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Game List - January to June, 2000

Jan 1 - Civil War Apr 1 - Civil War
Jan 8 - Civil War Apr 8 - Coral Sea and Trireme
Jan 15 - Civil War Apr 15 - Civil War
Jan 22- WW2 land Apr 22 - Civil War
Jan 29 - WW2 air Apr 29 - British Colonial
Feb 5 - no game May 6 - Joe's Graduation party
Feb 12 - WW2 land and air May 13 - Civil War
Feb 19- Civil War & WW2 air May 20 - No game. Off to VA
Feb 26 - Battle of Britain May 27 - Attending NashCon
Mar 4 - Civil War and Battle of Britain Jun 3 - WW2 air, "Civil War", Viking
Mar 11 - WW2 air and WW2 naval Jun 10 - Civil War
Mar 18 - Shamrock Con - B-17s Jun 17 - Civil War, WW2 Air, Viking
Mar 25 - British Colonial and Vikings Jun 24 - Civil War in Shiloh, IL

  1. January 1, 2000
    • Battle of Thornton Gap - Civil War Campaign battle. Johnny Reb 2.5 rules. 0700 to 1000. Initial attack of union forces. CS right pushed back. CS center probed. CS left holds but US in position to attack. Moderator, Tom Sparhawk.
      • Union
        • Pat McGarrity as General Burnside - field commander
        • Warren Peterson
        • Joe Shaffer
      • Confederate
        • Terry Callahan as General D. H. Hill - field commander
        • James Prior
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  2. January 8, 2000
    • Battle of Thornton Gap - Civil War Campaign battle. Johnny Reb 2.5 rules. 1000 to 1215. CS left falls apart. Right stabilizes and center holds. CS reinforcements arrive as union attack stalls. Moderator, Tom Sparhawk.
      • Union
        • Pat McGarrity as General Burnside - field commander
        • Warren Peterson
        • Joe Shaffer
      • Confederate
        • Terry Callahan as General D. H. Hill - field commander
        • James Prior
        • JC Shaffer
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  3. January 15, 2000
    • Battle of Thornton Gap - Civil War Campaign battle. Johnny Reb 2.5 rules. 1230 to 1500. US left pushed back and their center begins to withdraw. US right holds. Visibility falls in haze and smoke to less than 500 yards. Union retreats from the field. Confederate victory. Moderator, Tom Sparhawk.
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  4. January 22, 2000
    • Incedent at the Battle of the Bulge - WW2 HO scale evening game. Crossfire rules. Germans had to exit one third of their troops through a town and off the edge of the table. A near thing with the American's barely holding onto the town. Moderator, Warren Peterson.
      • American
        • Scott Davis - field commander
        • Terry Callahan
        • Tom Sparhawk
      • German
        • Dave Harrison- field commander
        • James Prior
        • Joe Shaffer
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  5. January 29, 2000
    • Bombing attack on Port Moresby - Coral Sea Campaign. Blue Sky rules. Three Japanese Zeros tried to sweep four Airacobras from the sky as three Emilys loaded with bombs went for the airfield. Four Airacobras were lost, but the Emilys didn't make it as four more Airacobras scrambled from the base and shot them down. Antiaircraft fire from the base took out two of the Zeros as well. Moderator, Tom Sparhawk.
      • Allied
        • Warren Peterson - flight commander
        • Dave Harrison
      • Japanese
        • Terry Callahan
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  6. February 5, 2000 - No game. Some people have trouble with priorities.
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  7. February 12, 2000
    1. Somewhere in Northern France. WW2 15mm. Battleground Rules. Play test of Joe Shaffer's rule modifications. Americans assault a crossroads in an attempt to stop retreating German supply trucks. Three American squads and four tanks assaulted the same number of Germans. Americans lost one squad and five tanks (three tank reinforcements), while the Germans lost two squads and one tank. Supply trucks escaped. Moderator - Joe Shaffer.
