Bolt Action: 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