Hungarian Corps Reserve Forces

With the onset of winter in October 1942 the 1st Armoured Field Division was withdrawn to the
front reserve covering both the Hungarian 2nd Army and the Italian 8th Army and immediate
reserve forces were organised from Divisional and Corps Bicycle Infantry (Kerékpáros) and Huszár
companies.

Kerékpáros Század
(INFANTRY COMPANY)
A force based around a Kerékpáros Század • an allied German Grenadier Platoon,
must contain: • an allied German Anti-tank Gun Platoon,
• A Company HQ, and • an allied German Tank-hunter Platoon,
• two to three Kerékpáros Platoons • an allied German Assault Gun Platoon, and
Weapon Platoons available to a Kerékpáros • an allied German Motorised Artillery
Század are: Battery.
• a Bicycle Machine-gun Platoon, and You may have two Support Platoons for each
• a Bicycle Mortar Platoon. Kerékpáros Platoon you field.
Support Platoons available to a Kerékpáros
Motivation and Skill
Század are:
The men of the Kerékpáros Század are some of

HUNGARIAN
• a Reserve Anti-tank Platoon, the longest serving soldiers of Hungary’s army.
• Corps Medium Howitzer Batteries, They are well trained and experienced soldiers.
• Huszár Platoons, A Kerékpáros Század is rated as Confident
Trained.
• Puskás Platoons,
• a Divisional Light Anti-Aircraft Platoon,
• a Divisional Assault Pioneer Platoon,

HEADQUARTERS
1 Company HQ

Headquarters Százados
Company HQ 25 points Százados
Option
• Replace either or both Command Rifle Company Command 2iC Command Rifle
teams with Command Páncélvadász Rifle Rifle team team
team for +5 points. HQ Section
• Add Light Mortar section for +30 points.

Each Hungarian Corps had a compliment of Hadnagy Ormester

Bicycle troops (2 Companies) who fulfilled the Kerékpáros Platoon
reconnaissance role alongside the cavalry as well 50mm 39M 50mm 39M
as acting as an infantry reserve. These companies Hadnagy mortar mortar
of infantry also come with supporting platoons Light Mortar Section
of mortars and machine-guns. When acting as
Kerékpáros Platoon
reserve they could call on some of the Corps
assets to assist them in battle, Huszárs, medium Hadnagy
artillery, anti-aircraft and pioneers were availa- Kerékpáros Platoon
ble to help the stop any Soviet breakthrough. Kerékpáros Század


Kerékpáros Század

COMBAT PLATOONS
2 to 3 Kerékpáros Platoons
Hadnagy Platoon
Hadnagy Ormester 3 Scout Squads 140 points
2 Scout Squads 100 points
Rifle/MG team Option
Command
Rifle/MG team • Replace Command Rifle team with a
Rifle/MG team
Command Páncélvadász Rifle team for +5
points.
HQ Scout Squad
The Kerékpáros Szakasz (Bicycle Platoon)
Ormester Ormester trained to used their bicycles to get to the battle,
but one there they engaged the enemy on foot
like any other infantry. During the winter of
Rifle/MG team Rifle/MG team
1942-43 they were retrained as sky troops to
further increase their mobility in the harsh
Rifle/MG team Rifle/MG team Russian climate. They also used their skill and
Scout Squad Scout Squad mobility to spy-out the enemy positions.

Kerékpáros Platoon A Kerékpáros Platoon is a Reconnaissance

Platoon.

