I had this friend in 4th through 6th grade that was obsessed with the Huns, so we would gather in this baseball dugout on the playground and hold tribal councils and defend against this group of girls that would attack us.
I was a bit more involved in creating a backstory for all of this, so I assigned a country for all the groups on the playground, lumping all sorts of different time periods together.
The girls we fought were Egypt, a sort of fantasy Egypt ruled by sulty Oriental princesses and such. The football jocks were Babylon, the area by the door into the basement on the right was Antioch, the built-up area with the climbing walls was Phoenicia, etc. We would occasionally smuggle in big sticks and shields to fight battles, and when we had to go inside in the wintertime, we would surround ourselves with wrestling mats to create a "fortress". Still don't really know why I made everything Middle Eastern, since I really haven't been interested in that period much.
So, anyway, he would assign different historical figures to the five or so other guys in the group, like one guy was Bleda the Hun, I was Panu the Diplomat from RTW: Barbarian Invasion, etc.
The identity of our nation would change alot, depending on what nation or faction from video games we were interested in at the time.he was a massive Byzantineboo, so he styled himself Emperor Constantine for a while and gave me control of Adrianople. There were periodic exiles of certain members, and even an attempted coup once. Over the whole period from 4th to 6th grade, we were the Huns, Seleucids, Byzantines, the Novgorod Republic, Medieval Wales, Arthurian-era Wales (he was Welsh) a Scottish clan, an Iron Age Danish tribe, and even the Nootka Indians from the Pacific Northwest. Maximum autism all around.
Periodically I would try to declare us as a British Iron Age tribe, or as Gaelic Ireland, with constitutions and descriptions of military organizations written up complete with gratuitous use of Gaelic, but that never really took hold. We even used the Pagan symbol frmo Barbarian Invasion as a flag on occasion.