Team Yankee Leopard Week – Will The Conflict Spread To New Theatres?
July 19, 2016 by dignity
With the new addition of the West Germans to Team Yankee by Battlefront we ask Phil Yates where the war might spread within the narrative.
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Will we be seeing more NATO nations joining the fight or even smaller civil wars kicking off in unexpected places?
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Nice…I want Denmark going into the Baltic States to support those small nations against The Motherland.
As an inhabitant of one of the Baltic States, I find this interesting. Any particular reason you’re interested in the Baltic in specific? Also, from what little I know of Team Yankee and it being based on the 80’s Cold War era … the Baltic is still part of the Soviet Union, sadly. So getting there to help them would be a bit tricky. So would you be launching an offensive to liberate the Baltic? Depending on what country you start with it could be pretty tricky. The Baltic countries were built up with a potential European war in mind… Read more »
I kinda want to do a dutch army resisting the red tide… must research! it’d be neat to do a bit of desert warfare too.
The tanks are already in for the Dutch as we have Leopards and a similar heli (attack helicopters like the Apache are relatively new for us).
We had these for armored transport YP408 :
http://tanknutdave.com/yp408-wheeled-apc/
And a M113 variant named ‘YPR-765’
(source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIFV )
M109 self-propelled gun
http://tanknutdave.com/the-us-m109-series-self-propelled-gun/
The F-16 was (and still is) our fighter/bomber.
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Honestly there is lots of scope for this gamer to expand further, I’m just waiting for the Brits to show up.
I’m happy to see Team Yankee taking this to a global scale. With the announcement of the British, I am very excited to see what other nations join the battle.
I’m still waiting for my East Germans to come.
In case of China, I think they would take the opportunity to take Taiwan and end their civil war. Of course they would have to help the North Koreans by their approach to the south. Because I think N. Korea wouldn’t let this chance fly by… the US is busy with the mighty Soviets so that would be the chance to end this war, too.
New Zealand decides to invade Australia… That would be hilarious! Jandals v Thongs.
Turkey vs Russia could be another scenario…
After WW2 the Allies were happier to deal with Mao (Chinese Communist Leader) rather than Chiang Kai Shek who led the nationalists in China. After the civil war Shek relocated to Tiawan, the allies were opposed to China invading Tiawan. Then the Korean War started, Moa was reluctant to get involved and said to the North, China will assist if the US go above the 38th parallel, when they did he had no choice but to provide troops. At this period China was in bed with Russia, but 69 there were clashes along the China/Russian which ended relationships. There has… Read more »
It would also be interesting to see where Japan would fit into all of this, they wouldn’t be happy with either Japan, Russia or North Korea getting stronger so close to them.
Japan has been restricted from building an effective military after WW2. They have a civil defence force, but it wasn’t strong enough to go on the offensive.
Yeah but i guess when WW3 breaks out that could change a lot
Another very interesting and informative video, thanks for that … team yankee sounds more and more like i should take a closer look into it.
In 79 China invaded Vietnam because it didn’t like the between Russia and Vietnam. Part of the cultural purges in China during the 70’s was to rid influential party members who had ties with Russia. There has always been a tense relationship between North Korea and China, they are basically tolerated as they’re not deemed to be a threat to China.
So miffed I missed the bootcamp last year! This week has got my gaming brain going bonkers and I’m having to fight off the urge to buy, buy, buy, build, paint and play!!!
Damn you Justin, John and Phil!
we missed you
Nice video that touched on a lot of the topics I was curious about in Team Yankee, for instance the technological development during the war and potential conflict zones around the globe. Personally I would be interested in playing scenarios in the baltic region.
I’d totally do a Winter War 2.0 for Finland’s desperate defence against Soviet troops in the forests. The Finnish Defence Force at that time was an interesting mix of Soviet equipment, western equipment and some homemade stuff like the PASI APC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patria_Pasi … these things are crazy.. if you ever get a chance to ride in one take it. 🙂
The MBT of the Finnish Defence Force at the time was T-72 so some interesting T-72 vs. T-72 action would be available as well.
Then again only some of the tanks from the batch of those 60 T-72s had been delivered in 1985 when Team Yankee takes place and crew training was still underway. So if Finland was to end up participating in the war, FDF of the time period would most likely be operating the venerable T-54/55 with a company of T-72s alongside them (T-72 possibly crewed by the instructors, considering they were the only ones with experience in the new tank model).
Most Finnish T-72s were actually bought from former Warsaw Pact countries in the 90s.
As a fan of early Tom Clancy novels, particularly Red Storm Rising, I would like to see an invasion of Iceland scenario, which would include amphibious assets and naval support missons, much like a very cold version of the pacific theatre in WWII. 🙂 As far as a WWIII scenario ramping up R and D so we see more and more advanced vehicles and weapons….I don’t see it. By this point technology had advanced to the point that farming out making an Abrams tank to the local Ford factory, let alone putting together F-15s and advanced strike fighters. I really… Read more »
Very good update. Looking forward to the British later this year.
Very nice video , love the topics .
the Alaska invasion I believe was a mini series called World War 3 1987 ish
interested to see if the expand the conflict, so many nations and theaters that could be brought out. want some Apaches and Bradley’s 🙂 🙂
and Stingers!! hmm sensing a trend here… still want to do Soviet army
British for me! The question is, do I start one of the existing sets in the meantime?
GIMME more Team Yankee nations and scenarios. The possibilities sound really nice!
Aside from putting the other Nato nations (France, England, Denmark, Belgium etc) and the other Soviet states (Poland, Ukraine etc), to me I think the most obvious flare up points would be: Saddam invades Kuwait and looks to expand his Middle eastern area of control supported by the Soviets. There was “relative” peace between Israel and it’s neighbors at this time, the hatchet with Egypt having been buried after the Jom Kippur war but I doubt a united Arab army (Iran, Syria, Egypt etc) would be able to stand up to Saddam if it included Israel (too much bad blood… Read more »
China would look to regain it’s terroritries first before anything else, which would include Manchuria, Tiawan and possibly Hong Kong. They lost face loosing them, so will seek to take them back. Plus at this point in history, they were really anti Russia, so the opportunity to retake Manchuria and make the Soviets loose face would be too great a temptation.
If you consider that in the 1980’s California was one of the biggest states for military bases and personnel. It would have been a big mistake to try and do that. They would have had move chance of success invading Alaska, being that it was so remote.
the British are coming!
Nordic states, China, South Korea, North Korea, Mexico a leftist coup and invade Texas… Brazil, France…. Heck the whole world!!!-