Team Yankee

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).

NDNG BattleVault Episode 23 – 2021 Wrap Up and 2022 Look Ahead

By Howard West

Photos supplied in this article by Anthony Burger, Rich Baier and Howard West

HMGS Inc. in normal times has three historical gaming conventions a year, Cold Wars in the Winter to Early Spring, Historicon in July, and Fall-Inn in November. Historicon 2021 was moved to the Fall-Inn time slot and took place November 10th -14th, 2021 at the Valley Forge Casino Resort, King of Prussia.

This was the first convention that HMGS was able to have since Cold Wars March 2020 due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. It is located right off the PA turnpike near the King of Prussia Mall and about 30-40 minutes from the Philadelphia Airport.

By Tom Burgess,

If you know me…you know I have been very excited about what 3D printing and how it is revolutionizing the wargaming hobby.  If not,  you can check out an article I wrote about it .  One of the things I said in that article that would revolutionize the miniature wargaming hobby would be independent miniature designers being able to offer products through venues like  Patreon and Kickstarter. One such independent designer who has been at it for quite a while with a good bit of success is Henry Turner. Henry, based in the UK, has done very will with is 1:600 sailing ship range, his 6/15mm American Civil War and 6/15mm Napoleonic Wars, and now a 10mm/15mm/28mm Modern “1983” Warsaw Pact line.