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Last updated November 8, 2009
Photo by Jim Pitts
On September 19 the Jackson Gamers gathered in the Fellowship Hall of Fondren Presbyterian Church and played "The Affair at Alt Kirchendorf" using the "B.A.R" rules. On October 3rd, we played the sequel "The Affair at Eisenmuhlen' again using Le Batailles de l'Ancien Regime" Rules and Jim Pitts' 25/28mm "Imagi-nations" armies.
You can see the report of these games on Jim Pitt's blog site (along with al lot more stuff). Click here:
THE MAJOR DIVISIONS OF THIS SITE ARE THESE 'PAGES'
PERIOD PAGES OF THE JACKSON GAMERS
BLOG SITES OF THE JACKSON GAMERS
COL. CAMPBELL'S BARRACKS - By Jim Pitts
COL. CAMPBELL'S SHIPYARD - By Jim Pitts
R. I. P. ROBERT WHITFIELD Robert Whitfield, one of the founding members of the Jackson Gamers died suddenly on Tuesday April 21, 2009. "Whit" was a good friend and as one fellow gamer described him: "A ferocious opponent." He is survived by a wife, a daughter, and two brothers. We will miss him at every game. |
SOME NEWER GAMES OF THE JACKSON GAMERS
Photo by Jay Stribling
Jay Stribling's battleship The Stars and Bars on the right. It is shown crossing the wake of Stribling's battle cruiser Arthur Steiner on the left. The battleship was well armored, and survivied the combat with only some damage concentrated on the portside armor.
The attackers wanted to gain control of the space station Dixie Station and the defenders wanted to keep control. The station was well armored and could resist almost any type of fire. However if the covering fleet could be driven off, then combat troops in vac suits could be transported over or delivered by landing craft to take the station in close combat
We played this game on September 5, 2009. Click here to see the battle report.
Photo by Ed Sansing
After forcing a covering Egyptian infantry unit to retreat, the Indian lancers (Skinner's Horse) have used their bonus move to close with Egyptian the artillery battery. This was a battle in the real-life 1882 Anglo-Egyptian war.
On August 29 the Jackson Gamers gathered in the Fellowship Hall of Fondren Presbyterian Church and played this gamee using the "Veteran" 30mm armies painted by Larry Brom. Some of these units were painted as early as 1964 by Mr. Brom and are thusly older than most of the players in the game!
You can see the report of this game here Decision in the Desert.
Photo by Jay Stribling
Light, fast mechs, forming part of Bryan Thompson's force - his right flank units. Taken under fire ineffectually by Jay Stribling's defending mechs, these were later savaged by Sean Pitts' air strikes.
On August 15 the second in a series of 3 "linked" Mechwarrior games was played at Jay Stribling's home in Jackson MS. Not a true campaign, neverthless the forces available in game 3 will be determined by the outcome of games 1 and 2.
The reason for the game is that the Clan forces detected that the Davion defenders' artillery units had exhausted their ammunition supply and were pulling back. The clans planned a quick strike to hit these guns. The defenders had other ideas.
You can see the report of this game here The Struggle Continues.
Photo by Ed Sansing
The faces of the enemy! The German commanders in our Crossfire game, played on August 1st, 2009 were (left to right) Phil Young, Sean Pitts and Jim Pitts.
Jim Pitts described it thusly: "The Americans were less than inspiringly commanded ...(while) the Germans were capably commanded..." As one of the American GI commanders, I have to admit that Jim is right (Jay Stribling).
You can see the battle report here A Romp in the French countryside.
Photo by Jim Pitts
On July 18, the Jackson Gamers gathered in the Fellowship Hall of Fondren Presbyterian Church for game using Larry Brom's The Sword in Africa rules. Jim Pitts was the game master. He also painted all the troops and constructed the terrain.
The overall scenario involved stalwart British-led askari, valiant native warriors, devious Zanzabari slavers, and disreputable Ruga-Ruga bandits. The Ruga-Ruga have captured some villagers who are to be sold to the local Zanzabari slave factor. The villagers' chief is out to rescue his subjects and the British askari are there to punish all the malefactors.
