"Most obscure thing/period that you game" Topic

Inspired by the "how often do you play solo" thread, since sometimes you play solo because nobody else is interested in the same subject. This question is interesting to me because there are SO MANY popular, easy to game periods that have countless rules and figures available that are widely distributed. You can practically fall into these popular periods/genres with no effort on your part required at all (except to spend some geld). I salute you for your individualism/contrariness. Please tell me what you game that falls into a rarely gamed category and why you persevere as an oddball- what with all the work required.
For me it is:
1st Schleswig-Holstein War (yes, I said 1st!)
I like the being on the cusp of all the new tactics and tech coming up and the foreshadowing of it with new small unit tactics. (company in column). I like that they still have colorful uniforms and that the battles are small. I like having a reason to field what is normally a minor country. It is all almost quaint, if one can ever say that about warfare and armies) and not anywhere as serious in the consequences as so many other conflicts (the war ended more as a result of changes in the diplomatic mood than in any cataclysmic battle or event).
What about you?

If you count wars gamed but don't really have the right troops for,

War of the Pacific 1879-1884
French Invasion of Mexico 1862-1867

I game French Indochina, but that is only moderately obscure. I love the Pacific theater in WWII, and sometimes that seems like an obscure theater!

The Nine Years War and the Jacobite rebellions in Ireland and Scotland.

Either Zorro or late 1600s/1700s Spanish North America Soldados de Cuera fights. Ignore the rare Winchester or revolver in the hands of the Indios for the latter.

Irish 11 Years' War.

I may add the Jacobites to my lace war stuff as soon as I find a good brand of tartan paint.

For me, it is the First Russo-Turkish War of Catherine II (the Great), 1769-1774, which ultimately wrested the Crimea from the Ottoman Empire.

Lots of innovations by the Russians that presaged tactics later employed by Napoleon I and his contemporaries -- extensive use of light troops, infantry advancing in divisional squares to negate Ottoman superiority in cavalry, greatly-improved logistical services, land operations timed to coincide with naval operations.

Some photos of our recent game in 54mm -- the Battle of Kozludzha, 10 June 1774:

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I used to game GNW and considered it obscure – just about had to hand carve my own armies. Nowadays you can't move for figures, uniform guides, books and rules.

Just goes to show that today's obscure is tomorrow's Cool thing to do.

Maybe not so obscure now but in the past, I gamed The French Intervention into Mexico 1862 – 1865 and the Moro Rebellion 1901 – 1903. Both periods generated some wonderfully colorful and enjoyable games.

I do a fair bit of the Franco-Austrian War of 1859, which feels much more obscure than its big brothers of the Crimea, 1864, 1866 and 1870.

Senussi revolt 1916 (also a bit mainstream these days).

Boring old East Africa in WW1.

I've done the Indian invasion of Goa twice, as well as the Indo-Pakistan War.

Slowly moving to gaming the Crimea War in Turkey

Also game actions between Persians and British during the 1800s

Depends on what you call obscure.
Is the NYW obscure? More so then WSS, but not in the same league as French in Mexico.

I do TYW, which ain't obscure unless you compare it to ECW.

Pakistan vs USSR/Afghanistan in the air during the Soviet invasion of Afghanland.

I used to game the War of Jenkins Ear, honestly. The british and Spanish quarrelled up and down the Georgia coast as far as St. Augustine.

I feel so pedestrian in my gaming.

The Luddite Rebellions. There are a number of intriguing scenarios in there. Love it.

I intentionally research the obscure military history so I have articles on many of them. Internationally, I like the Greek revolution and the Balkans war as well as the Danish 1848 civil war. But those are not obscure enough. The research on the Russian in Central Asia was fun and hard. The African sa heal articles were a challenge.

In America, I did many mini-books on the military history of the native tribes prior to 1850. The book on the filibuster operations provided several surprises.

2nd Boer War, but it is not that obscure. It is just the most obscure that I play. Does the FPW count?

I know it doesn't count since I don't actually game it, but I've thought about how to game The Milwaukee Bridge War ( link ) .

It's not so obscure now but when I started playing it 20-25 years ago the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78 was pretty uncommon. As far as historicals go, the most obscure now would probably be medieval (13th century-ish) naval, primarily set in the Baltic. Another obscure thing I game is the assault on Arthur's castle at the end of Army of Darkness.

I had plans for a Northern Crusade game/armies, but never followed through. That is about as obscure as I think I get…

Damon.

Considering doing the Battle of Five Oaks, part of the Pemican War. The 200th anniversary is next month.

Black powder corporate warfare!

Mike.

I once had 15mm Flower Wars armies for both Aztecs and Tlaxcallans for DBA 1.0… army changes in subsequent editions fostered merging troops from both armies into the newer Aztec army.

I have themed a few warbands for Frostgrave from Runequest: Ducks, Lunars, and Morokanth.

How about 28mm Traveller skirmsh using FiveCore, I am working on Droyne and K'kree groups right now.

Austro-Prussian War of 1866
Maipo-Liberation of South America
Sumerians
1mm Napoleonics (Knight Design)
2mm ACW
newest is Granny Grating Armies
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Hussite Rebellion

Post-Apocalyptic Mad Max:Fury Road in 28mm with custom kitbashed cars and miniatures. I am not sure how obscure it is, but I made/altered each piece of that game. I also kitbashed the rules from Gorka-Morka and Two Hour Wargames mechanics. That was fun.

I painted up armies for the Greco-Turkish War of 1897. I'd like to do a mid-15th century Byzantine army for Constantine's invasion of Attica in 1444.

Grelber

Most of mine are in alternate universes, based on Europe in the 1870s or 1670s.

For me it would probably be Back of Beyond Chinese interwar stuff

War of the Triple Alliance, aka the Paraguayan War of 1864-1870. Fortunately, I own sufficient figures to do any scenario since my buddies are not about to invest in something that obscure.

Original series Star Trek with home-brew mod of "Full Thrust/More Thrust", no Fleet Books. The entire Federation 'Starfleet' consists of 14 Constitution-class vessels and not much else.

Mythic Greece RPG.

Tekumel.

2nd Samoan Civil War

Currently painting Mexicans for the MAW so it'll be that soon.