Unlike a fellow gamer who refuses to play a game where "Americans shoot other Americans…" (along with playing games set in Vietnam – where he served – and skirmish games – no idea why for that one,) I have been known to play both sides of the ACW but I prefer Missouri/Southwest settings and early war battles over late war battles and usually play the Union despite my states right personal political leanings. Maybe I like blue more than butternut? I don't know why I prefer the Union but I always seem to play that side unless I run the game.
Digression alert – stopping now will not lose anything relating to this topic.
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You were warned.
Of course I am a sucker to join a game where I get to "Kill Englishmen…" of any era prior to 1914… 
… so if the ACW game goes "what if" with intervention by Britain I am "in" with the side that, to quote an ancestor, "fights the Sassenach foe."
Further digression:
Although I understand from a discussion about 8 years ago that word basically means – "someone who lives 'south' of where I do" and not necessarily English?
from that series of posts: "…Most people would think the Scottish word for an Englishman was Sassenach, when in fact this is not the case. Sassenach is a Gaelic word which simply means "Southerner", so to someone from the Highlands, someone in Edinburgh or Glasgow is as much a Sassenach as an English person is.
Southron is a term you don't hear used that often, but that could be used to refer to the English I guess…."
I have no clue how accurate that term really is. Or how serious the ancestor I knew was. Sarcasm and irony can lost on the young (and I was very young and he was very filled with sarcasm and irony – among other much worse traits.)
Pardon the digression.
completes a Confederate river ironclad.
