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Originally Posted by eddie
It looks like the northeast secter of Budapest doesn't have that many Russian units there, wonder if that's a weak point that might be exploited? Maybe a breakout attempt there, then moving north to the first crossing so they can head west towards the German lines.
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It is true that the Russian attack is rather weak there (The area you speak of is right between what looks like the 30th Rifle Corps to the east and an NKVD Regiment to the north), and I am using it to march a Hungarian battalion that got cut off back to the line. However, a breakout from there can't achieve much. There aren't any intact bridges across that part of the Danube except those I hold in Budapest itself and a Soviet pontoon to the north near Vac (I've no idea what it's there for). I could rush some of my spare bridging units there, but getting there will take a day or so and setting the bridge up will probably take another day or more and I can't afford to take that long.
For now I consider most of the units in Pest expendable, along with that part of the city. If they hold on until I break the Soviet lines in Buda, I'll probably evacuate the units back across the Danube with the bridges in the city.
Oh, I edited the casualties into the last update, since I forgot about that.