 "Budapest" and her sisters arrived on 13 August, but their guns could not elevate enough to engage all of the enemy artillery, which was reinforced by eight French guns on 19 October.The battleship was summoned to deal with the guns two days later, and she managed to knock out several French guns and forced the others to withdraw by 27 October.When the Austro-Hungarian army was finally able to launch an offensive into Montenegro in January 1916, SMS "Budapest" was on hand to assist the ground troops against Lovćen's defences.