Team Yankee Unboxing: NATO’s First Line

March 18, 2019 by dignity

The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, founded in 1949, has assembled a tank company for World War III miniature game Team Yankee.

Consisting of three Leopard 1 tanks, available in Canadian, German, and Dutch variants, and two BO-105 anti-tank helicopters.

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lordsanes

This talk of painting windows has given me a thought. How would you do tiny windows, like dropfleet sized windows? I was thinking of painting them as if they were lit from the inside but its so small it makes me nervous

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Robert

Nice looking kit. A couple of coats of gloss varnish will also help you glass look more glassy no matter how you paint them.

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sundancer

Get to da choppa!! XD

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lblunchboxlb

To paint the windows I’d use varying shades of blue, blending from darkest to brightest. Then I’d finish it off with a little bit of white and cover with gloss varnish.

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imperialmanner

Nice bit of kit there. I didn’t know they included a mini rule book with all of their sets, that really cool!

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wilco92

more tanks please

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kieffer

It’s a good option to bolster existing forces for Germany, Netherlands and Canadian players.
I just wish Battlefront would do some starter sets with enough troops to build the basics of a legal formation, not just only give you a taste without providing enough to have something legal points and formation wise on the table.
Nice miniatures as usual, they do great kits !

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phaidknott

Indeed, a platoon of tanks and a couple of platoons of mechanised infantry (ie a “Team Yankee” formation) rather than the helicopters, would be a fine idea for getting the “core” of a force up and running was my first thought. However now I think about it if you did then you wouldn’t be able to have a starter box that covered the Canadians, Dutch and Germans (as the APCs are nation specific, and the Infantry wear different kit), so there’s no easy way. But for other faction starters (ie USA, British and American), they could have done a more… Read more »

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foehammer888

I think it’s a balance of affordability and applicability. Most nations have multiple formations -tank, mechanized, recon, infantry, etc.

When they had sets with more tanks, it drove up the price point was higher (less affordable) and you might have more tanks than you needed for the non-tank formations.

3 tanks and 2 helps is good for the start of a tank force, or support of an infantry/recon/mechanized force.

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zorg

a nice unit.

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gobbo

I would like to give Team Yankee a try.

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spacewolflord

You know, I wish they had those in plastic when i was buying my Germans tanks…At least they have them out now when ever I get a change to get back to them.

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lawnor

Every time I see one of these videos I’m more and more tempted to get out my FoW armies and teach myself to play. Gonna have to happen soon I think.