In the picture above, the players examine the board, their forces, and their specific objectives. Because your friendly web-master was out of town at Historicon 2009, Jim Pitts, the game-master for this game, has created the battle report for this game and he has posted it on the Jackson Gamers' Blog site. Click HERE to view more photos and the game report.
Photo by Jim Pitts
The First Carlist war lasted from 1834 to 1839. During the reign of Isabella II of Spain, Don Carlos, son of Carlos IV, claimed the throne and gained the support of the Church and much of northern Spain.
Britain, France and Portugal supported Isabella. The English General George de Lacy Evans led a brigade against the guerilla forces of the pretender who called himself Carlos V.
The Carlists could make no headway and ended their struggle on Austust 31, 1839. Don Carlos took refuge abroad.
This was a test game to try out rules concepts for the Carlist War period. We played this game on April 30 2009, using Mark Stevens' beautifully painted 25mm forces. Our battle report is here: The Struggle for San Stefano.
Photo by Jim Pitts
At the start of the Great War, confounding those who had hoped that the colonies of both sides could remain neutral while the home countries fought, the allies prepared to invade the German colonies in Africa. German Southwest Africa, Togo and Kameroon fell quickly to the invading allied powers.
In German East Africa things were different. Under the command of Colonel Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, the Germans held out for years and even invaded the allied territories around them. Lettow-Vorbeck still had forces under arms and resisting when news of the end of the war came in November 1918.
You can see the report of this game here German East Africa - The Initial Battle.
Although hard to see, one of the German Königsberg guns, commanded by Bill Hamilton, is in the center village. Although supported by a German unit on its right, orders arrived for the gun to withdraw to prevent its possible capture. This was our tenth scheduled game for the year 2009. We played this at Jay Stribling's home in Jackson Mississippi on the first weekend in May 2009.
Photo by Jim Pitts
The Egyptian left wing, commanded by Jim Pitts, consisted of the Green Division with two light chariot units, two heavy infantry units, one light infantry spear unit, and two light infantry archer units. In their battle array, they looked formidable as deployed in our 20mm ancients game on April 16, 2009.
You can see the report of this pair of games at More Struggles on the Eyptian Frontier.
Photo by Ed Sansing
A view of Jim Pitts' Egyptian forces in the center of the field, advancing, straining to come to grips with the Assyrians who had violated the Egyptian border.The game began a little after 10am. It proceeded so swiftly that we were able to conclude the game and break for lunch (Authentic ancient Egyptian Pizza) about 1 pm. Then we played a second game after lunch.
This was our eighth game for the year 2009. We played this at Jay Stribling's home in Jackson Mississippi on the first weekend in April of 2009. Our rules were our own Pharoah Rides to War. Jay Stribling ran the game and was a player also.
We used Eric Teuber's 20mm "Scruby" army originally painted in the 1970s. Jay Stribling has touched up the paint where needed and added a few newer units, but it is still Eric's old army.
You can see the report of these two games here Two Battles on the Egyptian Frontier.
Photo by Jim Pitts
The elephants of Varinius Tertius proved too much for the tired legionnaires of Punctilius Pictianus as they each lost enough "cohesion" points to rout away from the fight. Pictianus' third line legionnaire Battle Group (on the right middle) was well placed to engage the pursuing rebels and help cover the retreat of its comrades.
You may click here to see the battle report which we called The Roman Civil War - Yet More!. There may be a few more photos yet to come. We played this game on March 21, 2009 at Phil Young's home in Morton MS.
Photo by Jay Stribling
In the eastern part of the field, the Mexicans are advancing during the battle of Jalapa, a fictional encounter during the 1846-47 Mexican War. The 6th line is on the hill line while the 4th line is on the flat ground. Click here to see the battle report. This action was fought on March 7, 2009 at Jay Stribling's home in Jackson MS.
Photo by Jim Pitts
Jim Pitts' Highland Longbow pops out of the woods just as three of Ed Sansing's Clan mechs pass by. Can you say "Ambush?" This occured early in our Mechwarrior game FIRST BLOOD which we played on February 21, 2009 at Jay Stribling's home in Jackson Mississippi.
