Team Yankee Leopard Week – Creating Modern Battlefield Terrain
July 18, 2016 by dignity
We take a look at Modern Battlefield Terrain you could use when playing your games of Battlefront's Team Yankee using the West Germans from the new Leopard book.
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Looking at images from this period of history we get some inspiration and talk about how you might achieve some of those ideas on the tabletop.
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Having a battlefield like Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin, would be one hell of a sight really.
Seeing more Hobby Labs geared at 15mm would be interesting.
I would like to do a Berlin table allied units cut off and having to holed till relieved.
Those pylons would be great for denying helicopters space here and there.
(rotors being in danger of hitting said pylon)
they were nasty in the boot camp, we took to blowing them up to create more obstacles 🙂 had a blast (literally) the BOW team did a great job had loads of them
I’d love to see what the Guys at Beasts of War can come up with for a table to go along with this new expansion.
That pre painted scenery is really nicely made by the looks of things. Team Yankee does look interesting for a non historical gamer like myself it has a touch of the modern about it which appeals.
i think its the Brandenburgh gate in Berlin seen this used in a ww2 game at a show
Yes it is the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. One of Germany’s most iconic landmarks. I always thought it is famous like the Eiffel Tower, the Big Ben or the Colosseum. So I was a little suprised when nobody recognized it. Then of course I’m german and don’t really have an objective view on that, because I grew up with it.
The history about it (and about the horse drawn chariot on top, the “Quadriga”) is quite interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_Gate
It was Reagan who said at that location “Tear down this wall” …
I really need some nice terrain.
Great video, some really good scenery ideas in there
How about a mission objective to fight your way to the restaurant, order food, and return with the food to the starting point? Or a mission where both sides want to capture the manager and interrogate him for the secret sauce recipe?
been looking forward to this week, looking at terrain has really geared me up! such tremendous scope when it comes to depicting Europe, as was covered in the video, so long as you get your densities right, composition really doesn’t matter. If I was doing a German city for example, be very tempted to throw in stuff like a Mosque or a football stadium amongst the old WW2 stuff and the modern tower blocks (quite like the idea of my helicopters or my AA hiding in the Westfalenstadion in Dortmund or something haha)
Wow that was an interesting talk you guys had there, had a lot of fun watching and listening to your discussion of how to build all of that on the table. And it made me think a lot for myself, since i’m from a small village in germany … how would i bring all of my every day surroundings on the table.
i’m living in the valley of the river rhine and i think that would make an awesome table … one day i’ll have to try my luck on making one.
Hmmm…. following @lloyd ‘s suggestion, need to find a table I can use for Halo too! 🙂
pylons might be a good plan….
Would suggest a look at the film ‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E’
It’s set at this time and there’s the east/west border and lots of good city reference.
I would build an East German city with Trabants, Trabants everywhere!
The best pic in the backgruond. Its almost been 25 years, when i drove in one of this cars.
A great-uncle of mine managed to get his hands on a Trabant back in the day. He thought it was a luxury car compared to the Fiat 126p. Later mice got inside and ate most of the electrical wiring!
I guess the great thing about creating modern terrain is that there’s a ton of online resources to be inspired by.
Or looking out your window 🙂
I am trying to build an section of a typical german Landstrasse by adding some roadsigns, with real german townnames. At the moment i am looking for some typical german houses. The prepainted buildings from gf9 are excellent but they are not typical german.
I would love to see some more german buildings by gf9 in the near future.
GF9 had some really good looking buildings. But mostly for towns or cities. If you are interessted in more germna looking buildings for villages I would suggest the model rail road companies like NOCH. Only thing is the scale. Because TT is 1/120 and H0 is 1/87 there could be some issues with the size. But there are a lot german companies which build stuff for very good prices.
So TT would not fit? 🙁
Found a company that is doing typical german stuff in TT-scale: http://auhagen.de/en/Products/TT_2207.html
I’ve seen some buildings at my mate’s house. They fit quite well… if it’s only for scenery. If an infantry stand is next to the door you recognize it. But I think it’s OK for gaming purposes.
If you want to expand this with some civ. cars and trucks it could be more odd looking. But in general I would suggest TT.
I look at the fast food building, and all I can think of is doing a tabletop remake of the Call of Duty MW2 mission where you “defend the Burger Town”. 🙂
I want to win me some tanks!!
so looking forward to this
Those asphalt roads are really nice scenery to buy for this game. For the buildings I would much rather go for the Lloydoslavian cardboard boxes with a bit of added texture. Nice as they are the pre-made factories seem a bit superfluous.
Advertising bill boards along the roadside would add a modern flavour along with road signs.
I had a question about those power pylons. Are there any rules for helicopters (they’d be a little low for jets) to possibly run afoul of the power lines? Even if the power is off, getting tangled in the cables would be fatal.
Great vid. Keep them coming!
The thing I like about the restaurant is that it looks just old enough to give me pangs of childhood reminiscence. Then I start wondering if this is how older generations look at WW2 terrain.