibilities in Europe which placed it for the most part on the defensive, attempting to restore both its position and Europe’s balance of power (dual objectives which the Habsburgs tended to view as identical). Having enjoyed a traditional titular supremacy in Germany as Holy Roman Emperors, the dynasty’s chief objective was to restore and maintain its influence in Germany, at least over the southern Catholic German states. Although Emperor Francis II was forced to accept the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1805 (becoming Emperor Francis I of Austria instead), Austria emerged from the Congress of Vienna with her titular leadership of Germany restored in a new Confederation. In northern Italy likewise, Austria chief aim was to re-establish her pre-1797 dominance and regain control of Lombardy, Venetia and Tuscany; although Austria was forced to accept the loss of Italy for the duration of the Napoleonic empire, the Treaty of Vienna restored her position in Italy and Austria remained the predominant power in the Italian peninsula until 1861. Finally, having absorbed large numbers of Poles within its borders in the late 18th c., Austria was firmly opposed to a reborn Poland and feared both Napoleon’s and Tsar Alexander’s patronage of Polish national aspirations.
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