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Schedule has Changed - as of 10/14/02
JANUARY 2002
Saturday 1/5/02 10 am. at HOBBYTOWN - The American Revolution
Title: The Ragged Rugged Warriors
Rules: "Sons of Liberty"
Notes: The Continental Army, after its victory at Trenton, strikes back at the British occupiers. Based on the Princeton campaign, it will pit Washington and his ragged Continentals against Clinton and his British/German forces.
Gamemaster: Jim Pitts
Saturday 1/19/02
Scale: 20mm
Title: Take THAT you brute!
First try for a very simple WWII tank battle game using a very simple rules set!
Rules: Mein Panzer (Junior edition)
Gamemaster: Tim Latham
FEBRUARY 2002 Saturday 2/2/02
Title: Surprise attack!
The Yankee ironclads steam upriver to destroy a Confederate shipbuilding operation.
Rules: Steam, Iron, & Tin
Gamemaster: Jay Stribling
Saturday 2/16/02
Title: Crossing the deadly ground - 15mm ACW battle
Longstreet's staff officer has found a hole in the Union Lines. The General feels that one strong blow will break the Federal position, allowing for defeat of Meade and Grant, here in the Wilderness. General Lee has come up to give the attack his blessing. Hear the Rebel Yell! Now the swelling chorus of musketry drowns out all else!
Rules: The "Firefight" variant to Larry Brom's Civil War Rules
Army: Larry Reeves' 15mm ACW troops
Gamemaster: Jay Stribling
Saturday 2/23/02
Scale: 25mm
Rules: Mark Stevens' home rules
Gamemaster: Mark Stevens
We realize that this is a conflict with FUZILIER MUSTER below, but not all the Jackson Gamers can make the convention this year.
FUZILIER MUSTER
Saturday and Sunday 23 & 24 February 2002
One of TWO gaming conventions yearly in Hattiesburg MS at the Convention Center. Contact Vince Clyant at the London War Room for details
MARCH 2002 Saturday 3/2/02
The battle of Ligny in 15mm scale. Napoleon moves to crush the Prussians on June 16, 1815, leaving the British to be held by Ney. Will the Prussian army survive? Will Marshall Blucher whip the emperor? And what of the Prussian chief of staff Gneisenau - who wants to abandon the British to their fate? The battle could decide who sits on the throne of France.
Rules: If only we could all be Napoleon!
Gamemaster: Larry Reeves
Saturday 3/16/02
Title: Action in the Central Mediterranian
The Italian Battle fleet attempts to intercept a British Convoy. The game uses 1:1200 WWII ships and our own home grown rules set.
Rules: Surface Action
Gamemaster: Jay Stribling
APRIL 2002 Saturday 4/6/02
Can the Kingdom of Parallellogram drive out the invaders from the Kingdom of Circumference? The rounds are dispersed, foraging for food. How long will it take to concentrate the army? How many of the squares have straggled on the approach march, and when will the slower units get up to the battlefield?
Rules: Rules by Ral Modified of course!
Scenario and Game Masters: Jim Pitts and Jay Stribling
Saturday 4/20/02
Scale: 15mm.
The Whites are on the attack, driving up the rail line during Deniken's movement towards Moscow. But what is this - A daring red thrust against the flank? Will the White armored train arrive in time? And what about those pesky Red aircraft?
Rules: Our own RED AND WHITE
Gamemaster: Jay Stribling
MAY 2002 Saturday 5/4/02
Another 15mm "tin can" battle - The Richmond squadron steams downriver to attack General Grant's supply base.
Rules: Steam, Iron, & Tin
Gamemaster: Jay Stribling
Saturday 5/18/02
Scale: 25mm.
Tromp's Farm Can the British and Colonial forces rescue the Tromp family from the Zulu menace? And just which farm house is the Tromp farmstead?
Rules: The Sword and the Flame - Variant Every Man a Briton
Gamemaster: Jim Pitts
JUNE 2002 Saturday 6/1/02
Like takin Candy from a Baby! The 'Merchants and Cattlemen's Bank' is now open for business. But will the next transaction be a LARGE withdrawal? Can the sodbusters protect their investments? Will the drunken cowboys help protect their bosses' assets? Or will they just join the fun?
