Unboxing: Team Yankee – Bannon’s Boys
May 31, 2016 by dignity
The boys are back in town, Bannon's Boys we should stipulate. That's right, Bannon's Boys from Team Yankee have entered the building from Battlefront.
This set comes with Lieutenant Colonel Reynolds' Battalion CP Objective Marker, which not only sets you up for objectives, but also provides you with a prime story for your tabletop.
We would particularly like to commend those who pack these Team Yankee boxes. We're thankful this is an unboxing show as we'd be useless at boxing them ourselves.
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Another awesome show, guys. 😀 John, John, my good friend John … 😀 Were you calling me out at 10:15? Were you expecting a rant in the comments? Actually I think we’re in agreement on this one (as we almost always are. 🙂 ). The Abrams is indeed an amazing tank, but has a-a-all the price tags that go with it. Production costs, training costs, maintenance costs, and as you point out, logistics costs. These logistics and fuel liabilities have always stood out to me as a former supply poag in the military. One analyst (who I usually find very… Read more »
I so agree with both of you about the Abrams. It’s mythical combat pros, tested and really good seem to foreshadow the cons which you talk about. I am also really intrigued as @oriskany said about the combat performance of the M1 without the American maintenance.
a great un-boxing guys, one thing I remember about the Abram’s engine is that it is a multi fuel system burning what ever the crew could get at the time. Or am I wrong again @oriskany @johnlyons ?
I’m not an expert on this @zorg , but I’m pretty sure you can burn more than one kind of fuel in that engine. Definitely not recommended, however, for long-term use. More of an emergency measure, I believe. It might allow you to escape from / fight your way clear of the insurgents, Russians, or other opponents … but an army of angry mechanics from Battalion Motor T might be coming after you next. 😀
“What did you do to our engine!?!”
Lol, better/easier that learning to speak Russian?
On multifuel: Short answer, yes. Long answer… It was a great idea, one that was adopted by the US and the British forces in their tank arms during the cold war. The issues come up when having to actually run the engine on anything other than it was designed to run on. On Chieftain (since I know more about its service life) used a diesel engine that was designed to maximize cylinder compression and heat (since diesel engines only require heat and compression to run) The problem occurs when your in a pinch and you need to run the tank… Read more »
… and so the Germans designed the Engine Module on both Leopards to be changed in around half an hour…
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thanks guys.
@zorg you are correct, the engine is designed to burn multi-fuels as similar design to the engines in the Black Hawk Helicopter. While its optimal performance is with the one fuel, but due to the realization of the battlefield they wanted to make it as versatile as possible.
To elaborate on @oriskany s point regarding the logistical burden operating an M1 series tank places on a military, During recent operations in and around the City of Hit in Iraq, the Iraqi Army could only put 1…that’s correct 1 Abrams into the fight, The initially had moved 3 forward to support the operation but 2 quickly broke down and were unable to be repaired. The Iraqi Army received 140 M1’s of an Export Configuration of which 28 have been “Destroyed” however most are likely salvageable.