From: citizenx@islandnet.com
Subject: errata for Web-Groganrds

First Battle Clarifications
3 November 1988

First Battle: Team Yankee

Gamer reaction to Team Yankee has been tremendous. The Origins Awards
presented at the National Wargaming Convention held in August 1988
recognized Team Yankee as the best wargame covering the modem period.
At the sane time. Team Yankee won the rival Garners Choice Award in the
same category.

GAME COMPONENTS

The following clarifications should help in your understanding of Team
Yankee the game.

Counters: MI US troop counters except Bannon have a defense value of 3.
Three US troops are missing their defense value of 3.

Rules: The rule covering helicopters (p. 10) states that helicopters are
attacked at a maximum of I-I odds. Helicopters are always attacked by
enemy units at 1-1 odds regardless of the attack strength of the enemy
units.

Soviet Equipment: The BMP-2 Infantry Fighting Vehicle counter
illustration on page 22 has the counter illustration of a BMP-1. The
BMP-2 has a missile attack value of 24, a missile range of 20, a gun
attack value of 2 and a gun range of 4.

SPECIAL RULES

The following clarifications provide a better understanding of the
special rules.

Copperhead: CLGP (Cannon-Launched Guided Projectile), better known as
Copperhead, has not been funded for production; there is only a slim
chance that it will ever be produced and enter service. Copperhead is
included as a "what-if." when designing your own scenarios, each
Copperhead salvo should cost 3 asset points.

Reactive Armor: The Soviets have begun deploying reactive armor on their
T-64, T-72, and T-80 tanks. Reactive armor consists of blocks of
explosives attached to the outside of the tank which detonate when hit
by a hollow charge warhead (such as on a missile or infantry-carried
antitank rocket). Reactive armor has little effect on the long rod
kinetic energy penetrators of a tank's main armament; it disrupts the
gas jet of a hollow charge, thus reducing its penetration considerably.

In the game, treat Soviet tanks with reactive armor as follows: All
troops and all missiles have their attack values halved when firing at
the front facing of a tank equipped with reactive armor.

THE SCENARIOS

Scenario I is a training scenario made up by the designers of the game.
The other scenarios play out incidents from Team Yankee. The correct
chronological order of the scenarios and their page numbers from the
novel are listed below.

Scenario 4: First Blood. Chapter 2. (Hardcover: 48-55. Paperback: 5658.) 

Scenario 2: Objective Log. Chapters 5-6. (Hardcover: 119-140. Paperback:
125-146.) Scenario 6: Defense of Hill 214.  Chapter 7. (Hardcover:
151-172. Paperback: 159-182.)

Scenario 7: Surprise.  Chapter 11. (Hard-cover: 231-241. Paperback:
243-253.)

Scenario 5: Warthogs Bar the Door. Chapter 11. (Hardcover: 248-251.
Paper-back: 261-265.)

Scenario 3: Langen Gap. Chapter 12. (Hardcover: 257-271. Paperback:
270285.)

Scenario 8: Race to the Bridge. Chapter 13. (Hardcover: 279-292.
Paperback: 292-306.)

Hardcover pages are taken from the Presidio Press edition; paperback
pages are taken from the Berkley edition.