Team Yankee Battle Report! US Marines vs. Soviets 

I want to paint up some new Brits for the game so hopefully soon.

@@markfrancis8978 Sounds really promising 👍🏻

Same

Thanks! ABTF is one of Jake's favorite movies since he was a kid.

For sure, but it still made for fun times as a kid. Pretty sure I must have played it wrong most of the time!

Was the WW II called Firefly?, played a lot of Challenger then moved onto corp commander if my memory is ok.

@@MrHendoP It was indeed called Firefly. I've still got a copy somewhere. Exhaustive army lists, but way to complicated to actually play!

What about the LAV Company do you like?

@@AllMiniaturesGreatandSmall the LAV formation makes for a great allied unit. My West German Lüchs Aufklärung was a go to for me, but the LAV formation, for a few points more, brings bigger platoons (4 v 2), a better gun, and AT in the form of Hammerhead havin AT23, versus a bunch of AT19 havin Leo1. Plus it can bring a two gun mortar for smoke/padding.

​@@Based_Lord_Humongous lavs can come in big numbers and cover all bases ( at tows 25mm troop transports lav ad for air defense and 60 mm mortars for clumps of infantry they are also amphibious)

@@dannymiller3315 when did LAV become a troop transport?

Thanks, me too!

That’s how we felt, and honestly, some of our better games.

@@markfrancis8978 Do you think the LAV's perform well? Looking at the stats they seem kind of weak.

@@Subcomandante73 Jon was running the marines (I know in the intro he said Jon while indicating me, lol). I’ll let Jon respond to the question. :)

I’m just not sold on them. You’re just paying for range, which is generally not too much of an issue. AT is basically the same over 16”, so I’d rather just stick with the 120mm gun and use points elsewhere

@@markfrancis8978 That's fair, I run a lot more spammy lists and have my 64's sit back a good bit while T55's or 62's are soaking. pretty typical I know, but it's undeniably fun.

He use the guns (30mm cannons) not the bombs.

they could have easily out-ranged the AA, and done some work with the tow2's

The Cobras fired TOWs every single turn. Not that they hit anything every turn. Every turn a Cobra move is one turn they can't fire TOWs.

They didn't need to outrange the AA as the destroyed the only soviet AA on the table on turn 1 (with help from the Harriers)

@@AllMiniaturesGreatandSmall what were the other helicopters? model wise

Most of it is Battlefront/Gale Force 9

The rules seem to encourage more than discourage tanks clumping together. Believe it or not, it never seems as much as an issue when playing the game, but I totally respect the issue viewing the game (I'm not a fan of tank car parks either). It's one of the reasons why I don't play spammy hordes, it hurts my eyes to see everything bumper to bumper. However, sometimes you just have to maximize your shots and that means utilizing gaps in terrain to improve chances to hit and not self limiting your shots for aesthetics.

I noticed that once turn 1 started that the Infantry Platoon really can't harm the T-80s short of driving them off in assaults. In hindsight having the M109s drive there would have been helpful. My first M60 platoon was also poorly placed to contribute after their initial attack. The should have made it over to that objective as well. Thanks for the comments!