"Most obscure conflict you game...." Topic

Currently (!), it would be the 15mm Modern Russians I am painting up for the various post-1992 Chechen Wars. Im waiting for Eureka to release their 15mm Chechens, hopefully in November.

Using the same minis, I plan to game the 1990's Abkhazian-Geogian Wars as well as the Uzbekistan vrs Islamic insurgents conflicts at a later date.

Lastly, I have a few Somalies ill be painting up for the current insurgency against the African Union forces (this one in 28mm).

Yours?

I suppose my most obscure stuff centers around the Reformation, namely the Pilgrimage of Grace, the Prayer Book Rebellion and the German Peasants' War. I also have forces for Henry VIII's 1544 campaign in France. Well, to be honest I have stuff for pretty much any scrape Henry got himself in. All 28mm.

I also do the First Opium War in 28mm. Not too obscure IMHO. I'm working on a sizable project for the Third Mahratta and Pindari War.

The troubles in modern Yerbouti. AFAIK I am the only person gaming these at the moment.

The Yankee Canuck War of 1885.

- Thanksgiving Dinner at the In-Laws, Late 20th Century (no, really, we have a wargame for this)
- 19th Cent Nestorian Blood Feuds (generic)
- Carter-Wakefield Feud in Mayberry (fictional)

"The Yankee Canuck War of 1885."

Man, that's so obscure I've never even heard of it! :)

I suppose my most obscure army is Wallmoden's Corps 1813-1814. Wallmoden's Corps fought in a sideshow in the North of Germany during the War of Liberation, overshadowed by the battle of Liepzig. While obscure, I've noticed it's a popular choice amongst wargamers because of the colourful, multi-national nature of the corps.

The Bongolesia Nova Caledonia Cow War! Seems nobody wants to claim the beast.

The Greco-Turkish War of 1897. It started out as just one unit of Greeks, and that was going to be it. Somehow, it just grew and grew. Honest!
Grelber

For real life, Chinese warlord armies engaged in skirmishes back of beyond

Fantasy, the Prussian-Orc Wars

the soldiers vs the rats from the Nut Cracker xmas play/movie. lol

Not recently, but 1848 revolutionary street battles back in the day. More recently, Vendee Royalist counter-revolution.

I'm eyeing Garibaldi vs. Neapolitans… but will press Napoleonic troops into service rather than collecting new figures.

War of the Triple Alliance. Very obscure (and weird!)

I do War of the Triple Alliance, also once did the Vendee insurrection but sold those.
Among some of my other wars:
Ogaden War of 1979 between Ethiopia and Somalia
Taiping Rebellion in 19th century China
Mexican Revolution of 1910-20
Chinese Civil War between Reds and Nationalists 1946-49
Spanish conquistadors against the Mapuche in Chile

And I do not own any American Civil War stuff nor any Napoleonics. So yeah, I guess I like unusual wars.

The Great Pacific War of 1926 courtesy of Hector C. Bywater.

Like Sundance above – I often like to replicate incursions into Yerbouti

Doing Pyrrhus vs Carthage soon.

Adventures in Nyasaland in the late 1800s. And WW2 German invasion of Yugoslavia.
I know, not that obscure. But the most such that I'm gaming.

Australian Army, Royal Australian Airforce & the Royal Australian Navy Vs Orangeland (1970's), later the Musorians (1980's). Regards
Allan

I think mine are all fairly boringly mainstream, although SCW used to be a bit obscure it isn't any more.

I remain fascinated by the Austro-Prussian War of 1866, which seems to get less airtime than its big brother of 1870.

It would probably be the Carlist Wars but that is kind of main stream now with its own board and all.

the soldiers vs the rats from the Nut Cracker xmas play/movie. lol

… well, the ballet, but Hells Yes! I'm doing this in a couple of months! Thanks! And thanks Uesugi Kenshin for the poll … got a good idea out of it.

Now … where can I find a heavy metal recording of the Tchaikovsky score …?

European Intervention On the Island of Porto piluse/ takka tukka Land.

The Cod War, 1973

We have done the Paraguayan War (aka, the War of the Triple Alliance) so much that "no South America" has become a running joke in my group.

We are fooling around with Garibaldi's various campaigns. Mentana anyone?

Does WW2 count as obscure?
Nothing really comes to mind.

Wars of Liberation in Latin America. Second to that would be Somalia in 93 or Haiti in 94. I do not game them but have advised and developed scenarios and technical support to those conflicts.
VR
James Mattes

The 9th Crusade seems rather obscure among gamers.

For fantasy, my Blood Bowl "Slime-o" custom team of jellies, oozes and Lovecraftian horrors is unusual if not obscure.

I have collected, but yet to game, a historical "what-if" involving the last days of the Romanovs where they fight their way out of the Red prison. I also have plans for African conflicts of the Kushite Empire and the establishment of the 25th Dynasty of Egypt that I have never seen gamed.

"Ogaden War of 1979 between Ethiopia and Somalia"

yep, I like the idea of that one too. Lots of good equipment.

The Angolan Border War is one my more obscure wargame periods, but I'll see your Ogaden War and raise you:

The Fishguard Invasion of 1797.

:o)

I'd do the War of Jenkins' Ear if I could find a manufacturer of Bavarian Kettle Drummers …

8th Century Baltic tribal wars. I am learning Dux Bellorum but have no Dark Age figures so I am using my Estonians and Lithuanians, who normally oppose my C13th Livonian Order, as proto-Latvian tribes.

I think you win.

I put together a Lamb War scenario in the 1980s.

Neanderthals vs. Homo Sapiens. Cave man wars.

If Eurekas 15mm Huaxtecs (an Aztec enemy state) ever gets released, that would be my most obscure.

Id still like to game 1912 Balkan War as well.

Why do you think you are the only one Sundance? Au contraire, I've been deploying a Yerboutian (pronounced yer-BOOSH-an) army on my wargame table for years now. The latest scenario involves a nasty border conflict with North Yerbouti.

Are there weapons of mass destruction in Yerbouti?

Not very obscure, I guess, but I like to play the Mexican-American War and the Russian Civil War in 28mm, and the Portuguese Colonials Wars in 15mm.

I would say my Philippines Campaign of 1942 is pretty obscure. Plus my Georgia vs. Russia 2008 too.

Thinking about it, I come to the conclusion that I'm pretty dull. Stuck in the mainsteam.

When I was back in the UK a group of us did the Scanian War of the 1670's

We've done the Siege of Fort Laurens -at- Fort Laurens, in miniature. It sorta sucked

Are there weapons of mass destruction in Yerbouti?

… well, I had chili for lunch …

I'm currently painting the armies for the Great Paraguayan War.