      • American
        • James Prior - Platoon Commander
        • Dave Enders
        • Tim Enders
        • Warren Pererson
      • German
        • Terry Callahan - Platoon Commander
        • Scot Davis
        • Tom Sparhawk
    2. Over the Baltic. WW2 1/285. Blue Sky Rules. Six Shturmoviks were headed to attack a German tank column, escorted by four flights of Soviet fighters, including six of the outdated I-16s. They were met by five flights of Germans. In a real furball involving ramming and unintentional crashes all but one of the German planes were lost. On the last turn before the bombers were to exit the field the fourth Shturmovik was shot down, which meant a German victory. No Moderator.
      • Soviets
        • Terry Callahan
        • Warren Peterson
        • Joe Shaffer
      • Germans
        • Scot Davis
        • Dave Enders
        • James Prior
        • Tom Sparhawk
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  8. February 19, 2000
    1. Somewhere in Northern Virginia. Civil War 15mm. Johnny reb 2.5 rules. Cavalry skirmish. Union and Confederate cavalry try to secure a roadway for infantry movement. Stunning Union defeat - Confederates lost less than ten figures while the Union lost well over 40. It was not pretty. No moderator.
      • Union
        • Terry Callahan
        • Warren Pererson
        • Tom Sparhawk
      • Confederate
        • Scot Davis
        • Dave Enders
        • Tim Enders
        • Dave Harrison
    2. Northern Europe. WW2 1/285. Blue Sky Rules. Sixteen B-24s with six Mustangs as escorts attacked a German factory complex. Opposed by 16 German fighters - 4 Me 410s, 4 Me 110s, 6 Fw 190s and 2 Do 335s. A real slugfest with the game coming down to the last roll. American victory, but barely. US lost six bombers and four fighters. German losses were 13 fighters. Play test of new citical hit table, which worked fairly well. No moderator.
      • Americans
        • Terry Callahan
        • Tim Enders
        • Tom Sparhawk
      • Germans
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  9. February 26, 2000
    Battle of Britain Campaign playtest. WW2 1/285. Blue Sky Rules. First four moves. German bomber attacks on two radar stations. First flight of 14 Ju87s, 4 Ju88s, 7 109s and 4 110s, were met by 14 Spitfires and 7 Blenheims. Germans won the engagement, destroying 10 British planes with minimal loses. Attack on the radar base by the Ju87s was ineffective. On the return the flight was met by 8 Hurricanes and 3 German fighters were lost. Bombing attack on the other radar station caused minimal damage. Some rule modifications became evident. Also playtested the new revised citical hit table. Moderator, Tom Sparhawk
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  10. March 4, 2000
    1. Civil War - Johnny Reb 2.5 Rules - AP Hill's attack at Antietam. Half the US line could not advance. Other half attacked a weak center, captured two gun batteries and routed off a couple of regiments. A gallant but impractical cavalry charge by the CS lost 75% of the troopers. With US in firm control of the CS center, CS withdrew.
    2. Battle of Britain Campaign playtest. WW2 1/285. Blue Sky Rules. Moves five through thirteen. The two German attacking flights returned to France to rearm and repair. On move ten the Germans flew north and attacked radar site R6 and destroyed it. The 37 German planes were intercepted on their return flight by four spitfires, with the result being two spitfires shot down and minimal damage to the Germans. Moderator, Tom Sparhawk
      • British
        • Terry Callahan
        • James Prior
      • Germans
        • Warren Peterson
        • Joe Shaffer
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  11. March 11, 2000
    1. WW2 Air to Air combat. 1/300 scale. Blue Sky rules. Sixteen B-17s, unescorted, tried to fly through six German fighters. Eight of the B-17s were destroyed, the others badly damaged. No German planes lost. This was a play test of a con game to be put on at Barracks Battles next week, with the planes moving at random. Points given to fighters for damaging or destroying the B-17s. Moderator, Tom Sparhawk.
      • German
        • Terry Callahan
        • James Prior - Most points. Shot down 4 B-17s.
        • Joe Shaffer
    2. WW2 Naval - Convoy raid. 1/1200 scale ships. Ship Base 3 rules. The Sharnhorst and the Von Hipper attacked a British Convoy of four oilers protected by the Royal Sovereign, one heavy and two light cruisers, and four destroyers. British were getting the worst of the deal until the Hipper took a torpedo and started to flood. After the smoke cleared two oilers escaped, and the only ships left were the Sharnhorst and the Royal Soverign. What a mess.
