Campaign Fortress Budapest

Throughout the autumn of 1944, the Axis forces in the Carpathian Basin were fighting for their very existence. Campaign: Fortress Budapest will inspire and guide you through the entirety of this particular conflict and on to many more victories with your Bolt Action forces!

What is this book?

The Siege of Budapest, the Soviet invasion of Hungary that led up to it, and the desperate German offensives to relieve the city covered kilometres of frontline; these battles lasted eight months and involved hundreds of thousands of combatants. Within the 168 pages of this impressive resource, the authors have squeezed in a variety of very different scenarios for players.

Fortress Budapest is the latest Campaign expansion to Bolt Action Second edition. Whilst there is historical detail within the narrative, this volume is not a history book – it is first and foremost an impressive wargaming supplement. The intention of the author Bryan Cook and the team who put this book together was to provide a good mixture of scenarios, new units, and new rules whilst still giving some historical background for context. Some previously published rules and units have also been reprinted – this is to save players the expense of buying additional books for content which is vital to this volume, but might form only a small part of other books.

What's in this book:

Packed with history Fortress Budapest contains complete scenarios, additional special rules, army lists, new units and of course the all-important complete theatre selectors.

Fighting for Transylvania

Scenario 1: Hold the Ojtózi Pass

The Battle of Tordá

The Red Army Arrives

Direct Assault on Tordá

Scenario 2: Into the Valley of Death

Counter-attack at Debrecen

Operation Debrecen

Coup in Budapest

Scenario 3: Operation Debrecen

A Phone Call With Stalin

Encirclement

Operation Budapest

Fortress Kecskemét

Scenario 4: Flak-Regiment 133

Breakout Under Moonlight

Chaotic Retreat

The Attila Line

Scenario 5: The Attila Line

Breakthrough at Pestszentimre

Scenario 6: Counter-attack at Pestszentimre

Enter the 3rd Ukrainian Front

Festung Budapest

SS IX Mountain Corps

German Strength in Budapest

Scenario 7: The Back Door Left Open

The First Assault on Pest

Scenario 8: Street Fighting in Pest

Block by Block

Scenario 9: Withdrawal Across the Danube

Relief Attempts

Scenario 10: Operation Konrad I

Operation Konrad II

Scenario 11: Operation Konrad III

Last Stand in Buda

Városmajor Grange

Scenario 12: Farkasréti Cemetery

Scenario 13: The Buda Hills

Scenario 14: Supply Drop

The End is Nigh

Scenario 15: The Last Redoubt

The Breakout Attempt

Sacrificed for the Reich

Operation Spring Awakening

Hitler’s Last Gamble

Scenario 16: Death Ride of the Panzers

New Units

Include; German, Hungarian, Soviet and Romanian

New Theatre Selectors:

For Germany

Panzer Kampfgruppe Armoured Platoon

1944–45 Panzergrenadier Reinforced Platoon

Panzer Reconnaissance Reinforced Platoon

Heavy Anti-aircraft battery Reinforced Platoon

IV SS Panzer Corps Armoured Platoon

6th SS Panzer Army Armoured Platoon

For Hungary

Carpathian Mountains Border Guards Reinforced Platoon

Assault Artillery Battery Armoured Platoon

Hungarian Armoured Field Division Armoured platoon

For Hungary & Germany

Budapest Pocket Defenders Reinforced Platoon

For Soviet Union

Guards Mechanised Brigade Armoured Platoon

Forward Detachment Reconnaissance Party Reinforced Platoon

Urban Assault Group Reinforced Platoon

Soviet Anti-tank Strongpoint Reinforced Platoon

For Romania

1944 Allied Romanian Infantry Division Reinforced Pl

Additional Special Rules:

City Fighting

Buildings

Sewer Movement

Command and Control in a City Fight

City Siege Assets

Minefields