Could Panzer Battles Do Entire Market Garden?

[jim pfleck]

Well as one of the developers all I can say is the following:

• Market-Garden is the perfect scale for Panzer Battles
  
• We have the brand new OOB from Mike Prucha's PzC Scheldt version
  
• We have many of the units broken out in PzB format in PzB Normandy. There was some equipment changes but the unit organisation did not change markedly.
  
• We have source maps at the right scale.
  
• We have the source code for Panzer Campaigns and that may lead to the inclusion of items like replacements etc. I am seeing a need for these in Moscow and could have used them in Normandy in a scenario like Operation Bluecoat. That said, there were not replacements per se, but rather recovery of stragglers etc.
  

So do we have the information, yes. Do we have the interest, yes. Do we have the time, debatable currently!

One final point, it would have to be the whole battle covered. There is actually not a whole lot of troops on either side ( a corps or two each), so this would be more compact than some of the work done previously...

David

Thanks, this sounds hopeful.  The reason I brought this up is because Market Garden offers such a variety of operations, elite forces, and both sides get to attack and defend.  A Panzer Battles at the scale of the entire operation would probably need a lot of tender loving care, since you have a lot of important little details about mined bridges, ferries, cross-river amphibious attacks, resistance groups, the West Wall fortifications, rail movement, weather and terrain effects, as well as potential strategies for follow up airdrops and reinforcements.  The scale of Panzer Campaigns works, but a battle like this really would be amazing at a smaller scale, as you could really tweak the details and it would be a work of art as well as really fun to play.  I am in a PBEM of the Scheldt 44' Market Garden and it has been a blast, with lots of twists and turns in initiative and room for player decision making. A new Panzer Battles Market Garden of course would also have a ton of smaller scenarios, but the main event would be the centerpiece.

I agree with this. There are a lot of interesting situations, small battles, etc. in Market Garden that I think would do well in PB format. So to me, not only is the campaign on its own interesting, but the fighting itself and the units involve are interesting too.

I am trying to learn how to play PB.  I am not very good at this point.