      • British
        • Terry Callahan
        • Joe Shaffer
      • Germans
        • James Prior
        • Tom Sparhawk
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  12. March 18, 2000 - Big Muddy Barracks Battles at Jefferson Barracks
    WW2 Air to Air combat. 1/300 scale. Blue Sky rules. A     convention game with eight German players. Sixteen B-17s, unescorted, tried to fly through sixteen German fighters. No one had played this game before, and most did quite well. Only five B-17s made it through to the edge of the board. Two of the bombers lost both pilot and copilot. Six fighters were shot down. The whole game, including flight instructions, took 2 hours 15 minutes. The list below gives the names of the players and the points they scored in the game. Moderator, Tom Sparhawk.
    • Phil Hartman (Me109G) - 63
    • Jeannette Tripp (FW190A) - 58
    • Rolando Valdez (FW190A) - 45
    • Alex Neiman (Me109G) - 37
    • Nathaniel Weber (Me110H) - 30
    • Kevin Weber (Me109G) - 25
    • Chris Pettet (Me410A) - 23
    • Dave Neiman (FW190A) - 19
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  13. March 25, 2000
    1. British Colonial 25mm scale. Sword and the Flame rules. Two British platoons with a gatling gun were ordered to check out a small settlement. They made it half way there. Zulus streamed out of the rocks and over the hills and destroyed one platoon and the gatling gun. They chased the other platoon out of the valley. British loses were 35 of 46 engaged. Zulus lost 38 of 120. A glorious washing of the spears. No moderator.
      • British
        • Terry Callahan
        • James Prior
      • Zulu
        • Warren Peterson
        • Tom Spahawk
    2. Viking raid 25mm scale. Battle Troll rules. Three groups of vikings attacked a small farmstead to steal livestock. No livestock was taken, but carnage aplenty. Two viking heros were killed, one broke an agreement with the farm owner, one accidentially killed one of his own retainers, and one guy fell down a well. A couple of hurscarls broke into a shed only to discover a pack of wolves and a gang of townsfolks instead of the treasure they expected. Beside the ice storm, fog, rain, and constant falling down it was quite an interesting skirmish. No one would admit to being the moderator.
      • Vikings all:
        • Terry Callahan
        • Warren Peterson
        • James Prior
        • Tom Sparhawk
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  14. April 1, 2000
    Civil War 15mm scale. Johhny Reb 2.5 rules. Cavalry were holding the ground as about 10 brigades per side came in randomly on one of three random roads. Five objectives were placed, where one side had to hold three to win. Union had excellent rolls as far as roads were concerned and came in evenly. Confederates bogged down with 60% of their force coming in on one road. Union right flank - six brigades - crushed the three confederate brigades facing it. Left flank fairly quiet. Clear Union victory. No moderator.
    • Confederates
      • Terry Callahan
      • James Prior
    • Union
      • Joe Shaffer
      • Tom Spahawk
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  15. April 8, 2000
    1. Coral Sea Campaign - WW2 Naval 1:2400 scale. ShipBase3 Rules. A small US cruiser group finally caught up with the IJN cruisers that had shelled Port Moresby. IJN lost two heavy and one light cruisers because they were severly damaged from an earlier air attack. US took no damage. It was not an even battle. Moderator - Tom Sparhawk.
      • Japanese
        • Terry Callahan
        • Warren Peterson
      • USA
        • Joe Shaffer
        • Bill Williams
    2. Coral Sea Campaign. 1:300 scale aircraft. Blue Sky rules. 16 Nells with four zero escorts made a bombing run on the airfield at Port Moresby. Seven Airacobras flying CAP contested the attack with the usual results. Three airacobras lost to one zero. Nells had a rough time, though, with almost half of the flight shot down with relatively minimal damage to the airfield. Moderator - Tom Sparhawk
      • Japanese
        • Terry Callahan
        • Warren Peterson
        • James Prior
      • USA
        • Joe Shaffer
        • Bill Williams
    3. Somewhere near Greece - Ancient Naval 1:600 scale. Trireme Rules. Sixteen galleys, evenly matched, engaged in a small chain of islands. The "Reds" beat the crap out of the "Yellows" by ganging up on one small part of their fleet. Lots of wrecks and abandoned ships, but the Yellow king escaped capture. No Moderator.
