Battlefront Miniatures World War III: Team Yankee - Rulebook Hardcover – January 1, 1900

It’s 1985 and the Cold War just got hot! Team Yankee, a heavy combat team of M1 Abrams tanks and M113 armoured personnel carriers, faces a Soviet invasion of West Germany. Outnumbered and outgunned, Captain Sean Bannon and his men will have to fight hard and they’ll have to fight smart if they are going to survive. Lt. Colonel Yuri Potecknov’s motor rifle battalion is preparing to execute its mission in the scientific manner that he had been taught at the Frunze Military Academy and used in Afghanistan. Victory today will bring the world proletarian revolution that much closer. World War III: Team Yankee brings the conflict that simmered throughout the Cold War to life in a game where you command your troops in miniature on a realistic battlefield. --- Captain Sean Bannon is facing his first battle and needs to decide what to do. Should he open fire immediately, hoping to knock out the first echelon before the follow-on elements arrive? Or should he wait until the entire Soviet force is in his kill zone, hoping that he still has the drop on them? If you were Captain Bannon, what would you do? Would your plan work better than Sean’s? In World War III: Team Yankee, you get the chance to find out. You can set up a miniature battlefield with model tanks and soldiers representing the real-life troops that faced each other across the Iron Curtain in 1985. You and your opponent assume the roles of their commanders, pitting your wits and cunning against one another to attain victory and, more importantly, to have fun. The Challenge of Command World War III: Team Yankee allows you to re-fight the battles that might have been if the Cold War had gone hot. Would NATO have been able to hold against the immense power of the Soviet Union? Could the numerous Warsaw Pact tanks defeat smaller numbers of technically superior Western tanks? Team Ya Read more