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'Free figure for all those attending
Reveille 2008
- courtesy of Warlord Games'
Sunday, 30th, November 2008
10am - 4pm
REVEILLE II is packed every year! We have the usual things like traders, games and a bring & buy.
Why not come along to snap up some bargains and join in a game or two?
Bristol City Centre and the Mall at Cribbs Causeway are also great places to deposit the spouse/kids/partner
for their shopping trip, whilst you enjoy a fun day of gaming and buying figures!
It's at the same venue as last year,
Lincombe Barn Folk House, Overndale Road, Downend, Bristol, BS16 2RW
Click
here to view a map.
Entry prices : Adults £2.00, Concessions £1 (under 18s, OAPs) and Under 10s are free!
The money we raised from the door goes to a local charity, the Downend Folk House.
Traders
These are the traders that attended this year.Don't Forget;
Some traders may not be carrying their full range so
as is normal these days if you want something specific best to order in advance
or collection on the day. You may also be able to negotiate a little extra
discount that way!
New This Year
- Warlord Games - First
producer of a range of 28mm hard plastic figures, starting with Ancient Rome &
its enemies. Web site
www.warlordgames.co.uk Warlord games are giving a
free figure to everyone attending Reveille this year
- Leslie’s Bits Box - A GW
independent trader also selling a huge range of assembled & painted sci-fi &
fantasy figures. E-mail
lesleysbitsbox@hotmail.co.uk
- 'Project Hougoumont'
- display by the campaign to save a part of
the Waterloo battlefield.
Participation and demonstration games
These are the gamers and clubs who attended this year.
- Abbeywood Irregulars -
Turkmenistan 1993 &
the UN Operation ‘Restore Clarity’ – a fictional ‘end of Cold War’ demo game
involving a multi – national UN force in a former Soviet Republic.
- Bridgend Gamers / SFSFW
-
‘War Zone’ 28mm sci-fi
participation game
- The Escape Committee,- Burnham on Sea -
'Ambush Alley' a modern participation
game.
- Exmouth Wargames Club -'‘Night of the Living Dead’
– a 28mm participation game
- Portbury Knights
‘Wings of War’ - WW1
aerial Combat
- Southbourne Tabletop & Boardgamers [STAB] -'Space
vixens from Mars' 28mm SCI-Fi participation game.
- Wargames Developments -
‘Don Featherstone’s
Skirmish Rules’ to celebrate the re-release of the classic book Skirmish
Wargames. Choose a period from the Dark Ages to the far future, select a
band of warriors & enter the battlefield…. A participation game using 54mm
figures
- Lincombe Barn
WS -‘Alien Squad Leader’ – a 15mm sci-fi
participation game presented by the games developer Alex Self
- Lincombe Barn
WS -
‘Retreat along the
Kinzig’ - a 25mm Napoleonic participation game based loosely on the Grande
Armee’s flight following the Battle of Leipzig in 1813. Players will take
turns leading a French Column along its line of retreat through enemy
territory…. The game will be played using a fast play ‘Kreigspiel’ style
system.
-
55th Bristol Scouts
-‘Ace’s
High’ -Take to the air & join in a WW1 dogfight participation game
Bring and Buy
Your chance to flog those items you never quite finished and grab yourself a bargain too.
Please bag your sales into a small number of big lots rather than many tiny lots.
This means we can total up your money quickly and the chance of error is minimized.
People expect bargains so price your items to sell.
Save yourself loads of time at the show by printing off your 'Bring and Buy' form. Just click on the link,
press the 'Print' button to print it and then press the 'Back' button to return here.
Here is the Bring and Buy Form
and the Bring and Buy Form continuation sheet should you need it.
Travel directions
- Car: On the M4 motorway exit at J19 onto the M32. Exit immediately at Junction 1 of the M32.
At the bottom of the sliproad go left, straight on through the Hambrook traffic lights,
then bear right (signposted Downend) at the roundabout, turn first right after the Cleevewood shops.
- Train: Bristol Temple Meads or Bristol Parkway (closer).
Sadly no buses to Downend from Temple Meads, so taxi to Overndale Road, Downend, cost approx £12 each way.
No. 18 bus (aka 518) from Bristol Parkway to the Horseshoe pub, Downend.
- Buses: the 5A and 48 all travel from the centre of Bristol to the Horseshoe pub at Downend. The 18 goes there from other areas of Bristol.
From there go left at the main traffic lights down Cleeve Hill.
At the bottom of the hill turn left and the Barn is 300m on the right.
Click
here to view a map.
Please Note:
A small part of the premises are
not fully accessible to those with mobility problems due to a flight of stairs.
Therefore we will make no charge for entry to the show for those with such
difficulties.
Local amenities
Cashpoint: Lloyds, HSBC and the Co-op all in Badminton Rd, Downend.
Pubs: Green Dragon (Badminton Rd), Beaufort Hunt, Horseshoe, White Swan (Downend Rd), Sandringham Arms(Quakers Road).
Shops: Somerfield (Cleeve Hill Extension), Threshers (Overndale Road), the Co-op (Badminton Road), the Post Office (Quakers Road).
Contacts
Craig Austin: email Craig (show information, traders, demo games) Mobile: 07870 585683
Andy Clements: email Andy (club information)
Shay Walsh: email Shay to add/amend info on this website.
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