      • Reds
        • Terry Callahan
        • Warren Peterson
        • Joe Shaffer
      • Yellows
        • James Prior
        • Tom Sparhawk
        • Bill Williams
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  16. April 15, 2000
    Civil War 15mm scale. Johhny Reb 2.5 rules. Two union corps were trapped in a pass. Two confederate divisions were assaulting from one direction and another confederate blocking force came in on their rear. Union had to get the majority of their force and some supply wagons off through the blocking force... Hidden markers used for blocking force originally were all false, and only two brigades came in to block. Confederates pushed uniformly across the main front and drove the union back to a second defensive position. Union detached a division to try to clear the blocking force. Union lost all of their smoothbore guns but held up well. Game ended in a draw. No moderator.
    • Confederates
      • James Prior
      • Tom Spahawk
    • Union
      • Terry Callahan
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  17. April 22, 2000
    Civil War 15mm scale. Johhny Reb 2.5 rules. One big ridge in the middle of the table, with a pass as the objective. One brigade on each side deployed at start with 6 (CS) or 7(US) more brigades to enter randomly. Started well for the union as they had firm posession of the objective on initial deployment. Their position soon fell apart as a confederate brigade flanked their forward position. After some dancing around the serious fighting began. US right flank collapsed after it was pulled thin by a flanking movement and the weakened center was assaulted by a large CS brigade. US Left flank under pressure as well and in danger of collapse. The proverbial towel was thrown in after ten turns as the federals had lost most of their artillery and a significant number of troops. Clear confederate victory. No moderator.
    • Confederates
      • James Prior
      • Tom Spahawk
    • Union
      • Terry Callahan
      • Warren Peterson
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  18. April 29, 2000
    British Colonial 25mm scale. Sword and Flame rules. 60 British Infantry, a 6 pounder, a gatling gun, and a correspondent from the Times occupied a three section fortification. Zulus attacked from four possible directions (randomly rolled for each unit). 120 Zulus attacked and were repulsed with moderate loses for the British. 120 more Zulus attacked and caused heavier British casualties. 120 more Zulus attacked again. British were able to defend only one section of the fortification on this final assault. It was a near thing with good service by the correspondent shooting a Zulu leader just before an assault. British had 14 infantry, 2 (of 8) gunners, and the correspondent when the final assault was repulsed. British victory. No moderator.
    • British
      • Joe Shaffer
      • Tom Spahawk
    • Zulus
      • Warren Peterson
      • James Prior
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  19. May 6, 2000 - No game - Joe Shaffer's Graduation party. He received a BA in Liberal Studies fron Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville after being in college for nearly 20 years. He starts the masters program in June. Congradulations Joe!!!
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  20. May 13, 2000
    Civil War 15mm scale. Johhny Reb 2.5 rules. Assault on a small earthwork. Five CS brigades attacked two US brigades and a fortification with two 30# Parrotts and two 8" Howitzers, and two regiments. Grueling fight for the flanks culminated with a combined assault on the fortification. After much slaughter the US asked for terms. Hard fought CS victory. No moderator.
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  21. May 20, 2000 - No game. Sparhawk was off in Ol' Virginny to look for a house. Found one.
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  22. May 27, 2000 - Visited Fort Knox, attanded NashCon and stopped by at Fort Donaldson.
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  23. June 3, 2000
    1. Coral Sea Campaign - WW2 Air 1:300 scale. Blue Sky Rules. Two flights of Betty's attacked Port Moresby. There was no CAP, so the bombers dropped their loads with little opposition. Moderate damage to the base. Moderator - Tom Sparhawk.
      • Japanese
        • James Prior
      • USA
        • Joe Shaffer
    2. "Civil War" 15mm scale. Johhny Reb 2.5 rules. With three players we decided to do something odd - Paraguay was in a fort attacked by Brazil, Argentina and Peru. A medium works fort held the center with one brigade. The three other players attacked with three brigades each. All had repeating rifles. Assault by Brazil breached the works early as the defenders fled in terror from their attackers. Brazil then occupied the works as the defenders were slaughtered as were most other attackers. Brazilian victory as the others conceded. No moderator.
