Team Yankee (board game)

Team Yankee is a two-player tank combat game based in West Germany during a hypothetical World War III.

The basic rules are not complex, and as Ellis Simpson noted, Team Yankee was marketed to new gamers using a "First Battle" label on the box.

In 1987, Presidio Press published Harold Coyne's first novel, Team Yankee, which was based upon a tank battle scene in General Sir John Hackett's political thriller The Third World War: The Untold Story.

As a promotional tie-in, GDW published a licensed wargame of the same name, designed by Frank Chadwick and Marc W. Miller, featuring the same cover art as the novel.

Reviewers found the game rules simple and suitable for beginning players, but agreed that the scenarios were seriously unbalanced, always leading to a one-sided battle.