Firestorm Market Garden is a campaign based on Operation Market Garden, the Allied attempt in September 1944 to gain a crossing over the Lower Rhine after the break out from Normandy. The operation was divided into two parts: Operation Market, the biggest airborne landing of the war, and Operation Garden, an attack by 30 Corps to link up with the paras holding the bridge across the Rhine at Arnhem.
Operation Market used two American airborne divisions to take and hold critical bridges across the rivers and canals between Eindhoven and Nijmegen, and a British airborne division to take the bridge across the Lower Rhine at Arnhem.
Operation Garden sent the Guards Armoured Division on a 64-mile (106km) advance through enemy territory, across the bridges that the US paratroopers were to take, then on to meet up with the British airborne division at Arnhem.
What is Firestorm?
Firestorm Market Garden is Battlefront Miniature's second Firestorm campaign following on from Firestorm Bagration. Like Bagration, Market Garden is a map-based campaign where the battles are fought out using the Flames Of War miniatures game.
The generals operate at the strategic level on the map, while the players fight the tactical battles where they think they will have the most effect (hopefully following the orders of their commanding generals!)
Flexibility
The goal in developing the Firestorm campaign structure was to allow players the maximum freedom in how and when
they play games, while ensuring that the outcome of every game has a dramatic impact on the campaign. Whenever two
players get together to play a game, they look at the campaign map and decide where to fight the battle. The map tells them what extra troops to add to their normal Flames Of War forces, and suggests the type of terrain that the battle would be fought in. The players fight out the battle and then move the pieces on the map to reflect the outcome.
When they want to fight another battle, they just pick another area on the map and fight away. Players can play as much or as little as they want, whether it be three or four games per week or even just one game in the whole campaign.
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