      • Argentina
        • James Prior
      • Brazil
        • Tom Spahawk
      • Peru
        • Joe Shaffer
    3. Viking raid 25mm scale. Battle Troll rules. Three groups of vikings attacked a small farmstead to steal livestock and capture slaves. One group captured two women and killed three Christian drunks. Another captured a sheep and a pig. The third group kind of beat itself up by having one guy fall down a well and two more accidentially slain by their leader. A general fight developed and eventually broke off and people went home to lick their wounds. No moderator.
      • Vikings all:
        • James Prior
        • Joe Shaffer
        • Tom Sparhawk
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  24. June 10, 2000
    • Battle of Front Royal Gap - Civil War Campaign battle. Johnny Reb 2.5 rules. 1430 to 1830. Two marching columns literally ran into each other a couple of miles south of Front Royal. After the initial surprise the Confederates held the important road junction and the Union formed up defensively. Minor probes through the afternoon of the Union left were repulsed. About 1630 a Union brigade entered the field from the north and was met by three Confederate brigades. After some initial frustrations the Confederates drove them from the field. Minor casualties on both sides. As night fell both sides dug in and waited for the dawn... Moderator, Tom Sparhawk.
      • Union
        • Pat McGarrity as General Burnside - field commander
        • Warren Peterson
        • Joe Shaffer
      • Confederate
        • Terry Callahan as General D. H. Hill - field commander
        • James Prior
        • Bill Williams
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  25. June 17, 2000 - The last game on Mary Jane. Since Tom Sparhawk is moving we had a game that started at noon with a barbeque break at dinner time and ending around 1:00 AM. After the last game we dismantled the table to move it to Terry Callahan's house where future games will be played. During the day a reported from a local paper showed up to do a story. Also arriving was Lance Farley from Maryland who flew in for the activities unannounced. He had played here for years before being transferred by the Air Force.

    • Dawn at Chickamagua - A refight of an old classic. 15mm scale. Johnny Reb 2.5 rules. Rebel assault on Sept 19 on Lafayette Road. Initial rebel successes were turned around later in the day. Union left flank able to mount a small counterattack. Union right flank collapsed but the rebels were so weakened that they could not punch through the remaining defenders. Union victory. No moderator.
      • Union
        • Dave Harrison
        • Warren Peterson
        • Joe Shaffer
        • Tom Sparhawk
      • Confederates
        • Terry Callahan
        • Lance Farley (Visiting from Maryland for the day)
        • JC Shaffer
    • Coral Sea Campaign - WW2 Air 1:300 scale. Blue Sky Rules. The Allies finally found the remaining Japanese Carrier and attacked with twelve dive bombers and five torpedo planes. There were four wildcat escorts and four zeros on CAP. Torpedo flight was attacked by the zeros and destroyed. Dive bombers scored one hit on the Shokaku and the rest missed or were shot down. Now the Allies know the location of the carrier future attacks are bound to occur. No moderator.
      • Japanese
        • Terry Callahan
        • James Prior
      • Allies
        • Lance Farley
        • Dave Harrison
        • Warren Peterson
        • JC Shaffer
        • Joe Shaffer
        • Tom Sparhawk
    • Viking raid 25mm scale. Battle Troll rules. We were all exhausted by this time so eight independent groups of Vikings wandered on to the table looking for adventure and treasure. After initial sparring and verbal jabs we got down to business. One hero was killed buy some kid with a rock, another suffered an arrow shot, a third had his arm chopped off. General mayhem and laughter, so we all won. No moderator.
      • Vikings all:
        • Terry Callahan
        • Lance Farley
        • Dave Harrison
        • Warren Peterson
        • James Prior
        • JC Shaffer
        • Joe Shaffer
        • Tom Sparhawk
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  26. June 24, 2000 - Game at Terry's house - First game at the Shiloh address.
    Civil War 25MM Scale. Brother Against Brother rules. Tried out a new rules set for ACW skirmish rules 25MM scale. Played two games with equal forces each time, hard fought and lots of casualties. Both times the Confederates were roundly defeated. No moderator. This is my first attempt at updateing the Web Page.
    • Players
      • Tom Sparhawk
      • James Price
      • Terry Callahan
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