Team Yankee - First game, thoughts and changes

[Yarkshire Gamer]

https://yarkshiregamer.blogspot.com/2021/11/team-yankee-first-play-thoughts-and.html

I have done a write up on our first game of #TeamYankee played with Card Activation and range amendments it worked really well, hope to add some helicopters in at the weekend, link above ☝

Thoughts welcome.

Regards Ken
The Yarkshire Gamer

[SJWi]

If you don’t like Team Yankee I suggest looking at “Seven Days to the River Rhine” which is my go-to 1980s set of combined-arms rules. I think one of the forums may have data for Israeli kit.

[brunei35]

Thanks for posting. Out of curiosity do you play all the cards or do you leave last one unused and then reshuffle?  - as per WoTR Bill Hooks game. Injects a degree of fog of war and frustration into plans in the few games I have played. Wonder ,if you do, how it works out in a modern game?

[commanderkaiser]

Nice write up. I do really enjoy Team Yankee but you’ve made some interesting changes. Not quite sure why some people seem so angry at it though!

Personally my biggest issue has always been about armour rating on tanks, I’d much rather have front side and rear then just a front or rear rating.
Unless somethings changed since I last played of course.

[CapnJim]

A.  Wonderful set-up, figs, vehicles, and battle report.  Well done.

B.  I like the idea of card=driven turn sequence.  My group and I are using that type of mechanism more and more in our games.

C.  And I agree with commanderkaiser.  As a former armor/cavalry officer, most modern tanks should indeed have different ratings for front, side, and rear armor.   

[AKULA]

Great looking game 

[Yarkshire Gamer]

Thanks everyone,

If you don’t like Team Yankee I suggest looking at “Seven Days to the River Rhine” which is my go-to 1980s set of combined-arms rules. I think one of the forums may have data for Israeli kit.

I do talk about that on the blog post, I like the Team Yankee presentation, unit cards etc and wanted to see if we could make a playable game of it before I tried anything else. I have a list of a list of alternatives if TY doesn't work, the 7DttR Israeli lists are for Yom Kippor in 73.

Thanks for posting. Out of curiosity do you play all the cards or do you leave last one unused and then reshuffle?  - as per WoTR Bill Hooks game. Injects a degree of fog of war and frustration into plans in the few games I have played. Wonder ,if you do, how it works out in a modern game?

At present we play all the cards, reshuffle and go again. Other games we play using card activation we use Event Cards and Tea Break Cards (like Toofatlardies) but at present we are working our way through the rules and experience tells us not to add to much or change too much at any one time. It's something we will look at when we are happy with all the rules.

Commanderkaiser and CapnJim Team Yankee has Front, Side and Top armour values for each vehicle.

I don't know why people get angry either but he's at it again on FB on this post, the big surprise is it wasn't on TMP

All the best Ken
The Yarkshire Gamer

[brunei35]

Thanks for response. Look forward to how you develop rule set. Cheers

[commanderkaiser]

Commanderkaiser and CapnJim Team Yankee has Front, Side and Top armour values for each vehicle.

I could be wrong so apologies if so (it’s been quite awhile since I last played )
I mean I’d personally prefer to see different values for front, rear, and side. From memory the value for rear and side is lumped together and is the same and I’m sure it’s the same in FoW. So as an example I’d like it be something along these lines 4 front, 3 side, 2 rear if that makes sense. Rather than 4 front, 3 side & rear.

[CapnJim]

Commanderkaiser and CapnJim Team Yankee has Front, Side and Top armour values for each vehicle.

Yep, I remember that.  But my point was that many modern AFVs have less effective rear armor than side armor. That's all.   

And I don't know why folks get their knickers in a twist about the game, either.  The rules are fine enough (regardless of my armor comment).  Not a fan of hub-to-hub vehicle deployment, but that's a function of how some folks play the game, not the rules themselves.  And I can see you guys don't do that.