Emergency Miniature Work - 15mm USMC Super Cobra
Yankee Squadron - Air War C21 Live Stream - Sunday 5EST/10GMT
August, 1985. As described in the novels by General Sir John Hackett and later Harold Coyle, the Cold War is about to go hot in Europe. As the pre-dawn stillness of the Intra-German border starts to shake under the massed rumble of thousands of tanks, APCs, truck, helicopters, and artillery pieces, another war has in fact already started.
Make no mistake, the first engagements of a “Team Yankee” style war would not have been fired on the ground, but the air. Control of the ground is largely at the mercy of control of the skies, so both NATO and Warsaw Pact air forces would’ve engaged in an all-out air battle that would have decided who owned the skies over the imminent Team Yankee battlefields.
Have no illusions, there will be no Lynxes, no Po-105s, no Cobras, Apaches, Hinds, or Warthogs hitting ground targets until dominance of the skies has been decided.
LIVE TOMORROW we’ll be engaging in a broadcast web game that will take a look at one one very small part of that aerial Armageddon might have looked like. We’ll be pitting USAF Tac Air F-16 Fighting Falcons against Soviet GSFG Fighter Regiment MiG-29 “Fulcrums” in a dogfight somewhere over the Fulda Gap in south-central West Germany.
YouTube channel and Twitch.
Here's a zoom in of part of our map. Turning wheels and move rules are scaled with the grid on our table. This allows for "miniature movement" to be properly measured and executed regardless of how the screen is zoomed in or out.
The whole map.
The system we'll be using. We've had great success with this system in out 1982 Falklands series and 1968 Vietnam Air War videos. Let's see how it does in the 1980s!
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