Operation Market Garden: Descent Into Hell
BGG rank
BGG #14,509
BGG rating
6.8

Operation Market Garden: Descent Into Hell

1985

Rules assistance for Operation Market Garden: Descent Into Hell

Plain-language explanations of turns, card effects and disputed situations, with official source references and saved question history.

  • 2 players
  • 120 min
  • 12+
  • Complexity 2.9/5

For 2 players

Rules assistant for Operation Market Garden: Descent Into Hell

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Operation Market Garden: Descent Into Hell is a board game released in 1985 for 2 players, 120 minutes per game, and ages 12 and up. It was designed by Frank Chadwick and its main mechanics are Dice Rolling, Grid Movement, and Secret Unit Deployment.

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About the game

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.

Questions and answers

Operation Market Garden: Descent Into Hell supports 2 players according to the catalogue. This is the publisher’s listed player count, so the game is designed for exactly that number of participants. Variants for other group sizes, if any, are described in the rulebook of your edition, so check it before setting up a different configuration.