 Editor in Chief Bill   | 20 Sep 2016 7:42 p.m. PST |
Battlefront has released a WWIII product line based on the well-known Team Yankee novel. Which novel (or series of novels) would you like to see get the Team Yankee treatment (i.e., its own ruleset and product line)? |
dragon6  | 20 Sep 2016 8:37 p.m. PST |
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| brass1 | 20 Sep 2016 8:54 p.m. PST |
The Iliad. Well, it's not a novel but it's still a great story. LT |
| Pictors Studio | 20 Sep 2016 8:57 p.m. PST |
I think the Iliad has quite a few rules and product lines out there. I'd like to see someone do another Elric line or even a whole Eternal Champion line. |
| Weasel | 20 Sep 2016 9:47 p.m. PST |
Michael Moorcock's Elric series. |
| pzivh43 | 21 Sep 2016 3:15 a.m. PST |
John Ringo's Posleen series!! |
| The G Dog | 21 Sep 2016 4:19 a.m. PST |
Heh. +1 to the Posleen series. They could leverage the Team Yankee line for the humans. |
| Cosmic Reset | 21 Sep 2016 4:21 a.m. PST |
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| Anthropicus | 21 Sep 2016 7:36 a.m. PST |
Oh man, a 6mm swarm of Posleen for my microarmor to oppose would be glorious! |
| boy wundyr x | 21 Sep 2016 7:56 a.m. PST |
1) Imaro (African fantasy), both 6mm mass battles and 15-28mm skirmish.
2) Tales of the Ketty Jay – sci-fi dieselpunk sky ships. |
| Zippee | 21 Sep 2016 9:58 a.m. PST |
Well there you go, I thought it was just the name of their rules but apparently is based on a "well known" novel – must be like those "celebrities" that keep cropping up – you know the ones you've never heard of! |
| Patrick Sexton | 21 Sep 2016 10:02 a.m. PST |
+2 for the Posleen series. |
| Editor in Chief Bill | 21 Sep 2016 11:53 a.m. PST |
Well there you go, I thought it was just the name of their rules but apparently is based on a "well known" novel… link |
| rmaker | 21 Sep 2016 1:07 p.m. PST |
To be kind, Zippee is from the UK, and if he is under thirty, he may well never have heard of Team Yankee. |
| Marc the plastics fan | 21 Sep 2016 1:50 p.m. PST |
I'm over fifty and I hadn't heard of them. When i saw the rules being developed i thought "what a silly name". Then realised why and made much more sense |
| Kropotkin303 | 21 Sep 2016 2:13 p.m. PST |
Ralph Peters' Red Army, as an expansion. Different forces, but same conflict.I may be wrong on the tank side of things. It would be more logical, but then again I'm no Spock. |
| troopwo | 21 Sep 2016 3:47 p.m. PST |
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| troopwo | 21 Sep 2016 3:48 p.m. PST |
Better yet, Ottokar Prohaska from the 'Sailor Of Austria' series by John Biggins. |
| Dn Jackson | 21 Sep 2016 4:22 p.m. PST |
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| Zagloba | 21 Sep 2016 5:28 p.m. PST |
Dn Jackson, You jest, but I'd like to see a Deathlands game:
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| Major B | 21 Sep 2016 6:17 p.m. PST |
What about David Drake's The General series. Dog riding cavalry of various Types. A great yarn with lots of potential for table top games. |
| Allen57 | 21 Sep 2016 7:53 p.m. PST |
Posleen series would be interesting. I have a 6mm Posleen army and an opposing force of US troops including a Centaur city module from command horizon which I plan on modifying as Bun Bun. The real Bun Bun would be too big to put on the table. What cooled my ardor for this project is the imbalance in weapons for the two sides. Heck a Posleen grunt can make swiss cheese of an Abrams MBT with his hyper velocity firearm and if he closes with an armored trooper he can cut him to bits with his monomolecular knife. I have tried home brew rules and had no success. BTW someone made 28mm Posleen figures but I cannot remember who. |
| Dan Wideman II | 21 Sep 2016 9:31 p.m. PST |
I think the 28mm posleen were with the shockforce line whatever it was called weren't they. I think I have 5 or 6 of them around here that I got as a sample, discovered them to be perfect, then the company closed up shop. Isn't a 6mm Bun Bun about 12x12" in scale? I remember doing the conversion once and it was ridiculously huge. Allen, what did you use for 6mm Posleen? I'd love to see the Aldenata series done as a game. However, if we are confining this to what should Battleground do next for WW3 novels, I'll second either Red Army, or go desert and do Sword Point. It's another Harold Coyle novel after all. |
| alien BLOODY HELL surfer | 22 Sep 2016 6:32 a.m. PST |
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| Zippee | 22 Sep 2016 9:36 a.m. PST |
To be kind, Zippee is from the UK, and if he is under thirty, he may well never have heard of Team Yankee.
One of those statements is true, the other once was true about 25 years ago :) Still never heard of them, not a rumour, not a whisper in the grass. |
 Extra Crispy  | 23 Sep 2016 7:33 p.m. PST |
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| Part time gamer | 23 Sep 2016 9:06 p.m. PST |
Marc the plastics fan
I'm over fifty and I hadn't heard of them. Same here, mid 50's now and I had never heard of the book, simply thought; "OK, 'Team Yankee' not a bad name for a set of modern rules." But had no idea there was such a book series. |
 miniMo | 28 Sep 2016 8:55 a.m. PST |
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