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'For Sale' for details of how to obtain our existing range of gaming products, books and rules.
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'Space Vixens From Mars' page.
A big phat 'hi' to all the people we've already met and annoyed showing our stuff
to. If you've played and enjoyed the games
please tell everyone you know about it - and tell us how you'd like to
see the range, rules and novels expanded!
If
you saw us and didn't get a promo sheet and you'd like one - just contact
Gary at
mitchellsmith@tesco.net .
All pictures on these pages are available
for promotional use - but please credit us!
WE ALSO CURRENTLY AWAITING CONFIRMATION ON
'Colours' (Newbury 12th September 2009 - contact
www.colours.org.uk );
'Warfare',
Reading on 21st November 2009 (contact
http://www.readingwargames.co.uk/warfare.asp);
'Reveille', Bristol on 29th November 2009 (contact
http://www.bristolwargaming.co.uk/reveille.html).
'Birmingham Wargamers Show' Birmingham (see
http://wargamershow.tripod.com/) on
13th December 2009;
and at
'Crusade', Penarth on 30th January 2010
(see
http://www.penarthwargames.org ).
We like to be invited to conventions. Contact
Gary at
mitchellsmith@tesco.net .
Please note due to trading restrictions we may not be able to sell our products at all shows,
but are always happy to
take orders.
Taken to 'South West Model Exhibition' - sponsored by 'Miniature Wargames' -
on 18th April 2009 (contact
www.swmee.co.uk ).
A ground combat game without the Space Vixens. On the alien 'forgeworld' of Steelgate desperate
Caprican warriors and ZX Series 'war bots' strive for mastery of a planet of devastaing military potential in a fight
to the death/deactivation for a space elevator. A game where the bots must trade units for time... and the Capricans
know death awaits as the order goes out - 'not one hoof back!'
The picture is Gary and Steve with the 'Best Participation Game' trophy won at 'Fisticuffs' - our first!
Taken to
'Valhalla 09' Farnborough on 21st June 2009 - contact
www.fwgs.org.uk );
'Campaign' Milton Keynes on 9th May 2009 - contact
www.mkws.org.uk ,
'Fisticuffs' (Weymouth, 25th April
2009 - contact
martin@peterpig.demon.co.uk ) and
'Salute 2009' London Excel Centre (see
http://www.salute.co.uk) on
28th March 2009.
A space combat game without the Space Vixens. On its shakedown cruise new dreadnought
USES Earth detects traitorous research vessel HMS 'Sir Richard Dawkins' ...
But who's baiting whose trap? A game of guile, bluff, and randomly malfuctioning operating systems!
Taken to
'Overlord', Abingdon
(see
http://www.abingdonwargames.org.uk )
1st March 2009,
'Call To Arms' (Newbury and Reading, 7th February 2009 -
contact PHowardUK@aol.com ) and 'Crusade', Penarth, 31st January 2009
(see
http://www.penarthwargames.org ).
be the suspect.
Kind of 'The Archers' meets 'Blade Runner' - and each game has thus far produced a
different result.
Dawn's pictures here shows street action as the Vixens and Knight of Gaia,
Sir Tristan du Lac, grapple with a burly and over-armed Sgt. Blunkett - while USE
Protectoral Guards deal with the local district nurse. Will 'Austen Syndrome' prevent Sir Tristan and
Sita completing their mission..? Only YOU can decide.
(Well, you and the other players, obviously...)
Taken to 'Magister Militum Open Day' (Redlynch, Salisbury 11th October 2008 - contact
http://www.magistermilitum.com);
'Colours' (Newbury 13th September 2008 - contact
www.colours.org.uk );
'Warfare',
Reading on 22nd November 2008 (contact
http://www.readingwargames.co.uk/warfare.asp);
'Reveille', Bristol on 30th November 2008 (contact
http://www.bristolwargaming.co.uk/reveille.html).
Taken to 'To The Redoubt' (Eastbourne, 26th July 2008 - contact
leigh.spence@brighton-hove.gov.uk );
'Attack' (Devizes, 12th July 2008 - contact
www.dwg.org.uk );
Valhalla' (Farnborough, 15th June 2008 - contact
www.fwgs.org.uk ).
Taken to 'Campaign' (Milton Keynes, 10th May 2008 - contact
www.mkws.org.uk ); 'Fisticuffs' (Weymouth, 26th April
2008 - contact
martin@peterpig.demon.co.uk );
'Salute' (London, 1th April 2008 - contact
http://www.salute.co.uk.