Rules: Desperado
Gamemaster: Jay Stribling
FRIDAY 6/7/2002 through SUNDAY 6/9/2002
BAYOU WARS in New Orlaeans LA. HMGS gaming convention in the Big Easy.
Saturday 6/15/02
Custer in the Yellowstone
Valley
Scale: 25mm
Rules: The Sword and the Tomahawk?
Gamemaster: Jay Ainsworth
JULY 2002 Saturday 7/6/02
It's hard to see them Redskins in the Dark!
Hordes of hostiles, rustled horses, and foreign royalty to escort - what next?
Scale: 25mm
Rules: Home Rules
Gamemaster: Fred Diamond
Saturday 7/20/02
Scale: 20mm
Title: Tanks for the memories!
Our second game with a very simple WWII tank battle game using a very simple rules set!
Rules: Mein Panzer (Junior edition)
Gamemaster: Fred Diamond
THURSDAY 7/25/2002 through SUNDAY 7/28/2002
AUGUST 2002
Saturday 8/03/02, 10 am. at HOBBYTOWN - The Green Nile
Scale: 25mm.
Rules: The Sword and the Flame
Notes: On the little-known 3rd branch of the Nile river, a vicious fight between the Mahdist forces under Emir Fafnir, and the Yazulu army under Prince mBongo!. Our 5th game in the "Green Nile" series.
Gamemaster: Jay Stribling
Saturday 8/17/02
The Phillipine Insurrection. Moro insurgents battle the United States forces in the Phillipines - fighting for independance from the U.S. as they had against Spain. "He may be a brother to Big Bill Taft, but he ain't no friend of mine!" (Saying of the US forces in the Phillipine Islands, quite derisive towards secretary of war Taft)
Rules: The Sword and the Flame Variant
Gamemaster: Mark Stevens
SEPTEMBER 2002 Saturday 9/7/02
Item Changed - as of 8/28/02
The Emperor strikes back! 1813
During the struggle for Germany in 1813, the Emperor chooses to battle the Russians before the coalition can close about Leipzig. Will this daring stroke succeed?
Rules: Brom Standard
Gamemaster: Jay Stribling & Jim Pitts
Saturday 9/21/02
Somewhere around Philadelphia, General Washington's army confronts Lord Howe. Will the young rebellion survive?
RULES: Sons of Liberty
Gamemaster: Jim Pitts
OCTOBER 2002 Saturday 10/5/02
Title: No game this day.
Saturday 10/12/02
The fate of Italy hangs in the balance
Can the German Pikemen in the service of the Holy Roman Emperor sieze the supply and payroll convoy headed for the army of the King of France. What about all those guys escorting the wagons?
Scale: 25mm
Rules: The Sword and the Pike
Gamemasters: Jay Stribling & Jim Pitts
Saturday 10/19/02
Title: Pigs in Space! - No not really...
Can the emperor's space ships withstand whatever disgusting enemy fleet is attacking THIS week?
Rules: Battlefleet Gothic
Gamemaster: David Causey
NOVEMBER 2002 Saturday 11/02/02
Title: Patriot Brother vs. Loyalist Brother.
Larry Reeves' skirmish game set during the American War of Independance.
Scale: 15mm
Rules: Brother vs. Brother variant
Gamemaster: Larry Reeves
Saturday 11/16/02
Title: The French King returns!
Once again the French army moves into Italy. This time the Spanish army is resisting.
Scale: 25mm
Rules: The Sword and the Pike
Gamemaster: Jay Stribling & Jim Pitts
DECEMBER 2002 Saturday 12/07/02
Title: They wanted revenge
The ships that escaped Pearl Harbor, cruisers and destroyers, were formed into scratch task forces and sent out to search for the Japanese, in the wrong direction. But what if some of them had gone in the right direction?
Scale: 1/1200
Rules: Our own Surface Warship
Gamemaster: Jay Stribling
There is no open game scheduled for the third Saturday in December. Hobbytown will be crowded with shoppers and holiday preparations will consume much of everyone's time.
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