X-Fire

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"X-Fire, meaning 'Cross-fire', was a TV programme, aired on Channel 4 in the UK.

The programme was a game show/reality TV cross, featuring a strike team consisting of 6 players armed with paintball guns (known as emulsifiers, due to the paint being a type called emulsion), who will attempt to complete challenges such as defusing a bomb or rescuing hostages. The teams would have to take care not to get shot (or, emulsified) by the Grunts, whose sole objective was to stop the team completing the challenges by emulsifying the team (with semi-emulsifiers, guns not as good as the team's). These grunts were accompanied by the Special Forces; 6 individuals (with made-up character names and bios; however, their skill was real) with exceptional skills. These Special Forces were named Hellmet (named Helmet Strebi) (ranked Oberleutnant), Morgan (Morgan Johnson) (ranked Sergeant), Clawz (Vanessa Upton) (Private), Dalia (Dalia Miknaviciuta) (Sergeant), AJ (Andrew J Dickens) (Commander) and Little Yin (Anna Luong) (Private).
Each programme would contain three missions, the last of which always took place in the 'Special Forces HQ'. The missions would always be based around a particular scenario, such as stopping toxic waste dumping or stopping the production of counterfeit bank notes. The Special Forces would always be involved with these evil plots, and thus had to be stopped by the strike team.
In between each challenge the team were allowed to purchase items such as more paintballs, shields, grenades, a stationary shotgun weapon (firing up to 100 shots in one go) or buy back team mates who had been emulsified in the previous challenge (200 credits per member). These were bought with credits, earned by emulsifying grunts (50 credits per grunt), special forces members (500 credits per member), completing primary objectives (1000 credits), and getting as many members back to HQ avoiding emulsification (250 credits per member back, if 0 members survive, the team get 0 credits, if 3 people survive, the team earns 750 credits, so it's not -250 credits per member emulsified).

Unfortunately, the series was axed shortly following the terrorist attacks on September the 11th, and as such the penultimate episode, titled 'Star Wars', was never broadcast, instead Channel 4 broadcast the final episode to end the series."

So, anyone watched this show?

I used to love it. I'd get up early in the morning just to watch it. It was axed in 2002 and it was a real shame.

I watched every episode... all twelve.

and now I find there's 13 of 'em...

#	Operation	Strike Team	Credits	Air Date	Mission 3 Difficulty
1	Retrival	Flatout	8000	25 September 2001	Extreme
2	Counterfeit Charlie	The Specials	6075	2 October 2001	Extreme
3	Waste Disposal	The Lifeboat Team	3150	9 October 2001	Standard
4	Clone Alone	Team Planet	7200	16 October 2001	Extreme
5	Ransom	ABC Warriors	4775	23 October 2001	Standard
6	Phoenix Rising	Ayresome Angels	5688	29 May 2002	Easy
7	Retribution	All The Kings' Men	4825	5 June 2002	Standard
8	Germ Alert	Dangerous Divas	3100	12 June 2002	Easy
9	Cold Thaw	North London Spirits	6550	19 June 2002	Standard
10	Energy Crisis	The Burton Bullets	8550	26 June 2002	Standard
11	Code Breaker	Fire Force One	2925	3 July 2002	Standard
12	Star Wars	Magnum Force	6450	Not Aired	Extreme
13	Meltdown	The Burton Bullets	7050	10 July 2002	Standard