Campaign: Operation Market Garden

With the start of 2024 comes a new year and a new Bolt Action campaign. After the great success of our Normandy Campaign we will now begin our play through of the infamous "Operation Market Garden". Much like our last campaign we will start with smaller 500pt battles gradually moving up to larger games as we settle into the campaign. The campaign will consist of 7 battles played out from the Airborne drops on 17th September 1944 up until the Airborne withdrawal from Arnhem on 25th September 1944. 

The battles will be played in the following order:

• Battle of the Wolfheze Woods
  
• Graber's Assault at Arnhem Bridge
  
• The Battle for Nijmegen
  
• River Crossing of the Wahl
  
• 107th Panzer Assault on the Son Bridge
  
• German attack on the Oosterbreek Perimeter
  
• Airborne Retreat
  

I will be playing with the same opponent over the course of the campaign with the idea to play one battle per month or two if our schedule allows for it.

 

The daring Operation Market-Garden would see British, Polish and US airborne forces capture key bridges throughout the Netherlands to allow XXX corps to roll through Arnhem and into Germany.

Very much looking forward to playing through this campaign with my opponent and, of course, documenting it all on this blog!

Signing off,

Chewie