Favourite Unit in............ TANKS Modern Age

Time for another favourite Unit post.
I've always wanted to play Team Yankee. Been a big fan of the book for a while however the cost of Team Yankee was to high for me at the time. I thought about trying it in 6mm but then I saw the makers of Tanks were producing a modern version of their WW2. I hadn't got into the WW2 game as I have tanks from Bolt Action and didn't want to double up (even though they were different scales).
I preordered the starter set which contains 1 Abrahams US tand and 2 T-64s. Seeing all the different forces being made avaliable I immediately chose the British because I got to use the Chieftain tank.

Britain's main battle tank during the time Modern Age is set (80s) and in fact has its own WW3 novel called Chieftai. Though this book is a bit darker and grittier than Team Yankee. Its a tough solid tank. More expensive in points cost  compared to other tanks but its a strong opponent.
My current platoon has 2 Chieftains at its heart supported by a Scorpion Tank and a Lynx helicopter

I don't play nearly as many games of Tanks as I would like but my oldest son likes it (Thankfully he takes the Russians so he can have more tanks so I get to play my Chieftains)  so hopefully the older he gets the more I get to play.

Favourite Unit in............... Bolt Action

I love Bolt Action after getting back into war gaming with Across the Dead Earth, Bolt Action was a game I always wanted to play as I always have had a love of ww2 history. When I got hold of a box of British infantry I was hooked. £25 and you can make 2 squads a HQ and some support teams is value I love when you are in a budget like me.  The rules set is great and simple to play (I started just as V2 came out).
As in war gaming tends to happen what starts of as a "little" force rapidly turns in to something much bigger. So I now have a decent sized British late war army (To be fair it helped the army could  be used in Konflikt 47 as well) with regular troops, airborne troops, tanks etc.
So onto the blog post my favourite unit in this game is (feel free to make a drum roll noise in your head)

The Universal Carrier

Also known as the Bren Gun Carrier it has many incarnations and with over 113, 000 built. Now the reason this is my favourite Unit in Bolt Action is mainly the rule of cool (My main reason for picking units) . I love the model (Also helps it remains one of the easiest model kits to build. I'm looking at you automated infantry!) and the fact it can zip around the board taking shots with its LMG plus my usual tactic is once thr artillery  observer has dropped his artillery strike he jumps in and can then use the pintle mounted LMG  as well! Or fill it with 5 sub machine gun armed. paras for some quick close up strikes. It has one more armour value than a normal truck so cannot be penetrated by small arms fire though it is still open topped so can be pinned.  Plus having tracks makes it more manoeuvrable and be able to reverse out of a situation quickly.
I have 2 in my army

At the moment I'm probably not going to get any more due to my rapidly shrinking hobby space but you never know!

Favourite Unit in............ Konflikt 47

I thought I would do a sort of series focusing on my favourite units in different game systems.
First up I chose the game system Konflikt 47. As regular readers will know me and Alex Does Hobby Stuff have an ongoing Konflikt 47 narrative campaign so we have played a fair few games with. In fact I believe I'm correct in saying Konflikt 47 drew my good friend back into getting a big battle game.
The unit I have chosen is the British Galahad. The ever stalwart British Tommy now encased in rift tech powers armour.  I love the  design and sculpting of the models and the lore around them.
They are the strongest of the various armies power armoured units meaning they should shrug off most small arms fire as they carry the Tough and Resilient special rules. They are fewer in number as they are quite an expensive unit (A full squad will cost you 290 pts. You can get a Sherman or Cromwell tank for less than that). To me the cost is worth it and I will always take the full 8 man squad where possible as each soldier is equipped with an LMG packing 4 shots. That's a unit throwing out 32 shots!!

This can really devastate a unit or in the case of our narrative campaign a giant failed German bio experiment! 

The Galahads killed it in the first turn of the game. Since then they have been in every British force I make.
They have not been properly tested in close combat in any of our battles I don't believe but against regular equipped troops they have many advantages. Against Nazi horrors they are a bit weaker as their resilient is negated by Tooth and Claw. However if they can pass the horror test and unleash point blank range shooting on the attackers as they come in that could be a game changer with their LMGs.

So Ladies and Gentleman I give you the Galahad!