Yesterday we played in Bolter first battle of Market Garden campaign, our first battle had place in Son, close to Eindhoven. Before game we had great prelection done by Piotr Galik from association Semper Fidelis. So it begun on 17.09.1944 – when American and British paratroopers when dropped down to secure bridges and allow Allied tank divisions moving thru them to the heart of Germany.

Prelection before the game.
British sapper unit with support deployed close to the demolished bridge.
Last German survivors hidding in the forest.
Acht coma acht waiting.
German Heer vs American paratroopers.
German reinforcements arrived in small numbers at start.
More British arrived.
Royal Engineers managed to build part of bridge.
More parts of bridge were done. Veterans losed they hand to hand combat on riight against German regulars.
I forgot about second wave in turn two, so they started run on turn three.
Germans tried to stop British advance.
Bridgehead completed.
Everyone get out to cover bridgehead.
The beginning of the end.

Summary:
– thank you all for great game!
– Karol tested bridge building with me in one of our games beetwen Red Army and Germans. I was again builder of a bridge – now for British.