'A Bridge Too Far' updated for TOAW-3

[Erik2]

This was previously available with a special 1km.exe under ACOW.
The 1km is now handled by the equipment-file.
Note the folder-hierarchy included in the zip-file.
The only other changes to the scenario is a revision/simplification of the use of icon colours.
The briefing is in a separate word-doc (only).
The scenario should be available at Rugged Defence in a few days or you can mail me at erik.nygaard@nrk.no and I'll send you a copy.

For those unfamiliar with the scenario-name, this is a very detailed scenario covering Operation Market Garden,
Montogomery's plan to seize key objectives in Holland by dropping two American and one British para-divisions.
These should then be relieved by a British armored Corps creating a small corridor from Belgium to Arnhem, the road was aptly named Hell's Highway.

Date: September 17th 1944
Location: Holland/Belgium/Germany
Ground Scale: 1 km
Time Scale: 6 hour turns
Unit Scale: Company/Air-Squadron
Length: 40 turns

[Silvanski]

Great! I managed to run the original with the EXE converted to an EQP, but this update will undoubtedly be better.

[Telumar]

Great. Played the COW version as the allies already. Have you set a MRPB, Erik?

Any takers? (I'd like to play as the germans)

EDIT: Opponent found.

[Maxx_slith]

How do you go about changing the scale to 1 Km.? I'm working on scenarios based on Wellington's Penninsular campaign battles and a smaller scale would be preferable. I've modified the .eqp file but don't see where the scale can be set in ACOW Editor.

[JAMiAM]

ORIGINAL: Maxx

How do you go about changing the scale to 1 Km.?

He probably adjusted the range of weapons that are used in the scenario, by an appropriate multiple, then bumped the force movement biases.

[Erik2]

ORIGINAL: JAMiAM

ORIGINAL: Maxx

How do you go about changing the scale to 1 Km.?

He probably adjusted the range of weapons that are used in the scenario, by an appropriate multiple, then bumped the force movement biases.

That's correct, multiplied ranges by 2.5
The movement bias can only be bumped by 150% so movement points are a bit on the low side in a 1km scenario.
But this is not too bad in this scenario due to the difficult Dutch terrain and the need to force the players to use road movement.

[Curtis Lemay]

ORIGINAL: Erik Nygaard

ORIGINAL: JAMiAM

ORIGINAL: Maxx

How do you go about changing the scale to 1 Km.?

He probably adjusted the range of weapons that are used in the scenario, by an appropriate multiple, then bumped the force movement biases.

That's correct, multiplied ranges by 2.5
The movement bias can only be bumped by 150% so movement points are a bit on the low side in a 1km scenario.
But this is not too bad in this scenario due to the difficult Dutch terrain and the need to force the players to use road movement.

Also, density penalties will be too light.

[Central Blue]

I am wondering why the 101st and 82nd disappear on turn 5 leaving Gen Browning all by himself at 45,36? There is no news event saying why. In fact, I can't find anything in the events that causes these units to disappear.

[sPzAbt653]

ORIGINAL: Central Blue

I am wondering why the 101st and 82nd disappear on turn 5 leaving Gen Browning all by himself at 45,36? There is no news event saying why. In fact, I can't find anything in the events that causes these units to disappear.

That bugger would be event 117. I don't know why the designers did that, but I would suggest to change that event from a 'withdraw army' to a 'withdraw unit'. If the original intention was to withdraw the entire '303 bomb group', then go to the end of the events and add three more 'withdraw unit' events for the 358 sqd, 360 sqd and 427 sqd.

[Telumar]

ORIGINAL: sPzAbt653

ORIGINAL: Central Blue

I am wondering why the 101st and 82nd disappear on turn 5 leaving Gen Browning all by himself at 45,36? There is no news event saying why. In fact, I can't find anything in the events that causes these units to disappear.

That bugger would be event 117. I don't know why the designers did that, but I would suggest to change that event from a 'withdraw army' to a 'withdraw unit'. If the original intention was to withdraw the entire '303 bomb group', then go to the end of the events and add three more 'withdraw unit' events for the 358 sqd, 360 sqd and 427 sqd.

I know why the designer "did" that. He changed the unit colours from the TOAW:COW version, so that the air squadrons now have the same colour as the 82nd and the 101st (in the earlier version they had a dark green/olive background).

[Veers]

So it is just an over-sight?

[Telumar]

ORIGINAL: Veers

So it is just an over-sight?

I think so.

[Central Blue]

Thank you Telumar. I did see that one, but I didn't know that the color scheme was more important than the actual formation. Time for the private patch.

[JAMiAM]

ORIGINAL: Central Blue

Thank you Telumar. I did see that one, but I didn't know that the color scheme was more important than the actual formation. Time for the private patch.

Erik is pretty good at keeping track of and updating problems with his scenarios. I'm sure that he'll have an "official" update before too long.

[Erik2]

He will...
I also discovered a few other minor irritants (formation objectives, reinforcement arrivals) wich I fixed yesterday.
This means Elmer will hopefully play a better game.
I'll post on the various fora when the events are fixed and a new version posted.
Sorry about any inconvenience.

Erik

[Erik2]

I've fixed the event bug and added a few minor changes re formation objectives and objective values.
Will post the update on Rugged Defence and Gamesquad soon or you can get in touch at
erik.nygaard@nrk.no

Erik

[Silvanski]

Thanks for the speedy fix Erik. The 1 KM/Hex simulation makes it a very unique scenario.

[Telumar]

ORIGINAL: Silvanski

Thanks for the speedy fix Erik. The 1 KM/Hex simulation makes it a very unique scenario.

Have played it already under COW against Nemo. Really great. Working on an own 1km/hex scenario, but this can take months until a first release.

[Dr. Foo]

Has the Allied air support been toned down in this one. I played it once as Germans on ACOW and I found the Allied air support was overwhelming giving the Allied troops a huge advantage in combat. Not sure but I think that para's did not have air support. [&:]

[Erik2]

ORIGINAL: Curtis Lemay

ORIGINAL: Erik Nygaard

ORIGINAL: JAMiAM



He probably adjusted the range of weapons that are used in the scenario, by an appropriate multiple, then bumped the force movement biases.

That's correct, multiplied ranges by 2.5
The movement bias can only be bumped by 150% so movement points are a bit on the low side in a 1km scenario.
But this is not too bad in this scenario due to the difficult Dutch terrain and the need to force the players to use road movement.

Also, density penalties will be too light.

The density penalty still kicks in,but since you can only have maximum 9 companies in a hex it is not that important as long as you don't have larger units than companies.