The Humvee Swarm?

Hi all and happy New Year by the way,

Anyway, I had a great Christmas Team Yankee wise. My wonderful family got me the Stripes book and two sets of Ryan's Leathernecks.

After going though these boxes I realised that I have quite a swarm of Humvees! 12 to be exact. According to Stripes I can field these little guys as a Cavalry Troop with one section of 4, two sections of 3, and a command section of two. That yields 4 TOW Humvees, 5 M2HB Humvees, and 3 MK19 Humvees for a rather paltry 8 points. Unfortunately I can only field one of these troops but there is plenty of room to grow it from these rather modest beginnings. At full strength this troop can field 12 (!) TOW Humvees, 8 M2HB Humvees, and 6 MK19 Humvees. That's still a pretty modest 26 "tank" teams for 19 points.

I can see this being pretty scary if it is linked up with an airborne infantry company that adds another recon section and a TOW platoon. That is 6 more TOW HUMVEES matched up with a M2HB Humvee and a MK19 Humvee.

Also you get to toss in three platoons of very solid infantry too!

So what do you think? Will the 82nd Airborne Humvee swarm see a lot of use?

Being a Liaison for Red Thunder

Hi all,

I was lucky enough this year to get a chance to be one of the liaison officers for the USA during the Firestorm Red Thunder Campaign this August. It was a blast and a great honor to be able to represent the USA team during the campaign.

Phil and the Battlefront crew were a lot of fun to work with, so if you get a chance to participate as a liaison I would say "go for it"! You learn a lot of the campaign process plus you get to meet some really excellent people.

Anyway, BF sent me this as a token of thanks for helping with the USA team. Pretty slick! I can't wait to paint this thing up and put it on the field in the coming Team Yankee Campaign.

Many thanks Battlefront!

Happy holidays and Merry Christmas everyone!

Tgunner