The Last Hundred Yards: Volume 2 – Airborne Over Europe

About this board game

The Last Hundred Yards: Volume 2 – Airborne Over Europe is a standalone tactical game for 1–2 players, with a listed play time of 240 minutes. Released in 2020, it presents ten missions across two major campaigns focused on US airborne operations in Normandy and Market Garden.

In the Operation Overlord campaign, elements of the American 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions land scattered across Normandy on the night of June 6, 1944. Players must assemble their forces, secure objectives beyond the beachheads, support the advance from Utah Beach, and withstand German reactions and counterattacks. One mission follows Lt. Dick Winters and his platoon during the attack on the artillery battery at Brecourt Manor, followed by a counterattack from the 6th Fallschirmjäger Regiment.

The Operation Market Garden campaign follows the 82nd Airborne Division near Nijmegen and the 101st Airborne Division north of Eindhoven. Race to secure bridges over the Waal, Maas, Dommel, Wilhelmina Canal, Zuid-Willemsvaart, and river AA, then experience the German counterattack that cuts the main highway near Veghel. Units of the 101st Airborne and British XXX Corps must fight for two critical days to reopen the corridor.

New airdrop and night rules capture the challenge of landing successfully, assembling dispersed troops, and advancing against unknown enemy resistance. New terrain further expands the series.

• Six double-sided geomorphic maps
• Ten missions across two campaigns
• Rules booklet, playbook, mission cards, charts, counters, turn track, and four dice

With its airborne focus and demanding objectives, The Last Hundred Yards: Volume 2 creates a tense campaign of small-unit actions in two defining European operations.