Weekender XLBS: FoW Team Yankee Boot Camp Sold Out
October 4, 2015 by warzan
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I am SO in for a Team Yankee bootcamp! The Infinity one was a hoot!
One thing though, Warren that wasn’t Dick Robin. It was Damian Wayne 😉
@redben @warzan
Actually Batman at the moment is a anime style armoured suit with Jim Gordon as the on-board pilot.
Bruce is around but has lost some, maybe all, of his memories.
And Dick Grayson is the star of comic called Grayson, in which Dick is a super spy.
Oooo I like the look of the boot camp :-)… Wait no Shermans in FoW what is this. I feel like a man out of time, bit then again I feel like that most of the time I guess.
I better get making Abrams tanks at least it’s names after a WW2 general. It’s the next best thing to having some Swedish.
OOOOOHHHHHH I got a mention, Bootcamp mmmmmmm just checking work roster flights etc. How cool bootcamp you just have to go for the experience and the hospitality is like no other. 🙂 You guys should run a gaming hotel.
We even considered it for a moment then the collective shudder ran up our spines when we realised it would be Fawlty Towers! 😉
Then you shall be known as ‘Basil’ from now on:)
‘Beastie’ Towers!………more like…lol
NOW!……..that’s an idea @minty45
Wow! Seems like you guys are gluttons for punishment, organising yet another boot camp! Maybe I’ll get on one someday (maybe with dropfleet..?)
It’s still the curvature of the Asterians for me
Don’t get a chance to table top game very often, but when i do i travel… to my kitchen.
Bootcamp sounds fun.
Enjoy your Sunday
Team Yankee looks like the game that could get me back into gaming!…………. really hope they take it further and bring us Brit’s into it and the ‘then’ West German army.really gutted i can’t make the bootcamp.
i started back in the late 70’s with GHQ 1/285 micro armour but 15mm (1/100th) is a great scale now with so many company’s getting so much more detail on there models.
Happy Sunday All!
On the topic of hobby stores – I moved from South East London to Bath 3 years ago. The lack of hobby support in both clubs and brick and mortar stores here was a real shock. Bristol has a bit more of a scene but I am still stuck not knowing where to get stuff or who to play with!
The charity shops are often stocking GW kits and things here though =P I reckon it is down to the wealth of the population here! I am still waiting to stumble onto a copy of heroquest in one of em! I need to replace the one I had as a child =(
Guys, Cold War gone hot would have been done in west Germany. The soviets would have pushed west as quick as they could with NATO trying to delay their advance for as long as possible. Had the got much further west than Germany it would have gone nuclear very quickly. If I was you I’d make life easy for yourselves and use the terrain you had for the bolt action boot camp. After all you designed it to be multi scale and would work fine with 15mm. You could use 4ground world war buildings to form villages or outskirts of towns over the terrain. I can’t see a team Yankee starter army fighting at a higher level than this. As ever though, your boot camps sound amazing and would love to make it.
@vineo22 the guy’s know about ‘cold war gone hot’ being based around west Germany but you know Warren!……….why do something simple when you can do it ‘SPECTACULAR!’..LOL
And I forgot to mention (to everyone including @johnlyons) I think Patton is alive in my alternate reality … And still angry … And is POTUS 😉 lol
sorry @warzan ….’SPECTACULAR’ is wrong i meant.
i want a ‘BERLIN GO’S HOT’ ‘MEGA-AWSOME-TACULAR!’….baby!…….lol
Unless the doctrine changed and nobody told us poor old engineers, the NATO plan was always one of try and slow the Warsaw Pact down by blowing bridges and laying chuffing huge minefields to get them into killing grounds where we could make our quality count over superior numbers. With that in mind, I think you are thinking about the wrong part of Germany @warzan and should be withdrawing West. Your current FOW tables will work for most of it and it would be cool to make some bowstring bridges as well (I practiced blowing up enough!). A common theme in Germany is that they make good use of their rivers so you will always see a lot of industrial buildings alongside them.
I already have the weekend of the 27th booked off, so just have to get permission from my obergruppenfuhrer and I’m good to go!
@brucelea your right mate the doctrine never did change, it was always about slow and hold, blow the bridges, minefields, ‘Milan matrix’ and armour fighting on the large open German plains.
i think @warzan (Warren) just wants to take it up a gear and get some FIBUA in!…lol maybe a mix of the two
Oh that’s good, so spending 4 days with no sleep trundling across farm land with my barmine layer in tow wasn’t some horrific nightmare, it was for a reason (apart from damage reparations to all the farmers who’s fences I trashed!!) good days………?!?!
