Friday, 1 February 2013

Market Garden US Parachute Company Army-files.

I built the first army files from the new Market Garden book. Yep I bought the set with both books. But before I go the files I like to tell a little about these new books.
First Market Garden. This book contains all the allied army lists from the old "Hell's Highway" and "A Bridge Too Far" books and old Market Garden PDF briefings. The book also contains new army lists, army lists based on the Battle of the Scheldt. These are mostly Canadian lists but also a few British.
The Bridge by Bridge book. Like the Market Garden book this book contains all the army list from the old "Hell's Highway" and "A Bridge Too Far" books. Beside that there are several new lists included that saw action during Operation Market Garden. There are no specific lists for the Battle of the scheldt.
In both books the old army list from "Hell's Highway" and "A Bridge Too Far" books and PDF briefings have been updated with new stats, new points and even some new Company diagrams.
The look of the books. The layout of the books is great.The books have a hard cover and a sewn spine. They are sturdy. The lists in the books are, in my opinion, nice lists. There is not much wrong about these.
The biggest problem I have with the books is the many errors they contain. A few errors I don't mind, nobody is perfect, but there are more then just a few errors and some are just big errors. My personally opinion is that the proofreaders did a sloppy job. By just opening the book I already saw some errors, I didn't even have to read the book to see them.

On to the army-files I built.
The first 2 new army files from Market Garden I built are;
-Market Garden - 82nd Airborne Division Parachute Rifle Company (3v1.0)
-Market Garden - 101st Airborne Division Parachute Rifle Company (3v1.0)
In the "Hell's Highway" book the Parachute Rifle Company was 1 army list in which you could select which division you liked to play with some different options. In the new Market Garden book it are now 2 different army lists and both lists are now very different compared to the old one.
Something I like to note is that you should read the Notes sheet of the files because these contain important information.

Links to download both army files can be found here: US Files

I now going to slowly work my way through the book and update the old allied "Hell's Highway" and Market Garden PDF briefings to new army files. In between I will also built some new ones. If I will built army files for the Germans in the Bridge by Bridge book is something I doubt I will do.

Thanks for reading.

3 comments:

  1. great blog and great dedication to the hobby as usual!

    thank you

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  2. Errata is such a pain in the arse.

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  3. I do appreciate historical accuracy and greatly appreciate your work in this area of gaming.

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