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==Adaptations== ===Board games=== * [[Game Designers Workshop|GDW Games]] published ''[[Team Yankee (board game)|Team Yankee]]'' under license, authored by [[Frank Chadwick]] and [[Marc Miller (game designer)|Marc W. Miller]], as a part of their "First Battle" series of wargames that shared the same basic rules.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Team Yankee|url=https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/8101/team-yankee|website=BoardGameGeek|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-24}}</ref> In the March 1989 edition of ''[[Games International]]'' (issue #3), Ellis Simpson reviewed the game and was not impressed, giving it a poor rating of only 1 out of 5 and called it "a turkey".<ref name=gi>{{cite magazine|last=Simpson|first=Ellis| date=March 1989 |title=Wargames|journal=[[Games International]]| issue=3|pages=38}}</ref> * While not directly based on the novel, the game ''World at War: Eisenbach Gap'' by Mark H. Walker<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.locknloadgame.com/Section_Cat_Content_Detail.asp?SID=33&SCAT=59&ID=55 |title=locknloadgame.com |access-date=2008-08-20 |archive-date=2008-12-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081205060707/http://www.locknloadgame.com/Section_Cat_Content_Detail.asp?SID=33&SCAT=59&ID=55 |url-status=dead}}</ref> is based on events and units as laid out in the ''Team Yankee'' book and [[John Hackett (British Army officer)|John Hackett]]'s book ''The Third World War''. ===Comic book=== [[First Comics]] published a six-issue comic book series based on ''Team Yankee'', which was reissued as a graphic novel in 1989. [[David Drake]] wrote the strip.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Team Yankee|url=http://david-drake.com/tyankee.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060112215052/http://david-drake.com/tyankee.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2006-01-12|date=2006-01-12|access-date=2020-05-24}}</ref> ===Video game=== {{main|Team Yankee (video game)}} In 1990, British [[video game developer]] Oxford Digital Enterprises developed ''[[Team Yankee (video game)|Team Yankee]]'', a [[computer wargame]] published by [[Empire Software]] for [[Amiga]], [[Atari ST]], [[MS-DOS]], and [[Commodore CDTV]], following a premise and plotline based on the novel. The game received two sequels, ''[[Pacific Islands (video game)|Pacific Islands]]'' in 1992 and ''[[War in the Gulf]]'' in 1993, both unrelated to ''Team Yankee''. ===Tabletop game=== In November 2015, the tabletop wargaming system ''[[Flames of War]]'' released the miniature based table-top game ''Team Yankee'', inspired by both ''The Third World War'' and ''Team Yankee'' novels. It allows the player to build a Team Yankee, NATO, or Warsaw Pact force to play with. It also has missions based on those from the novel.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Events|url=https://www.team-yankee.com/Default.aspx?tabid=878&art_id=5037|website=www.team-yankee.com|access-date=2020-05-24}}</ref>
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