New from Battlefront: TEAM YANKEE

[MajorTalon]

So this may or may not get me back into Flames of War.

[Chuckaroobob]

Supposed to be released late this year!

[commissarmoody]

I am down with this.

[Arrigo]

Well, I will continue to play better rulesets, but I am looking forward to the models.

[commissarmoody]

Well, I will continue to play better rulesets, but I am looking forward to the models.

this 

[Cherno]

Well, the cover looks pretty ridiculous (as usual ) but I think they might find a niche there, after the doomed Mongoose game that came out(-ish) a few years ago.

[Iain R]

Dat cover art...... oh dear.

I used to play FoW, and thoroughly enjoyed it too; I now do Cold War in 20mm, but can't say I'm tempted back to the fold...

[Arrigo]

I think their standard cover have always a similar theme, stupid one if you ask (I think Desert Rats and Desert Fox eons ago were good, the Rats cover was really nice and the style was different). Nowadays they always put everything in close combat. Probably it is for drama and to explain both sides are covered in the book, but it looks silly...  on the other hand it also show the typical game ranges...

Arrigo (or, as  Lieutenant Li say.. Arrigo the Evil)

[Arlequín]

I thought it was a fair representation of on-table distances. 

Let's face it, anything that Battlefront champions leads to some great 15mm models and figures (YMMV) and generally has some fallout that prompts products in the same genre... although I'm still waiting to see 28mm Arab-Israeli figures appear. Either way it promotes 'Cold War' gaming, so that's a plus to me... good luck to them!

 

[julesav]

Worst Battlefront cover art ever!

Will they be paying Harold Coyle royalties for using his book title?

I'll definitely be giving this a go in 6mm though - mech inf units are just too pricey for me in 15mm!

[Cypher226]

Cover art discussions aside - I've been hoping for something like this since it was rumoured a few years back.

Anything that makes '80's hypothetical wars more common on the tabletop is gold to me - plus this makes Twilight 2000 gaming at the reinforced platoon/company scale easy

Here's hoping for plastic M1's, Bradleys, T72/80's and BMPs!

[carlos marighela]

Cover art discussions aside - I've been hoping for something like this since it was rumoured a few years back.

Anything that makes '80's hypothetical wars more common on the tabletop is gold to me - plus this makes Twilight 2000 gaming at the reinforced platoon/company scale easy

Here's hoping for plastic M1's, Bradleys, T72/80's and BMPs!

Which, with the exception of the BMPs, already exist. See Zvezda. They also do BTR-80s and M-24 Hinds. Their Abrams got some pretty mixed reviews, although it can be detailed but the rest of the range is meant to be very good. I doubt BMPs will be far off in their release schedule.

No addition of toys can be a bad thing but it wouldn't hurt them to get the most common tank types for the GSFG right. That would be T-64s, followed a long way behind with T-80s. They aren't cheap but then I suspect they will still be cheaper than anything Secnd Mortgage Front releases. No doubt BF will be releasing their lovingly crafted range of gnomes this time in a  1980s theme. The upside is this may prompt manufacturers with access to decent sculptors, like Khurasan to seize an opportunity.

As for Mr Coyle, I doubt he has much claim on the words 'team' and a letter from the phonetic alphabet.

[Cherno]

I hope they will have plenty of material for the early to mid cold war period, till about 1980, when Soviet armor was still a match for NATO, sometimes considerably more so. These kinds of battles are more interesting in my opinion, when the Reds don't have to rely on masses of T72s to have a chance of defeating a single M1 tank platoon.

[Schogun]

Will it include tactical nukes?

[Cherno]

Will it include tactical nukes?

To quote the rulebook of the World War III boardgame "NATO" (70s or 80s):

"To simulate the battlefield use of strategic nuclear weapons, simply soak the map in lighter fluid and apply a flame."

Pure genius. And no, this is an actual (tongue-in-cheek) rule.

(Source: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WorldWarIII)