Dirty little tricks
I like using obscure units. Army lists that aren't seen on the table often fascinate me. It's an underdog thing. A year or so back, after finally making it to Static Games in Glasgow, after 8 years where i was, for the most part, reliant on the internet, and the local Games Workshop store for connection to the wider hobby, I discovered that the old Warhammer Historical had become a range of games by Warlord Games. World War 2 has long been an uncomfortable subject in my family: on my father's side, his father was a protected trade, and so couldn't enlist, his brother, my great uncle, dodged the draft; his mother's house had a tank crash through their front garden; on my mother's side, my gran, in Northern Ireland, found the Emergency great fun, since US service men brought with them money, records and other things that were nigh unknown in isolated Catholic communities; across the border, in a Donegal cut off by partition, the Civil War was still more of a con...