Taken to 'Legionary' (Exeter, 1st March 2008 - contact
http://www.legionary-exeter.com); 'Call To Arms' (Newbury and Reading, 9th February 2008 -
contact PHowardUK@aol.com ); 'PAW'
(Plymouth, 2nd February 2008 - contact
http://www.plymouthwargamers.co.uk);
'Crusade' (Penarth, Wales, 2th January 2008 - contact
http://www.penarthwargames.org).
Taken to 'Reveille II' (Bristol, 25th November 2007 - contact
http://www.bristolwargaming.co.uk/reveille.html); 'Warfare '07' (Reading, 17th November 2007 -
contact
http://www.readingwargames.co.uk/warfare.asp); 'Colours' (Newbury and Reading, 15th
September 2007 - contact www.colours.org.uk ).
We ran the game again at an appropriately wet 'Attack' - in one game the 'Amazon' getting blown
out of the sky by exceptionally lucky pirates. This proves anyone can role a 1/36 chance of missing!!
After a wet 'Attack' we played again the heat of the
wonderful Tank Museum - thanks to the organisers for fitting us in at short notice and to
'Black Cat Bases' for packaging and selling our
SV10 'Space Vixens Starter Pack' for the first time.
Taken to 'A Whiff Of Grapeshot' @ Firepower' (The Royal Artillery Museum, Woolwich, London,
12th August 2007 - contact
info@firepower.org.uk ); 'Battlegroup South'
(Bovington, 30th July 2007 - contact
RicHarrisPH@aol.com ); 'Attack' (Devizes, 30th June 2007 - contact
www.dwg.org.uk ); 'Salute' (London, 22nd April 2007 -
contact www.salute.co.uk ).
At Bovington, to the background of the greatest collection of tanks
and AFV in the world, and on the 90th anniversary, the game had its penultimate
outing - as once again England lost on penalties! The World Cup that was, not the Somme...
'It's a doll's house with guns!' said Martin Burt of our 'Titania' model.
'Bifrost is a sci-fi only show,
in the heart of England for the
The Society of Fantasy And Science Fiction Wargamers , and a write up of the game has appeared in their
journal 'Ragnorak 50' .
'Colours' is a huge general wargames convention, held in the centre of
Southern England. Our 'scientist rescue' scenario
included a brand new alien species, The Capricans (previewed from
'Book Four' ),
and a split in the USE/Leylandii alliance -
plus the infamous promo tee-shirts -
modelled here by Steve and son Phil! Be the first on your block to own one - see
'For Sale' for details.
Painting all the figures, vehicles and buildings for 'Space Vixens'
initially took quite a time.
This was the game's first ever outing, and in a small participation game, run several
times throughout the day, the Sapce Vixens and some
Martian crew, fought gangs of vicious Leylandii for control of a radio tower,
while brave Leylandii
fought gangs of vicious Martians for the very same thing! With different results
each time great fun was had by all!
EPISODE 25.5 - 'LABYRINTH OF DEATH'
In 'Labyrinth Of Death' the Vixens must negotiate an underground base to rescue trapped Martian 'Triple O' agent
John Rain - before
he breaks under torture and tells the enemy everything they want to know!*
* Obviously not stuff like where they left their speeder keys, or why nice girls don't like them... Mainly military secrets, that sort of stuff...
EPISODE 24.95 - 'ENEMY AT THE GOATS'
EPISODE 27.6 - 'GUNNERY PRACTICE'
EPISODE 24.1 - 'TRIBUNAL'
Our current participation game is 'Episode 24.1 - Tribunal' in which the Vixens have to track
down war criminal Caravan Radish
before the USE bad guys take him away to conduct more fearful alien experiments. He's hiding anonymously
somewhere in the quaint English village of Gresley St. Kylie - a place where anyone could
Gary interviewed on 'Thames Valley Tonight' TV show to promote '
Gen Con games convention at
Reading University (we didn't attend to run games - just to promote the hobby etc)
EPISODE 24.4 - 'ATTACK OF THE FEMALE PARASITES FROM SOL IV'
This game is played from the Leylandii perspective. Marooned members of
The Growth have to survive for ten turns against an overwhleming Coalition assault.
Sometimes they manage it - sometimes they don't - sometimes the animals have to use their
attack copters to win! At Eastbourne we got to play in a real Napoleonic fort!
