Saturday, 20 January 2018

Team Yankee / Cold War OHW

So one of my side projects for 2018 is to generate a Team Yankee / Cold War version of One Hour Wargames, that is, a quick and simple "World War 3" game.

Looking at the WW2 One Hour Wargames rules, for force compositions I need 4 different types of military unit. On top of this I'm going to add on two extra unit types that will be inter related for the sake of balance - aircraft (including helicopters) and anti aircraft vehicles.

The 4 units that come to my mind are tanks, mechanised infantry, reconnaissance vehicles and artillery.

I'll look into each unit in detail in due course. Firstly I need to repaint some of my older 'modern' models to closer resemble Team Yankee participants. As the battles are mainly set in West Germany / Europe, this means repainting tanks that were last out of storage around 2011. All will need a thorough clean up and a bit of TLC to make them great again (agh, Trumpism!). The vehicles pictured are a Revell Warrior IFV, a Revell M60A1, a Hasegawa M1 Abrams and a Revell Challenger 1 tank.