Panzers Last Stand: Battles for Budapest, 1945

About this board game

Panzers Last Stand: Battles for Budapest, 1945 is a two-player Battalion Combat Series game with a listed play time of 1,560 minutes, depicting the Axis relief operations around Budapest from January through March 1945.

Budapest is surrounded by Soviet and Romanian forces, while German troops attempt to break through before the trapped forces inside the city are destroyed. The campaign covers Operations Konrad I, II, and III, with additional scenarios for Operation Southwind and Operation Spring Awakening.

The game brings a major concentration of late-war armored forces to the table. Players encounter equipment such as the Tiger II, Brummbär, IS-2, and ISU-152, alongside distinctive formations including Cavalry, Assault Pioneers, Soviet Naval Infantry, Hungarian SS, and ad hoc forces defending Budapest.

• Ten scenarios, including the full four-map campaign and shorter engagements
• Scenarios covering Konrad I, Konrad II, Konrad III, Zamoly, Komárom, Southwind, and Spring Awakening
• Rules for Danube River crossings, urban combat, Maskirovka redeployment deception, and Festung operations
• Four full-color 22 x 34-inch maps and 1,680 counters

Scenario lengths range from four- and five-turn battles to the 26-turn campaign, offering focused clashes as well as an extended struggle for the region. The battlefield includes three Soviet Tank Corps, five Mechanized Corps, and one Cavalry Corps committed against the Axis drive.

With full-color BCS rulebooks and charts, separate Axis and Soviet player materials, and game-specific rules, Panzers Last Stand presents the Budapest relief operations as a detailed examination of Germany’s last major offensives of the war.