**A Pivotal Day For The 82nd - The Matrix Games version of West Front

[Nijmegen, Holland]:[H2H and Teamgame]:[HIS]:[BB]: [options on except AF and VV] In the history of the 82nd US Airborne Division the 20th of September 1944 came to be known as "unprecedented in the division's combat history". Minus 1 regiment that hadn't landed yet, the entire division would be in desperate combat on this day. As 19 September hadn't brought control over the Nijmegen bridges, General Gavin developed a bold and dangerous plan for a daylight river crossing over the Waal by the 504th PIR, to seize the bridges from the north bank. For Gavin, fighting on on just the south end for perhaps days until the Germans would retreat and blow up the bridges behind them, wasn't an option, knowing that eleven miles to the north the British paratroopers were being destroyed, while his division hadn't even secured any of the Nijmegen bridges. In the meantime, the Germans had other plans in store. 3 Kampfgruppen were assembled in and around the western edge of the Reichswald. Fieldmarshal Model ordered them to attack the American paratroopers with a threefold goal: 1. Splitting the American 82nd Division. 2. Capturing of the lock bridge at Heumen; the only bridge at that time capable of carrying heavy equipment over the Maas-Waal canal. 3. Relieving the SS troops in Nijmegen. [Notes for the players: On the Allied side each of the players get's to command a PIR with attachments. Unattached units can be divided as the players see fit. On the German side, each of the players gets to command a "Kampfgruppe". The units in and around Nijmegen are commanded by the commander of "KG Greschick" (player 3) since that is the weakest of the units in the east. Unattached units can be divided as the players see fit.]