Jackson Gamers

Game on Saturday, May 3, 2025

Game: Saturday May 3, 2024 at 10:00 am
 
Location: Alex Kirk's house   MAP
 
Scale: 1:200 (+/-) spacecraft
 
Title: A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away…
 

          

 
Setting: In honor of unofficial Star Wars day (May 4th be with you) we will once again take to space in a battle of good versus evil, the Rebel Alliance against the Empire. Can you fly an X-Wing or survive in a TIE fighter?
 
Rules: Star Wars - X-Wing Version 1
 
Notes: Lunch will be sandwiches provided by Alex
 
Gamemaster: Ed Sansing

Game on Saturday, April 19, 2025

To celebrate the beginnings of the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, the Jackson Games are presenting "The Retreat from Concord" as our game this Saturday.
 
SATURDAY 04/19/2025 at 10:00 am
 
Location:  Alex's house -- MAP
 
Scale: 25mm
 
Title: Retreat from Concord, April 19, 1775
 
Setting: After the British expedition was stymie at Concord when they couldn't find the Patriots munitions supplies, they began to retire through Lexington back to Boston.  But the Patriot Minute Men  and militia continued to gather and harass the British retreat.  Can the British make it out of the Patriot trap?
 

 
By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
    Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood,
    And fired the shot heard round the world. 
 
First stanza of "Concord Hymn" (original title "Hymn: Sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument, April 19, 1836") is a poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson written for the 1837 dedication of an obelisk monument in Concord, Massachusetts, commemorating the battles of Lexington and Concord, a series of battles and skirmishes on April 19, 1775 which sparked the American Revolutionary War. The poem was the origin of the phrase "shot heard round the world".
 
Rules: Commands and Colors, Tricorne
 
Notes: Alex' wife Diane with provide her scrumptious waffles for lunch.  Please RSVP to Alex -- alex-kirk@sbcglobal.net -- so sufficient provisions can be prepared.
 
Gamemasters: Jim Pitts and Jay Stribling

Game on Saturday, April 5, 2025

SATURDAY 04/05/2025 at 10:00 am

Location:  Jay's house    MAP
 
Scale: 25mm
 
Title: Battle of Atlanta - Peachtree Creek
 
Setting:  The attack of Hardee's Confederate Corps on the right flank of the Army of Tennessee against Thomas' Union Army of the Cumberland on July 20, 1864.
 
Rules: original Brom rules
 
Notes: Lunch will be pizza.
 
Gamemaster: Jerry Ainsworth
 

Game on Saturday, March 29, 2025

SATURDAY 03/29/2025 at 10:00 am

Location:  Alex's house   MAP
 
Scale: 28mm
 
Title: Commando Action on D+1
 
Setting: Somewhere behind Sword Beach where British commandos are attacking a couple of strong points held by dug-in inexperienced German infantry.  
 

 
Rules: Bolt Action, 3rd Edition
 
Notes: 
This is another learning game because Alex hasn't built or painted any vehicles yet.
 
Lunch will be a sandwich spread. 
 
Please RSVP directly to Alex so he can have enough provisions to "feed the ravening horde."    alex-kirk@sbcglobal.net 
 
Gamemaster: Alex Kirk

Game on Saturday, March 1, 2025

SATURDAY 03/01/2025 at 10:00

Location:  Jay Stribling's home  MAP
 
Scale: 15mm
 
Title: Battle of Chotusitz, 1742
 

 
Setting: King Frederick the Great vs Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine during the first Silesian war.  Link
 
Rules: Modified Brom standard
 
Notes: A light lunch will be served.
 
Gamemaster: Larry Reeves