Austrian army has to hold as many town hexes as possible on boards 3 and 24 and kill more than they lose if possible. They get reinforcements on turn 8 from the East edge but they would take help much on the western board where the enemy Schutzbund enter. Auxtrians are strong positive but they e Schutzbund outnumber them and have a lot of leaders, giving them some flexibility. I defended the western town with 4 infantry, an umbrella, the commander and two other leaders, putting the remaining troops in the large eastern town, sacrificing the single bed town in the South ridge on board 24. I figured it would take any Schutzbund troops enough time to get to the East town they the Austrian reinforcements would probably get there in time. As the Schutzbund entered the table, the split into two forces, the larger attacking directly to try to take as much of the eastern town hexes as possible while the slightly smaller force bypassed that town and headed for the bridge and the eastern board as quickly as possible. Quality of troops started telling immediately as Schutzbund took casualties to long range and then point blank fire. The forces that did make it into assaults lost as well. The force heading around the western town lost troops to long range fire from the town they were bypassing, leaving one stack stuck in place trying to regroup. As anticipated the reinforcing Heimwehr troops mad it into the eastern town just as the Schutzbund got there. In 13 turns, the Austrians inflicted 20 steps of casualties to no losses of their own. The Schutzbund managed to take just 2 town hexes with one contested. Ponts at that time were 39 to 4 for the Austrian Army and Conti using the blood bath just didn't seem sporting. Great game.