The New Team Yankee Launch Range Revealed By Battlefront
November 15, 2015 by brennon
Both the Soviets and the US have got their full complement of vehicles and soldiers now marching towards battle in Team Yankee by Battlefront. As you can see there is quite the array of units to choose from so make your pick commander...
Soviets
Kicking things off we're going to be taking a look at the different vehicles that are now options for the Soviets in Team Yankee. As you can see there is quite a range of plastic kits to pick up all with their own focused use on the battlefield.
There are a lot of anti-air options for the Soviets and vehicles like the Gopher which is a mobile SAM site. Of course it wouldn't be the Soviets without some artillery as well to bombard the enemy from afar.
As well as the vehicles they have also got some air support on the way in the form of HINDs and the Frogfoot Aviation Company plus the Infantry you'll be needing to storm buildings and take objectives.
There is a lot to choose from and I can imagine a lot of Flames Of War fans are just going to pick up the whole range of models and go from there. It's great that all of these will include the unit cards for them too which is a step in the right direction for any game.
United States
Now we move onto the United States who have a similar smorgasbord of options open to them with tanks, transports and more...
There are also some infantry options for the Americans so don't worry on that front. You can find them over on the link at the top of the page. The American armour is looking rather deadly indeed and I think everyone loves the look of the Abrams when it's duking it out on the battlefield.
Following on from the ground vehicles we also have the Cobra Attack Helicopters and Warthog which will shred tanks into slag.
Now that is quite a lot of models to consider for both forces. Maybe you will go for both sides in this conflict and flip between them when you get into Team Yankee?
Keep an eye out for the upcoming Boot Camp where you'll be able to follow along with our Live Blog over the weekend.
What do you think of the range?
"The American armour is looking rather deadly indeed and I think everyone loves the look of the Abrams when it's duking it out on the battlefield..."
They look nice, but boy, is Battlefront giving their players little credit. I’m sure even the staunchest American player would manage to say “grad battery” instead of “hail” or “gvozdik” instead of carnation. And then of course is the good old “tankovy” thing from FoW, a brutal and unusual cruelty to both languages involved.
Isn’t Gvozdik, translated into english, Carnation?
It is, but..why translate it in the first place? It’s not a hard word to begin with, it just feels cheap on their part. Especially since in FoW they somehow managed to leave a lot of the german names untranslated. The Jagdpanzer Hetzer was sold as a Hetzer, not HunterTank “Baiter”.
You make a great point – if one is going to respect ethnic naming conventions in one instance, like German equipment in FoW, then why not all? But consider that the game is called Team Yankee, based on a novel written from a NATO perspective (I haven’t read it). Maybe in the book characters refer to that particular vehicle as “carnation”?
They are not mentioned in the book if I recall correctly.
I have to agree that I would prefer the Russia naming, even if I’d then butcher the pronunciation… it won’t stop my buying them however.
With the very greatest of respect, Americans struggle to pronounce ‘battle’ correctly. It comes out as ‘bayddul’. For all the wonders America has brought the world, language isn’t a highlight. After all – they start sentences with ‘so’. An act of travesty that makes me shudder whenever I see it.
Besides – the easier the route of entry (identity, recognition, appreciation) the easier the kits will sell.
So, I don’t know, man. My wife’s English ancestry saddled her with the slightly annoying butchering of garage (it’s from the French! Pronounce it like triage or mirage not carriage. There is no “I” in garage!) to the utterly indefensible harf instead of half. Not to mention that every time I try to pronounce an English city as it is written my Father in Law corrects me.
That is to say, language is in the eye of the beholder.
Those are really good.
Very true, @poks . The BM-21 should be called “Grad” and the SP guns “gvozdik” or “gvozdika”. These were both heavily used by both sides in the 2014-15 Ukraine conflict and in all the ENGLISH speaking news reports and documentaries I found, these were the terms used. Clearly its within our grasp. 🙂 The only time I would agree that we should NOT use correct Soviet terminology is in their numbering system, which is a freakin’ nightmare. 9M119AM antitank missiles, “Ob’yekt 172M” instead of T-72, etc. I like the T-72, AT-5 missile, SA-13 SAM, Mi-24 gunship, etc.
