Team Yankee and Flames of War at HISTORICON 2021

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.

Battle Front Miniatures sponsored a and Flames of War Tournament at Historicon 2021.  The Team Yankee Tournament took place on Thursday November 11th 2021 and the Flames of War Tournament took place on Friday and Saturday November 12th and 13th 2021. The Team Yankee Tournament had 3 rounds at 110 points and the Flames of War Tournament had 6 rounds at 100 points. If you play both Team Yankee and Flames of War you could play in 9 games over 3 days. One of the reasons I always liked playing Team Yankee and Flames of War at Cold Wars, Historicon and Fall-Inn was the variety of armies that the players used and also you will also get to see some really nicely painted armies.

Battle Front Miniatures provided the terrain boards for the tournament. Below are some pics of the really nice terrain boards that we got to play on.

Team Yankee at Historicon 2021

It was really nice to have Team Yankee back at Historicon 2021, it was not offered at the last Fall-Inn in 2019. The Team Yankee Tournament was 3 rounds at 110 points and we have 14 players. I played a Czech T-72 Battalion with a Soviet BMP Allied formation. It is a pretty balanced force with some nice low cost tanks and up skilled Artillery to go with a typical Soviet BMP-2 Battalion. I placed fifth overall in the tournament and was pretty happy of the combination of Czechs and Soviets in this list.

Pics of some of the other armies in the Team Yankee Tournament

Results from the

Flames of War at Historicon 2021

The Flames of War Tournament had 6 rounds at 100 points and had 20 players in the tournament. I played a Churchill Guards Heavy Tank Regiment and added a variety of support options. I’m still learning how to play this list and overall I’m happy with how it worked. After returning from the con I have made a 85, 95,105 and 110 point variants of this list and look forward to playing this list in 2022.

Results from the Battlefront Website

Best Painted Armies

In addition to 1st, 2nd, 3rd and best Sportsmanship Awards, Battlefront gave out an awards for best painted army for both Team Yankee and Flames of War. I have enclosed the winners for both the Team Yankee and Flames of War best painted armies and a few pics of armies that I really liked in addition to the winning armies.

Best Painted Team Yankee Army – Israeli list from Oil Wars

Best Painted Flames of War – German List From Bagration

Anthony and the his Battlefront Judges came to agreement on two really nice armies for the best painted for the Team Yankee and Flames of War Tournaments. I have enclosed several additional pics of armies that I thought where also nicely painted.

British Churchills from the Fortress Europe Book

Hungarian Cavalry from the Bagration Axis Allies Book

German Panzer Grenadiers from D-DAY German Book

Summary

I had a great time play nine games of Team Yankee and Flames of War over three days. I got to play against some really good players, and some armies that you normally do not see played and also got to play against some really nicely painted armies, and got some some good painting and modeling ideas from some of the players. Overall a great weekend and looking forward to Fall-Inn 2022.

I would like to thank Battlefront Miniatures for sponsoring the tournaments and Anthony Burger for putting up with us for 3 days and running two really great events. Hope to see you at Cold Wars for another set of Team Yankee and Flames of War Tournaments.