Photo by Jim Pitts
The aftermath of the 9th Cavalry's charge with wounded left lying under the bows of the Indians, who are whooping it up on the hillside. For some reason they decided not to come down to capture the wounded "Buffalo soldiers." This was during our game Hostiles in Sight played on February 7, 2009 at THE CHINA INN Restaurant in Pearl Mississippi.
Photo by John Murdaugh
Egyptian camelry arrives at the 'first village' to search for the missing British lieutenant 'Rigby-Figby.' This was in the third of our RED DESERT games, Search for the Lost Lamb played on January 31, 2009 at THE DRAGON'S LAIR in Pearl Mississippi.
Photo by Bill Hamilton
Egyptian camel riders threaten the dervishes attacking the mission compound wall in our second game of our RED DESERT mini-campaign. We played this game on January 17, 2009 at THE DRAGON'S LAIR in Pearl Mississippi. The title of this game is The Imperials strike Back.
Photo by Jim Pitts
One of Abdul Aboulboul Amir's Beja infantry units helping to protect the only local water source in the oasis. This was taken during our first game Into the Desert, the first in our RED DESERT mini-campaign. We played this game on January 3, 2009 at at THE DRAGON'S LAIR. The followers of the Mahdi prevailed over the Imperial troops.
WHY DON'T YOU UPDATE THIS THING MORE OFTEN?
Because your humble web-master has a life! He has a new computer with much MUCH more capacity. Now if only he had enough capacity to learn to use it!l
He now works the overnight shift, and during the daytime, what he does most often is try to sleep!
The Jackson Gamers play games as often as possible. We currently have no permanant home for our games. We will flit from one location to another till we find a new home. We also play games at various club members' homes. We want to tell you all about our games and rules!
The "Older" parts of this web site on NBCi have been gone for years. Many of the photos for earlier games were stored only on NBCi and so some of the older pages cannot be rebuilt. Some of the older "pages" have been restored but a lot of the older battle reports are gone, for good.
Thank you for viewing our site, and Good Gaming! - Jay Stribling
Photo by John Switzer
The Saxons dare the Normans to try to cross the stream in one of John Switzer's Pig Wars games.
UPCOMING ITEMS OF NOTE FOR THE JACKSON GAMERS
Our game theme for 2009 is "Colonial Adventuring." We have a broad definition of 'Colonial.' As one of our members, Bill Hamilton, put it: "Colonial is colonial. Darkest Africa, the new world, Romans in Brittania, Redcoats and Prussians on Mars, even marines vs. bugs on LV-426 qualify in my book."
While we are not fanatical about keeping all the games within our theme, we will try to have many of them be in the "Colonial Adventuring" theme. This is such a broad period that certainly we can have lots of games that fit.
UPCOMING JACKSON WARGAMES 2009
CONVENTIONS ATTENDED BY THE JACKSON GAMERS
HISTORICON 2009
Photo by Byron Champion
Miniature wargaming has been described as "An aging, obese, white man's game. Here, in Mark Stevens' first game at Historicon 2009, we put the lie to that phrase. Observe two females, one African-American and one youngster (in Batman shirt) all playing in this game. Of course, for balance we do have an older man...
You may view photos of the games that we ran HERE. There are MANY more photos coming.
You can go directly to Mark Stevens' Carlist War Game at Historicon 2009 HERE
HUBCON 2008
 | The wargamers in Hattiesburg, Mississippi put on a small regional convention in September of every year. Hattiesburg is known as the "Hub City" for all its intersecting roads and railroads so the convention is called Hubcon. This year a large contingent of eleven Jackson Gamers descended on the city to play games, renew friendships, and buy wargaming stuff. Text by Jim Pitts. See the full report of the convention and games plated on our Blog site THE JACKSON GAMERS' BLOG |
BAYOU WARS 2008
Photo by Ed Sansing
The British right. This is the "thin red line" of British troops faced by truly overwhelming numbers of Zulu warriors in the 25mm "George A Carr" Memorial game. We have just a few photos of the convention, held June 20-22, with LOTS more coming. The Jackson gamers ran a number of games.
