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Team Yankee Armageddon Saturday Blog
Battlefront's Team Yankee Blog Saturday December 12
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8:55AM Saturday 12 |
Armageddon weekend at the Battlefront Studio |
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Chris gives an intro to what you can expect from todays coverage. |
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9:06AM Saturday 12 |
Win Team Yankee product from Battlefront |
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Want to win some unreleased product, then 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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10:18AM Saturday 12 |
Anders gets building |
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Anders (from our UK office) has the last few models to put together before running people through some games on their regular games night. |
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10:30AM Saturday 12 |
Wayne's Soviet Army for Armageddon Weekend |
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10:58AM Saturday 12 |
Andrew's A-10 and ITV Company for Armageddon Weekend. |
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11:21AM Saturday 12 |
Building the M113 |
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Chris takes a look at the venerable M113 and takes you through the process of building one. |
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11:27AM Saturday 12 |
Team Yankee demo games in the UK office |
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Have tables? Have tanks? Play games! The guys in the UK office have been running demo games of Team Yankee over the last few days, and sent us some photos. Click on the image for more... |
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11:46AM Saturday 12 |
Lonnie's demo army ready for battle |
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Lonnie (from the US office) has a pair of demo armies ready to show off. Stay tuned for more on his trip to Showcase Comics. |
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12:08AM Saturday 12 |
Aaron builds an Abrams Company for Armageddon Weekend |
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12:33PM Saturday 12 |
Building the M1 Abrams |
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James shows us how easy it is to assemble the M1 Abrams (must be easy, as he hadn't built one before today). |
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12:37PM Saturday 12 |
Pre-lunch progress check |
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Before the guys headed off for lunch, Chris snapped a quick couple of photos to check their progress |
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1:30PM Saturday 12 |
Pizza! |
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After some pizza for lunch... back to work, everyone! |
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1:45PM Saturday 12 |
Casey deploys a BMP Battalion for Armageddon Weekend |
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Casey has aspirations to be the Soviet player in the building, but since he is building a BMP Battalion that means he gets some credit.
Check out Casey's army here...
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1:59PM Saturday 12 |
Building a BMP-2 |
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BMPs come in 2 flavours: BMP-1 and BMP-2. But they only come in one quantity: lots! Wayne shows how quickly you can build a BMP-2. |
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2:15PM Saturday 12 |
Casey's Gopher and Shilka |
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Casey already painted a Gopher and a Shilka before the weekend to test out the camo scheme for his Soviets. Chris snapped this photo on the improvised white table in the lunch room, so the lighting isn't perfect, but you get the idea... |
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3:08PM Saturday 12 |
Chris's Team Yankee Army for Armageddon Weekend |
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4:06PM Saturday 12 |
Malaysian invasion |
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Jeff (our factory manager) and Khairul (the factory's operations manager) are both keen hobbyists, and have been making the most of the early access to models they get from being placed right at the source, in our main production facility in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. If the models they have completed so far are any indication, their armies are going to look very nice indeed! |
Jeff's M1 Abrams in NATO 3-colour camouflage |
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Khairul's Frogfoot |
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Khairul's T-72 |
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4:13PM Saturday 12 |
Assembling the T-72 |
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Time for some Soviets to hit the table, as Phil builds a T-72. |
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4:25PM Saturday 12 |
More still to come as well as news from our Soviet leaders |
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It has been a busy day here in the Studio with most of the guys getting dangerously close to having their first 50 points assembled and looking to play some games – tomorrow we hope to have some images and maybe some short videos of them in action. We have seen plenty of reports on Facebook from customers around the world picking up their copies of the rulebook, as well as Bannon’s Boys and Potecknov's Bears. Brian (from our US office) has just sent us a pile of images of new players trying out the at Games and Stuff in Glen Burnie, MD. We will have these images up on the site soon.
Phil has been interviewing HW Coyle, the author of the Team Yankee novel that provided us with so much inspiration. We expect to have parts of this up tomorrow, as well as an extended cut later in the week. Lastly, Sean has been busy editing some of Phil’s Team Yankee How To Play videos and we will have these up tomorrow.
Meanwhile Pete came across this video from the classic James Bond movie Octopussy. It may not have been real but I am sure the conversation would have happened at one time or another…
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4:38PM Saturday 12 |
Games (and stuff) at Games and Stuff |
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4:49PM Saturday 12 |
The Mi-24 Hind in action! |
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The Mi-24 Hind helicopter (and the Mi-35 export version) is a fearsome beast. We came across this video showing off its capabilities and thought we had to share it. |
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7:26PM Saturday 12 |
Phil's Soviet Army for Armageddon Weekend |
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7:35PM Saturday 12 |
M1 Abrams at the gunnery range |
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It wouldn't be fair for us to share a YouTube clip on the Hind this afternoon, without also showing off an M1 Abrams in action. |
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