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A reminder of how things work regarding features:
Significant new features are NOT put into Modules as a rule. They are reserved for Base Games (1st release of a Family) and Upgrades (which update older Families to current standards). There are exceptions, of course.
The reason for this is every person playing within a Family must be using the same version. So if something is introduced into a Module that means everybody gets it. Not only within a specific Family, but often across all Families. In other words... nobody is explicitly paying us for those improvements.
Despite that we *always* include new features, for free, with Modules and Patches. So you will see some rolled out with the Market Garden Module first, then everybody else soon after. Which is why the few people who continue to gripe about us charging people for minor feature improvements are flat out wrong.
Major feature improvements cost us significant resources (time and money) to develop. Call us selfish, but we do expect to be paid for such work. And that's why we don't release them for free, as happens to things which first appear in Modules.
Bug fixes are, of course, free for everybody all the time. Though sometimes new features "fix" old problems, but that's not the same thing.
We will release more info about what is in Market Garden very soon. Modules vary in terms of how many of this or that they might have, but we always make sure there's a balance of new things which, in total, balances it with other releases. Market Garden is not an exception. If you can't conceive of how that's possible, based on the little information we're released so far, then give us the benefit of the doubt until more information is available. That would be the sensible thing to do given our great track record of under promising and over delivering.
Steve