You may view photos of some of the games, HERE
BAYOU WARS 2007
Photo Courtesy of Bobie's Hobby House
"A little more cannister, Captain Bragg!" American artillery blast down the main street in Ed Sansing's 1846 game Mexican-American War game.
Bayou Wars 2007, a gaming convention held in Metaire Louisiana. This was the last one held at the Quality Inn of Metaire. Photos are courtesy of Bobe's Hobby House of Pensacola Florida. Photos of some of the 2007 games, are HERE.
HUBCON 2007
Photo by Jim Pitts
Kill Number 1, an American halftrack, for Major von Pitzfeld (Jim Pitts) in his Panther tank. This game, run by Ken Hafer, took place at the HUBCON 2007 gaming convention. HUBCON took place on September 14-16, 2007 in the convention center in Hattiesburg Mississippi. Jim Pitts took a number of photos at HUBCON and you can see them here
HUBCON 2006
Photo by Tim Latham at HUBCON Sept. 15-16, 2006
Left to right (seated) Ken Hafer, Robert Whitfield (Blue cap showing), Travis Melton, Unknown (in striped shirt), Ed Sansing (red shirt), John Switzer (possibly - hair only showing) and Jean Whitfield.
Photo by Tim Latham at HUBCON Sept. 15-16, 2006
Left to right (seated) Ken Hafer, Robert Whitfield, Jim Pitts.
The Jackson Gamers were represented at HUBCON by Ed Sansing, Tim Latham, John Switzer, Robert Whitfield (and family), Travis Melton, and Jim Pitts. Ken Hafer of Metaire LA and Mike Lowry of Hattiesburg MS (both of whom we claim as our own) were there, as were some of the NOLA crowd.
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WHO ARE THE JACKSON GAMERS?
We are a thoroughly disorganized group of historical miniature gamers who meet on the first , third, and fifth Saturdays of each month. We play all manner and scale of miniature war games, with a variety of published rules and our own efforts. Visitors are always welcome in these public games. The game begins as soon after 10 am as we can get things set up, and it runs until the middle of the afternoon. We also fight private games in members' homes. Some of these may be announced here.
Many of these "private games" are strictly limited to a few gamers because of limited space available.
Chinese infantry and gunners, shelling the Christian compound in our "Ohio Jones" game.
HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US?
You can contact us in the following ways:
British gunboats in one of our Green Nile games
HOW CAN I JOIN YOUR GROUP?
Just show up at the games. We are so disorganized that we do not have officials, membership applications, or dues. We had an election for officers once or twice, but that was back in the last century. I can't remember which scoundrels were elected, but we are now past all thse democracy experiments. If you quit showing up for games, we quit notifying you that there will be a game.
A Monitor fires in one of our 15mm Ironclads battles
WHAT ARE THE UPCOMING GAMES?
You could also use the "Upcoming Jackson wargames" button at the top of the page for the games schedule.
Be aware that more games are played than are shown on our schedule. These are "private" in various gamers' homes. You have to be invited to them, mainly for reasons of physical space. They will not generally be listed here. The best place to find out about these games is to go to one or more of the games listed on the schedule.
An Atago-class Japanese cruiser steams through peaceful islands
PHOTOS OF GAMES
This will take you to our index page with descriptions of games past. From here you can go to various pages showing photos of games we have played. Most are in color, but some oldies are in lovely black and white.
Larry Brom, and his lovely daughter Christie, are smiling at a past HISTORICON in Lancaster Pennsylvania. Larry is the designer of The Sword and The Flame rules set annd many other rules sets such as Chassepot and Needlegun his fun and simple Franco-Prussian set. Larry lived and worked among us for years and has recently moved to New Orleans (just to be near us?).
Due to Hurricane Katrina, Larry and daughters Lori and Christie were forced to leave their New Orleans home in 2005 but fortunately when they returned, they found found their home very little damaged. Larry is hard at work on new and more wonderful war game rules.
David Causey's Battlefleet Gothic space ships in one of our Sci-Fi games.
WHAT RULES DO YOU USE FOR THESE GAMES?
We use a variety of rule sets that we have purchased or written over the years. Here are some of the commercially available sets that we have used, starting with:
THE SWORD AND THE FLAME, A rule set for colonial war games, written by a former member of our group, Larry Brom whose picture appears at the above left.
