Supplements

[Panzerleader71]

I hope this kosher asking this here.

Does anyone have any experience with the following Command Decision supplements;
Benghazi Handicap
Operation Market Garden
Red Steel
Red Tide
In the Clutches of Eagles.

If so what are your thoughts?

I am particularly interested in the last three items.

[dougeagle]

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[ferret701]

I have Benghazi Handicap. It is an excellent publication, extremely well researched and worth the price. Particularly good on Italian data.

[ACWBill]

Benghazi Handicap is excellent in all respects. It is a great campaign guide and an excellent source of OB data.
Red Tide and Red Steel are mostly CDIV-TOB OBs
Market-Garden is a bitweak IMHO - I expected this book to cover the entire Market-Garden Campaign but it is simply a scenario booklet with some OB data. I remember that Frank Chadwick did Market-Garden in the 80s as one of his Wilderness Weekends and it was my hope that this similar in that regard.
I like Clutch of Eagles but my expectations were lower after the M-G book. Good scenarios and nice OB information.

I also have For the Honor of the Regiment and Stars and Stripes. They are OK - OB data and nothing much more. There was supposed to be another book on North Africa covering the later period of the campaign but it has yet to materialize.

[Thomaso827]

I have the Clutches of Eagles book, converting scenarios for another system, and outside of a lack of info on map scale (is it intended for 15mm and enlarged or shrunk for other scales?) and my own lack of info on the rules system (what does a HQ element equal so I know how to represent it in the other system?), I like it. I had hoped to find a good scenario or two for Crete, so that in itself prompted me to buy it, and I'm actually getting ready to run the first scenario, that with the FJs jumping into Holland to take and hold a bridge, as my first game to run this summer.

While it is in an entirely different game scale (more individual troops and vehicles), I might recommend the Too Fat Lardies supplement for Anzio. I've been collecting the GHQ troops to do scenarios from both books recently, with still a lot of US and Russian stuff to get. I'll be looking at adding their Normandy book shortly.

Tom Oxley

[Panzerleader71]

Thanks for the input fellas.