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

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Turn 37 05:00 Dawn September 21st 1944. Normal conditions.



After the engineers built a bridge at Nitrijk, the Welsh and Guards Armoured Divisions moved across the Meuse. The Welsh will cross the Waal mostly by being ferried across the river by engineer units with the Has Boats flag.

The first wave of the Polish Airborne Brigade will arrive at DZ "O" just before night.

At the bottom of the screenshot you can see the tail end of the 43rd Wessex Division arriving at its jump off point for a push south-east.



The lead elements of the 43rd Wessex have been in contact with German companies in and around Sint-Anthonis during the night. That reveals the presence of my division, but the Germans don't have any troops to reinforce the area with.

11th Armoured and 4th Armoured Brigade will take a short detour through Beek and move across various canals to the area north of Deurne. 4th Armoured Brigade is now at full strength after the rest of its armour and armoured cars arrived.

You can see 101st Airborne's paratrooper units slowly moving north as they're relieved by other units.



7th Armoured is moving east.

Some towns/villages in the area are RUBBLE hexes. It happens with surprising ease, due to the big Allied artillery units. Sometimes a single salvo by a 24 gun units reduces an urban hex to RUBBLE.

The brigade of the 3rd Infantry Division at Valkenswaard will join the rest of the division. The rest of the 50th Northumbrian Division is finally released and will move towards Maarheeze, where it will join the units of the division active since turn 1.

The 15th Scottish Division is still engaged in trench warfare with various German units in front of it. The Belgian resistance has liberated Turnhout.