WEAPONS PLATOONS
0 to 1 Bicycle Machine-gun Platoon

Hadnagy Platoon
Hadnagy HQ Section with:
2 Machine-gun Sections 60 points

Command Rifle team The Bicycle Battalion also had a small Machine-
HQ Section gun Platoon to support the Kerékpáros Platoons
during large reconnaissance operations, giving
Ormester Ormester covering fire and allowing the infanty to
disengage from larger enemy forces.
HMG team HMG team During their duty in reserve they are the only
Machine-gun Section Machine-gun Section machine-gun support available to the Bicycle
Battalions.
Bicycle Machine-gun Platoon

0 to 1 Bicycle Mortar Platoon

Hadnagy Platoon
Hadnagy HQ Section with:
1 Mortar Section 60 points
Command Rifle team Observer team Option
HQ Section
• Add Cavalry Limber for +5 points.
Ormester
The Mortars were part of the Bicycle Battalion
to give covering fire during recon duties, but
81mm 36/39M 81mm 36/39M Cavalry limber in late 1942 found themselves the only mortar
mortar mortar support available to the Corps reserve troops.
Mortar Section
Mortar Platoon


 Kerékpáros Század

SUPPORT PLATOONS
0 to 1 Reserve Anti-tank Platoon

Platoon Hadnagy
HQ Section with: Hadnagy
2 Anti-tank Sections 50 points
Option Command Rifle team

• Add Cavalry Limbers for +10 points.

HQ Section

• Replace all 37mm 36M (3.7cm PaK36) guns Ormester Ormester

with 40mm 40M guns for +5 points, with
50mm 38M (5cm PaK38) guns for +20
points, or with 75mm 97/38M (7.5cm PaK 37mm 36M gun 37mm 36M gun
97/38) guns for +25 points.
Cavalry limber Cavalry limber
The Germans delivered a number of modern
Anti-tank Section Anti-tank Section
anti-tank guns to the Hungarians in 1942.
Reserve Anti-tank Platoon
A Reserve Anti-tank Platoon is Horse
Artillery and a Hussar Platoon.

0 to 2 Corps Medium Howitzer Batteries

Platoon Fohadnagy
Fohadnagy

HUNGARIAN
HQ Section with:
2 Gun Sections 170 points
1 Gun Section 95 points Command Staff team Horse-drawn wagon Observer
Rifle team Rifle team
Option HQ Section
• Add Horse-drawn limbers at no cost points.
Hadnagy Alhadnagy
• Replace Horse-drawn limbers with artillery
tractors for +5 points per Gun Section and
add a 3-ton truck to the HQ section for +5 150mm 14/31M howitzer 150mm 14/31M howitzer
points.

The artillery of the Infantry Corps consisted Horse-drawn limber Horse-drawn limber
entirely of 149mm 14/35M Skoda Howitiz-
ers. These medium guns were used normally to
150mm 14/31M howitzer 150mm 14/31M howitzer
support the lighter artillery when a little extra
punch was required. With each Corps taking
charge of its own front’s reserves a few batter- Horse-drawn limber Horse-drawn limber
ies could be called on to support any counter- Gun Section Gun Section
attacks from the reserve forces. Corps Medium Howitzer Battery

0 to 1 Light Anti-aircraft Platoon

As page 95 of Ostfront.

0 to 1 Assault Pioneer Platoon

As page 96 of Ostfront.

0 to 2 Huszár Platoons
See Huszár Század.

Puskás Platoons
As page 91 of Ostfront.


 Huszár Század
(MECHANISED COMPANY)

A force based around a Huszár Század must • an allied German Grenadier Platoon,
contain: • an allied German Anti-tank Gun Platoon,
• A Company HQ, and • an allied German Tank-hunter Platoon,
• two to three Huszár Platoons • an allied German Assault Gun Platoon, and
Weapon Platoons available to a Huszár Század • an allied German Motorised Artillery
are: Battery.
• a Huszár Gun Battery. You may have two Support Platoons for each
Support Platoons available to a Huszár Század Huszár Platoon you field.
are:
Motivation and Skill
• an Reserve Anti-tank Platoon,
Huszárs are the famed light cavalry of
• Corps Medium Howitzer Batteries,
Hungary. Like many nations in the age of
• Kerékpáros Platoons, modern warfare the Huszárs have adapted
• Puskás Platoons, to fight on foot as equally well as they do
• a Divisional Light Anti-Aircraft Platoon, on horse back. A Huszár Század is rated as
Confident Trained.
• a Divisional Assault Pioneer Platoon,

