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Please realize that changes will be made to this schedule of games. This should be considered as tentative until we actually start rolling the dice for the game!
JANUARY 2003
Saturday 1/4/03 10 am. at HOBBYTOWN
Scale: 25mm
Title: What a celebration!
Rules: Fill Yore Hands! (Desperado variant)
Notes: It's the 4th of July in Jerkwater. Crowds gather along the main street waiting for the parade. Are those fire crackers that we hear? Good lordy - them is pistol shots! The Snodgrass boys are hittin the bank!
Gamemaster: Jay Stribling
Saturday 1/18/03
Scale: 15mm
Title: The Red Offensive
Description: The Bolsheviks are sweeping up one town after the other. Can this one be resist them for long? Yet, the factories and stored supplies here make it a town worth fighting for.
Rules: Our own RED and WHITE
Gamemaster: Jim Pitts
Jim Pitts' 15mm Medieval Battle, previously scheduled for 1/18/02 will be re scheduled, later in the year.
FEBRUARY 2003 Saturday 2/1/03
Scale: 15mm
Title: The Seven Days' Battles
This is the first in a series of games set during the 1861 actions to the east and south of Richmond VA, as George A. McClelland attempts to seize the Confederate Capitol. Only two things stand between him and the end of the rebellion - Robert E. Lee, and the Army of Northern Virginia
Rules: Fire and Fury
Gamemasters: Larry Reeves & Jay Stribling
Saturday 2/15/03
Scale: 15mm
Title: The Hostile Shore
Description: The Whites are crossing the river in landing barges. The Bolsheviks must hold two towns, but they are not certain where the White troops will land.
Rules: Our own RED and WHITE
Gamemaster: Jay Stribling
Saturday 2/22/03
This game was originally scheduled for 2/15/03 but had to be changed because of Mark Stevens' work schedule. Because of this, there will be 3 games in February.
Scale: 25mm
Title: Storming the Slavers' Compound
The slave trade in Africa is an abomination! Can you survive the trek into the jungle to destroy this fortress of the slavers?
Rules: The Sword in Africa by Larry Brom
Army: Mark Stevens "Darkest Africa" troops
Gamemaster: Mark Stevens
MARCH 2003 Saturday 3/1/03
Scale: 6mm
Title: A loose cannon
Modern Army Battle in Central Germany circa 1985. The Russians were so afraid of Ronald Reagan, that they almost went to war with NATO in the 1980s (true!). What if they had?
Rules: To be announced
Gamemaster: Jay Ainsworth
Saturday 3/15/03
Scale: 15mm
Title: Napoleonic Battle
A game from the feverish imagination of Larry Reeves. Will Napoleon's evil empire triumph again? Or will the hastily thrown together coalition of the armies of kings and emperors make the world safe for inherited nobility?
Rules: If only we could all be Napoleon
Gamemaster: Larry Reeves
FRIDAY 3/21/2003 through SUNDAY 3/23/2002
COASTCON in Biloxi Mississippi. Gaming, sci-fi, role playing, and beach babes. A truly mixed convention at which the Jackson gamers once appeared regularly.
APRIL 2003 Saturday 4/5/03
Scale: 25mm
Title: Crossin th' Crick
We fought a 25mm battle using the Rebels and Yankees of Jay Stribling and Robert Whitfield. This was an attempt by Longstreet's corps to make an opposed crossing of a small river or large creek. Opposing him are the Union II corps under general Hancock.
Rules: The Continuous Firefight
Gamemaster: Jay Stribling
Saturday 4/19/03
Scale: 25mm
Title: Napoleon in Egypt
General Bonaparte has landed in Egypt. Can a coalition of British and Turkish Mamelukes eject him?
Rules: TSATF Variant
Gamemaster: Mark Stevens
MAY 2003 Saturday 5/3/02
Scale: 15mm
Title: The Seven Days' Battles
This is the second in a series of games set during the 1861 actions to the east and south of Richmond VA, as George A. McClelland attempts to seize the Confederate Capitol. Only two things stand between him and the end of the rebellion - Robert E. Lee, and the Army of Northern Virginia
Rules: Fire and Fury
Gamemasters: Larry Reeves & Jay Stribling
Saturday 5/17/03
Scale: 25mm
Title: The Back of Beyond
Can the Shakey coalition of ex-white units and Chinese Warlord troops defend this miserable dusty place. Will the Bolshevik's cross the border to help the rival war lord? What about that archeologist and his expedition which rumors say is armed to the teeth? And those missionaries, will they resist the attackers, or turn the other cheek? With all those game masters, will there be enough gamers to play?
Rules: The Sword and the Flame - Variant
Gamemaster: Jim Pitts, Mark Stevens, and Jay Stribling
JUNE 2003 Saturday 6/7/03
Scale: 6mm??
Title: BATTLETECH
Fred Diamond will instruct us in the latest version of this Science fiction land battle game. We will use his large force of "Mechs" - the new "Clickable" miniatures, which require no paper work.
Rules: BATLETECH
Gamemaster: Fred Diamond
FRIDAY 6/14/2003 through SUNDAY 6/9/2002
BAYOU WARS in New Orleans LA. HMGS gaming convention in the Big Easy.
