Team Yankee

Stripes Rulebook Team Yankee contains everything you need to field the United States army in Team Yankee, the most powerful armed forces in the world. Three army corps stand ready to defend Western Europe from the red horde poised across the Iron Curtain. Armoured troops’ powerful M60 Patton tanks or state of the art M1 or IPM1 Abrams tanks, mechanized infantry mounted in reliable M113 personnel carriers, and light infantry of the 82nd Airborne all stand ready to stop the red tide. Cavalry and scouts deploy forward in tanks, APCs and HMMWV vehicles to thwart the enemy’s progress, while anti-aircraft troops with gun and missile vehicles watch the skies. The US Marine Corps’ amphibious troops are ready to be deployed where needed with their own tanks, Light Armored Vehicles, and hard fighting infantry, backed by their own support.

FV432 APC or Swingfire Troop TBBX02 contains 5 Vehicles, 4 mortar crew, unit cards and decals

Spartan or Striker Troop includes four plastic Spartan APC / Striker sprues (with Spartan Blowpipe and Spartan MCT options), four resin Spartan (Blowpipe) figures, six Unit cards & one Decal sheet.

Abbot Field Battery TBBX06 British contains 4 self propelled howitzers and a unit card.

M109 Field Battery (TBBX08) includes four M109 self-propelled howitzers, one resin Tank Commander sprue, one decal sheet and one unit card.

The divisional artillery has replaced the Abbot with the American M109 with its 155mm gun. This powerful weapon is called upon when some serious firepower is needed.

British Mechanised Company TBBX10 comprises a Company HQ and two Mechanised Platoons. Each platoon has an impressive variety of firepower at its disposal, with the ‘Gimpy’ (GPMG or General Purpose Machine-gun) and L1A1 SLRs (Self-Loading Rifles), the ‘Charlie G’ (84mm Carl Gustav recoilless gun) and one-shot 66mm light anti-tank weapons for anti-tank work, and a 2” light mortar team, whose main role is to use smoke to blind enemy machine-guns.

T-55AM2 Panzer Company includes five resin T-55AM2 tanks, one plastic Tank Commander sprue, two Decal sheets, and three Unit cards.

Of the 2100 T-55 tanks supplied to NVA by the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, and Poland, nearly 300 were upgraded to the T-55AM2 standard.

Kampfgruppe Muller German Starter Set Team Yankee contains 5 Plastic Leopard 2 tanks, resin crew sprue, 2 BO-105P helicopters, 8 magnets, 2 flight stands, unit cards and decal sheets

This Team Yankee Box includes five plastic BMP-1 or 2 transports, Decal Sheet and Crew

The BMP-1 is a Soviet amphibious tracked infantry fighting vehicle. BMP stands for Boyevaya Mashina Pekhoty 1, meaning "infantry fighting vehicle". The BMP-1 was the first mass-produced infantry fighting vehicle (IFV) of USSR.

This Team Yankee Box includes three resin and metal BM-21 Hail Rocket Launcher trucks and one Unit Card.

The BM-21 Grad (Hail) is a direct descendant for the famous Katyusha rocket launcher of the Second World War. The box launcher, housing four rows of ten tubes, is mounted on a Ural 6x6 truck. The BM-21 can fire fin-stabilised 122mm rockets, which can be fitted with fragmentation, chemical, or incendiary warheads, up to 16km (10 miles). A single volley from a BM-21 battalion of 18 launchers fires 720 rounds in 20 seconds, the equivalent of five division’s worth of guns firing together. Clearly, the 'Hail' is well named.

Spandrel AT Platoon includes three resin Spandrel Anti-tank vehicles and two Unit cards.

T-64 Tank Company (Plastic) (x5) (TSBX13)

SA-8 Gecko SAM Battery (TSBX16) Includes two resin and metal SA-8 Gecko SAM vehicles and one Unit Card.

TSBX18 Motor Rifle Company (Plastic)

Includes two PKM LMG teams, nine RPG-7 Anti-tank Teams, one SA-14 Germlin AA Missile Team, ten AK-74 Teams and one Formation Command Team.

This Team Yankee Box Includes four plastic M163 VADS/M901 ITV vehicles, Decal Sheet and Crew

The M163 Vulcan Air Defense System (VADS) is a self-propelled anti-aircraft gun (SPAAG) that was used by the United States Army. The M168 gun is a variant of the General Dynamics 20 mm M61 Vulcan rotary cannon.

This Team Yankee Box includes includes two plastic AH-1 Cobra helicopters, two plastic flight stands, decal sheet and unit card. The AH-1S Cobra is the latest version of the Vietnam-era Hueycobra and is easily distinguishable by its flatter, non-reflective canopy and the four Improved TOW missiles tubes mounted on each side. This Cobra is a tank hunter, relying on its narrow frontal profile, the long reach of the Improved TOW missile, and skilful flying to remain undetected as it hunts its prey. The Cobra’s chin-mounted M197 20mm Vulcan Gatling gun makes short work of infantry and lightly-armoured vehicles, and any enemy helicopters it may come across.

UH-1 Huey Helicopter Platoon (TUBX07)
contains two plastic UH-1 Huey helicopters, two plastic flight stands, eight rare-earth magnets, one decal sheet and two unit cards.

TUBX11 M60A1/A3 Tank Platoon (Plastic)

with five plastic M60A1 or A3 tanks