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

Game on Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025

SATURDAY 02/01/2025 at 10:00 am

Location:   Fondren Presbyterian Church, 3220 Old Canton Road    MAP
 
Scale:  25mm
 
Title:  Battles at Brandywine River, 11 Sep 1777.
 
Setting:  As the British attack continues, Washington's embattled Continental army attempts to stave off the flank attack of Lord Cornwallis and the follow-up attack by General Knyphausen.
 
Rules:  Commands & Colors Tricorne.
 
Notes:  We'll be back in the church library.  If church front door is locked, please call 769-226-5754 and I'll come let you in.  And this time I'll make sure my phone isn't accidently in "airplane mode" as it was two weeks ago.  😜
 
We'll probably eat lunch at Quizno's sandwich shop.
 
Gamemaster:  Jim Pitts