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As per the title, I like the look of the Team Yankee thing and I enjoy the 'what if' premise of cold war gone hot but what is the buy-in like? Obviously, I need some 15mm terrain but what will two reasonably sized forces run me? And the rulebook/templates/tokens etc? Or is this more aimed at people who already have a 15mm scale battlefield ready to go? I have literally nothing in that scale.

And, more to the point, is the game any good? Or should I stick with 28mm and a Force on Force expansion to cover WW3?

I'm in the process of building some considerable armies for Team Yankee simply because I love the time period and the book from when I was a kid. The rules are nice, play is fast and fun, but it is quite an expensive buy-in in addition to the rulebook being a separate cost. A basic 100 pt list for the USA can get you up and running with Bannon's Boys, a second box of M1's, a second of Cobra's, a box of M113's and a mech platoon. Would run about $225 or so. Due to point costs, a similar Soviet force will run you about $350. Most of the new plastics are excellent and go together quickly and cleanly, especially the BMP's. The support units on the other hand are an exceptionally mixed bag. Some are carryovers with tired metal fittings (like the M-109) and the new Warthog and Frogfoot, for example, have very poor spin-cast resin fittings, which any ticket to BF support has a 6-8 week backlog (at least in the USA). Given the price point on most the support units, they are not good value.

The Team Yankee book is only $25. Hardly what I would call expensive in comparison to the books you need to play 40K.

Hum, quite an investment though to get two moderately sized forces on the table plus the terrain too.

I'd suggest you look around the Team Yankee site (especially the Team Yankee Boot Camp). Smaller forces are playable than what Triple9 is putting forth.

To Ghazs' point, you can put together 50pt starter armies for under $100 each to get a feel for the game. It really is a great game and terrain can really be just some trees and fields to mimic the Fulda Gap to start. What really drives the cost up is infantry; especially for the Soviets. A full strength Soviet Motor Rifle Company will set you back about $125 discounted price for 24 pts between the BMP's and soldiers. If you want to stack tanks against each other, then it's actually not that expensive a buy-in.

Looking back, my post comes off much more negative than I meant it to be. I do have issues with some of the support units, but that doesn't change the quality of the game or how good the plastic units are. As I said, I'm in the middle of building some decent sized armies and just received the Afgansty briefing, so I'm trying to justify buying and building another 8 Hinds to augment the 4 I have; probably end up proxying 1:144 Zvezda Hinds as I'm not even sure how you'd fit that many on the board or assemble another 8 sets of rotors without putting a bullet in my head.

Zvezda also does scale models that might save you a buck.

 col. krazy kenny wrote:
Zvezda also does scale models that might save you a buck.

The Zvezda M1 Abrams is essentially the same price as the Battlefront model, and isn't as detailed. I haven't checked any of the other Zvezda models, but if they're like the Abrams then it'd be better to stick with Battlefront.

The US starter includes 5 Abrams tanks (launch day boxes had 6), and 2 Cobras. That's 47 points worth of models. It's not a bad starting point if you want to get a feel for the rules, though an Abrams company with only 5 tanks is *extremely* fragile due to the morale rules.


The rules could use a bit of tightening, but are otherwise good. Games tend to go much faster than they do in Flames of War. This game also plays well on a bigger table, provided that you have the space.

We had been playing regular FoW for almost a decade now and started out playing Team Yankee with Battlefronts 15 mm miniatures, but switched over to 6 mm GHQ and stuck with it. For one there already is a pretty big range of Cold War era miniatures out there, it's less costly for a "secondary" game system, it doesn't have the supply problems that TY has and last but not least, at least to me, it looks more immersive at a smaller scale. It doesn't get that "parking lot" feel.

your right their are a few companies out their that do Cold war 15mm models.
we been wanting to start a cold war game but are not wanting to use the Team YAnkee rules,My players are wanting me to design something of a Bolt action, FLAmes of war hybrid rule set.

I will second 6mm, as it still works without needed to change ranges and is allot cheaper.
Also ground scale will look nicer.

Or you could go with Cold War Commander, GHQ Modern Micro-armor, or Modern Spearhead for 6MM Cold War Gone Hot action.

I have to admit, the Team Yankee packaging is very tempting.

We played it in 10mm, worked great. Not sure whose models we used though.