Market Garden, Cadet bolt action introduction

2 meter section of chip board from an old bed, 50cm either side for overpasses with a meter long bridge, wallpaper to be used as road surface, I’m thinking boxed electrical trunking for girders and footpaths of thin wood depending what either I’ve got or DIY shop.

What is the ideal amount of space between gaming tables?

I’m looking at using the Waal and Neder Rijn rivers as gaps between tables apart from the 82nds contested crossing, however i need to know how much room you fine people would recommend between tables so as to decide on the length of the bridges

First time trying to highlight something and overall it looks pretty good, any advice is welcome as I’m unsure as to reducing the contrast with a wash or not.

Fluff time

Churchill had wanted to go ashore in the first wave on D-DAY however he was understandably prevented from doing so. As such he may get used as an officer reinforcement when things start to go sideways. Considering an officer jumped with a brollie and a chicken completed all it qualifying jumps and landed at Arnhem it really isn’t too big a stretch.

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.

Washes were an ancient brown acrylic paint diluted with boiling water and a black ink. The ink although never sticking to plastic, stuck like the proverbial to paper and turned the whole lot black. The brown paint became somewhat red and will hopefully add a differential in tone once dry

Just a bit of mass priming

Plan is for a blitz belonging to the 9 SS Recon, a number of their vehicles were artfully damaged to prevent their transfer to the 10th SS. Upon seeing the British airborne Division fly  over their vehicles were quickly repaired and put back into action. Passengers Will probably remain removable.

Post card from the welcome packs at camp Heumensoord from a couple of years ago.

Military teams and civilian participants cross the Nijmegen bridge. If the routes haven’t changed too much this will be towards the end of the first day after coming along the exposed road atop the dyke, they still have 80 miles to go to earn their medals.

The vierdaagse ( 4 days) is a series of road marches centered around Nijmegen, Military teams complete 44kms a day whilst carrying 10kg of dead weight in addition to personal equipment