Battle Report - Team Yankee

Hello Folks,

Finally got around to playing another game of team yankee. A few new releases have hut the streets so we have some new toys to try out.

I painted a bunch of HMMWVs and Stan had some Canadians. We were set to fight Duncan and his East Germans. Some stuff was not fully painted and we has a few proxies but it served the purpose of getting things going.

When we saw Duncan using a shovel to set up his army we decided that reserves might be an idea so choose a No Retreat mission with the Germans defending. It was thought that this might give NATO a fighting chance.

Here is the set up. Very nice table with some German villages and rivers. Seveal prominent hills. I took the hills flank and the Canadians had the far edge. The bridge in the back has the objective. So our plan for now is to blow up Russian vehicles and start peeling back the infantry to get a crossing.

First round went pretty well. We played it kind of slow concentrating on shooting. The Canadians destroying a bunch of bmps 1s. I killed a few as well but not that many!

The Germans advanced a bit and popped off a couple of shots but to no effect. Their missile AA moved into range to shoot the Cobras next turn.

Next turn we are keeping up the fire. I am chipping away at my bmo company and the Canadians advancing along the ridge.  The Cobras moved to the other corner out of missile range.

The East Germans stuck to their plan with minimal movement and a few shots.  They knocked out 1 of my VADS.

On our turn the Canadians remained confident and kept pushing. I failed some blitz moves so pulled back a bit. But my guys on the hill kept up firing. Bit more then half of them killed now. Also the Cobras came back to avoid those missiles. I fired off the rockets but no effect.

German turn and they start hitting back. 10 t55s came in from reserve and a leopard got knocked out. We were doing well against btrs but what can we do with tanks.

The leopards came into position to shoot the tanks and the Cobras went down behind town to help out. Meanwhile I pretty much finished off my vehicles.

Now things start to take a dark turn
 The t55s are finally in position fir a half effective shot and see off a leopard platoon. AA shots on the Cobras are ineffective. Tgey try to shoot down my hueys that landed behind the AA but no luck.

For my part I move up and starting shooting up the infantry. Slowhy chipping ghe away. The cobras and remaining leopards fire on the tanks. But we are not really getting the results we need. The infantry in tge back got a kill, making them selves a bit of a pain.

Now a second wave of German tanks show up. The kills against us are pulling up now. Thus is not going in a good direction!

We decided to give it 1 more turn to see what we can do. But it is not that much. We killed the better part of like 30 btrs but 20 tanks on top of that is just to much for our 7 tanks and 14 hummers!

Final shot. The paratroopers were all destroyed and only a couple of leopards are left. We are no where near the objective so yet another solid victory for the bad guys.

Was fun thou to get all the toys out and play a game.  Things were going pretty well fir us until the tanks showed up!

Thanks;
Mike