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Team Yankee Armageddon Sunday Blog
Battlefront's Team Yankee Blog Sunday December 13
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9:03AM Sunday 13 |
Armageddon weekend Saturday Blog |
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9:18AM Sunday 13 |
Armageddon Sunday intro |
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Chris talks you through what the Battlefront studio will have in store for you on Day Two of their Armageddon weekend. |
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9:28AM Sunday 13 |
Win Team Yankee product from Battlefront |
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Remember, you can be in to win some unreleased product – check out the four easy ways to win Team Yankee product over Armageddon Weekend. Click on the image to find out more... |
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10:10AM Sunday 13 |
Demo games at Showcase Comics |
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John, Lonnie and Matt were at one of their local FLGS – Showcase Comics in Swarthmore, PA, to show off Team Yankee. They had around 18 active players throughout the evening, playing games on a nice big 8' x 4' table. Their first impressions were that Team Yankee features lots of death and destruction, that helicopters kill lots, and that the Soviets (this time) won more than the USA - but to be fair, they did have more stuff on the table. |
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10:26AM Sunday 13 |
Did someone say AH-1 Cobra? |
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Aaron takes a look at this iconic helicopter and how to build it. In this first part he covers building the fusilage and attaching the included magnets for the flight stand and rotor blades. A second part, where Aaron shows how to build the rotors and weapons, will follow soon. |
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11:19AM Sunday 13 |
New Dogs for Old Tricks |
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11:40AM Sunday 13 |
More Team Yankee Demo Games in the UK Office |
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11:50AM Sunday 13 |
How To Play Team Yankee Part One |
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Phil Yates introduces the rules for Team Yankee, starting with the Unit Cards, followed by the basic rules for Movement, and also the tactical options presented by special Movement Orders. |
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1:21PM Sunday 13 |
How To Play Team Yankee Part Two |
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Phil Continues discussing the Team Yankee rules, this time with shooting and morale. |
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2:30PM Sunday 13 |
So much hobby work in progress! |
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2:55PM Sunday 13 |
Progress update |
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Earlier today, before the guys had lunch and moved on to playing some games, James checked in with everyone to see how much progress they had made on their Team Yankee armies. |
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4:58PM Sunday 13 |
Phil interviews Harold Coyle |
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Phil spoke to Harold Coyle, author of the Team Yankee novel, via Skype. You can see a fairly brief excerpt from the interview here, and we will bring you the full conversation next week – either as videos or a podcast, or perhaps both.
Unfortunately the video quality isn't perfect, but it's a very interesting conversation, and we're absolutely thrilled to be able to share it with you (not least because the first time we tried to record it, the resulting video file had no sound! Nightmare!)
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5:07PM Sunday 13 |
American Infantry Gear |
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Aaron brought in some of his collection of 1980s-era US Army gear to show us. Check it out... |
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9:20PM Sunday 13 |
Sunday gaming |
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Here are a few photos the guys took during their games on Sunday afternoon. You may have already seen these on the Facebook group, but it can't hurt to share them again here - not everyone is on Facebook. |
Andrew vs Phil |
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Wayne vs Chris |
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9:58PM Sunday 13 |
The end of the beginning |
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Armageddon is over... more or less. It's Sunday night here in New Zealand, and the studio guys have all called it quits for the weekend. We recorded quite a lot of content that we didn't have time to share with you yet. So over the next week (and indeed probably right up to Christmas) we will have what we are going to call Armageddon Extras - more videos, photos and content, including a few more assembly videos, a battle report, and the rest of Phil's interview with Harold Coyle. And don't forget to enter our competitions – we won't be ending them until some time Monday NZ time, to make sure you have a good chance to enter, wherever you are in the world. We want to give you free toys!
Thanks for sharing Armageddon with us.
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Last Updated On Sunday, March 18, 2018 by Luke at Battlefront
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