Post by Whiterook on Oct 30, 2022 17:30:10 GMT -5
This is the second edition of this game from MultiMan Publishing, bought yesterday on MMP’s annual “Spooktactular Sale”, which I make a point t9 hit every year! The savings are phenomenal and I have added many games I’d normally pass because of the costs. I picked this one up for $25 (retails at $60).
An all-new edition of this popular Area Movement System game contains updated components, new cover art, and the Fortress: Holland variant.
Monty's Gamble: Market Garden is a reprinting of MMP’s highly acclaimed area movement game on Operation Market Garden simulating the Allied attack in Holland and the German response. The Allies must land paratroopers, seize key bridges, and get XXX Corps up "Hell's Highway" to relieve the British paratroopers in Arnhem, all while the Germans are attempting to break the supply line.
Monty's Gamble: Market Garden features a semi-simultaneous movement system which provides maximum interaction and requires players to make tough choices as every move they make may be countered by their opponent. Both players will have pressing needs up and down "Hell's Highway" but may only address one at a time—hopefully before the variable turn length causes the turn to end!
Also included in this all new updated version of Monty's Gamble is Fortress Holland: 1940. Originally published in Operations Special Magazine #2 this expansion contains 100+ counters and rules and depicts the German invasion of Holland from May 10 to May 12 1940.
—description from the publisher
Monty's Gamble: Market Garden is a reprinting of MMP’s highly acclaimed area movement game on Operation Market Garden simulating the Allied attack in Holland and the German response. The Allies must land paratroopers, seize key bridges, and get XXX Corps up "Hell's Highway" to relieve the British paratroopers in Arnhem, all while the Germans are attempting to break the supply line.
Monty's Gamble: Market Garden features a semi-simultaneous movement system which provides maximum interaction and requires players to make tough choices as every move they make may be countered by their opponent. Both players will have pressing needs up and down "Hell's Highway" but may only address one at a time—hopefully before the variable turn length causes the turn to end!
Also included in this all new updated version of Monty's Gamble is Fortress Holland: 1940. Originally published in Operations Special Magazine #2 this expansion contains 100+ counters and rules and depicts the German invasion of Holland from May 10 to May 12 1940.
—description from the publisher
This is one of my favorite battle subjects of WWII, and this updated version is just simply, gorgeous!
I’m coming to appreciate and enjoy Area Movement games much more, and can only attribute my prior reluctance to ignorance (…and being a Pisces); I’m generally an open-minded kinda person, but I can be slow to open up t9 new wargaming concepts. This appears to be a perfect treatment however, for bringing forth the true tension and visual appeal of this overwhelming land grab.
…gorgeous map!
Im really looking forward to getting my hands on this one!