The Volksarmee East Germans Head To Team Yankee!
December 9, 2016 by brennon
Beginning in January you'll be able to pre-order the The Volksarmee, the East Germans, for use in Team Yankee!
From Battlefront...
"The East German Volksarmee, or Peoples’ Army, has the reputation of being the most well-trained of all the Warsaw Pact armies. It has a high proportion of professional soldiers and is well-equipped."
Leading the way we're going to be seeing some big sets full of some rather nice looking vehicles. For example the T-55AM2 Panzer Kompanie.
Those are some nice looking tanks. As well as that we're going to see a lot of infantry hit the tabletop and the pre-orders so far have highlighted three sets including the Mot-Schutzen Kompanie...
...and some more specialised units like the Mot-Schutzen Platoon and the Mot-Schutzen Heavy Weapons Squad.
As you can see the spread of pre-orders is going to cross over into February as well as January meaning that there's plenty to get stuck into over the coming months.
Will you be siding with the Volksarmee come next year?
"Leading the way we're going to be seeing some big sets full of some rather nice looking vehicles. For example the T-55AM2 Panzer Kompanie..."
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Yeah… finally we’re back *evil laughing*
But now comes what I was waiting for since the Bootcamp last year. And guess what… it features the 9. Panzerdivision. I am in heaven! 🙂
Exactly, maybe I do have to give TY a go, since they have the army of my fatherland.
Those are very nice.
Here’s the crazy thing . . . with all the T-72s already available, players could actually build East German armored units more easily and “accurately” than they could Soviet Category One units. But I will say I really like these new T-55 upgrades.
Good ole’ T-55. The “T-34 workhorse” of the Cold War. 😀
Now if they would just release some T-80s . . .
In case of the 9. Panzerdivision you are right. But especially the 3. Panzerdivision (OK OK… there were only the 9th and the 3rd) relied very heavily on the T-55s. As well as all the Mot.-Schützen-Regimenter. These Troops had only Panzer Batallions with T-55s at their service.
Next funny thing is that there were only about 20 BMP-2. Used by the 9. Panzerdivision. Every other tracked Troop carrier was a BMP-1.
But yes… up until now I played my Bootcamp goodies as NVA using the Red Banner lists… but these times are over 😉
This really opens up the options for that other book ‘red storm rising’ especially a bit of ‘late’ war with the category B or 2 level troops coming forward. I like a scenario where you start on one end of a table and the NATO units fall back consolidating to a better position with limited ammo. The Soviets push to make a breakthrough. The steady attrition withdrawal trading space for time. This has always been an interesting strategy as in the book they discuss if the USA would accept giving up the east to consolidate in the west. How would… Read more »
Proletarier aller Länder, vereinigt Euch! now we’re talking!! what an awesome surprise 🙂
nice.
Buying these when they arrive. The depth is really coming alive for Team Yankee
I’m somehow weirded out by this. My Dad did 18 months at a Mot-Schützen Regiment and I was saved from NVA duty when the Berlin Wall fell. So, this is a bit personal history for East German families and a part of German history that is not yet really historically processed.
What I personally dislike is the Russian type writing. They’ve never used that. It always was nicely German… the town I grew up in had Grenztruppen (border patrol) walking up and down one of the main streets each day as we had a border check point close by.
@advdiaboli, my sentiments exactly. I really do not understand the Cyrilic letters on that one. I just realised it and came back to comment on it. It actually really annoys me, because it is so recent history (my father and grandfather served at the Grenztruppen as well). I always thought Battlefront were taking their history serious, but I cannot understand why they changed those letters. It actually reads Djamee instead of Armee. Really anoying!
@advdiaboli and @severon : You’re both right. And we had no Red Star as a symbol for anything. “Hammer, Zirkel, Ährenkranz” would be enough.
And… if we’re at criticising… the paint sceme used was introduced in 1986… so one year after Team Yankee takes place. There were tests running in ’85 but nothing done in a bigger scale.
Do you mean the paint scheme on the tanks @setesch ? Or the infantry? What would it have been in 1985?
The tanks. In ’85 it was plain green. Only one colour like the Soviets had from WWII on. There was no camo pattern of any kind on the vehicles.
The paint sceme on the infantry is not really possible to replicate. It is a “devolopment” from the “Splittertarn” of WWII Wehrmacht. But only one base colour and some brown stripes on it.
http://www.laubegaster-wache.de/index_htm_files/1031.jpg
Interesting. And I can see why you wouldn’t try to paint the infantry camo…
I am not bothered by the vehicle camo pattern as we might argue that in the run up to WWIII, developments would have been hasted a bit. On this scale “Ein Strich – kein Strich” Camo is hard to do on the infantry. Not sure there is maybe a really fine stencil, but overal, its not necessary as the pattern blends into one color anyway from a few yards away.
The acceleration of defense assets in wartime is where I am interested in seeing where they go with Team Yankee. Right now everything is isolated to the “deployed first responders” in terms of the forces being fielded. What was available in the field is being used in the battles. However, if the story of the Team Yankee game extends into timeframes of longer than a few months, we start getting into the hypotheticals in terms of units, weapons, and paint jobs. The deployment of these types of things changes drastically in war vs. peacetime operaitons. In WW2, we went from… Read more »