I received Battlefront’s Hammerfall starter set for Team
Yankee as an Xmas present. This contains 5 AFVs, rules, dice, some cardboard 2D
terrain and a quick start guide. Very good value if you ask me as it’s
advertised as £22.50 from Firestorm Games.
To increase the variety I decided to treat myself to the new
plastic Soviet infantry that Battlefront has recently introduced. In addition I
went for the support weapons set as well.
These figures (I believe) are based on the original sculpts
for the white metal figures that came with the launch of TY and are moulded in
a slightly flexible ABS material.
The figures all appear to be cleanly moulded (no flash) and
as the material is flexible, it has allowed quite complex shapes to be
recreated (unlike PSC figures that are sculpted to match the moulding process).
There was some evidence of bending to weapon tips, but this
is easily rectified by immersing the entire sprue in near boiling water. The
ABS internal memory kicks in and the parts return to their correct shape and
immediate immersion in cold water retains the shape.
The infantry platoon set was just £5.40 from Firestorm, and
whilst the blurb on the Battlefront site states that there are sufficient
figures for 4 medium bases (4 figs each) and 4 small bases (2 figs each with
RPGs) there were in fact four sprues containing 37 figures in my pack….what a
bargain!
These include figures with AK74 + Underslung Grenade
Launchers, Figures with RPK74 LMGs, an officer, Radio Operator and NCOs as well
as infantry with AK74 and RPG18s, RPG7s etc.
All nicely detailed and well moulded.
In addition there are unit cards for the game. Theses cover
all the possible APC combinations allowed, BMP1, BMP2 & BTR60. There are
only sufficient bases included for the stated amount so if you want to use the
extra figure you’ll have to raid your spares box.
The support weapons platoon includes 6 Spandrel teams (based
three to a large base) and 3 AGS 17 Auto-grenade launcher teams (again based
three to a large base). Once again there are unit cards and bases included for
just £5.40.
The Spandrel launchers and AGS17 need minimal assembly, as
discussed above.
These new style figures, moulded 9-10 per sprue, invite
painting whilst still attached as most are connected to the sprue via the
underside of their individual base. This will save time with mounting on lolly
sticks!
I will post some more pictures as I start to paint the
figures. First impressions are very good.
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