Warlord Games Planning To Raid Fortress Budapest In 2019
December 11, 2018 by brennon
A new Bolt Action Campaign is coming from Warlord Games and Osprey next year, Fortress Budapest.
“As the Soviet Red Army marches westward, the city of Budapest stands in their way. Encircled and severely outnumbered, the German and Hungarian forces attempt to resist the Soviet juggernaut and defend Festung Budapest to the last. This book brings the siege of Budapest to the table-top with in-depth information on the forces involved, linked scenarios, and new Theatre Selectors that make this an ideal resource for any Bolt Action player with an interest in the Eastern Front and the fall of the Reich.”
This sounds like a fascinating campaign to play out with some desperate defenders trying to hold off the inevitable wave of Soviet assaults.
It’s great that as well as some of the more popular moments like the invasion and D-Day we’re seeing more done about this later period of the way over on the Eastern Front.
As with all of these new books we’ll no doubt see something special from Warlord Games in the future so watch this space, but this sounds like a great chance to try and tell a new story on the tabletop.
Have you tried some of the previous campaign books for Bolt Action?
"...this sounds like a great chance to try and tell a new story on the tabletop"
? interesting I don’t know much on this siege.
I do like how warlord are focusing on other theatres with these campaign books, this is an interesting part of the war and offers some very different opportunities for gaming and modelling with the two starkly different parts of the siege through Buda and Pest. I hope this is a sign of things to come, I’d love to see a Narva and Tannenberg Line campaign on the eastern front down the line, I feel it would make an excellent campaign book. If not I’ll be picking this up and seeing what I can steal from it for my own perhaps
You maybe get to play with the amazing exploding Turan tank display team as well
Fighting in the sewer’s and fighting for days in a graveyard that had been exhumed by artillery fire should make for some interesting scenario’s.
It probably never happened but there’s a good opportunity for a USSR Tank Platoon vs German Infantry Platoon based around an assault on the still operating factories that were producing Panzerfausts.
Fighting in the sewer’s and fighting for days in a graveyard that had been exhumed?