Bolt Action: Campaign The Road to Berlin

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 Nazi 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 Hitler’s 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-colour 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!