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Count Belisarius wrote: Sat Dec 18, 2021 10:29 am I don't think there is anything niche any more (apart from EB's basing).
I take that as a compliment.
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For me it's the Winter War...

Plenty of figures available for that you'd think...

for Finns yes. Everyone seems to like the superhuman gallant Finns.

Russians in the appropriate helmets.... not so much from what I can find.
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bangorstu wrote: Sat Dec 18, 2021 2:43 pm For me it's the Winter War...

Plenty of figures available for that you'd think...

for Finns yes. Everyone seems to like the superhuman gallant Finns.

Russians in the appropriate helmets.... not so much from what I can find.
Depends on your figure size. Copplestone Castings do Russians in Schlem caps in the Back of Beyond range, but it's 28mm.
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World2dave wrote: Sat Dec 18, 2021 11:08 am Lemmings?
Maybe a bit too predictable on-table, especially if there are any really steep hills.
I'll go for obvious here - surely the Gateway cavalry are the lemmings of wargaming? When one runs, the rest just follow.
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Tim - alas I game WW2 in 15mm and 20mm....
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Chilean wars of independence
Guerra del Pacifico, land and sea
Gran Chaco war
1940 Ecuador v Peru
1980 Chile v Argentina or Peru, or both
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Don't forget the 100-hour La Guerra del Futbol between Honduras and El Salvador in 1969.
Kein Plan überlebt den ersten Kontakt mit den Würfeln. (No plan survives the first contact with the dice.)
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The last combat deployment of the P51.
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Buff Redux wrote: Tue Dec 28, 2021 8:32 am The last combat deployment of the P51.
The Indonesians had some Cavalier Mustangs for counter-insurgency operations. They may have seen active service in Timor L'este.
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Should have been shot out of the sky by our Mirages.

The 100 hour futbol war is interesting air gaming, but the ground war was horribly one sided.
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