Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Team Yankee Battle Report 1; Proxy War

With the rules for Battlefront's new Team Yankee Cold War now fully available if you know where to look (hint: it involves friendly local gaming stores) I decided to try a relatively simple test game to see how things work.

There were a few problems with this, though:

  1. I didn't have the proper minis for any of the vehicles I'd want to use. So, time for proxies.
  2. I don't have any proper wargaming terrain at home; that's all at the FLGS. Fortunately, I had some stuff to improvise with.
  3. I didn't have an opponent. Easily solved by playing both sides, with some helpful tactical input from a few anonymous posters on a certain imageboard.
The forces used would be like this:


Red Banner Tank Division
BMP Motor Rifle Battalion
HQ AK-74 and BMP-2 - 2 points - proxied with WW2 Soviet infantry and a reversed T-34/76
BMP-2 Motor Rifle Company: 4 AK-74, 3 RPG-7, 4 BMP-2 - 8 points - proxied with WW2 Soviet infantry and reversed T-34/76s
BMP-2 Motor Rifle Company: 4 AK-74, 3 RPG-7, 4 BMP-2 - 8 points - proxied with WW2 Soviet infantry and reversed T-34/76s
2S1 SP Howitzer Battery: 3 2S1 - 5 points - proxied with reversed T-34/85s
T-72 Company: 6 T-72 - 27 points - proxied with T-55s

25th Armoured Division
M1 Abrams Armoured Combat Team
HQ: 1 M1 Abrams - 8 points - proxied with a M48 Patton
M1 Abrams Platoon: 2 Abrams - 16 points - proxied with M48 Pattons
M1 Abrams Platoon: 2 Abrams - 16 points - proxied with M48 Pattons
M113 Mech Platoon: 4 SAW, 4 Dragon, 4 M113 - 7 points - proxied with Canadian infantry and turretless welded-hull Shermans
M106 Heavy Mortar Platoon: 3 M106 - 3 points - proxied with turretless cast-hull Shermans


Both sides have 50 points of units. All are part of their formations, with no support units from the larger organisation.

So, what would the battlefield look like?
Like this: