MG-4 Guards Attack (version 1.2) 

Based on ASL Scenario A35 (from ASL Annual '91)

Author: Col. Klotz
Original design by Jon Mishcon.

Date: September 18, 1944

Location: Near Aalst, Holland

Opponents: Irish Guards Attack against German Fallschirmjaeger Defense

Size: Tiny
Length: 20 turns

Time: Day
Weather: Clear
Ground Condition: Wet

Stiff German resistance had thwarted Horrock's plan to smash out of the XXX Corps' bridgehead on Sunday and link with the Americans in Eindhoven in less than three hours. By nightfall on the 17th, Lt.-Colonel Vandeleur's tanks had only reached Valkenswaard, six miles short of the day's objective, where orders to halt the advance were received. To the east of the highway, heather-covered dunes cut by small streams made the area barely negoitiable for armor; to the west, the wooden bridges were too frail to support Shermans. Unaware of the destruction of the highway bridge at Zon, his men had spent the night chaffing at the seemingly unreasonable delay by their commanders. Cheers went up from the Irish as orders finally came to move out. Although the scouting patrols of the Household Cavalry had warned of Germans in good defensive positions up ahead, Vandeleur's force met little opposition until they neared the village of Aalst, halfway to Eindhoven. 

This scenario is designed for head-to-head play. If played solo against the AI it's best to take the Allied side, and the AI must be free to place it's units.
 
This is the fourth scenario of seven in the Market-Garden Series.

 


 
 
 
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