This is the page for Gary Mitchell’s wargaming activities. Visit also his ‘Space Vixens from Mars’ franchise. 

Gary belongs to The Southbourne Tabletop & Boardgamers and Wessex Wyverns Wargames clubs, and is a life member of The Tank Museum (all contactable via Facebook).

Gary’s past wargaming activities can (in part) be discerned via the PDF Wargames Background. 

All the below PDF are free to download. Please consider, though, making a charity donation.

OBSIDIAN ‘FAST PLAY’

This is Gary’s ‘take’ on a universal, fast-play, land warfare wargames rule set. 

Rules here Obsidian Ludum Ad Bellum.

Gary is fortunate to have his club’s campaigns scribed into narrative by celebrated Regency novelist, Miss Catherine Meadows (contactable via Facebook). These currently are :-

Napoleonic:- The Emperor’s Dragoon Next Game – ‘Raid Across The Tagus’. Can the Wessex Wyverns and HMS ‘Cassandra’ destroy the French observation tower?

 

BUOYZ ‘N DA ‘HOOD’

This is the Wessex Wyverns ‘take’ on historical naval warfare.

Rules here: Buoyz ‘N Da ‘Hood’ (1st edition) ; Buoyz ‘N da ‘Hood’ – 1st Edition Errata 09.07.24 ; Buoyz ‘N Da ‘Hood’ Campaign Supplement.   

We are again fortunate to have our campaigns scribed into narrative by Miss Meadows. These currently are :-

Napoleonic:- Buoyz ‘N Da ‘Hood’ – Hood and Hoodwinking  Campaign concluded.

WW1: – Gallipoli No game scheduled.

Modern: – Buoyz ‘N Da ‘Hood’ – Fire & Flood HMS ‘Hood’ vs Baratine submarine and HMS ‘Lannister’ vs unknown attack boats. Games being taken to the Naval wargames Weekend, RNAS Yeovilton, 28th September 2024

The game engine has also expanded into outer space.

Rules here :- Buoyz ‘N Da ‘Hood’ – In Space’ (1st edition) ; Buoyz ‘N da ‘Hood’ In Space – 1st Edition Errata 23.02.24.  

Again, we are fortunate to have our campaigns scribed by Miss Meadows. These are :-

Alternate c.20th :- Buoyz’N Da Hood – Space 1989!’ HMS ‘Hood’s’ diplomatic mission to the Areans of Mars.

Star Trek:- Pride & Persuasion – the continuing voyages of the USS ‘Hood’, it’s ongoing mission (etc etc, you know the rest…) No mission scheduled.

A BEACH TOO FAR

This is the Wessex Wyverns ‘take’ and extrapolation of Battlefront’s ‘Flames Of War’ and ‘Team Yankee’ franchises. Our rule take here:- A Beach Too Far . We are also very excited to be working on a ‘Version 2.0’, which will be less complex and faster to play. Here is the ‘beta’ test – all input gratefully received A Beach Too Far (Consolidated DRAFT Version 2.2. The sheets from our recent ‘Sealion’ game are here :- ABTF QRF  ABTF Sealion Force Sheets British  ABTF Sealion Force Sheets German  ABTF Sealion scenario

We are again fortunate to have our campaigns scribed by the celebrated Miss Meadows. These are :-

For WW1:-Un Mémoire De La Grande Guerre ‘Battle On The Eastern Front’  – game for the Peter Pig Wargames Weekend 29/11 – 1/12 2024 and Gallipoli No game scheduled.

For WW2:- Achtung! Panzerwaffe!  (this includes an account of the ‘Operation Sealion’ game played at ‘Colours’ Wargames Show on 14th September 2024).

FOR WW3 and it’s offshoots:- NORTHAG & CENTAG .- A scratch Anglo-German battlegroup – including Wessex Wyvern reservists – must halt a Soviet breakthrough to the Rhine… ALSO Operation ‘Nordic Hamster’ – can an Anglo-Swedish force halt the Soviet advance on Tromso…

 

OTHER WARGAMES ‘FREEBIES’

House rules for the boardgame ‘Campaign’:- House Rules Campaign .

House rules for the boardgame ‘Combat’:-  House Rules Combat

House rules for the boardgame ‘Europe Aflame’:-  House Rules Europe Aflame

House rules for the boardgame ‘Game Of Thrones Diplomacy’:-  House Rules GOT Diplomacy

House rules for the boardgame ‘Game Of Thrones Risk’:-  House Rules GOT Risk