HEADQUARTERS
1 Company HQ
Százados Headquarters
Százados Company HQ 35 points
Option
• Replace either or both Command Rifle
Company Command 2iC Command Rifle teams with Command Páncélvadász Rifle
Rifle team team
team for +5 points.
HQ Section
• Add Machine-gun Section for +40 points.
7/31 HMG teams cannot shoot while
Hadnagy Ormester mounted.
Huszár Platoon Each Division and Corps had Huszárs availa-
ble for reconnaissance and reserve duties, and
Hadnagy 7/31M HMG
in October 1942 these were pressed into reserve
Huszár Platoon support the Infantry Corps deployed along the
Don river.
7/31M HMG
Hadnagy A total of six Huszár Companies (two Battal-
Huszár Platoon Machine-gun Section ions) were available to each Corps.
Huszár Század A Company HQ is a Hussar Platoon.


 Huszár Század

COMBAT PLATOONS
2 or 3 Huszár Platoons

Platoon Hadnagy
HQ Section with: Hadnagy Törzsörmester
Tˆrzsˆrmeste
3 Huszár Squads 175 points
2 Huszár Squads 125 points
Rifle team Rifle team
Rifle/MG Team
Option Command
• Replace Command Rifle team with a Rifle/MG team
Rifle team
Rifle/MG Team
Command Páncélvadász Rifle team for
+5 points. HQ Section Huszár Squad
Pusk·s
Hungary’s famed cavalry the Huszárs continued Ormester Ormester
their fine tradition on into the war, but they have
retrained, and are now just as capable on foot
Rifle/MG Team Rifle/MG Team
as they are on horseback. Now they are poised
ready to stop any Soviet breakthrough.
Rifle/MG Team Rifle/MG Team
A Huszár Platoon is a Hussar Platoon and Huszár Squad Huszár Squad
a Reconnaissance Platoon. Huszár Platoon

WEAPONS PLATOONS

HUNGARIAN
0 to 1 Huszár Gun Battery

Platoon Hadnagy
HQ Section with: Hadnagy
2 Gun Sections 145 points
2 Gun Section 85 points
Option Command Rifle team Observer Rifle team
HQ Section
• Add Cavalry Limbers at no cost.
Hadnagy Hadnagy
The Huszar gun Battery keeps pace with the
Huszars and is able to deploy and fire with a 80mm 5/8M gun 80mm 5/8M gun
moments notice.
Armed with the same 80mm 5/8M gun as the
field artillery, this old but light gun is easily to Cavalry limber Cavalry limber
handle and can be towed rapidly behind a six-
horse cavalry limber.
80mm 5/8M gun 80mm 5/8M gun
A Huszár Gun Battery is Horse Artillery and
a Hussar Platoon.
Cavalry limber Cavalry limber
Gun Section Gun Section
Huszár Platoons as Divisional Support
You can choice 0 to 1 Huszár Platoons as a Huszár Gun Battery
Support choice for a Puskás Század.


Huszár Század

SUPPORT PLATOONS
0 to 1 Light Anti-aircraft Platoon
As page 95 of Ostfront.

0 to 1 Assault Pioneer Platoon

As page 96 of Ostfront.

0 to 1 Reserve Anti-tank Platoons

See Kerékpáros Század.

0 to 1 Corps Medium Howitzer Battery

See Kerékpáros Század.

0 to 2 Kerékpáros Platoons
See Kerékpáros Század.

Puskás Platoons
As page 91 of Ostfront.

Divisional Support
Air Support
You may request Sporadic Air Support at a cost of +100 points. Sporadic Air Support will provide you supporting
Junkers Ju87 ground-attack aircraft.

Additional Hungarian Arsenal

Gun Teams
Name Mobility Range ROF Anti-tank Firepower Weapons and Notes
150mm 14/31M howtizer Immobile 16”/40cm 1 8 1+ Gun Shield.
Firing Bombardments 72”/180cm - 4 2+