Battlefront’s Cold War Gone Hot wargame system
By Tom Gall
Chuck and I got together at D6 Games in Rochester Mn this past week to pit our forces against each other using the new v2 Team Yankee rules by Battlefront. We decided to play a 115-point match which is the point level that has been set as a suggestion for tournaments to use for 2020.
By Tom Gall
Images by Tom Gall and Troy Hill, some courtesy of BattleFront
Team Yankee is a WWIII miniatures game set in approx the 1980s covering almost all aspects of modern warfare tanks, missiles, helicopters, strike aircraft, RPGs, it’s all in there.
The game over the past few years has matured substantially with forces that cover NATO (US, UK, ANZAC, Canada, French, Dutch, West Germans), WARPAC (Soviet Union, Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia) and Mideast nations including Syria, Iran, Iraq, and Israel.
This article is all about version 2. What’s new? What stays the same? Throw some screaming big hair metal/punk/rock power tunes into the stereo, crack open a can of new coke and let’s get to it.
By Robert Kelly
In 1974 the Canadian Armed Forces issued a requirement for an Armoured Vehicle General Purpose (AVGP) to equip both Regular and Reserve units. Three prototypes made it to the final evaluation from a field of fourteen. The Brazilian URUTU and the U.S. Commando fell by the wayside and the Swiss MOWAG Piranha 6 X 6 won the evaluation.
By Ian Birdwell
Team Yankee has told the story of two powerful sides arrayed against one another, on the one side US-aligned forces and on the other USSR-aligned forces.
Yet, between those two powers blocs are a host of neutral states attempting to navigate the whims of the two superpowers, one of my personal favorites being Austria who is in the current Team Yankee timeline and is already dealing with some problems.
If you look at the bottom right corner of the Firestorm: Stripes map, there are two little red territories including Salzburg on the Southeastern corner of the map.
However, the Austrian Army (Bundesheer) is one of the forces another being the Danish military, that has yet to be released and that we have expressly been shown has been invaded.
By Scott Roach
Photos by the Author
I took a look at the early vehicles from the collection at the King of Jordan Royal Tank Museum. This time, I will share photos from the post-WWII eras.
Hey gang, Matt Varnish here, and I drove down from Canada with my buddies Scott and Rob Kelly and we entered the Team Yankee Nationals. I brought the Syrians, Scott brought West Germans and Rob took his Canadians. I ended up playing four great people: Robb Carper, Nick Reid, Frank Paixao and Mason Partak I took a metric ton of pics, here we go, first off with Armies on Parade (before the event started).
The crew is live at Historicon 2019! We talk about Blood and Plunder and the Team Yankee tournaments… and and old friend Luke Melia from my WWPD days pops in.
By Matt Varnish
Hey everyone, as I mentioned in the podcast and on my Syrians article, Battlefront neglected to show off the cool Syrian paint schemes and left newer players high and dry in terms of cool pictures. I am here to fix that. We will look at building a killer HQ tank with ERA armour blocks, then general painting of vehicles and the 3 main schemes, then infantry at the end. All paints are Vallejo unless otherwise noted. Yalla, let’s go!
Starting with the standard plastic T-55, I added side skirts, the modern HMG and some old Mine plows I had left over from the T-72s. Used the flat front hull, not the up-armoured one.By Mitch Reed
When we got the preview copy of the Oil War book from I was very interested in the possibility of playing a small IDF force so I can get the Pereh anti-tank platoon on the table, This unit has the ability to shoot anything on the table without needing line of site and uses a new special rule called NLOS.
Besides trying to get this unit on the table I also wondered what this model would look like, since it is a missile shooting platform that was disguised as a tank. The Pereh was in use secretly for over 25 years and was finally declassified in 2015 before being pulled from service in 2017.
My first attempt to make a small IDF force from Oil War used a small formation of Magach 6 tanks backed up by the Pereh platoon, so when I was sent these boxes to review I was excited to get the chance to try this force out on a table as bring you my review of these two new releases.
By Matt Varnish
The lads from Montreal had their second annual Team Yankee tournament (I missed the first one) at JacHOBBY in Laval, a suburb of Montreal. Their guys have come down to Ottawa for Canadian Nationals, so we returned the favour and crashed their tournament with myself, Rob, Scott and Andrew B.
The Store and Terrain
First of all, the store is fantastic, and they are the local seller of terrain and accessories.
I’m going to pimp their stuff despite not getting paid or anything, we spoke to the main guy, he basically designed 40k, WFB, RPG dungeon tiles and walls, Necromunda, and now has some 15mm stuff, seen below:
