"Team Yankee Soviet Starter unboxing" Topic

Hi all.

Back with an new unboxing video. This time we crack open Potecknov's Bears, the new Soviet Starter Box with T-72s and Hinds. Sadly we are still waiting on the other Soviet boxes (Really looking forward to the BMP box)

youtu.be/yTD0snjUyHw

Enjoy!

Need BRDM-2s and BTRs, stat.

Btw, a great read on how and why Soviet/Russian tactics can work very well against Western/NATO tactics, written by a wargamer who was also once a NATO army group planner:

Why Cold War Warsaw Pact Tactics Work In Wargaming

by John Curry

I have played more Cold War Warsaw Pact games versus NATO than most, at least in terms of the number of different rule sets I have used. This has included the many civilian wargame rules such as WRG modern warfare rules and Tim Gow's NATO Brigade Commander, but I have also played professional military games such as ‘Contact!' (Canadian Wargame rules, 1980), Dunn Kemp (1978-, American), Battlegroup Trainer (UK Army) and games with BAE Systems Ltd. While playing these games, I have noted one major trend , I have never lost playing the Warsaw Pact side. Whether playing with 1/35 scale tanks on Knuston lawn to traditional wargames on the tabletop, to games played in 1/300 scale on the floor of a WWII aircraft hanger, my ‘side' has won. Some of these game were using rules of my own devising, but the majority were rules written by others, including operational analysis establishments. This article is about why Russian Tactics seem to work in wargaming.

For the purposes of this article, I have used the terms Russia, Soviet and Warsaw Pact with reference to tactics as interchangeable.

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Order GHQ/PFC-CinC, they already have them ready.

They are lovely models. The fuel tanks are a bit fiddly and the rotors are very fragile, not a problem just exercise care in separating them from the sprue and gluing them.