Saturday 6/21/03
Scale: 25mm
Title: The Sikh War
It is the 1840s and the British East India Company, stiffened by a few of the young Queen Victoria's finest, are at war against the the Sikhs. The prize - The Punjab - one of the richest areas in India.
Rules: Flame in the Punjab a variant for 800 Fighting Englishmen
Gamemaster: Mark Stevens
JULY 2003 Saturday 7/5/03
Scale: 25mm
Title: Battle of Monmouth Court House
General Clinton begins the evacuation of Philadelphia, marching north towards New York City in a long straggling column. Can General Washington bite off part of this column? And if so, does he have enough force to chew it up?
Rules: Sons of Liberty
Gamemaster: Jim Pitts
Saturday 7/19/03
Scale: 6mm
Title: Forward Comrades!
Modern Army Battle in Central Germany set in the late 80s/early 90s. The Russians penetrated the American lines in the first battle. Now, can they exploit the breach? Would the French intervene? Or would they just announce that they would veto any warlike resolution in the security council? What if the Russians took Paris? Would the USA care? Perhaps I am thinking of a later war...
Rules: A variant of the old "Air Cav" boardgame rules.
Gamemaster: Jay Ainsworth
THURSDAY 7/24/2003 through SUNDAY 7/27/2003
HISTORICON at LANCASTER PA. Located at the Lancaster Host Inn. The biggest miniature gaming convention in the world!
AUGUST 2003
Saturday 8/02/03, 10 am. at HOBBYTOWN
Scale: 25mm
Title: On the North Central Frontier
Notes: Once again the machinations of the wiley Pathans set Indo-Afgan frontier ablaze. Who are the men who can put down these uppity tribesmen? None other than Lord Sterling and his trusty right arm, Brigadier Colin Campbell, recently seconded from the Sudan. Will the evil Khan Abbis be frightened into submission, or will the drums of war sound along the frontier?
Gamemaster: Jay Stribling
Saturday 8/16/03
Scale: 25mm
Title: Back to the Jungle
Another expedition into Darkest Africa - details to follow.
Rules: The Sword in Africa by Larry Brom
Army: Mark Stevens and Jim Pitts' "Darkest Africa" miniatures
Gamemaster: Jim Pitts
SEPTEMBER 2003 Saturday 9/2/03
Scale: 25mm
Title: The Mexican American War
Rules: Santa Anna Rules - Tactical version.
Gamemaster: Ed Sansing
Saturday 9/20/03
Scale 15mm
Title: Forward - in the name of the King!
Can Fairfax stop Rupert and the King's army?
RULES: Our own ECW Rules
Gamemaster: Jay Stribling and Jim Pitts
OCTOBER 2003 Saturday 10/4/03 Saturday 10/11/03
HOBBYTOWN is having its annual Model building competition on this Saturday and they will need the space in which we usually game for display and judging. We will push our first October game back to the second Saturday.
Scale: 25mm
Title: Swiss Revenge
Unpaid for months by the French King, the Swiss forces insist on battle NOW. They pick an area where there are several villages, reputedly wealthy and lunge through the imperialist lines to loot them. There are more imperialists, but what care the Swiss for numbers? All out attack is their creed. The rest of the French army must tag along with them.
Rules: Pikes & Gendarmes
Gamemasters: Jay Stribling & Jim Pitts
Saturday 10/18/03
Scale: 25mm
Title: THE DRAGON'S GATE
The Time of Darkness is now at hand. The Forces of Chaos have Breached the Valley of Vernath and have made it to the DRAGON'S GATE. There is little time now for the Forces of Order to stop the Chaos Soldiers.
If it is not too late, perhaps the gate can once again be sealed. The Forces of Order will be arriving to shut the gate, while the Forces of Chaos struggle to open the gate.
Once again the Jackson gamers try to click those little 'thingies' on the bases of Fred's miniatures.
Rules: Iron Winds of War
Gamemaster: Fred Diamond
NOVEMBER 2003 Saturday 11/01/03
Scale: 15mm
Title: Napoleonic Battle
A fictional game that puts the Confederation of the Rhine against Prussia. The scenerio is set after the four major powers of the Confederation, the Dutchy of Warsaw, Saxony, Bavaria and Wurttemburg drove the Russian out of Warsaw. After the victory they decide to liberate the Holy City of Berlin from Purssia. Prussia realizing the oncoming onslaught, calls back its forces from Saxony to defend the homeland.
Rules: If only we could all be Napoleon
Gamemaster: Larry Reeves
Saturday 11/15/03
Scale: 25mm
Title: The Battle of Olustee
Central Florida is in danger. The town of Olustee trembles before the onslaught of the Yankees. Can the "Godless Blue Horde" successfully invade Central Florida?.
Rules: Larry Brom's "New Testament"
Gamemaster: Jay Ainsworth
DECEMBER 2003 Saturday 12/6/03
Scale: 25mm
Title: The Mexican American War
Rules: Brom Standard, with Mexican War addendum.
We will once again try the rules that we had so much fun with in 1980, when Eric Teuber ran the Mexican War campaign game. Each 20-man unit is a battalion, and 20 cavalrymen are a regiment.
Gamemaster: Jay Stribling
There will be no open game scheduled for the 3rd weekend in December. Hobbytown will be crowded with shoppers and holiday preparations will consume much of everyone's time.
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