Austria's Last Hurrah

Late November 1914

It's attempt frustrated by the German Army, the Russian Army falls back to the town of Lodz.  Pushed out from there, the Russians retreat to the east and dig in.  Meanwhile, the last independent action led by the Austria commander Conrad von Hotzendorf (one of the main prewar hawks) begins and ends.  He takes advantage of confusion in the Russian retreat to attack further south in the Carpathians.  The Russians are kept out of the Hungarian capital, Budapest, but the Austrian Army is finally halted and has been utterly devastated.  Loyal Austrians have been thrown away in the quest for glory and their places taken by men far less invested in the empire, such as recently conquered Slavs from the east.  The Austrian Army will become increasingly an auxiliary of the German.