Market Garden (Nijmegen Bridges)

6 VP’s
Card Balance:
Allies – 6
Axis – 5
Allies move first.
Complexity: 4
Conditions:
Countryside
Context:
Historical
Location:
Netherlands
Year:
1944
Theater:
Western Front
Codename:
Operation Market Garden
Summary:
Objectives:
6 Medals including bridge hex objectives.
Terrain:
Countryside with a river and train tracks cutting across the battlefield.
Troops:
Allies – 7 Infantry, 6 Armor, 1 Artillery
Axis – 9 Infantry, 1 Armor, 1 Artillery
Allied Strategy:
1. Use your armor to attack the many defensive positions of the enemy. When the time is right, then capture your objective medals.
2. Take the time to move your artillery into a more centralized position for attack.
3. The Axis forces are so well-defended that you will need to attack them from a distance and significantly degrade them before direct assaults. But you need to do this quickly as many of their forward forces are close to your and able to launch some subtantial attacks against you.
4. The Axis Artillery is a Big Gun! That means that once they hone in on you with one hit, they are able to increase the dice attacks by one. So if they hit you once, and you have any figures remaining in the hex, you need to bug out, and move those figures to a new hex.
Axis Strategy:
1. The Allies have an overwhelming armored force, so much of your work is defensive in nature, although you should pursue any soft targets you can locate. However, your two advanced infantry forces in the center have the ability to do significant damage to the enemy armor if you can quickly attack them while they are in no-retreat positions. Be aggressive and you may be rewarded!
2. There are two bridge objectives which you must protect. Stay close to each of them, and protect them well.
3. Your Artillery is a Big Gun, so use it on semi-permanent targets so that you can take advantage of the additional die roll.
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