Are there any wargames for the poor? like using rocks or something like that

Are there any wargames for the poor? like using rocks or something like that

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You could just print or draw the units.

if that so, which game should i start with?

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Paper-silhouette miniatures predate widespread usage of modern mass-manufacture pewter then later plastics miniatures.

There are games made to play like this, eg OGRE is a classic wargame that plays only using chits.

Modern games have lots of papercraft conversions though. Anything from 40k to Kings of War works fine.

Kings of War works well for that if you want a fantasy game, there is no unit removal and no true line of sight, so just make paper rectangles and write the unit name on them and you are good to go.


Plus the base rules are free and there is a free army builder on the net

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Almost any wargaming rules work with toy soldiers and wooden blocks

The question is what kind of game do you want?

normal fantasy?

Battlebox-level warmachine. You get everything you need to play in the starter, and just buying a different caster totally changes your playstyle.

Infinity is playable up to tournament level with just the starter and several extra figures, although the game is extremely complex (even more so than warmachine) and isn't for everyone.

Flames of war can be played with 1/72 kits and soldiers just by doubling the ranges.

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coins - heads v tails, bigger the coin the better the unit

how is song of blades and heroes?

I know that people on this board have a raging hateboner for some reason, but Brikwars could work out quite well if you still have old Lego lying around.

buy bases
glue metal binder clips to them
print out sprite art or pictures of models
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The MOC rules also apply to most toys

Nearly any game switched to 15mm instead of 28-32mm.

Quite good, but the core mechanic will drive most standard wargamers nuts. In short, you don't get to activate your entire force automatically.

In theory, you get a lot of models standing around.
In practice, turns go very fast so you don't get that nasty burn of activating just a third of your force then handing the table to your opponent for an hour. He's got the same constraints, and you will be rolling dice again shortly.

I enjoy it a lot.

Great for narrative campaigns

Hex and chit wargames bro. Rise and Fall of the Third Reich is legitimately a great game, and plays better than 40K ever has IMO. You can print out scans of most of these for free (See /hwg/) or actually buy them if you want carboard pieces.

We just have a hateboner for it because of the autist who always comes in suggesting it.

OP, Chess is a tactical miniatures wargame.

Two out of three, maybe only one out of three.

If you wanna be a real bad-ass go buy a giant block of sculpey or air-dry clay for like 15$ and get real good at sculpting/carving your own guys.

Battletech works reasonably well, all you need is the hex grid and some d6s. Everything else can be done with proxies, from coins to rocks to toys, so long as they fit the hexes, have a visible orientation, and are distinguishable from one another.

Based on comments from some, I suspect the recent starter plastics can be had cheap.

De Bellis Antiquitatis. You can snap up the DBA 2.2 rules for around $10 on Kindle, the cheapest (and shittiest) army of Early Libyans will cost you $13. The most expensive armies can cost around $60-70.

Boards are made of $5 of MDF and paint.

In fact, you can play this with bits of paper. But wargames are more fun with war-barbies no?

There was a Warhammer spoof called Toyhammer or some shit that was essentially Warhammer played with whatever toys you could buy.

Can't be arsed to find the download for you though.

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check out WarStuff

>wooden blocks

Kriegsspiel - if it was good enough for the Prussian Army, it's good enough for you. You can just print out maps and carve units out of balsa wood

It's pretty old, but Battlefleet Gothic works just fine using paper printouts. All rules (including terrain) operate on a completely flat 2-dimensional table, the actual models are really just eyecandy. There's even a pretty decent collection of top-down sprites for that purpose floating around.

Alternatively, it's also got a really good Vassal module, if you don't feel like leaving the house.

Infinity.

All the rules are free and the models all represent size templates anyway so just print pics of your units onto size markers.

It's a tactical war-themed game.

Pretty much every game that doesn't use true line of sight