Matrix Games Forums

Operation Market Garden, September 17, 1944. The attempt to capture the bridges in Holland, based on A Bridge Too Far, by M4 Jess, and redesigned for 4 players by M4Jess.

You've seen the trash talk. If not, see the thread 'need 3 PBEM vets' in the Opponents Wanted subforum. The thread also contains the description and history of the battle.

>The Allied participants are:

*Fallschirmjager-will command the Airborne.
*Goblin-will command XXX Corp

>The German participants are:

*Orzel Bialy-will command the SS, FJ's, Spec Ops, and elite German armored units
*hellcat-will command the regular Werhmacht forces, and an armored contingent

This is a very large battle (60 Turns!), and we will try to make this as entertaining for you, as it is for us! Fallschirmjager will make the opening move....

Goblin- A Goblin is armed for battle:mad:

i can't wait to read this one! :D

heres the map for those of you who want to follow along..

Also! G-man! I got your mail... sucker:mad:

Oh crap...I forgot...I'm playing in this....lol

Get out the first-aid kit...there are going to be some bumps and bruises when this is all over with!!!

waiter! there is a paratrooper in my soup! Bring me my kubelwagen!

Vroom... Das Hellcat moving out

Originally posted by M4 Jess
heres the map for those of you who want to follow along..

OK I downloaded the map files - what do I do to "follow along" ?

Game start goes like this..

1. allied player one starts scenario in E-mail game...sets password..mails save file SLOT 12!! to German player 1

2. German player 1 loads file, sets password and mails BACK to allied player one!

3. Allied player 1 starts battle.. mails to allied player 2 and M4,

4. Allied 2 plays,, ends turn and mails to german player one AND M4!

5. German 1 plays,, sends to german 2 AND M4!..

6. German 2 plays, ends turn..mails to allied 1 AND M4!

7. and so on....................

both sides~~~ please e-mail me your passwords!

M4 Jess

Jess, will you please tell us which email address to send these to? I keep sending you my turns, and you're not getting them. With a 56k, that takes forever, and then I have to resend them...


Are you gonna even get these with your email screwed up?

Goblin- A Goblin has snail mail

It has been declassified that I am German player 1 - me, das hellcat.

Jess I PM'd you the german password yesterday.

Are we starting sometime soon???

Fallschirmjager was picking his password at 230pm, EST. Thats the last I know. He should mail it to you for a password pick sometime coming up. (I hope)

Goblin- A Goblin advises patience;)

please send all e-mails to me at M4A376L@Yahoo.com

this address is working..

Gob, Im sorry about my own snail mail! AOL cant tell me my prob..thats why the yahoo address..

M4--WILL GET HIS MAIL-or-is taking a trip to AOL HQ!

so please send me the turns to yahoo...

oh..by the way..posted screen shots comming with my posts on this battle;) ....(only spotted units of course)

where are you FJ!!?? we miss you!

Ok everyone I sent the files away and this should be ready to roar by tomorrow.

lets get it on

Password swapping complete. Returning file to FJ for Allied Turn 1... waiter! - I'll have the soup please...

Ok most of you know the story of market garden so Ill dispense with that.

Im playing the AB or course. So im going to manage my AAR by division.

The 101st:
Has several small bridges they need to secure. The most important being the bridge in the small village at Grave. I begin to move my units and run into light German resistence. But being the AB light resistence is all they need. I lose several men to various machine guns, squads and infantry guns but manage to supress a good number of them. This will nbe the first area XXX corps attempts to link up with so I will try to have it open for them when that arrive. And that means moving faster than this

82nd:
The group is very spread out. They also have to take several bridges but...Nijemegan is one of the most important of this campaign. I run into very light resistence here meeting only a few squads, but I also meet a log bunker I have no idea how im gona take that out without losing 50 men. I also know that alot more infantry lurks in the city of Nijemegan itself.

British 1st:
This is the most desperate of the group. XXX corps will have to mox some 200 hexes to reach these men. I can only hope to hold on with the small force I have and hope some are alive by the time goblin comes to save me. This is where most of the action of this turn happens. I take a few VH's but the bridge will be incredibly hard to take because it is overlooked by several bunkers across the shore and I have nothing over there to take them out with. I also make a few mistakes here. I run vickers jeeps and bren carriers wildly thorugh the streets and get them shoot up. I learn my lesson but Ive lost too many good vehicles for it to matter.

Come soon gob....I need you.

Excellent! This will be very interesting to follow! Good luck to all!

A small note from the nit-pick dept: It's "Nijmegen". Just wanted to set that straight for the rest of the DAR.

Engines rev and strain, propelling armored vehicle towards the German defenses and the old bridge. The sharp Crack! of a 50mm ATG causes the lead scout car commander to slam his hatch, and sound the alarm on the radio.

The ATG is engaged, but a second gun on the opposite side of the road enters the fray! Several scout cars and Sherman's engage the enemy guns, plus the defending infantry along the trench line north of the bridge.

A Cromwell CS tank rumbles up, and 95mm rounds are lobbed into the sandbagged positions of the ATG's. The blast from the massive HE warheads manages to diperse surrounding infantry units. The fight is nearly over, and XXX Corp will resume its relief efforts soon.

The burning wrecks of an AEC MkII and a Staghound I testify to the German resolve to prevent that from happening....




I lost the Staghound to a mine on the little wooden bridge at the start of the German lines. The AEC took one from the German ATG's. I think the Germans are about to break, and I believe they are Wehrmacht, thus hellcat's men.

Goblin- A Goblin sounds the charge....

neutral commentator.. ;

gosh how I want to jump in already! and its only the end of Allied turn one! I will and must keep shhhhhhhhh;)

who is gonna run into whom??

who will fold first?????

WHO IS MAN ENOUGH TO LIVE THROUGH THIS?? :rolleyes:

If I was Goblin... I would......

If I was Hellcat I would...

If I was Orzel I would......

If I was FJ I would..........

God... how cool is this!

WHOS DAS MAN!

Paratroopers, British Armor! Mein gott!

Our small gateway force is already being overwhelmed by British armor in the far South. The chatter of Machinegun fire can be heard throughout the countryside and from the small towns...

Orders have been given to all units to move to designated strongpoints. We are lucky the SS is resting in the area! It must be the bridges they have come for! Well they will not have them!

We have shot up some jeeps at arnhem and nijmegan and there are even airborne in Groosbeck!

vroom! off to the front...

Standing Order to All Allied Troops.


Any German soldier found within 200m of a mine field is not to be given quarter. They are to be shot. Any German soldier caught damaging Allied equipment will either pay for it immediately, or be shot. Any German soldier that resists being shot shall be shot, then shot again. That is all.

Goblin- A Goblin is strict but fair:p

By order of the German high command:

Bathing is strictly forbidden!