The Road to Berlin: Bolt Action Campaign Book

Bolt Action's next step within its gaming world is exploring the downfall of the Third Reich. Diving through the Eastern front, you'll be able to learn about the very bloody and arduous operations both Germany and the Soviets endured, and the uprising of the Polish AK and Czech forces. With unrelenting leadership and an absurd amount of 'political motivation', the Russians finally managed to expose Germany after brutal years of fighting.

In June 1944 the Axis powers in Europe were about to be subjected to two major hammer blows. In the West, the final preparations were being made for Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Western Europe. In the East, the Red Army was planning a massive offensive, with bold objectives to critically damage the German Army and eject it entirely from the Soviet Union and, by pushing deep into Poland, providing the springboard for later offensives that would eventually find the Red Army in the streets of Berlin ushering in the final collapse of the Third Reich.

For the Germans, a sense of fatalism began to grow, whilst amongst the Soviets, spirits rose. After the months of crushing defeats, encirclements and mass capitulations, the Germans were finally revealed to be beatable and their aura of invincibility had finally been ripped aside. This is well illustrated by a common story from the end of the Stalingrad operations where Soviet troops harassing sullen German prisoners, pointed at the remains of the devastated city and screamed that it would only be a matter of time before Berlin resembled the ruins of Stalingrad.

Contained within in the 148 pages of detailed text, breathtaking imagery and full-color art, this book also has:

CAMPAIGN OVERVIEW

Operation Bargration

Fighting Bargration

Which includes scenarios, special rules and historical context

Bargration Theatre Selectors

Which includes famous platoons such as the 53rd Guards tank Brigade, German Heavy Tank Abteilung and the 5th Panzer Division!

Additional German Units

Scenario 1: The Tigers of Krupki
Scenario 2: The battle of Pleshchenitsy
Scenario 3: The '34'

 

Lvov-Sandomierz Offensive

Fighting the Lvov-Sandomierz offensive

Which includes scenarios, special rules and Lvov-Sandomierz specific scenarios

Lvov-Sandomierz theatre selectors

Scenario 4: big game hunting

Which includes a hero of the Soviet Union, Lt. Aleksandr P. Oskin

The Warsaw Uprising

Fighting the Warsaw uprising

Which includes scenarios, special rules and Warsaw uprising specific scenarios

Warsaw uprising theatre selectors

Armia krajowa theatre selector

Which includes additional Armia Krajowa Units and German Warsaw Uprising Units

Scenario 5: Man the barricades

Scenario 6: Kubus and the grey wolf

The Struggle Continues

Fighting ‘the struggle continues’

Which includes scenarios, special rules for ghost wars and the Struggle Continues Theatre Selectors

NKVD Theatre Selector

NKVD Additional Units

Clearing The Flanks

Scenario 7: Breakout from Petsamo

The Vistula-Oder Offensive

Fighting the Vistula-Oder offensive

Which includes General Scenarios and Vistula-Oder Scenarios

Vistula-Oder offensive theatre selectors

Scenario 8: ‘the Ivan’s are coming…’

Scenario 9: race to the Pileca river

Scenario 10: an unexpected encounter

Operation Berlin

Fighting Operation Berlin

Scenarios

Which include General Scenarios and special rules for Operation Berlin Scenarios

Operation Berlin theatre selectors

Which include the extended Last Levy Theatre Selector and the replacement Panzer Force

Additional German Units

Which include The German Replacement Army and a hero of the Soviet Union, junior Sergeant Vasily Kharinaevich Khantaev

Scenario 11: The Seelow heights

Scenario 12: Tank hunting

Scenario 13: Berlin: crossing the spree

The Prague Uprising

Fighting the Prague uprising

Which includes scenarios, general scenarios, Prague specific scenarios and The ROA

ROA theatre selector

Additional Units

Scenario 14: The Prague uprising: enter the ROA

Appendices: Additional Special Rules

Snow, mud, ice and frostbite

Dug-in: foxholes, trenches and gun pits

Minefields

City fighting

That's certainly a lot of content, but remember that's just an overview! Each page is packed with information and iconic imagery to give you everything you need to play on the battlefields of Berlin in 1945!