Chris Lisanti from the Lone Star Historical Miniatures (LSHM) Club in Texas submitted the following Team Yankee game report:
Third World War Thursday Update.
Justin (British Armor) took on Tony (Soviet BMP-2 battalion) and Chris (E. German T-72M battalion) in a capture the flag mission at 80 points a side. There was a single objective offset in the middle of a 6x8 foot table with each side starting within the rear 12 inches of the table running lengthwise.
Both sides used spearheading with the British setting up a tough Swingfire and Milan team on the edge of a forest while the E. Germans used it to aggressively move up to the objective with infantry and T-72s. The Soviets moved aggressively through standing crops to converge on the objective with additional infantry backed up by T-64s, BMP-2s and Storm vehicles.
The British were very difficult to kill having taken up good cover, but they sacrificed advancing on the objective for good cover which inevitably led to their defeat. A Lynx helo landing deep behind Warsaw Pact lines degraded the rocket launchers and threatened the rears of the tanks, but not enough as a British assault by infantry and then a Chieftain failed to push the Soviets and E. Germans off the objective.
Good times and good lessons learned. Arab-israeli/'Nam next week with desert terrain. See you then.
