"Team Yankee Counters: DIY Project" Topic

I was going to do Team Yankee in 6mm and kept waffling back and forth. In the end the stuff is just too boring to paint, so I've decided to go with counters instead. I bought a PDF from StrikeNet games off WargamesVault. After importing I was able to re-size them to fit my Litko plywood counters, make the unit type easier to read, and add color coded unit ID tags to the counters as well.

It took me maybe an hour to do the computer work on the Soviets. Now I have a complete "Red Banner Tank Divsion" printed. I figure it will take an hour to glue the paper to my counters.

Over the weekend I'll do the same for a complete "Team Yankee" US force. On Monday I'll be in a position to play a 750 point game on the big table. If I go half-scale I'll have an effective table size of 12' deep by 20' long.

And if I don't like the game I'll use the counters to try out other rule sets – maybe Fistful of TOWs 3?

I'm buying the Team Yankee models from Battlefront but I will probably end up playing Sabresquadron.

> maybe Fistful of TOWs 3

Certainly!

Those Strikenet games counters are nice, changing the font is a good idea though. Any chance of posting a couple samples?

Here you go. Actual size is 40x15mm for the vehicles, 1" x 3/4 for the large infantry, 15x15mm for the small. The counters don't have all the necessary infantry but at this size you really can't tell, and there's not much infantry anyway.

I used Paint and Powerpoint to crop and edit and add my own Unit IDs (the colored icons at the rear) as well as making the unit type easier to read.

You can see the texture I used from Powerpoint does not match the vehicle backgrounds from the original but at actual size you can't really see the difference at all.

Looks good! The Unit names are much easier to read that way.

And here come the Soviets. Three platoons of T72s (10 tanks each) with supporting artillery, recon, etc. Gluing them down takes a little longer than I thought but it's a nice project to work on while you wait for your cake to bake and your ceviche to marinate. You can even enjoy a nice big Jameson's while you work on it.

That's pretty cool!

That looks great.