Team Yankee Leopard Week – Which Faction Has The Best Tactics?
July 22, 2016 by dignity
We bring Leopard Week here on Beasts of War to a close by arguing about which faction has the best tactics in Battlefront's Team Yankee.
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As well as declaring our allegiances to the various factions we also discuss the core tactics for each of them; explaining why they are the one for us right now.
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I have loved this week
Still going to roll with the US, because, well. TY bootcamp.
Me too, and I now call it home
If it wasn’t for the Morale checks and tougher armor on both the Abrams and the Leopards (needing 6s to destroy them at over 16″) I’d say the T-72s were the best. 😉
It would be hard to create scenarios that gave justice to the reality of the battlefield where NATO and Russia faced each other (on a large scale).
Soviets. A look at my blog would tell you that 😉 I like that I can go tank heavy in a single formation; A Tank Battalion with a Motor Rifle Company. That formation can lay down a lot of fire and can just overwhelm the opposition in infantry assaults. Lately though I’ve been running with two smaller formations; A Tank Battalion of three smaller Companies and a Motor Rifle Battalion of two Companies. This gives me some good manoeuvre options but can be a bit squishy. The ‘One Big Formation’ can be the Red Steamroller but can suffer against salvo… Read more »
Yeah, I got swamped with work and kind of forgot about that for a while….
How is the misses doing? Can I count on her backing me up? 😛
She is well thank you. Her bootcamp force has expanded into a tank heavy US combat team.
The Germans have all the cool kit
leopard pochi ma buoni
This I think is a tough question to answer, all have positive an negatives. I don’t think any one faction could be said to be the best. This falls to what you as the player likes, for me – us, I love the camo an above all else the a-10 hog!
Top, top week. You sure you cant expand it for another. Soviets for me have this one in the bag.
don’t you luv gamers getting together for a good argument
That is a hard one, I have looked them over and its all about dice rolls if u roll hot any one of them is good so, I think it come down to look and how you want to paint them, I would like to do NATO winter camo because “Winter is coming” or even desert camo for the Russians.
I would probably pick the Germans as an introductory choice.
I heard a story from some lads in 14/20th Hussars that they were surrounded by Iraqi tanks during the gulf. They all thought their number was up, the Iraqi tanks, all eight of them opened fire and nothing happened, the Brits in the tank realised that the rounds were literally bouncing off them, they said they in hysterical laughter. Then slowly they took each tank out one by one.
Iraqis had locally produced ammo, not the good Russian produced ammo. That’s the reason GW1 and GW2 were so lop sided.
Nato all the way
I think they are all well balanced forces but I have to favour the Germans just baca use their kit is so good. Can’t wait to see how the British look. Great series guys.
I’ll roll with the germans!…Expensive as hell…11 points for a Leopard 2!!!…
I love the small scout elements with 2 armoured personel carriers and just three stands of infantry…just sooo tiny compared to some of the large infantry platoons I use in FOW!
Soviets all the way
I would either go with the americans or the germans, those Leopard 2 are awesome.
I do
It has to be the Soviets. Head down, move forward, Hinds redeploying, T-72’s providing cover. Plus theres LOADS of them!!!!! 🙂
I most enjoy the glass cannon – or really elite – style for me – so I guess it’s Germans. Except they don’t get A10s.
For me this game isn’t about playstyle – it’s about A10s or Hinds. Shortly it’ll be about Challenger, too.
THIS IS SO DIFFICULT!
Damn you beasts of war, just convinced my wife I need to buy ww2 tanks now I need to convince her I need team Yankee as well, great week of videos!
At the beginning I was a bit disapointed that the Sovjets ended as a mass or Horde Army as in FoW-WW2.
But at the moment I can’t decide which faction I want to play first – so I bought all three…
I do love my Leopard 1 but if I have to choose I would prefer the Soviets. Their tec is easy to build and to maintain, it is present in raw numbers and in case of a T-72 you need less soldiers to operate it. I think the manual Loader is a disadvantage in every western tank.
Agree to disagree, and sell more models for each.
Obviously it’s the Poles…so basically the Soviets! 😛