Sorry no pictures of Tulips! However, it was one heck of a battle 🙂
My friend Brian and I have been putting together two new armies for Team Yankee. He has been working on an East German Army and I have assembled a British Army. They arent fully painted, I know it is a sin, but we wanted to see how this works.
This is the second for us in the Team Yankee Firestorm campaign. This week both my son and daughter played and I filled the role as game master. In my role I tried to provide unbiased advice for both. They didnt always take it!! I spent the week painting up many models to bring them to game quality. I still have several steps to go on a number of models.
Battlefront and Beasts of War are hosting a Firestorm Campaign for Team Yankee. My daughter and I played a quick mission tonight. It was few first Team Yankee battle, so I walked her through the game.
1. A Soviet T-72 Battalion has been ordered to clear the little village of Neideraula just north of Fulda.
2. A US armor company has been tasked to prepare a spoiling attack.
Mission: Encounter from the updated More Mission PDF
Continuing with the Bastogne Campaign on the 4th Turn my club fought three missions; Rchamps, Bizroy, and Noville over the weekend. This battle matched my US Tank Company against Veit’s (Sounds like Fight in English) Panzer Grenadiers from the 2nd Panzer Division.
Turn 3 or Week 3 of the Bastogne Campaign Continues. This week I juggled between Longvilly and Lollange. I picked Lollange because it has an interesting story with Company G from the 110th Infantry Regiment.
What if in 1984 the Soviets pushed hard through Germany and US had to defend the Ardennes! Also how would a Team Yankee game flow on the same table as my recent Bastogne Game!
I had the privilege to travel with my command on a Staff Ride to visit the battlefields associated with the Seelow Heights and the Battle of Berlin. The Navy never had staff rides and it was an amazing experience to attend one as a civilian.
The Korsun-Cherkasy Pocket was almost another Stalingard. The Germany 8th Army which was part of Army Group South had been ordered by Hitler to hold a 100km salient in Ukraine. A benefit of hind sight is we need to thank Hitler for being such an amateur general allowing his forces to be encircled and destroyed. However, in the Korsun pocket it wasnt quite complete destruction. The Germans lost many troops and almost all the heavy equipment, but the majority of the soldiers in the salient were able to escape through sheer determination.
SITREP: Royal Engineers have just completed the Bailey bridge over the Wilhelmina Canal and XXX Corps tanks are standing by to continue to Nijmegen. However, elements of the 107th Panzer Brigade are attempting to cut the road at the new bridge in an effort to stall the Market Garden offensive.
This is a unique game in that it was a demo for a number of my son’s friends and one of their dads’.
Mission: Free for All
The mission is based around the breakout in May 1944 from the Anzio beach head by the US 1st Armored Division which faced the Hermann Goering Division.
Shermon Armory