I have the Austrian Alps being invaded by the Italians in the summer of 1997 as part of a Warsaw Pact push on Southern Germany. NATO then kicks the Italian and Czechs out of Bavaria and crosses into Austria. The Soviets then invade Austria from the east with some Czech and Hungarian assistance and capture Vienna. NATO deploys heavy divisions and some airpower into Austria who recapture Vienna just before the war goes nuclear. Vienna International Airport and an oil refinery are destroyed by Soviet nuclear weapons but the Austrian capital survives. Soviets then move back in and recapture Vienna and advance as far as the city of Steyr on the Emms River in Central Austria, while the Italians gradually withdraw to Italy. The front quickly stabilises with the Soviets controlling the eastern half of Austria and NATO controlling the western half, while a NATO supported free Austrian provisional government is established in the city of Salzburg. The Austrian Army was heavily damaged during the Italian and later Soviet invasions of 1997. What remains of it has gradually been absorbed into the German Army, although Austrian units still retain their own identity and a few new Austrian mountain infantry divisions have been formed since. Fighting now largely in Central Austria and some anti-Soviet guerrilla activity in Soviet occupied east. A few marauder units also active in the Austrian countryside.
For the other countries I'll go along with Unkated.
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