Airborne Operations
in Operation Market-Garden

Official Errata

by Winston Hamilton

Charts

German Order of Battle Chart: The reference to hex 0403 is incorrect; it should be hex 0430.

Rules

Through a set of unfortunate circumstances, an incorrect version of the rules manuscript was used for final editing. Although the game is playable in this version, it is a more exciting game to play in its intended final version. The changes to the rules necessary to play this version are presented below:

6. Combat; B. Fire Resolution:

The third sentence of the first paragraph of this section should read: "Each unit may fire individually, or two or more units may combine their fire strengths together." Note that this allows units to fire individually or combined, as the owning player wishes. For example, if three units are firing at an enemy unit, the fire can be resolved as one attack with the fire strengths of all three units combined, or three attacks with the three units firing individually, or two attacks with two units firing together and the third unit firing by itself.

10. Airborne Operations; A. Airdrop; 5. Movement:

This paragraph is not used. Instead, no airborne unit may move in the movement phase of the impulse in which it made an airdrop. This applies only to units which make airdrops; units that are airlanded may move in the impulse they are landed.

11. Supply:

If an attack is made with units combining their fire strengths and at least one of the firing units is out of supply, then 2 is added to the die roll when resolving the attack. For example, if three units are making a combined attack and one of the units is out of supply, then the combat die roll has 2 added to it.

12. Water Barriers:

Bridging units are road bound: they may move only during the movement phase of the road impulse. They may not move during the movement phase of the off-road impulse.

Bridging units may ferry both motorized and non-motorized units. Engineer units may only ferry non-motorized units. An engineer unit may ferry motorized infantry units that are moving as non- motorized infantry (per rule 4A2).

An engineer or bridging unit may ferry itself across a water barrier and continue moving that movement phase; it need not start the phase adjacent to the water barrier. However, if it ferries any unit other than itself, it must start the movement phase adjacent to the water barrier and may not move at all in the phase.

Operation Market-Garden: War Game Plan


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