Most WWI CP victory scenarios focus for very good reason on the Germans, who did at least overrun entire countries in this war when nobody else managed that. This thread, however, concerns the other German monarchy of WWI, namely Austria-Hungary. IOTL Austria-Hungary had its military strength smashed twice, requiring the Germans to bail them out against Russia and ultimately to take over their entire military structure. They invaded Serbia three times and got walloped every single one of them. Their only successes were defensive successes in Italy, both of their offensives against the Italians failed, as did the Black and Yellow Offensive against Russia.
Yet A-H did have some very high-quality weapons, particularly in terms of artillery, and did have the ability to win battles when under German command. So, why from a historical perspective did A-H so utterly fail at war, and how from an AH perspective would it be possible to have the army of Franz Josef be more than the whipping boys of everyone else in Europe?