Team Yankee

FREEDOM BITCHES!!!

Sunday August 5, 1985 the Warsaw Pact thundered across the Iron Curtain. 6 Soviet Armies, backed up by the forces of Poland, Czechoslovakia, and East Germany, hammered into the NATO forces guarding the boarder. The Americans, supported by the armies of West Germany, Britain, and France, are strained to the breaking point at the Soviet Advance. It is 1985, and the Cold War had just gone hot.

Welcome soldier to Team Yankee, Battlefront Miniatures alternate history game where World War 3 breaks out on the fields of central Germany. Based on the book of the same name Harold Coyle, the story of Team Yankee follows a unit of the US Army named Team Yankee (of course) as they struggle to hold of those damn commies, with viewpoints from the other armies added in their respective Army rulebook.

The Game

Team Yankee is a 15mm (about 1:100 scale) Table Top Wargame, usually played on a standard 6x4 game table. To play Team Yankee, you will need a tape measure (both Inches and Centimeters work), a whole bunch of D6 dice, an army of models, and some friends to play with.

Playing the game

What Follows is a basic layout of a standard turn

1. Starting Step This is where most of the administrative stuff happens. Check the Morale of your formations and units, roll for reserves, rally pinned units, free bogged down tanks, remount bailed out tanks, remove smoke from the previous turn, etc. etc. etc.

2. Movement Step Move your units (duh). The amount a unit can move is dictated by the terrain they have to deal with.

3. Shooting Step No problem cannot be solved through the application of superior fire power. Team Yankee uses true line of sight like most wargames, so make sure your soldiers can actually see what you want them to hit.

4. Artillery Step. The queen of the battlefield gets a step all to herself. Artillery must range in to hit the target, and then the guns will sing.

5. Assault Step. Time to get up close and personal. Units charge into close quarters to beat the enemy to death with their rifle butts or crush them underneath their treads. Infantry teams don’t get saves in close combat so be wary.

The Forces of WW3

NATO

United States of America

"Time to free the shit out of some Commies!" The United States Army is one of the most technologically advanced forces on the Battlefield. An all-volunteer force, the average US Soldier is backed up by some of the finest equipment ever to rumble into war (including the first ever METUL BOX). Particularly the principle tank of the US forces in Europe is the M1 Abrams is arguably the best main battle tank in existence. Currently only in the Team Yankee rulebook, the US is soon going to get its own expansion called “Stripes”.

Great Britain

"For Queen and Country!" The British Army of the Rhine have carefully guarded the border between the East and West for 40 years. When war came to Europe for the third time in a century, the British stubbornly held their ground as the Soviet Hoards swept over the continent, forcing the commies to bypass them. The rules for these tea chugging bastards are found in “Iron Maiden”

West Germany

"We’re the Good Guys for once!" The Heer of the Federal Republic of Germany was the first expansion for Team Yankee. Once again fighting the Russians Dogs, the army of West Germany is a powerhouse indeed. The Rules for the West Germans can be found in “Leopard” and the subsequent expansion “Panzertruppen”

Warsaw Pact

Soviet Union

“Die capitalist pigs!” The Armies of the Soviet Union were some of the most feared in the west. The thought of thousands of soviet tanks storming the boarder backed up by thousands of APCs carrying hundreds of thousands of the noble sons of the motherland was enough to make any NATO strategic thinker quake in his books. Rules for the Soviet Hoards can be found in the Team Yankee Rulebook and “Red Thunder”

East Germany

“We’re here to help the Soviet Cause!” The East Germans are almost as well equipped as the soviets. Even though they must make do with Soviet Export equipment, they fight with a tenacity that rivals that of their forefathers. Rules for the East Germans are found in “Volksarmee.”

Books

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  Da Big Rulebook

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  Iron Maiden

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  Leopard

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  Panzertruppen: sort of an addendum to Leopard

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  Volksarmee

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  Red Thunder

External Links

Official Team Yankee website

East German Forces in Team Yankee
Tanks:	T-55 - T55AM2 - T-72M - T-72B
Transports:	BTR-60 - BMP-1 - BMP-2
Troops:	Mot-Schützen Kompanie - Hind Assault Landing Company
Artillery:	2S1 Carnation - BM-21 Hail - RM-70 - 2S3 Acacia
Anti-Aircraft:	ZSU 23-4 Shilka - SA-13 Gopher - SA9 Gaskin - SA-8 Gecko
Tank Hunters:	Spandrel
Recon:	BMP-1 OP - BRDM-2
Aircraft:	MI-24 Hind - SU-22 Fitter
Soviet Support:	SU-25 Frogfoot