@brucelea and don’t forget the rain!……. and snow……..and the rain!…….always being cold…never getting completely dry ………… breaking down……………….in the rain!… and being on armour they were like a mobile fridge! in the winter and a cooker in the summer!…..lol…… trying to get some sleep in the turret with the ammo racks as a pillow!……. oh how i don’t miss that bit!…lol….but still………good days……..
The obergruppenfuhrer, she say YES!
World War 3 tastic.
Really like the look of team yankee. Never played FoW so should be interesting.
Deadzone looks very good too. You are really spoiling my life here.
Enjoyed the weekender as usual, thank you!
About scenery for team yankee: some details about the pictures in the show were already given. In general I think pictures from Berlin are not the best reference for you. The city was in fact two cities and for you it may be difficult to distinct between them. For example Graffiti: All the graffiti you showed was on the wall and in West Berlin. I don’t think graffiti was present in east Europe.At least not what we understand as graffiti. If I remember right, they had some official paintings on house walls showing politicians or working people with a communist slogan. But I can be wrong with this, as I was a child when I was in the GDR.
I like the idea of team Yankee very much. Sadly, BattleFront is listed on my personal “ban list”. But this is my personal problem and nothing for the forums.
BTW: Good timing showing all this Berlin Wall pictures. Yesterday was the 25 years anniversary of the German Reunion.
Happy weekend people!
Team Yankee looks very interesting. And I would love to attend a Boot Camp, but right now my money are going to my trip to the Dragon Con in Atlanta next year. And you taking about trains for Team Yankee HO scale are pretty close to 15 mm scale its a little bigger but not much.
How fare would you go for gaming? … It really depends on the people, and the game. Thats why i’m willing to some day make a trip over to BOW.
But normally I travel between 2 – 40 km for regular games.
I think we have 2-3 hobby shops whit in 12-40 km so its pretty good.
Happy sunday guys 🙂
I think the normal magazine could survive only if they provide something unique.
Just putting on paper what is already on internet since weeks is, in my opinion, useless.
Happy sunday
Would be nice if one of boot camp tables was based on one of the battles in the Team Yankee book
Well since I’ve become a backstager, i very rarely buy magazines anymore. The problem with magazines these days is that they just cant keep up with the internet. That and i prefer the fact i don’t end up with stacks and stacks of magazines.
I have to agree with @Vine022 The Cold war would have gone hot in West Germany first. So it’s a bit disapointing to just see Russian and American troops to start with. I do belive that there should be some German troops since that would have been the first line of defence. The US might have had some troops in Berlin, but I belive that the russians would just bypass those and invade into West Germany, Sweden and Denmark so they could secure there access to and from the baltic sea
I hope i signed up on time, already missed the bolt action bootcamp…
I really like the plague, never really play undead factions but I like them and can see me playing them.
With team Yankee I can see Eastern Europe is calling to you but how about China? I live here in Beijing and there are enormous communist buildings and statues next to some of the most beautiful parks you can imagine. I think it could make a great table.
Might be my first step into historicish gaming, im looking forward to this coming out. Shame I wont make it to the bootcamp. 🙁
Happy Sunday! Funny you should mention Norway @warzan 🙂 Luckily I live in one of the biggest cities of Northern Norway (Tromsø), so there is a gaming community up here, which means I don’t have to travel that far. Adding to that, I am the designated “games purchaser” in our group, meaning I own all the games we play ( a combination of being the one in our group that doesn’t have that many other financial burdens, like kids or loans, and also wanting to own “ALL THE THINGS!”). So when we game, we mostly do it at my apartment.
People living in smaller, or more remote cities/villages, though….
How far I’d be willing to travel though… I took a trip to Nottingham last year to be part of the beta testing of Dungeon Saga, and I’d certainly be willing to travel such a distance again for a similar gaming experience. Unfortunately all the boot camps so far have come at inopportune moments for me. Some day…
I had a demo game of Deadzone about a year ago and let me say it was really fun. A big kudo to my friend Andy who let me play with his enforcers minis. I would love to get them and paint them. Cool minis with a great rules set. Nice job Mantic!!!!!!!
There are some great bucket MDF buildings on eBay that would suit you of commission models. I just travel up to 5 miles two or three times a week to four gaming venues.
I wouldn’t get too obsessed with fighting in towns and cities as they would have avoided them at all costs, they suck up men and equipment, if we assume the soviets attack they need the big plains with occasional villages.