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We've played a few games now with a "Team Yankee" force versus a horde of T-72's. And the Soviets always completely dominate the battle.

Granted, the Team Yankee is a small force, but in game terms we've made the force lists fit the "breakthrough" scenario - attacked is 2x the defender. I think it was about 2500 points for NATO and 4500 for Soviets.

We are thinking up house rules to level the playing field:

1) Stabilizers on the T-72 should be closer to S3 or S4.
2) Soviet HQ command value should be lower AND lose the +1 bonus for RIGID doctrine
3) Fewer hits for the T-72's


Anyone tried any of this?

I also ask because in a few weeks we are going to try a big Yom Kimpur War game for largely newb players and want to make it fair and fun. So Egyptians steamrolling the field won't go over well

I watched a CWC game last month at the Deeside Defenders club where a troop of 3 Challenger IIs in the open was held up for 5 or 6 turns by three T-72s and three T-90s, deployed in woods, with ATGW. The T-90s were able to use the ATGW as the Challys were outside main gun range and they focused on suppressing them, with the T-72s using main gun fire to attempt to suppress any Challys the ATGW missed. When the Challys remained unsuppressed, they were pretty capable of knocking out either tank type in 1 or 2 rounds of fire, but they very rarely managed to break the stalemate of near constant suppression. It wouldn't have taken much more Soviet firepower to start KO'ing the Challys. It was only when the Brits could get a couple of Warrior companies in to dismount Milan teams and pick off the T-90s that the stalemate was broken. It was an interesting game of cat and mouse for most of the evening and could have gone either way.

Cheers, Andy

That's pretty good for being out numbered two to one, attacking with no cover against defenders in cover

Hurrah for Chobham and it's children, and hurrah for Royal Armouries cannon

Edit - actually, vonTed - what's the composition of Team Yankee? If it's Bradley & dismount & ATGW heavy then it's probably onto a loser against hordes of Soviet tanks.