Market Garden, Cadet bolt action introduction

The scale of market garden is quite rightly a huge undertaking especially at 28mm so why bolt action? Put simply whilst researching wargames I preferred the larger models than 15mm of Flame’s of War as it would be easier for me to paint myself and also to teach cadets.

Having decided on a figure scale I’ll need to establish an independent ground scale and decide just how much to map, to this end I came across what are apparently copies of the 1st airborne Division, 30 corps and german military maps relevant to the operation on SOFmilitary

Image 1, 30 corps covering Son to Arnhem

Image 2, Airborne map of Arnhem

Image 3, German map Nijmegen to Arnhem

Bizarrely the airborne and German maps seem to disagree on the location of the road bridge so I’m going to compare them to other sources

Using map 1 my current plan is to condense the route and towns into a ratio so that they remain the same scale and when I’ve confirmed a venue use these to decide the final map size

But how to game it?

Currently each airborne contingent will be assigned at least one of their actual Drop Zones this will be where reinforcements will arrive periodically between turns, with exact position decided by paper airplane. In the event of a plane missing the table the declared contents will be available using standard reserves dice rolls in the course of the game. However the players will need to maintain the security of the DZ in order to keep recieving reinforcements. As for 30 corps and to some extent the German forces it’s going to be a long road.