EPISODE 24.9 - 'RAISE THE 'TITANIA'!, PART 2'
'Episode 24.8
'Raise The 'Titania'!', Part 2' is a space/ground interface combat game where competing players raced
to save both
some hostages
and Al Gore City, Antarctica, Earth. It's also a sequal to our earlier 'My Heart Will Go On'.Loads of great players, positive feed-back and
(at 'Salute')
a plethora of reinactors to watch - these Roman legionaries 'in transit' were great!
'Campaign' was a really relaxed show, held in the wonderful retail
cathedral of
'thecentre:MK'. We hoped to benfit from 'passing trade' - sadly a lot of the trade passed by - being
elegant
ladies moving from one outfitters to another!
EPISODE 24.7 - 'THE DATA ENCRYPTION AFFAIR'
This year we didn't get lost at all on our way to 'Crusade' - there or back!!! It was the first time out
for 'The Data
Encyption Affair' - a double-bluff ambush game
played on the ground and in space using the interface rules. In one game the Vixens managed to
snatch the evil Maria Cortes
and Colonel Purbrick for trial, the other time they failed miserably. Lots of ships badly shot-up too. Exeter was
Livia's first show with the Roadshow crew - and we only got moderately lost on the way back!
In one game in
Plymouth was a draw as both sides teams died horrible in orbital mines. Main photo -
the table and Steve 'resting his eyes' before packing up.
EPISODE 24.2 - 'CROWNS FOR CONVOY'
At 'Colours' we premiered our new range of ships and space combat starter rules in a game where player shad to escort a vital
convoy across the table area. Sadly our paperback
'Anthology One' wasn't available as it was stuck in the post! A great
running game with a Coalition convoy first surviving transit, then being beaten up by bad guys. At '
Warfare' our paperback made its show debut and sold well. An unexpected hit was customers wanting signed
dedications written!
EPISODE 24.2 - 'SPACE VIXENS OF THE CARRIBEAN'
We premiered our brand new semi-aquatic game
'Space Vixens Of The Carribean' at the prestigious South London Warlords Show, 'Salute'.
In this scenario the Vixens and a Caprican team race each other to rescue
Governer Sir William Knightly and his wife and daughter from evil pirate Captain Williams (played by the
umpire).
We had a variety of results, both sides winning at times - and in one case exceeding their rules of engagement
to shoot it out while the pirates escaped - the Captain once even turning poor Miss Knightly to a life of piracy!
A celebrity gamer was Marcus Rowland, famed author of 'Forgotten Futures' and
'Diana - Warrior Princess' (the Warlords have posted pictures at
www.salute.co.uk ).
EPISODE 9.7 - 'SHARPE'S DRIFT'
Premiered at 'Colours', the Vixens faced a desperate journey to save Martian marines surrounded in
'Sharpes' Drift'. In one game they arrived in the nick of time, in others they were too late to save them.
With 'recycled' Leylandii it's very 'green' game that can go both ways. Will Major Sharpe
end up obliged (in the Austen sense) to Space Vixen Shona M'Benga for saving his life?
Indeed, so popular did this game prove we often repeated it. Nice to see so many young people come back to play again. As Kylie and
Robbie said, 'we don't mind doing it for the kids' - that's why we're here - to inspire the next generation of
gamers. That said, the game was 'jinxed' by perpetually getting lost in transit and mechanical breakdowns. Especially at
Penarth. If you do get a welcome in the hillsides the bi-lingual roadsigns don't help!
Taken to 'Overlord' (Abingdon, 18th February 2007 - contact
http://www.abingdonwargames.org.uk); 'Call To
Arms' (Newbury and Reading, 10th February 2007); 'Legionary MMVII' (Exeter, 3rd
February 2007); Crusade 2007' (Penarth, Wales, 27th January 2007); 'Warfare' (Reading,
18th November 2006); 'Colours' (Newbury and Reading, 9th September 2006).
EPISODE 9.5 - 'THE TEMPLE OF DOOM'
A special one-off never to be repeated
Space Vixens game for which a huge (9") trophy was won by
Robert Steel for the highest 'bodycount' of Leylandii and USE 'Baddies' over the weekend,
as players took squads of Coalition troops to root out USE and Leylandii defenders of
the Temple of
Crouch on newly liberated planet Kalid. For a special fee - to our charity for 'The Royal Star And
Garter Homes'
for ex-servicemen - players could even
'hire' the Space Vixens themselves to improve their score! Robert's winning score was 51, others were Phil
Paget (49), Sharne Bartlett (30), Rowen Powell (21), Cerys Powell (10), Laurence Taylor and Chris Knight
(both 8) and Tom Evans (3).