Those were the only designations we ever used in NATO, and even in the spook community @oriskany .
Seeing the M113 really makes it clear where GW got the silhouette for the Rhino.
I like that they are using NATO names. It is how they are named in the book. Using the NATO designation makes equipment intuitive. F for fighters, B for bombers, G for SAMS, T and a year designator for tanks. I dont have time to learn Russian to know what equipment is!
But it’s not even correct. NATO designation for the Gvozdika SPG was M1974, with no codewords.
Doesnt that word mean Carnation in English? Seems like nitpicking. And while there is inconsistency between how theyve packaged some with NATO names and others with their GRAU names, it seems like theyve picked the most intuitive names to reach the largest audience and to make their game a success. M1974 looks like a US equipment name and i can understand why they didnt use it.
I know it looks stupid that i basically repeated earlier response but i forgot it was already said. Sorry.
The 122 sp arty was referred to as the 2S1, and the 155, the 2S3 in day-to-day intreps and intsums.
I’ve managed to resist Flames of War, despite being given / picked up for free a few miniatures. But I am tempted by the range of plastics – and the coolness of the models. I’ll hold out for now, but keep a wary eye on the range…
shiny toys for every one.
love the detail they have got on the vehicle’s.
I’m definately going to pick up some M109’s to build a diorama…the M109 was the self propelled gun I served on in the British Army in Germany and the Gulf war.
One of your mates let me have a look around inside one – I wanted to be a tank driver, but they wouldn’t let me! They made me be a monkey.
Beautiful minis, but why the massive problem with the names? It’s just a game.
Look nice, but are they continuing with the offputting prices? I was going to get into team yankee but the price of the mini’s put me off, sure could use other varients, but i like to be able to easily get hold of mini’s for games iplay and dont want to special order things in, which i would have to do if i went with alternative mini’s…
As for all the whohaa about names, meh got bigger fish to fry than that
Those 113s are way to clean to be US Army. In fact all of those vehicles need a sprue of crates, razor wire, and extra road wheels and such.
Don’t forget the glued on velcro strips for the MILES gear
Finally there is a independent website for Team Yankee. http://www.team-yankee.com
Also, you may want to read about the release day setback. Seems like the Soviet production capabilities have even hurt their in game tanks. 🙂
I put my pre-order in at my local shop. Once I get them there is going to be some painting to do and that is something that I like so many others will get behind and try to keep up.
Ooo my paint staion is loaded up with fresh MIG paints and are ready to highten the carbondioxide emission rates in western germany!:)
Why tether the game to some novel from the 80’s? I’d have tried to keep things as generic as possible so the game could be freely expanded if it really took off.
I just picked up the book from my library and will give it a read through, I was hoping that they were going to start with a two player set with either the full or quick rules included… Not sure what they were thinking with the two army sets with no rules at a fairly high price too…
I’m just confused that a BMP Company (about 10 vehicles in the real world) is only 5 here. And a US tank platoon is 5 vehicles when it should be 4. I didn’t think that they were using 1 vehicle to represent X number of vehicles, so what gives? Or is someone about to yell ‘neeerrrdd’ at me/point out some obvious point I have missed
The five strong box can be used to make a company HQ 1 tank and then 2 platoons of 2 Abrams in each giving you 40pts worth of army in team Yankee…
Ok understood- that’s where I’m getting confused: in reality a platoon of tanks is x4 Abrams/T72, but in TY a platoon is only 2 vehicles.
You can have 4 strong platoons as well but I think they’ve put 5 in the box so someone can start a force from just one box… Then if you want to have 2 commander tanks and then 2, 4 strong M1 platoons you can add a second box at a later stage…
I do really like the look of the Team Yankee minis… I’m waiting to see if anyone in my area decides to start playing… I am tempted to get a US force together and could actually get it all in plastic using alternative sources for certain units… Price wise some of the units are not too bad really like the tank boxes but the a10s are coming in at £29 for 2 which does seem a little steep and the helos are about £10 each…