For something total different, I asked Goldie for a game of Team Yankee. I have gradually been painting a West German force and Goldie has Russkies.

We played the 1st Scenario from the West German book which has the Germans defending a Russian attack.

Only tried 1 or 2 games before so an absolute novice as don’t play FOW either.

So I was defending a wood line in the middle of the table. The Russkies need to capture 1 of the 2 objectives and hold it at end of Turn 2 or 3. They can fail that and take 1 of 2 alternates toward edge of table instead on turn 4 onwards. The Russkies were 80 points of evil and I was 62 points of the righteous!

The Russkies get first move. I can have 1 command ‘Ambush’ which means hidden set up and are placed in my turn. I chose the 3 Leopard 2’s.

Russkies move up and unleash. My grunts were in foxholes and survived, however as a beginner I left my Marder’s in the woods rather than behind., and they got whacked. I had kept my 3 Leopard 2’s as my ambush unit which can be seen now in the woods below. A Gepard is providing AA cover behind the wood. The Russkie marker is an objective.

My first turn was basically fire everything I could! There were 12 T-72’s, 9 BMP-2s and 2 BMP-s to target!! The Mi-24s were out of Gepard range.

Woohoo…..some great shooting was made!!

The wee BMP-s quickly were blown away.

Next turn the Hind’s move up to assault the woods but the Gepard’s quickly destroyed them.

The Motor Rifle Company moved up the flank heading for one of the objectives. I managed to inflict some more damage.

WOOOHHHOOOO….. some more great shooting!

So one side of table now has no Russkies left.

End of game……the Russkies made it to the objective……so I had to destroy them in my turn to not lose the game. So the troops in the woods were shot at by the Jaguar 2s and the Gepards. The troops standing in the open were machine gunned by the Leopards…..and the Russkies failed and were destroyed!

Objective marker, its turn 3 and the Russkies are broken!

That was great fun. basically had no idea what I was doing…so game slower than should have been…but getting a feel for it.

The next game is part of 3 linked so this time I get 99 points as does Goldie. I get to add 4 Leopards, 2 Luchs but lose the Jaguar 2s and some Panzer Grenadiers. Goldie adds 5 T-72’sand 4 Shilka’s!

Should be fun.

Until next time, Terry out.