Editing Team Yankee (section)

===The Neutral Powers===

(Coming soon with Nordic Forces)

====Sweden====
Maintaining a policy of armed neutrality (leave us alone, we have guns) since 1814, Sweden never joined NATO despite its neighbors Denmark and Norway being among the first to sign up. The idea being that if ww3 ended up in an atomic fireball, Sweden be at the bottom of the target list and have a better then average chance of making it through, Finland had the same tactic BTW and went so far as to make literally every building a bunker to live through it.. However, it is extremely likely that in the event of a war, the Swedes would have broken their long-standing neutrality to support their Scandinavian comrades against the Communist threat to their way of coffee breaks every 2 hours.

This actually happens in Sir John Hackett's novel ''The Third World War: The Untold Story'', which Harold Coyle's ''Team Yankee'' is set within- the Swedes don't take kindly to the Soviet Air Force repeatedly invading their airspace to bomb Norway, and Sweden becomes a de facto NATO ally when they attack the Soviet bombers and the Soviets retaliate. So far that hasn't been made canon in Team Yankee: The Tabletop Game, but Battlefront Miniatures could change that at any time.

The Swedish military of 1985 was armed with some of the most distinctive weapons of the Cold War thanks to their homegrown defence industry. Designs, like the Stridsvagn 103 (or 'S' tank) and the Saab 35 'Draken' and 37 'Viggen' were strange even for the time. The Draken was of the first aircraft to successfully implement a delta-wing configuration and Viggen the canard delta layout; the design used in modern interceptor aircraft like the Rafale and the Typhoon fighter jets.  

Sweden's infantrymen of the 80's had access to an excellent selection small arms, pragmatically picked from the best designs Europe had to offer.  Their basic kit includes Glock pistols and a domestic clones of the H&K G3 and the FN FNC rifles, supported with 84mm Carl-Gustafs and a bewilderingly diverse inventory of machine guns.  Their latest homegrown gadgetry at the time of Team Yankee is the then-prototype m/94 Strix, a 120mm mortar round with anti-tank heat-seeking terminal guidance; essentially a poor man's copperhead but in some sense a better overall system.

As with other Scandinavian armies, their forces were rather small. This meant that their funding per soldier was almost equal to other Western European nations, giving them a small force of well-trained and equipped troops that constantly stink of pickled herring. 

Defining Units:
[[Strv 103]]
 
;Strengths  
*Free shipping for orders above $50.
*Excellent cars and fishes.

;Weaknesses
*Has [[Munchkin|min-maxed tanks]]
*Screwdriver sold separately.

 The Breakdown:

{{Swedish Forces in Team Yankee}}

====Finland====
Poor Finland, caught in the worst possible position with the Soviet Union right on their doorstep. Architects of Finlandization, an attempt to hedge their bets and avoid pissing off their old enemy. Well in Team Yankee's timeline it doesn't work, and for the third time that century the Soviet Union's forces pour across the Finnish border. Of course this time: there ready with enough fortifications to make Mannerheim him self blush.

{{Finnish Forces in Team Yankee}}