Oil War Book Chat

[@mauriciomorais7818]

The Six Pointed Star in the background Says It All.

[@WardenOfTerra]

I just recently got into 'Team Yankee', and I have to say that the plastic miniatures produced by Battlefront are second to none. They're by far the coolest I've seen in a long, long time. Their plastic injection tooling has ridiculously fine detail. Warlord needs to take a literal miniature manufacturing page out of their book.

[@Helcarexe26]

A nice addition to the Team Yankee system

[@BlueLionNotOfPercy]

This looks so amazing. Looking forward to mixed forces.

[@Ralai14]

Soviet tanks with ERA when???

[@dougstone9308]

Warsaw Pact has been released with a new T72 kit. The T72B with ERAs!

[@Based_Lord_Humongous]

The most important book put out for Team Yankee was Stripes. Filling out the American lists, giving US players IPM1, M1, M60A1, M60A3, and all the support units like Humvee Stingers and TOW carriers really helped balance the game against the Warsaw Pact. The next most important book was Free Nations, because while totally fictional putting the ANZACs in, those and the French and Canadians really give a NATO player some neat ways to counter the WarPact. The third most important was Volksarmee, because giving the East Germans the ability to swarm T55AM tanks was ungodly and if not careful can cause the opposing force to end up in a knife fight to the death. I will get Oil Wars for the sake of completing my collection, but the only really new models are the IDF (which will look cool as a 15mm Sci Fi army) and the rest is recycled boxes. It'll make for nice fluffy armies or could lead to some retarded tournament combos that will probably dominate the meta.

[@kenbennett4556]

Planning on getting Oil War and the Israeli box set and maybe throw in a few Leopard 2s from the Dutch and away we go. Can't wait.

[@scottlewis3506]

Should have mine tomorrow.

[@Based_Lord_Humongous]

At 22:18 ....what is a Merkaviar?

[@Based_Lord_Humongous]

@Freddie Freeth the way old dude pronounced it sounded like Merkaviar

[@RafaMieses]

nice. modern alternative history

[@lordcypher7922]

This is a huge expanse and opens up so many possibilities you could probably even make a Jordanian or Egyptian force, maybe have anzacs in support or Canadian I think if this goes well the next huge expansion could be asia

[@kenboy8016]

Freddy great game of oil war at salute cheers for the team Yankee book while i was there made my day

[@tabletopgeneralsde310]

I can't wait to have my copy on the workbench. My Syrian forces need some extra support. But a day has only 24 hours and my wallet is 😭 when I see all these things.

[@123JWhyte]

i'm over run with t-55s and t-72s and will love seeing my Canadians fighting with Iraqi or Syrian forces

[@ausaskar]

Leopard 2s, T-72s and T-55s in the same army? That rings some bells, maybe I could proxy in another army for those Iraqis...

[@tomjarvis833]

Love it

[@Brix_H]

I'll pretty much skin up the Iraqi-Polish tanks as Finnish tanks XD

[@dzelman444]

Awwww, I can't ally Iraqis to my Israelis!

[@hamm6035]

This will be limited only by your imagination and audacity. Hahaha oddly enough couldn't Syria and Israel end up on the same side? Alliances fall apart.

[@chrislowe3060]

Well Israel and Syria were effectively on the same side in Desert Storm. Syria contributed over 14,000 troops to the coalition during Desert Storm including and armored division. The put that into perspective, France contributed 18,000. They were the 6th largest contributor of troops. Israel of course was quite opposed to Hussein though they sat out Desert Storm despite being attacked by Iraq due to political concerns. Keep in mind all of this was just a few years after Syria and Israel were fighting in Lebanon.

[@marsnz1002]

WW3 would primarily be fought in Europe so it makes sense the most important books are in the European theatre. Middle East, East Asia etc would be significant but still side theatres.