Headquarters: World War II - Market Garden is a paid DLC for Starni Games' turn-based tactical title, extending the campaign into the Netherlands with the September 1944 airborne operation as its centrepiece. If you already know the base game, you know what you are getting: small-to-medium scale skirmishes where unit positioning, cover exploitation, and supply management matter more than any single overpowered weapon. The DLC does not reinvent the formula, but it does give it a historically grounded setting that rewards players who care about actual WW2 theater variety. On the decision-making front, Market Garden adds the Anglo-American airborne perspective alongside German defensive play, which means you are frequently managing fragile paratroopers dropped behind enemy lines with limited resupply windows. That supply pressure is genuinely interesting from a strategy standpoint. You cannot just grind forward - you have to prioritize objectives, hold chokepoints with minimum force, and think two or three turns ahead about where your ammo is going. The base game's army management loop, where you build a roster between missions and spend limited points on reinforcements and upgrades, carries over intact. Veterans will feel at home immediately. The concerns worth flagging are the same ones that kept the base game at a mixed reception. AI behavior is readable once you have a few hours invested - it tends to be reactive rather than proactive, meaning it punishes mistakes but rarely applies genuine pressure on its own. Players looking for the kind of lateral, aggressive opponent AI you find in more polished titles will be disappointed. The tutorial layer also assumes you have played the core game, so if Market Garden is your entry point you will want to run through base-game missions first rather than jumping straight here. For newcomers to the overall Headquarters package, here is why Market Garden can still make sense as a starting point if it is cheaper or bundled: the scenario design in this DLC is arguably more focused than some of the base content, and the historical framing gives each mission a clear narrative purpose. You know you are fighting for a bridge, you know time is working against you, and that context makes the mechanical objectives feel meaningful rather than arbitrary. The learning curve is real but not punishing - most concepts click within two or three missions once you stop treating it like a real-time game and start treating it like a puzzle with a 60-second turn clock. The mixed Steam score (78% positive across over 600 reviews at time of writing) reflects a game that does a lot of things adequately without doing any single thing exceptionally. The art direction is clean, the unit roster covers paratroopers, armor, artillery, and support classes with enough variety to keep builds interesting, and the Market Garden theater is underrepresented in this genre so there is genuine novelty here. Whether that novelty justifies the DLC price on top of the base game purchase is a tighter calculation - check if a bundle is available before buying separately. The mod ecosystem around the Headquarters series remains thin compared to, say, the Panzer Corps line, which limits long-term replayability. What is here is solid, deliberate, and built for players who enjoy careful turn-based decisions more than spectacle. Diego, Scout Team