"Team Yankee Battle Report and First Impressions" Topic

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Pictures of Team Yankee & World in Flames games show how successful the company is at selling Miniatures. Tanks lined up hub to hub. Looks like a Napoleonic battle.

If you look at it purely as a game, it's not bad at all. The emphasis is on very fast play in a kind of "rock-paper-scissors" type game where every turn one or two elements get wiped until one side achieves victory.

If you look at actual combat, it's like assuming chess is a perfect simulation of MMA.

As many have said nothing prevents you from trying to put historical/realistic tactics in the game, but then again there is nothing in the game that encourages or rewards you to use realistic tactics either.

Looks like a Napoleonic battle.

That's an interesting comment.

During the Gulf War of '91 my battalion CO made a similar comment. Our battalion was placed in a pretty narrow front as we shoved through Iraqi lines. We pretty much had a our battalion "on line" and he, our battalion commander, actually gave a "volley" fire order to the battalion which actually kicked off the engagement. I guess nearly 200 years later a volley from a battalion can still be a fearsome thing.

Granted, we weren't hub to hub, but we were pretty crammed together, relatively speaking. More often we were spread out over a few klicks (we were a tank battalion), but there were times when terrain would channed us in. In the close terrain of Germany I can see that happening more frequently than in the deserts of the Middle East.

As a gamer I think some of it is the players reacting to fairly large models being put on a 6 by 4 table. However I've read about that happening in real life too where an army masses for an offensive.

Interesting stuff.

The models are oversized for the scale because bigger models look better individually and it's a game. It takes a bit of abstract thinking and imagination to get that.

Glad you like it my friend!. (smile)

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