The war at the Italian border continued to push in the favor of the central powers. All the while fights were being had on the western front as the allies began attacking positions other than the border with Germany shared with the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
Elsass-Lothringen seeing the first major action since the initial outbreak of the war was hit hard and fast by allied armor. All the while Southern Belgium came under a similar onslaught. But the defenses were solid, in the case of the German fortifications they had spent practically a decade reinforcing their lines of defense.
While the Belgians had been undergoing an extensive process over the course of the last year. Even so, after two years of repeated Allied charges, the most terrifying aspect of the German defenses, the S-Mines embedded within no-man's-land had become close to depleted.
