Matt's British Iron Division

Matts (right) aversion to photographs have forced us into the Battlefront archives where we found this image from yesteryear.

Matt’s Iron Maiden British Iron Division

Part 1: 8 October 2016 My main Team Yankee army will be British. The reason I chose this army is they are British, like me. Soviets (well, painted as North Koreans) would be my other force choice but Brits is a must.

Team Yankee is a period I never initally intended to play (as I've never touched modern warfare before) but the Chieftain tank looks too cool not to paint some. I have put together a force that will look cool in my cabinet rather than plays well. The make up of the force is from 2 separate Squadrons or Companies.

Chieftain Armoured Squadron HQ 2x Chieftain 12 points Chieftain Armoured Troop 3x Chieftain 18 points Chieftain Armoured Troop 3x Chieftain Stillbrew 21 points Chieftain Armoured Troop 3x Chieftain Stillbrew 21 points Swingfire Guided Weapons Troop 3x Swingfire 6 points Total 78 points

FV432 Mechanised Company HQ 1x SLR team 2x GPMG SF teams 3 points 2x FV432 Mechanised Platoons 4x GPMG team with 66mm anti-tank 3x Carl Gustav anti-tank team 1x 2" mortar team 2x Milan missile teams 5x FV432 18 points FV432 Milan Section 4x Milan missile teams 2x FV432   4 points Spartan Mobile Milan Section 4x Spartan MCT   4 points FV432 Mortar Platoon 4x FV432 mortar carrier 4 points Total 33 points

First up is an Armoured Squadrons of three troops and attached Swingfire troop. This will be backed up by a Mechanised company with as many options as I can fit in.

The largest section of models will be the support section filed with all the goodies you would want in your cabinet.

Chieftain Armoured Squadron HQ 4x GPMG team with 66mm anti-tank 3x Milan missile team 1x 2" mortar team 3x Lynx 7 points  Spartan Blowpipe SAM Section 6x Spartan (Blowpipe) 9 points Tracked Rapier SAM Section 4x Tracked Rapiers 6 points Abbot Field Battery 8x Abbot 12 points TOW Lynx HELARM Flight 4x TOW Lynx 12 points Harrier Close Air Support Flight 4x Harrier 10 points Scimitar Recce Troop 4x Scimitar 4 points Scorpion Recce Troop 4x Scorpion 4 points Total 64 points

One of the reasons I chose British over any of the other forces for Team Yankee was down to a desire to field the Queens Dragoon Guards list of light recce vehicles. This list will be great fun to play especially when supported by a few platoons of airborne troops.