The boardgame “Mercury-Market Garden” examines two airborne operations of World War II – the German air assault on Crete and the Allied attempt to seize bridges over the Rhine in Holland.

‘Close Combat: Last Stand Arnhem’ is more of a sequel to rather than a remake of 1997′s classic ‘Close Combat: A Bridge Too Far.’ There are lots of new missions and options, gameplay’s still superb, but the graphics are showing their age.

In this Command Decision Game, you are Col. James M. Gavin, commander of 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR), U.S. 82d Airborne Division, leading an ad hoc force in Sicily, 1943, when you encounter elements of the Herman Goering Division.

A cameraman’s dramatic footage of the fighting for Ginkel Heath during Operation Market-Garden gave the Nazis a tool for home-front propaganda.

Tactics 101, the continuing monthly series on ArmchairGeneral, looks at the air movement plan in the latest installment – how to get paratroopers from their departure airfield to their objective.

The monthly series Tactics 101 continues its look at airborne operations with an examination of how to develop a Marshaling Plan for activities from the first warning order until the first aircraft takes off with airborne troops.

Four fundamentals in airborne operations are explored in the continuing monthly series Tactics 101 on ArmchairGeneral.com.