Team Yankee- Unboxing Ryan's Leathernecks

Team Yankee- Unboxing Ryan's Leathernecks

Today's post is unboxing the latest American Marines Strike Force for Team Yankee.

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Team Yankee: Stripes WIP Scout Section

With the run up to Christmas the hobby time has been limited. The main block colours are done, and will have them finished over the break.

Team Yankee- Stripes The Lowdown

Stripes The Lowdown,

For those that you have been reading my posts on my Stripes army, progress is coming along nicely with the Scout Sections there will be post later this week.

Todays post is the lowdown on the Stripes book.

Check after the break 

Card of The Week - Team Yankee Cobra

Card of The Week - Team Yankee Cobra

This weeks card of the Week is the AH-1 Cobra for Team Yankee

Unit cards are by no means a new thing in war-gaming, but what I like at about the ones made for Team Yankee is the front of the card covers all the stats in nice large bold text, and the reverse carries points selection amount. Also are all the special rules for the unit, which means rather than constant rulebook referencing during the game you can just pick up the card.

What I also really like about the Team Yankee range is that the cards come in the box sets so no need to buy a separate deck.

So the Cobras are built undercoating will take place next week, and will post some more progress shots of the growing army.

Team Yankee- WIP Scout Units

Today got the undercoat on next up the tacking and green spray, hopefully finished by next week. This weeks game was delayed due to hectic work week.

First M113 Scout Section completed. Just 2 more and the Cobras to complete this weekend.

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Team Yankee: Stripes Army List

Team Yankee: Stripes Army List

So myself and Jonathan found that our blog had been linked on the front page of the Flames of War page in this weeks update. So no pressure now lol.

I mentioned in my last post that I was looking at writing up my army list this week. This lunch time I put the finishing touches to the list.

We have decided that Jonathan's pesky Ruskies will be attacking through Hof heading towards Bayreuth, Standing in there way is the 2nd ACR. So with a little bit of background behind the force selection I cracked open Stripes.

I am using the Cavalry Troop list as I love the idea of scouting M113's spotting the advancing tanks allowing the M901's and M1's to ambush to take out a few tanks before heading to a new prepared position.

So on with the list:

HQ: Armoured Cavalry Troop HQ 1pt

Troop:

2 x M1 Abrams 16 pts

2 x M1 Abrams 16 pts

1 M113 Scout Section 2 pts

1 M113 Scout Section 2 pts

Support:

2 x AH-1 Cobra 7 pts

Total Points: 44 pts

I think this list will give me some flexible options depending on what the Ruskies throw into the front line.

Next post will be the next stage of the construction of the army.

Comments always welcome.

Team Yankee: Gallery M1 Abrams

Team Yankee: Gallery M1 Abrams

Completed my M1's today just before our lunch time game. I think I need some more weathering but happy with my first models. 

After the break are some pictures of mine and Jonathan's first game using the card terrain from Hammerfall. 

Team Yankee: M1 Abrams WIP

Cracked on with the M1's from Hammerfall box this week, swapped my T-64's with Jonathan so have 4 of these beauties to start my army with.

Check out after the break for the progress so far.

Team Yankee: Stripes

Bit of a break since my last post as it has been a hectic few weeks. I spent the end of October in Essen Germany at the Spiel. This is one of the largest Board Game shows in the world with nearly 250,000 visitors over 4 days. 

I work for Battlefront Miniatures and we were demoing our new Boards Games, Dr Who Time of the Daleks and Brigands & Browncoats

http://www.fireflythegame.com/ . I will post more on these games in the future.

But todays post is about our upcoming release for Team Yankee, Stripes. Team Yankee was released 2 years ago with 1 core book featuring both Soviet and US forces. Over the past couple of years we have brought out books for British, West German and East German forces. Now it is time to revisit the Soviet and US forces and give them their own dedicated books, earlier this year the Soviets book Red Thunder was released with a load more new vehicles and units. Next month is the turn of the US with the release of Stripes. 

Being new into Team Yankee I have team up with Jonathan Peace who also works with me at Battlefront and we have decided to take the new armies and learn how to play Team Yankee. 

The upcoming posts will follow our starts into our new armies, the building and painting and learning how to play.

So tonight I will be reading through Stripes and finding a hook to start my army.

Next post will be a breakdown of the book and what army I have chosen.

If you are interested in fighting World War III battles then check out the Team Yankee web page.