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Also it's pronounced Bag-grat-tea-on

Love the vid guys. Great to hear your views on your prior events and upcoming releases from BF. You guys do a great service for the FoW community and hope to see in some of the events next year!

Just curious but why are the Marines ick? I understand it’s only in jest, but maybe it’s also since I do not use the rules. *Edit: also, for modeling all of the forces in the Pacific, Peter Pig is a leading example with the fantastic head swaps. I will be using their miniatures to kit out my Volvo c303’s.

"I don't prepare ahead of time" don't worry it was very obvious

TIER LIST HYPE!

If I am keeping track properly, this is really episode 15. Episode 14 was the rankings of Team Yankee Infantry

the surprise I'd like to see is the long awaited Italian front book

Lee how Dare you. Early War before Pacific. That is sacrilege. I cannot believe you said such a thing. I am very disappointed in you. LOL Daryl

Didn’t know this show existed, but I’m glad I found it! Real lack of team Yankee content out there!

A very good video, I do like the soviet infantry although I have a lot already, the American poses look cool and my small American force is to back up my IDF so I liked seeing them in the desert camo.

The plastic kit is what swayed me into 15mm cold war. I was looking for a cold war game but didn't like the detail in the metal. For the US infantry, in the Marine Corps, the M203 gunner is the team leader (NCO), while in the Army, the team leader has just an M16, which may be why we don't see NCO poses, as it would be in place with one service branch but not the other. When I was putting my Marine rifle company together, I was tempted to put a 5th figure on some of the bases just to act as a squad leader but they don't really have a significance in the game so decided not to.

I have the WWIII starter set and have been 3d printing M113s to go with it. I suppose I should buy one of these boxes to fill them with infantry? They look like good value.

Is it 1/72 scale?

Very useful video. Thank you.

I did some digging, and it looks like the smoke discharger/box combo is for the USFK M48A5's used by the US in Korea. The ROK M48's have smoke dischargers but not the attached ammo box. The US M48's also look like they had M2 .50 cals on the Urdan cupola vs the ARNG/reserve tanks stateside that just used the M60D's and did not mount the smoke dischargers. I have not been able to pin down a transition date for the M48A5 being replaced by M60A3's in Korea. I didn't get there till 91 and they had already transitioned to M1A1s.

I do like that the range finder peices are separate with the little inlet. The M60 kit doesnt have the detail, making it harder to paint in the range finder lenses.

As always: great review 🥳🥳🥳 interesting, that you still use standard plastic glue and not the extra thin cement. I evaluate it as a gamechanger because you can simply put the parts together and then apply the thin cement with no residue on the model 🎉 looking foward to your next review👍👍👍

Thanks for the video. FUBAR may be slightly harsh for VDV Afgantsy. Sure, only 6 teams per platoon, but hit on 4+, the same as W. Germans - also 6 teams per platoon and hit on 4+. But the VDV have a better counterattack of 3+, have RPG-7VRs, etc. Also, I'm not sure whether Defend stance was considered when ranking. Then RDFs, upgraded Bradleys and BMP-3s are less useful since they have FA4+ and usually need to be in Reserves.

Wheely good

What models are you using for the Blackhawks?

I don't play Team Yankee (yet) but when I see that it's a tier list video...

I wonder, if Mike will ever have a decent camera ... oh well. To be fair i mostly treat this as a podcast anyway. Like always i enjoy your rambelings. - Also just looking at the stupid ASU 85, i have to wonder, why we havent seen a plastic PT-76...

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Excellent review😀😀😀 Very thorough and detailed analysis with a very good visualization. 👍👍👍The uniform comparison with the real ones was very helpful👏👏👏

"There is no way to get PKM machine guns..." false. Team Yankee is ostensibly a (alt)historical game. They dot pay royalties to general dynamics when you buy a box of BFVs. There is nothing whatever stopping you from getting PKMs by the armful from old glory, QRF, empress, or literally anyone else that makes 15mm cold war figures.

Thanks for the review Lee! Very good to have the painted infantry to actually show what you can do with them

Great review!!!

Both sets look pretty awesome.

