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Operation Konrad |
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It was dawn on New Year's Day in
the final year of World War II. The enemies of the Reich were closing in
on both the East and West Fronts. The Germans had squandered much of their
last panzer reserves against the Americans at the Battle of the Bulge. In
the east, the lines were holding pending the next major offensive by the
Soviet juggernaut.
While Stalin hounded his generals
to finish off the pocket of German and Hungarian troops holding Budapest,
the Wehrmacht still had another offensive in it. And so the Germans
launched Operation Konrad - an offensive that almost succeeded in
relieving the surrounded troops at Budapest.
Can you succeed where the Germans
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$49.95
Historians
often refer to the Battle of the Bulge as the last great German Offensive of
World War II, but in fact Operation Konrad holds that title. Konrad was the
German-Hungarian effort to relieve the encircled garrison of Budapest in January
1945. Budapest '45 covers this campaign in 31 scenarios, including the Soviet
prelude to the encirclement launched on 29 October. The main campaign focus,
however, is Operation Konrad itself. The operation was divided into three phases
and each phase is covered as a separate scenario. There is also a month long
master campaign scenario, as well as the usual array of smaller battles which
took place during this operation. We have also included a historically plausible
situation to explore what might have happened had the Germans diverted just one
panzer korps from the Battle of the Bulge in the west and instead sent to
Hungary. What impact would it have had?
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Budapest '45
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Budapest
'45 features the familiar Panzer Campaigns interface and game scale: one
hex represents 1 kilometer and each turn is 2 hours. The main Konrad
Campaign takes place on a 35,000 square kilometer section of the master
map which in itself covers 86,000 square kilometers along the Danube River
in central Hungary. There's no limit on the scenarios that can be created
with the scenario editor using the sub-map feature that allows the main
map to be "chopped up" into the size that best fits your
situation. You can also add your own units with the order of battle editor
if you want to make up hypothetical or "What If" alternatives.
Budapest
'45 uses the recently enhanced AI opponent that was released with Minsk
'44. It also features some scenarios specially optimized for Human vs.
Human play. Gamers can use play by e-mail (PBEM), LAN & Internet
"live" play, and two-player hotseat. So rev up your T-34 or King
Tiger tanks and be prepared to participate in the last great German
offensive operations of World War II! |
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Minimum
Requirements |
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Pentium-based 133mhz+ PC with 32 megabytes of RAM.
-280 megabytes of hard drive space |
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Windows XP or greater. |
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MicroSoft
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$49.95 |
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Be sure to visit:
The
Unofficial Panzer Campaigns Home Page!
a
John Tiller Games ring site
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