Team Yankee reboot

[Slappy]

I just learned that there is a new miniatures rule system based on Team Yankee for cold war era gaming. Seems to be an offshoot of Flames of War. Anyone taken a look? Could be a good option for resolution of larger T2k battles and other similar situations.

[CDAT]

I know nothing about it, but having said that I will have nothing to do with it. I am boycotting BattleFraud, tell they make good on the kickstarter that they scammed people out of $$, to pay there bills.

[Adm.Lee]

I have heard 2ndhand that it's pretty good, but I've been out of miniatures games for a while.

[raketenjagdpanzer]

Originally Posted by CDAT

I know nothing about it, but having said that I will have nothing to do with it. I am boycotting BattleFraud, tell they make good on the kickstarter that they scammed people out of $$, to pay there bills.

Seems to be a lot of that going around in miniature gaming.

[CDAT]

Originally Posted by raketenjagdpanzer

Seems to be a lot of that going around in miniature gaming.

And the real sad thing is it seems to be coming from a lot of established companies that you would think you could trust, based on their track records.

[James Langham2]

I have a copy, more for reading than playing. Considering using it for 6mm (1/300) the 15mm just looks wrong.

The organisations have a few mistakes but seems fast and playable.

[Slappy]

Got one to read as well. Looks fast and entertaining overall. I agree that the models seem to get pretty cramped on a standard table. It does seem to have borrowed a lot, at least in terms of feel, from the solid board game of the same name.

Having read it, I don't think it would be much use for T2k combat resolution. It's fundamentally a tank game and there just aren't that many tanks rolling around in 2000. Also hugely abstracted at what would be the PC level.

[James Langham2]

The German suppliment is out now for it

[Slappy]

And appears that Britain will be coming in September or October.

I may be a sucker, but picked up some models. Currently painting Soviet infantry and M1s.

[Adm.Lee]

Saw the British book in a store last week. "Iron Maiden" is the title.

[raketenjagdpanzer]

I have the old Timeline Games, Ltd. "Close & Destroy" wargame. It plays really fast, too fast in fact. If you use the 1" = 10m scale you need a gymnasium to fight regular armor (think about it: TOW-2 shoots out to what, 5km? That's 5000m or 500 inches or forty feet) and to maneuver...and don't even get me started on Fixed Wing attack a/c and artillery. As to speed, despite all of this you can have multiple tank engagements ending in mere minutes...

Does anyone here have The Last Battle? How does it do?

[Slappy]

I had a copy of last battle once. It was pretty terrible. I pretty much agree with this interesting write up I found while making sure I knew which game you were talking about.

http://hexsides.blogspot.com/2014/05...le-review.html

[StainlessSteelCynic]

Coincidence: I also read that guy's blog when looking for info on various wargames and I too agree with his assessment.
I think Last Battle was advertised in all the wrong ways, it should never have been presented as a wargame in itself and should have more explicitly stated that it was a supplement for Twilight: 2000.
I think then it might not have given the wrong impression to the gaming crowd* and might not have got the negative reviews it did.

* I know when I first saw it for sale, everyone who was into T2k thought it was a T2k themed wargame, myself included. We all pretty much ignored itas nto being RPG related. Only years latter did I see the error of my ways and I got a second-hand copy.

[Adm.Lee]

Last battle: my brother and I had it, but we'd bought Test of arms first, so we'd at least seen the system. I remember thinking the counters were a little difficult to read. A recent look at them tells me they are definitely hard to read.

I preferred GDW's Assault series, myself. I have all the elements, and still wonder if I could ever get the space and players together, I could do almost a Soviet division vs NATO brigade battle.