I needed to grab some more soviet infantry so I am glad I waited.

As an East German player, they were just punching bags. Switched to American and only have to deal wirh shitty morale. Good switch. Warpac blows ass.

I think I’ll still get the box, but play in the 1980s timeframe. Even with the incorrect version of the cobra the rest of the is bang for the buck.

I ordered both the USMC & Soviet box, while i only want the BMPs and Infantry, the discount is enough to pick them over individual boxes. For a while i considered pushing back the BMPs, but the bonus sprue was enough to buy them now and build them later. Iirc i mentioned this before, but even i got one, the Soviet box is a slight miss, mostly due to the tanks and the aircraft. To be honest, i am no fan of aircraft and helicopters in the boxes. Of course i know they are an important part of the game, but i think most boxes would be better without them, either making them cheaper or adding a few other models. But now to the USMC rifle company, overall i like this. When i read the instructions and read the bit about leaving the UH-1s in reserve i had to chuckle, since that was something you predicted in the Tier List video (with my hate for [BF] resin, i ended up printing my own AAVPs). Yes, the AH-1s are not quite correct, but unless there is something else, they will have to suffice. Much like gust0o mentioned, the use of Thermoplastic bits for the M60 is... well... a slight letdown. I grabbed another box of Humvees and printed some Harriers and the Army is complete...

Where can i find the m60 era point cost?

Those silly plastic turrets are crap.

That new M60 card has the ERA keyword and two different armor profiles. Forces of War does not have the updated profile and points.

Urgh, no plastic ERA upgrade - that's a real shame ftom Battlefield. Great video

If any team has a spare spot I'd be happy to join in for some ETC experience

Thanks for the event report and discussion. Always interesting.

This was my first ever trip to ETC and I had an absolute blast! It was so much fun to meet and play against people from all over the world. I highly recommend it for players of any level!

Just got my boxes: The Russian box gets the mentioned heavy weapons sprue including enough bases to build all weapon teams (i was wondering how they would do this). The Marines box gets you a bunch of free desert storm theme tokens, the M60 bits are (sadly) resin, the crew models for all HMMVV variants are included (incl Stingers). The unit cards are odd, you get every Marines related card Harriers, AA7VP, LAV-AD; UH-1s, not a bad thing of course, but usually you only get what's in the box. Let me quote a note, that i found funny, because you literally mentioned it in the video: " Rifle Platoons can have either the AA7VP transports or UH-1 helicopters. Until you have decided which transport option you want (!) you can simply field the helicopter and leave them liotering of the table.

Once again, i had fun listening to the video (mostly) during the last week's painting. This is a solid release by Battlefront. This makes me look forward to the German and British infantry, Peter mentioned during an interview with the MFA guys. But i guess those will be a year or more until we see those.

What do u play flames

exactly the video I was looking for - but had to give up half way through the graphics were just too tiny... hopefully a v2 at some point.

Yeah the transport option for USMC is very spendy!

Would love to see a video talking about what we might get in the Pacific expansion of FoW

I play FOW,and I'm a literal teenager, got started around 2 years ago now. So part of the under 40 club

I have to disagree with your asessment on the T-64BV vs T-80 situation. I expect that we are going to see more NATO 120mm and against the AT 22/23 it makes a huge difference if you are front armour 20 vs 18. Soviet mid-tier tanks are just in a weird spot where they are too squishy against elites but also don't have enough fire power against hordes - just like NATO engineers intended.

Swiss lists are so broken they hurt my eyes! Top 6 US, Poland, UK, Italy, Denmark, France. The meta is the same as it has been for so long.

Thanks for the chat folks. I hope you all enjoy the event.

I can see reason for most of the changes. Some things went to far, maybe, other things should have been adjusted, also maybe, but overall it is good, that the system is actively monitored. My major issues might be the horrible layout of the pdf including the points changes, inculding the points change might have been useful info, because this is relevant information and that forces is not updated at this point (and if Games Workshop tought me anything, it is that handeling with multiple books and FAQs for points is just horrible). At least you haven't done a tank tier list, that would have been a mess now. Always enjoying Time of Day, keep it coming.