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Breakthrough Show Off Team Yankee FoW Sculpts
August 10, 2015 by brennon
Breakthrough Assault have been given a preview of some of the new Flames Of War: Team Yankee miniatures coming out soon. Both the Soviets and the US are catered too with these teasers showing off troop transport options for both...
Soviets
The Soviet vehicles include the BMP-1 and BMP-2 (shown in order below) with an additional image showing off the Soviet Infantry with rifles and an RPG for a bit of explosive ordnance.
If you're interested in finding out more about these vehicles then you can head over to their blog (linked at the top) where they discuss some of the history behind the vehicles. I'm liking the BMP-2 with the 30mm automatic cannon. Big thumbs up from me there!
USA
On the American side of things we have the Rhino...erm, I mean the M113 which clearly was quite the inspiration for the Space Marine vehicle. It comes with a machine gun on the top so is more of a infantry suppressor than anything usefyl against armour in a sticky situation.
The infantry squad above also comes with a few surprise which include a SAW (machine gun) and LAW (rocket launcher).
These are some nifty looking miniatures and it would appear as if they're available in plastic (or maybe resin) if the look of the kits is anything to go by. No 'big head' syndrome which indicates they aren't made using their old metal methods.
Next Monday is choppers!
"I'm liking the BMP-2 with the 30mm automatic cannon. Big thumbs up from me there!"
Interesting
I would like to see the BMP 1 from a higher angle to see the turret properly
Count me in if the vehicles are plastic. Battlefronts resin casts suck and its an atrocious material to work with as an hobbyist.
is it me or are the troops HUGE compared to the vehicles…I don’t remember the M113 being that small…
I think it’s OK. The M113 is only 2.5m in height. And if you take a normal Human with about 1.8m tall + base…
It looks really good. And I hope the Eastern German NVA will make it to Team Yankee
It might be perspective; but I agree – the troops look big compared to the BMP and the 113
The infantry are also on stands, while the vehicles are not.
I wonder if there is anyone in the Beasts of War who community who served with the Guards? Or the East Germans?
Damn, look at that OLD SCHOOL camouflage scheme on the M113. Reallyw ell done, enough to bring back memories. 🙂 (except I think black is supposed to be on top?)
Oh wait, I zoomed in on the pics a little and it looks black IS on top. In that case, perfect!
I like the look of this far too much! This might prove too irresistible to resist.
pretty sure that this is going to be the ticket to get me into Flames of War!
Great looking figures from the pictures, now I can start to think about planning to play 3rd Generation Warfare rules.
BMP’s are small, but they’re not THAT small… sigh. I guess it doesn’t matter so much in 15mm.
Someone mentioned the size of the M113, but it looks about right, considering I was thinner back then 🙂 . Crew-commanded a Queen-Mary for a while (raised rear deck HQ), so am quite familiar with the design.
I’m with you @oriskany . Great scheme!
I think the BMP is right as well. 2.15m in height and the Infantry is in the foreground and on a “20cm” plateau… looks realy good to me.
I can say that all the vehicles and infantry will be done in plastic.
On whose authority??
Would be great tho.. 😎
These all look pretty good. All plastic would be most excellent.
Looking forward to this!
I would be very surprised if the releases for team Yankee are not plastic kits, all the last releases from battlefront have been all plastic kits so I fully expect it too continue. Any existing kits that cross over from fate of a nation I would expect to remain in there current mediums. I hear we get previews of te helicopters and planes next week from the breakthrough assault guys 🙂
I would be more excited if a Gen Schwarzkopf riding in the cupola of an Abrams was revealed. Little younger and thinner than in the Gulf War, and ready to smash the Soviets.
FoW WWII stuff was interesting but WWIII? Oh yes. So very yes. I had an Uncle who served in the 11th ACR as it sat in the Fulda Gap staring down the Soviet 8th Guards Army. I’d love to do them and elements of the BAOR. I know a buddy of mine would be all about West Germans, and I wouldn’t shy away from the East Germans for the other side.
These things are really good looking. Hope they are plastic.
Those look really good.
Yup, I’m definitely interested…i have all the ww2 I need in 28 and 20mm,so never needed fow, but this changes things!
Show of hands; who has hit their kevlar/steel/head on the roof of an M113 as it rolled through a field?
Yup. Repeatedly.
Here. Only time I never bitched about a helmet.
Nope. Just an AAV and HMMVW, though.
Never been inside an M113. I don’t think the USMC has ever used them. (??)
Then again, we never used T-55s or BMPs, either, and been inside those. 😀
Just the LVTP amphibious buses? No wonder you’re smarter than the rest of us… fewer knocks on the head 🙂 .
That’s the one. And only once, during our “required” infantry training. Then I was happy to go to A-school for MOS training (supply poag, safe and cool in an air-conditioned office with plenty of coffee. IN THE REAR WITH THE GEAR! 😀
“Oh man . . . all this typing! I might get a blister on me wittle finger!”
When I became a “spook” my old buddies used to laugh at me, and say I was going so far to the rear I’d have to send my laundry forward.
Poor muffin. Blistered finger? The standard combat medic answer: Cepacol and condoms. You’ll be right as rain in no time.
@oriskany hang ’em low chairborne ranger, hang ’em low
I’ll be interested to see how the game handles the tempo and sheer lethality of modern, mechanised warfare. The Soviets put an ATGM on anything that moved (and two on things that didn’t) and NATO leant heavily on it’s technological edge. The WarPac forces were very heavily controlled (some would say constrained) by doctrine and I wonder if that will have some sort of game mechanic attached?
To put it politely and I hope this is the correct quote
“One of the serious problems in planning the fight against American doctrine, is that the Americans do not read their manuals, nor do they feel any obligation to follow their doctrine…”
As always told in training, ‘we know this isn’t optimal, we won’t do this when it matters’ that was as close as accepting the unofficial US doctrine.
Interesting take on US doctrine from a historical perspective. http://thediplomat.com/2013/09/unorthodox-and-chaotic-how-america-should-fight-wars/
A very apt quote and one that applied to most NATO armies. NATO definitely had the greater emphasis on the lower levels of the command structure using their initiative. I didn’t mind the more rigid nature of the Soviets…the pam that outlined their doctrine wasn’t nicknamed ‘the pink pillow’ for nothing!
I thought that quote was attributed to Canadians, but I could be wrong, and it could apply equally to any NATO force, and indeed, in my Cold War immersion in Soviet tactics it applied to their professional officer corps equally. It was interesting to watch their adaptation to conditions, and the evolution of their equipment, during their incursion into Afghanistan (with slower grinding bureaucratic wheels of course). Where we get the idea of the inflexibility of Soviet tactics is their employment by Arab states in the Gulf War… but that was never what I taught our young troops or officers.… Read more »
Editor’s note: and of course, the Arab-Israeli conflicts.
Lots of vets in this thread, thanks for your services guys! 🙂