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Today is the 57th anniversary of the Arnhem drops (hey, I'm an Aussie, so we're already well into the 17th!). I just got CM a couple of weeks ago, and as a keen student of British 1st Airborne, I'm looking forward to playing the Arnhem battles and operations. At the moment I'm just playing smaller stuff till I learn the ropes, but I was wondering: Does anybody have any opinions / tips on how the historical airborne battles are handled within the game, or about the implemnation of airborne troops in CM in general?

Bad-drops were not the only problem for the Pathfinders. The Rebecca/Eureka beacon equipment was notoriously unreliable. I think only one set was working in the right place at the right time on the Normandy drops, and the incoming planes still missed it. For the British 1st Airborne, their path-finding was done by the 21st Independent Coy. They were volunteers from the existinf Para battalions.

Hi people. This is my first post here, and leaping right into the debate, may I point out that from D-Day onwards, the British commandos were used less and less as a raiding force and more often as conventional infantry. Lovatt and his men landed on Sword beach just like everybody else and marched inland to do the job of conventional infantry. The glorious coastal raiding days of the early years were over, mainly because there was less and less coast that needed to be raided!