Team Yankee

By Jim Naughton

TWO-BEE, or NOT TWO-BEE, THAT IS THE QUESTION

Zwei-bae, oder nicht Zwei-bae, das ist heir die Frage…somehow the pun doesn’t work in German. But it is an important question for PACT players. When you buy your new T72 battalion for BattleFront’s Team Yankee system, you can build your T72 models as the older T72/T72M variant or the brand-spanking-new T72B variant. The layers of reactive armor look awesome. The T72B brings missile capability along with the reactive armor, as well as advanced penetrators.

If you buy the AT-8/AT-11missiles for long-range engagements the T72B makes NATO come to the party by outranging their tanks and is a threat to hunter-killer helicopters. The move-and-shoot capability of the AT-8/AT-11 ensures that even from reserves, the T72B is a credible threat to any visible target. The ERA gives the tank the ability to crash lines of Irish Guards, an ability the Soviet/PACT has been sadly lacking. My heart, be still.

By Howard West

This is the fourth article from the NoDiceNoGlory team concerning the new WWIII Team Yankee Warsaw Pact book.

The link for the first article which was a high-level overview of the new WWIII Team Yankee Warsaw Pact book is below.

https://nodicenoglory.com/2022/03/21/preview-team-yankee-wwiii-warsaw-pact-is-back/

The link for the 2nd article which was an overview of the Polish Forces in the new WWIII Team Yankee Warsaw Pact book is below.

https://nodicenoglory.com/2022/03/25/march-team-yankee-preview-jeszcze-polska-nie-zginela-the-polish-forces/

The link for the 3rd article which was an overview of the East German Forces in the new WWIII Team Yankee Warsaw Pact book is below.

https://nodicenoglory.com/2022/04/01/big-changes-in-berlin-east-germany-in-the-warsaw-pact/

By Ian Birdwell

Well, it’s that time of year again to ponder what could have conceivably happened if the Soviet Union had tried to adequately equip the Warsaw Pact members with the latest military equipment instead of the dregs they received. You know, normal things.

The latest offering from Battlefront attempts to address that question in the Warsaw Pact supplement for Team Yankee V2, alongside the most important question for us in what Berlin would have done with this new bit of kit and how it changes the game for them in Team Yankee.

By Mitch Reed

I was honored to help the team at Battlefront write the initial Polish list for Team Yankee. The new Polish lists in Warsaw Pact forces make the force (that I love to play) even better. While not blessed with tons of new kit, the update is one that fellow Polish players will really enjoy.

By Howard West

The next new army book for Team Yankee has made it to our bunker in West Virginia and it is called WWIII Warsaw Pact. This review is one of several that NoDiceNoGlory will be doing on this latest arrival Battlefront. This new book adds new units and upgrades to some of the existing Warsaw Pact formations. In addition, it upgrades your legacy formations to the same V2 standard we saw for the US, USSR, West Germany, and the British.

By Paolo Paglianti

The last Team Yankee tournament we had in Italy was more than two years ago, so I was super happy that Livio Tonazzo, one of the best FOW – TY players in Italy, created the event we had last weekend, March 12th. While we normally play Team Tankee at 75 or 85 points, this time we decided “to go big” and have 105 points lists, with a massive amount of tanks, vehicles, and infantry bases.

The idea was to allow the deployment of the “new” super tanks, like the Challenger or the M1A1HC Abrams: these tanks cost up to 54 points for a platoon of three, so it’s mathematically impossible to field them under 75 points. However, we knew 105 points can also mean lots of spam of light vehicles and transports, but with a missile AT 19 or 21 on top of them – an entirely new meaning for the “spam” of scouts we see in FOW, as in Team Yankee they are both numerous and lethal.

By Howard West

Photos By Rich Baier, and Michael Schwille

Videos By Donald Skovira

In the Greater Pittsburgh and Western PA area we have several groups of players that play Flames of War and Team Yankee at geographically dispersed stores and the players seldom get together other than for tournaments. So after reading about how other groups have run escalation leagues we decided to try a Team Yankee Escalation League here in Western PA.

By Howard West

Background

My previous article Team Yankee COLD WAR Warrior Revisited the T-55 Tank focused on a Team Yankee player adding a 24-27 point 2nd or allied T-55 tank formation to an existing army list. With the “official” Team Yankee points reduced for this year’s US National events and with the changing META caused by the new NATO books as described in Tom Gall’s recent No Dice No Glory article on chasing the Team Yankee Meta. 

Also, several of our upcoming local Team Yankee tournaments that I will be playing in have the following point levels: 110, 94, and 70. I thought this provided a good basis for a series of list-building discussions for Team Yankee on No Dice No Glory.

By Howard West

Background

With the “official” Team Yankee points reduced for this year’s US National events and with the changing META caused by the new NATO books as described in Tom Gall’s recent No Dice No Glory article on chasing the And since several other upcoming local tournaments have reduced point levels, in the following order 110, 94, and 70.

I wanted to see what a 2nd Warsaw Pact formation might look like and I started playing around with different formations and kept coming back to an old reliable T55/T54 Tank family. Team Yankee represents the T55/54 Family in 20 different tank and motorized infantry formations in 5 different books from the Soviets, East Germans, Czechs, Poles, Oil Wars(Syrians and Iraqis).

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