WWII COMMANDER: Volume Two, Market-Garden

1-COM1178

WWII Commander, Volume Two: Market-Garden is the second in a series of fast two-player area-based games on key campaigns of the Second World War. For the Volume One, please see item number COM1086 (Battle of the Bulge).

Recreates the Allied airborne and ground offensive against the German Army in Holland in September 1944. As the Allied player, your airborne forces must seize and hold key objectives while your armored ground forces break though the German front and advance aggressively without getting cut off by German infantry and armor coming from all sides. As the German player, you must delay the Allied ground advance, trading space for time as you attempt to destroy the airborne forces behind your lines. The rules are simple, gameplay is fast and furious, and can be completed in one sitting. Game features specific to Market-Garden include: Airborne landings, variable weather, concentric attacks, German off-map movement, effects of polder terrain, river assaults, ferry movement.

* Complexity: 4 out of 10
* Solitaire Suitability: 7 out of 10, no hidden units
* Time scale: Half day per game-turn
* Map scale: 5 km across per space
* Unit scale: Regiments and brigades
* Players: Two, but also suitable for solitaire play
* Playing Time: 2 to 4 hours

Components:
* Mounted 34 x 22-inch map
* Two sheets of 3/4-inch premium counters
* Rules booklet
* Allied and German Order of Battle Displays
* Two Player Aid cards
* 50 Activation cubes
* 40 wooden control discs
* Seven ten-sided dice
* Box and Lid