800 FIGHTING ENGLISHMEN, A set of "Battalion-Level" Colonial war game rules by Larry Brom
AGE OF REASON, A rule set from The Emperor's press for 18th century games
AXIS AND ALLIES, A WWII miniatures game inspired by the Strategic WWII boardgame.
B.A.R. Battalions d' Ancient Regime A "Buckets full of dice" game using large battalions to play battles set in the 18th century.
BARBAROSSA A set of Renaissance Galley war rules by David Manley.
BROTHER vs. BROTHER A set of skirmish rules for the American Civil War.
CHASSEPOT AND NEEDLEGUN, The reissued set of Franco-Prussian war rules, also by Larry Brom
CLASSICAL HACK, A well-regarded set of rules for the ancient period.
COMMAND DECISION, A WWII rules set by Frank Chadwick
CROSSFIRE, Arty Conliffe's WWII tactival rules with no fixed turn length and no fixed movement distances!
DAY OF BATTLE, The second edition of a medieval battle rules set with some role-playing elements, by Chris Parker.
DESPERADO Gunslingers battling it out in the dusty streets of the old west.
DISPERSE YE DAMMNED REBELS, A rules set for gaming the American Revolution, again by Larry Brom
FIELDS OF GLORY, The newer set of Ancients rules that "Everyone" is playing.
FLAMES IN THE PUNJAB, A "battlion-level" variant for The Sword and the Flame, by the same publisher. Set in the Sikh wars in the India of the 1845-1849 period.
FIRE AND FURY, A rule set for the American Civil War
FULL THRUST, A set of tactical space combat rules. We use a slightly modified set.
VIS BELLICA, An intriguing set of Ancient/Medieval rules, by Robert Avery
GRANDE ARMEE, a "high level" set of Napoleonic rules for fighting large battles
GUNS OF LIBERTY, A set of rules for the American Revolution by Eric Burgess
JUTLAND, A set of WWI "dreadnought vs dreadnought battle rules using the old Avalon Hill boardgame by that name - with very few changes.
MEDIEVAL WARFARE, A set of (what else?) Medieval rules by Terry Gore
MEIN PANZER (Junior), A set of WWII armor rules.
PBI 2, A set of WWII rules in the Rules for the common man series, published by "Peter Pig" miniatures
PIG WARS, rules set during the dark ages "When men were men, and pigs were money!
PIQUET, A strange set of rules - "ya either love em or ya hate em!" We have flirted with them.
RENAISSANCE WARFARE, A set of rules, similar to MEDIEVAL WARFARE, also by Terry Gore
SANTA ANNA RULES, Mexican-American war rules in two flavors, Tactical and Skirmish level.
SIDES OF STEEL, A pre-Dreadnought naval rules set. Jim Pitts and Jay Stribling have tested this and had a good time although contra-historically, the Russian Battleships beat some of Togo's ships! The Japanese had bad dice that day!
A SKY FULL OF SHIPS, Space combat, simplified.
SQUAD LEADER, Avalon Hill's classic WWII boardgame, converted for use with miniatures.
VIS BELLICA, An intriguing set of Ancient/Medieval rules, by Robert Avery
WOODEN SHIPS AND IRON MEN, A set of sailing ship battle rules derived from the old Avalon Hill boardgame by that name.
Some are "home-grown" rule sets: JACKSON GAMERS' RULES ON THE WEB
WHERE DO I GET THESE SOLDIERS?
Some of the soldiers that we use, such as the Plastic 1/72nd scale Ancients featured in some of our Field of Glory games and the Axis & Allies troops can be purchased at your local hobby shop. Many more can be purchased by mail or via the Internet. In this age of web shopping this is where most of them com from.
To game with the Jackson gamers, you do not have to buy any soldiers, unless you want to. We certainly have enough! There is a master list of 'who has what' period troops. Sometimes it is even up-to-date. Click on the appropriate button at the top of the page.
The the young officer leads his troops forward in one of our "Darkest Africa" games.
ARE YOU GLORIFYING WAR OR VIOLENCE?
No, we are just playing games with toy soldiers. What could be less aggressive?
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