 etotheipi  | 30 Sep 2018 6:00 a.m. PST |
What is your favourite "grassroots" (defined however you want) rebellion to game on the tabletop and why? I like the Third Servile War (Slaves, etc. vs Rome, ~70BC). You get a mix of a few fighters, people with possible military education leading large buckets of untrained volunteers motived by hate, fear, and general discontent. Also, there is just enough but not too much info about the battles to give us form, but not so much as it constrains the ability to play interesting situations. |
| GildasFacit | 30 Sep 2018 6:08 a.m. PST |
Actually I'm not particularly interested in any of them. Most rebellions are very one-sided with a few notable exceptions and often rather boring tactically. |
| Ferd45231 | 30 Sep 2018 6:50 a.m. PST |
Old line
"The peasants are revolting!"
"Yes, aren't they." |
 Legion 4  | 30 Sep 2018 7:25 a.m. PST |
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| 23rdFusilier | 30 Sep 2018 7:35 a.m. PST |
I have been reading more about the Haitian uprisings. Something about slaves rising up against their masters and tossing them out. Toussaint l'Ouverture is a fascinating individual. |
 Extra Crispy | 30 Sep 2018 8:31 a.m. PST |
I have never gamed one of them for the reasons laid out by GildasFacit. In my opinion they are politically interesting, and so can make for an interesting boardgame. |
| emckinney | 30 Sep 2018 9:28 a.m. PST |
Someone should host a big convention game of one of the pre-Civil War slave uprisings, just for the sheer shock value. |
| Frederick | 30 Sep 2018 9:47 a.m. PST |
The only ones I use often are Ancients and Medieval – generic settings |
| JimSelzer | 30 Sep 2018 9:48 a.m. PST |
maybe the Mexican revolution or Texas war for independence lets face it the Alamo is about as 1 sided as you can get |
| Lee John Ayre | 30 Sep 2018 10:06 a.m. PST |
I've always fancied gaming The Pilgrimage of Grace, could make for an interesting campaign. |
| Ed Mohrmann | 30 Sep 2018 10:45 a.m. PST |
What Frederick said. The medieval era(s) have some
possibilities. |
| Old Glory | 30 Sep 2018 2:20 p.m. PST |
I have always loved and been partial to Old Glorys revolting peasant mobs!! |
 enfant perdus | 30 Sep 2018 4:54 p.m. PST |
Funny you should mention it Lee John Ayre, because I have done the Pilgrimage of Grace, as well as the German Peasant's Revolt. Gildas Facit makes a fair point, which is why one has to be amenable to a lot of "what if's" and/or doing the tabletop action as part of a campaign game. Besides the usual imbalance of forces, quite a few of the larger uprisings saw precious little fighting after all. Marc Garrett ran a fantastic game at Historicon 2018 (Kill All the Gentlemen) set during the Prayer Book Rebellion. He used Lion Rampant for the rules, which I thought worked very nicely. A key to these sorts of conflicts is to remove the certainty factor regarding unit activation, morale, etc. I like Piquet myself, but Lion Rampant did make for a fun and historical game and was easy for us novices to pick up quickly. |
| Old Contemptibles | 01 Oct 2018 2:08 p.m. PST |
The peasants are truly revolting. Check please! |
| Old Wolfman | 02 Oct 2018 10:32 a.m. PST |
"You said it,they stink on ice."(Mel Brooks) |
| Robert le Diable | 02 Jan 2020 4:51 p.m. PST |
The "Year of Liberty" in Ireland (1798) strikes me as interesting for a "Horse & Musket" era game, in that it has significant element of "grassroots" activity, with also a combination of hand weapons and a variety of firearms together with the possibility of French intervention more substantial than was historically the case. Lots of Chance Cards/scheduled Dice-Rolls or whatever for the element of uncertainty mentioned above. Of course, the near-contemporary conflict in La Vendee has some similarities, with substantial French participation being guaranteed… |
| von Schwartz | 02 Jan 2020 8:26 p.m. PST |
I think Spartacus would be interesting. |
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