How to Play Team Yankee - Rules Focus on AA
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 ก.ค. 2024
- In this expansion to his series of videos on how to play Team Yankee, game designer Phil Yates clarifies one area of the game on which some people have asked for more detail: shooting at aircraft.
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To focused on the wording mate, the rule book gives clear pictures on what they mean. (Page 43 of the rule book :) The 50% is for ground units, im pretty sure people arnt going to have massively different levels of flight stands. As he states, you can see all air craft unless they (or the ground unit looking) are within 4" of tall terrain between them.
These rules need an update
Whoa there! What? The rules state that Hunter Killer helicopters get concealment if they are within 4" of tall terrain. It doesn't say anything about having to be 'behind' the terrain. So is this a rules change? And how does it apply? If a Cobra is behind a building does it need to be 50% in cover for the concealed modifier or just a bit? What about woods? If it's 50% are we looking at individual trees (which are pretty sparse on most gaming tables) or the outline of the woods? If it's the latter then what height is the obstacle, the height of the highest tree or the shortest? This seems like a can of worms to me.
+David Tye
This at first got me as well.. Go to about 5:15 and he mentions "the other side of it" meaning the Cobra has to be behind or 50%ish behind and within 4" to get concealment. I do like the simplicity now of Tall vs Short; It answers your woods question too. They are tall, so yes you get it there as well.
Hope that helps.
- Brad
+Brad Scanlon Not convinced. Like I say this just seems to open up a whole can of worms for no real gain. For the sake of 1 or 2 clear sentences the writer could have said exactly what they meant rather than something which could be interpreted the same way as the designer or not. A hunter killer gets concealment if WITHIN 4" of tall terrain. Why change this a couple of weeks after releasing the book? Why are Cobras always flying at the same height (I guess changing to a higher/lower flight stand is out of order)?
I have the rulebook and like aspects of it but some of it seems too loosely worded for anyone's benefit and not particularly well thought through.
Another example is the paragraph about being out of command which uses some of the most tortuous English imaginable. Rather than using the present or past tenses the rule uses the future tense so anyone wanting to apply the rule has to be able to see into the future. Even using the conditional tense would be preferable but as written the reader has to guess at the writer's intention. I'm sure any of the playtesters could have written that section in a clearer way knowing the intention of the rule.
+David Tye
The English and the wording I agree, could be cleaned up on several occasions. How the rules are intended to play I.E. the helicopters behaving like real attack aircraft, I quite like. It keeps it simple and human.
The real issue we need to address is Phil forgot the Golden Rule from the Dog-Eat_Dog world of Tabletop Miniature Wargaming....
"Feel free to drink beer, roll dice, and act a fool.. Do not however: drink beer, forget the ice, and write THE RULES!"
I digress... Phil is a hero to us mere mortals and he has created one hell of a game here. Its even more fun on a bigger table than normal. ...also with beer.
- Brad
If you have a problem, show the person this video. If you don't understand it. My god have mercy on your soul.
2:50
PG 4 of the last errata says aircraft can only shoot at other aircraft in their own turn.
I guess they changed their minds after this video came out?
audio is not good.
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