The scenario was a “Hasty Attack”, based very loosely on an action from the novel, and also included in the scenario book The Bear Marches West by Russell Phillips (shown below), as the Check and Checkmate scenario. The tank battalion also had an attached company of infantry (3 platoons) in BMP-2s , along with artillery support from the parent regiment’s battalion of 2S1 SP 122mm guns. The opposing force was a Soviet tank battalion of three companies (9 platoons) of T-80Bs (I couldn’t quite come at using the T-72s featured (somewhat in error) in the novel. Team Yankee would be supported by the battalion’s SP Mortar Platoon, along with a Battalion of M-109 SP 155mm Artillery.
This is what the US force would field in my Pico version, except that the M-901s would be a full platoon. As only a company-sized force of four platoons, this would be a very small force for FFT, but that’s what I was after to keep things simple. Team Yankee is a tank-heavy combat team, comprising a couple of M1 Platoons, a cross-attached Infantry Platoon (in M113s) and an attached section of M-901s. I figured that would be as good a place as any to start and I would base my scenario around that theme.įor those that have read the novel, Team Yankee is a company-sized US combat team in the Cold War (mid-1980s) that sees a lot of action fighting off the Soviet hordes in a fictional invasion of Germany. I thought the best option would be a relatively small scenario to run him through the rules.ĭue to the imminent release of the Battlefront rules of the same name, Team Yankee has been a great topic of conversation lately. Tony had not played the Fistful of TOWs rules before, although he had read the rulebook. We had chatted on the day, and as he was keen to get back into modern gaming, we organized to catch up for a game. This weekend provided the opportunity for a game with a new opponent, Tony, who I met at the recent Little Wars Canberra demo game.
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