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Scenario#: FB14     Date: 2/7/1945     Location: Budapest, Hungary

FB14 is the first “official” three-player scenarios. One player plays the Germans, and the second player plays the Soviets. However, the third player plays the Hungarians that are fighting along BOTH sides. The scenario thus has four player turns…

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Scenario#: FB11     Date: 2/4/1945     Location: Budapest, Hungary

Although the Soviets did succeed in capturing several buildings at the base of the Várhegy, they were evicted after a fierce counterattack by the men of Lt. Col. Veresváry’s Budapest Watch Battalion. On 4 February, Soviet infantry form the 297th…

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Scenario#: FB06     Date: 1/29/1945     Location: Budapest, Hungary

With the fall of the Kis-Svábhegy on 24 January, the security of the Axis positions east of Castle Hill was seriously compromised as Soviet observers now had a dominating position from which to direct their artillery. On 29 January, the commander of…

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Scenario#: FB16     Date: 2/8/1945     Location: Budapest, Hungary

By February, elements from the Soviet 297th Rifle Division had successfully fought their way toward the Southern Railway Station. After two days of heavy fighting, infantry aided by Soviet armored units had isolated the area around the station and…

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Scenario#: FB13     Date: 2/7/1945     Location: Budapest, Hungary

As the last German gliders had landed on the Vermezo on 5 February, the availability of ammunition and fuel for Axis units had become severely limited. Conversely, Soviet units were extremely well supplied, to the extent that the Russians had begun…

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Scenario#: FB08     Date: 2/1/1945     Location: Budapest, Hungary

Axis defenders suffered a serious blow on 26 December when the Soviets captured one of Budapest’s largest supply depots, resulting in the loss of approximately 300,000 daily rations and 450 tons of ammunition. To complicate matters, the main airport…

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Scenario#: FB03     Date: 1/20/1945     Location: Budapest, Hungary

Unwilling to accept the 19 January loss of the Városmajor to the Soviets, Major Lázlo Vannay quickly regrouped his men for an assault at 0500 the next morning, having secured the support of two Zrinyi IIs from the 10th Assault Gun Brigade and…

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Scenario#: FB04     Date: 1/24/1945     Location: Budapest, Hungary

Since the beginning of the siege on 25 December, German and Hungarian forces on the Buda side of the Danube had built their defenses around a series of hills located a few kilometers west of the river. By the middle of January, several of the…

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Scenario#: FB10     Date: 2/3/1945     Location: Budapest, Hungary

The men of SS-Kavallerie-Division 8 “Florian Geyer” were scrambling for their lives as two and a half months of near continuous fighting had reduced the unit to a shadow of its former self. By 3 February, the troops which had been holding out for the…

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Scenario#: FB05     Date: 1/29/1945     Location: Budapest, Hungary

By 26 January, the Soviet 297th Tank Rifle Division had finally pushed the Hungarian Vannay Battalion out of the Városmajor. One building that still remained firmly in Hungarian hands was the Siesta Sanatorium located on Városmajor utca just to the…

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Scenario#: FB17     Date: 2/9/1945     Location: Budapest, Hungary

By 9 February, Soviet forces had succeeded inc capturing their primary objective wets of Castle Hill, the Budapest Railway Terminal. The next day, the Soviets continued their march toward the case of Castle Hill by crossing over the marshalling…

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Scenario#: FB12     Date: 2/5/1945     Location: Budapest, Hungary

By February 5, the Soviets had reached the area around Királyhágo tét. Strongly opposed by a mix of German and Hungarian forces, the Soviets would be forced to fight for every building. In addition to their military strengths, the Soviets had…

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Scenario#: FB02     Date: 1/19/1945     Location: Budapest, Hungary

After the initial assault by the Soviet 108th Guards Rifle Division failed to capture the Városmajor on January 1, the 320th Rifle Division, supported by a half dozen armored vehicles, was ordered to try to seize the City Park. The main defenders of…

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Scenario#: FB09     Date: 2/2/1945     Location: Budapest, Hungary

By the end of January, remaining Axis force had retreated across the Danube from the Pest side of the city where they formed a bridgehead centered on Castle Hill. One of the Wehrmacht’s finest units, Panzer-Division 13, was with the defenders of…

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Scenario#: FB15     Date: 2/7/1945     Location: Budapest, Hungary

By 6 February, the loss of Sas-hegy placed the German troops holding the Austrian built Citadelia atop the Gellert-hegy in imminent danger of being overrun from the south by the Soviet 83rd Marine Brigade. Further to the north the Soviet 297th Rifle…

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Scenario#: FB07     Date: 1/31/1945     Location: Budapest, Hungary

One partial success in penetrating the Axis main line of resistance was achieved by the Soviets on 30 January when an assault group swiftly stormed across the Vermezo from the intersection of Bors utca and Krisztina Korut and seized the primary…

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Scenario#: FB01     Date: 1/1/1945     Location: Budapest, Hungary

By 26 December 1944, Soviet forces were finally able to complete the outer encirclement of Budapest when lead units of the 18th Tank Corps linked up with forward elements of the 6th Guards Tank Army northwest of the city near Estergom. Beginning on…

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