The Jackson Gamers' Adventure in 1920s China
The Back End of Nowhere
Photo by John Switzer.
The U.S. marines defending the Christian compound have moved onto the roof, where they sniped without successe at various Chinese forces. Later in the game, they moved out in pursuit of "The Yellow Truck".
Photo by John Switzer
Ohio Jones had an armored car leading his convoy The model is by Falcon, painted by Mark Stevens. It was shot at by machine guns several times, but without damage.
Photo by John Switzer
The figures at top left represent Ohio Jones' armed archeologists. On the right are a motly unit of hired guards, made of Reviresco and other manufacturer's figures. The machine gun truck is a Reviresco miniature, with the Machine gun and gunners from the London War room's Vietnam wars range.
The roof of the "Yellow Truck" can be seen at bottom.
Photo by John Switzer
Warlord troops, in firing order, are lobbing a few shells at the Christian compound. These guys were trying to stop Ohio Jones from taking the artifacts out of the country, and were also trying to kill the Christians, but wisely never tried to directly assault the Christian compound.
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So who won this game?
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Photo by John Switzer
In another view of Ohio Jones' column, the Yellow Truck's engine has seized, after an artillery shell fragment smashed the radiator. It is being towed by Jones in his Rolls Royce touring car. The Armored car leads, but the "painted ladies" in their red ford have accelerated to almost the front of the column, as it nears the village.
Communist peasants are racing to assault the column, aiming for the red car.
Photo by John Switzer
A good view of the ladies and their Reviresco flivver. The model was built by Ken Hafer, and pulls a bed-sized trailer, that he scratch built. The photos do not do the lovely ladies justice, nor the wine bottle which one is working on!
Photo by John Switzer
Jones is shown, a bit blurry, in his Rolls, with his hired guards beyond. The touring car is owned by Jim Pitts, who also painted Ohio Jones. The hired chinese guards beyond, made by Reviresco, Cannon Fodder, and others, were painted by Ken Hafer.
The machine gun truck can be seen in the background.
Photo by John Switzer
The Ghurkas and the Chinese are in a battle for the village. When Mark Stevens' Ghurka units took the two western-most houses in the village, they found the money that the Communist peasants had taken from the bank. They then had to hold off a last desperate thrust by Wei Mei's Chinese infantry to try to get the money, which was what that commander (John Switzer) had been after all along.
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Some notes on the game by the Game-Master We used a random set up, with the game-master rolling a die, and each player being able to place his men within a certain half of the board, designated at the whim of the game master (Jay Stribling). This did not work well because the forces which were to assault the Christians, Hung Lo, Hau Jou, and Tu Hrong were too far away from the Christian compound at the start of the game.
In addition The U.S. Marines had little to do, and eventually attacked Jones' convoy on the transparent excuse that they were fighting banditry. The Japanese player was even more "out of it" and spent all of the game trying to get into firing range of the Americian Convoy.
The Chinese rifle fire was almost totally ineffectual and their machine guns and artillery pieces only somewhat more deadly. Jay Stribling thought that this needed corection in the rules, but Mark Stevens claims that the Chinese were "Terrible rifle shots" so we will play one more game with the rules the same.
Both sides had hand grenades available, and completely forgot about them. They might have made quite a difference in melee!
All in all - it was great fun.
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Photo by Ken Hafer
The sailors shoot up, then defeat in close combat, the "Big Swords" who had a bad time trying to roll the dice that day!
Photo by Ken Hafer
The Sailors in their snazzy white uniforms have cleared the small woods and the "Big Swords" will move towards the camera, trying to find an easier target than the sailors who beat them back twice (at least).
Photo by Ken Hafer
On the next-to-last turn, the "Big Swords" are tired of being beaten in melee by the American Sailors. They make a run towards the red touring card with the hookers (err-Female archeologists) it it. They fall short in distance as the driver of the car "steps on it!". Frustrated, the "Big Swords" try to fall on the flank of the American Sailors (again!) and are beaten off (again!).
Photo by Ken Hafer
U.S. Marines capture the machine gun truck and right after this photo was taken, they beat off the Chinese soldiers closing from the left side of the truck (bottom of the photo). Once the Marines got into action, they were formidable.
Photo by Ken Hafer
At the game's end, the U.S. Marines rush the Archeolongical convoy. They fight the Archeologist, and the defending Chinese, and beat off another unit of attacking Chinese from Hung Lo's command.
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