![]() The British win by getting a number of people and hardware off the board. The British has a 6-Pounder towed by a jeep. ![]() They have half the number of soldiers the paratroopers have but they also have a StuG IIIG(L). The Germans setup hidden (Hidden Initial Placement). There’s a road that runs from west to east and cuts between the woods and the town. The bottom (southern) half is a small town. ![]() The top (northern) half of the board is woods, breaking into orchards about 2/3 of the way to the east. The British are to move west to east through the length of the board. ![]() Krafft quickly organised and met the British paratroopers with a defensive block immediately. The 3rd Battalion ran into Major Sepp Krafft’s SS Panzer Grenadier Depot and Reserve Battalion 16 (a training battalion) on the “Tiger” route. Their approach routes were designated “Leopard”, “Lion” and “Tiger”. On September 17 1944, the first day of Operation Market Garden, the British dropped 3 battalions of the 1st Parachute Infantry near Arnhem. Operation Market Garden: British 1st Airborne Division, 17-21 September 1944 from “Military History Encyclopedia on the Web”
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