Scheldt '44 Market Garden (expanded) Allied AAR - settled for a Draw turn 69

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Turn 31. 13:00 September 20th 1944.



The idea north of the Waal is to slowly pull back and maintain frontline stacks in just 4-5 hexes, so the other units can rest.

The artillery and AT units in 1st Airborne will be moved south across the Waal.

The Welsh join the traffic jam south of the Meuse.



The third brigade of the 3rd Infantry Division is at or near the frontline at Best.

107th Panzer Brigade is split in two parts, with the armour facing 11th Armoured and 4th Armoured Brigade and other units facing the glider regiment of the 101st Airborne east of Helmond.

The Prinses Irene Brigade is moving north and will relieve 101st Airborne Division units south-west of Sint-Oedenrode.



The 43rd Wessex Division has been released, together with the remaining XXX Corps corps assets (mostly engineers) and is moving north. The 43rd Wessex Division will move to the area north of Overloon.

The rest of the 7th Armoured Division has finally been released, though parts of the division are still arriving. They'll form up along the Reusel-Eindhoven road and move east to where the glider regiment of the 101st Airborne is currently.

As you can see, German forces east of Valkenswaard are withdrawing now that 11th Armoured is threatening to flank the units further west. 11th Armoured Division and 4th Armoured Brigade have knocked out 6 Panthers and a Jagdpanzer IV for the loss of 10 or so Stuarts and one medium tank. Considering that the Panther "battalion" starts with just 33 tanks, that's a good blow.