"Most Obscure Conflicts You Game?" Topic

Fascinating to see how many of these I haven't done, or have only played once.

A little bit surprised to see 1813-14 and 1866 are considered to be obscure though!

And Russian Civil War … pretty mainstream I'd have thought – anyway I guess the voting might show stuff like that up (are the conflicts that top this poll going to be the most popular obscure conflicts to wargame or actually just the ones on the list that aren't genuinely obscure?) …

Phil

My problem with this poll is that I now think of it all as fantasy. So I have said other. I can and do field figures in close to the appropriate uniforms and equipment for a few conflicts on the list but can no longer think of them as actually that conflict.

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The Francesian Wars.
(Francesia is the continent where my imagi-nations are)

Not in any particular order …

1) The Luddite Rebellion

2) The French Intervention in Mexico (though, oddly celebration of the Battle of Puebla is highly mainstream, just nobody knows they are doing it)

3) Forest Brothers/Polish Resistance/French Partisans (mostly serious, but 'Allo 'Allo! sometimes)

4) Imaginations 1840's – Slobovia (Slow-BOH-vee-yah) vs. Jerkwadistan (yerk-WHAD-ih-stahn) in pseudo-Wallachia basically what if Wallachia rose up as an independent power and a Western Ottoman region also did, serving as a semi-independent buffer for the ongoing conflict.

5) Momchil

6) Wladislaus Dragwlya's campaign against the Ottomans through his betrayal

Oops … six.

The 1889 Anglo-Oenotrian War.

if we are to pick 5 should'nt "most" be removed from the title?

Or shouldn't it be the bottom five?

As Phil said, I suspect we'll just find out which ones aren't actually obscure at all.

Other – None of the Above

Other-- whatever pops out of my own head.

Interesting list – I had never heard of the Prayer Book Rebellion before

I also don't think of the Mexican American War as obscure, but perhaps that is a North American centric view

I have actually done a few of them – but two that are not on the list that I game are the previously noted French Intervention in Mexico and the Riel Rebellion

I'm with Flintloque.

Never played any of the ones listed.

Is the Russian Civil War really more obscure than the Spanish Civil War?

The great Paraguayan War and the War of the Triple Alliance are the same war. Since we do that War I got to answer twice.

I am to the point I mostly play historic forces fighting with sci-fi weapons and or fighting aliens or monsters. I am working on pure WWII

I have not considered any on the list though I have been toying with the Portuguese Restoration War in the 16th century or the Portuguese Liberal War in the early 19th century. I am however currently working on the early Portuguese colonial wars.

I game the Risorgimento 1859.

Missed the Chaco war. I also want to play Russo-Japanese War which was also missed.

Other – the Cod War

Other – the 1713-1714 campaign of Catalonia

I'm working on painting up Austrian and Piedmont troops for the Second Italian War of Independence. So far, I've yet to run into any fellow wargamers who had ever heard of this war before. Maybe this should be added to the list?

Isn't it funny: if I chose a momentous conflict like the Thirty Years War almost anybody not a wargamer would say it was obscure.

I haven't done this yet, but I'm thinking of gaming the Polish-Soviet War.

People tell me the 1877-8 Russo-Ottoman war is obscure. I put my choices as periods I am very interested in gaming

Skirmishes/raids/battles in the American Southwest from 1680 to about 1775 (+/-) are about as obscure as I get with Historical war games.

SF and Fantasy are my own settings so they is automatically not "mainstream" I assume because it isn't canned.

"… I put my choices as periods I am very interested in gaming,,,"

An accurate summation of my approach to historical war gaming.

Great Northern war (not really obscure?)
Haitian Revolt

Russo-Swedish War 1788-1790

Powhatan Revolt
King Phillips War

The Great Paraguayan War is the War of the Triple Alliance.

Missing Chaco War (as mentioned), the Miami Campaign (Harmar, St. Clair, and Wayne, oh my!), Vikings against Skraelings, the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the Great Pacific War.