Only at 'STaB' (Bournemouth, 22nd and 23rd July 2006 - our club convention - contact
www.sttab.co.uk ).
EPISODE 22.5 - 'MY HEART WILL GO ON'
How many can lives can you save as starliner 'Titania' is hit by a Jovian ice block and slips into
the atmosphere of the gas giant? 'Salute' saw the first outing of 'My Heart Will Go On' , our
figures and starter
rules eagerly on sale. In three games participants got a wide range or results as the
new Amazon model - scratchbuilt by Frank - made it's first combat appearance (subsequently we'd sequal the game in
Raise The 'Titania'!, Part Two').
Taken to 'Attack' (Devizes, 8th July 2006); 'Battlegroup South' (1st July 2006);
'Fisticuffs'(Weymouth, 6th May 2006); Salute' (London, Excel 22nd April 2006).
EPISODE 14A - 'GOD MOVES'
The Space Vixens are sent back in time to the siege of Troy, on a mission from God to save Trojan hero
Aeneus for posterity. In many games they were successful, though by game three the
Greeks were getting the hang of hanging the Trojan by sneaking around the back (not
in a wooden horse either). 'Call To Arms 2006' was the first convention at which our figures and starter
rules were on sale.
Taken to 'Call to Arms' (Newbury and Reading, 11th February 2006); 'Colours '05'
(Newbury and Reading, 3rd September 2005).
EPISODE 15.5 - 'THE POPE MUST DIE'
'Salute' is the big show, always well organised by the South London Warlords
in the heart of the capital. 'The Pope Must Die' had some unfortunate
topicality, but no one took offence as the Vixens struggled to save His Holiness from
the forces of Darkness. 
At other shows this game saw some unusual gambits to
emliminate His Holiness - the USE not always thwarted by the Vixens. Marie-Clare is getting far too willing to throw
herself on the Pontiff as a human shield as the enemy gatecrash his escape ship by a turncoat
Swiss guard as it reaches for orbital safety.
Taken to 'Attack' (Devizes, 9th July 2005); 'Bifrost' (Birmingham, 2nd July 2005);
'Salute' (Olympia, London, 23rd April 2005); 'Call to Arms' (Newbury and Reading,
12th February 2005).
EPISODE 14.7 - 'THE PRISONER OF ASTRABAHN'
Taken to 'Colours' (Newbury and Reading, 11th September 2004).
EPISODE 14.4 - 'THE BATTLE FOR PLANET ALAMO PRIME'
This game was our first huge one,
with over a hundred figures and several vehicles on both sides. Gary refereed, as
an 'active' umpire, controlling some retro-Taurasians and some nasty pirates
out to settle a blood-feud with poor Sapce Vixen Yoko (who escaped)!
Phil Pagett and Eddy Kenworthy played the Coalition, and Steve Purbrick
and
Frank Cutbush the Leylandii/USE alliance (the 'forces of order' as they like to call them!), with
other participants getting involved as and when.
If you look in
the distance of the gamers picture you can just
make out our friends at 'Ground Zero Games', who first cast our miniatures. At 'Attack'
we repeated the 'Bifrost' adventure - this time the nasty pirates captured poor
Yoko, and like Wendy in 'Peter Pan' made her do their ironing! This game also got us our first
press mention in 'Miniature Wargames' .
Taken to 'Attack' (Devizes, 10th July 2004); 'Bifrost' (Birmingham, 4th July 2004). .
EPISODE 14.2 - 'THE RADIO STATION AFFAIR'
Taken to 'Fisticuffs' (Weymouth, 1st May 2004).
Gary's club
is the Southbourne Tabletop and Boardgamers (STaB for short).
We meet the first and last Sunday of every month, and Vixens games are
often played.
We also stage the best mini-conventions on the UK's south coast, where players can specialise in
particular games. See
'History Page' page for club contacts and details.
At STaB we are playtesting an 'historical and fantasy
interface supplement' to
the rule system that will facilitate
skirmish games from mankind's warlike past - and into the realm of magical
fantasy!
THE ROLE-PLAYING GAME (ongoing).
Gary's duties at the Hampshire secondary school where he used to teach included
running the 'Historical And Adventure Game Club' (HAG). The 'Hags' are
continuing to play a Vixens 'campaign' where, as 'Special Unit #2', they monthly
complete missions for Admiral Harris.
At present they are
tracking
pirates and escaped war criminals on the edge of Carnoustie space as they
strive to increase their
character statistics towards 'Hero' status...
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