Matrix Games

Location : Hungary
Opponents : Axis & Soviets
Date :   1 JAN 1945
Scale : 2.5KM per hex

Description :

OPERATION KONRAD German counteroffensive to relieve the Budapest Pocket Scenario by Col Wayne Close (wayneclose@sbcglobal.net) based on boardgame by Perry Moore, originally published by Close Simulations (Includes title graphic) Date: 1 January 1945 Location: Eastern Front - Hungary Map scale:2.5km per hex Time scale: full-day turns Unit Scale: Battalion/Regiment Length: 15 Turns UNIT COLORS: AXIS Wehrmacht/Luftwaffe - White on Grey SS - Black on Black Hungarian - White on Dark Grey SOVIET Army - Dark Red on Red Guards - Pink on Red SIGNIFICANT EVENTS: A cold front may affect operations. The 1 SS Panzer divison may arrive from the Western Front as a reinforcement. Occupation of the easternmost hex in Erd (27,2) by the Axis will result in an immediate victory for them. ********** By January of 1945 on the Eastern Front, the German forces had been pushed back across the Danube River in Hungary. Trapped in the city of Budapest was the 9th SS Korps. In a desperate attempt to free their fellow SS Truppen, the 4th SS Korps struck in the early morning hours of New Year's Day. The Soviet 135th Rifle Corps was taken completely by surprise and the SS panzers drove quickly to the Danube. However, the Russians soon recovered and pushed the Nazis back. Budapest fell quickly afterward and only 800 men escaped the trap.