Cover art for Operation Market Garden: Descent Into Hell

Operation Market Garden: Descent Into Hell

1985 · BGG
Avg rating
6.73
Bayes rating
5.55
Weight
2.89 (Medium)
Players
2
Playtime
2 hr
Ratings count
100

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Description

Operation Market Garden is a "double-blind" game focusing on the failed Allied airborne offensive of September 1944. It was one of three "double-blind" land warfare wargames released by GDW in the eighties. The game system used two maps so that both players were "in the dark" as to the disposition of the opposing forces at the start of the game. The game system does not require a referee, but instead relies on the honor system.

Operation Market Garden is in the same series with The Normandy Campaign and 8th Army: Operation Crusader – The Winter Battles for Tobruk, 1941, and was republished in #115 of Command magazine Japan in 2014.



Mechanics

Dice Rolling Events Grid Movement Hexagon Grid Hidden Movement Movement Points Ratio / Combat Results Table Secret Unit Deployment Simulation Zone of Control

Themes

Theme Weather World War II

Publishers

Game Designers' Workshop (GDW Games) Kokusai-Tsushin Co., Ltd. (国際通信社)

Designers

Frank Chadwick