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Hi all,

I'm looking for a Skirmish game to start playing that:

A) Doesn't involve spending a huge amount of money.
B) Doesn't involve GW in any way shape or form. My finances can't take the immense amount of money it costs to build an army.
C) Is quite fun to play.

Thanks.

Try one of the Ganesha Games
http://www.ganeshagames.net/fantasy/
The rules are cheap to download
You can use any minis you want, have recently seen some using Lego people which looks a blast.
Applicable to 15mm/28mm/54mm minis
Simple rules engine
Great fun
loads of diversity and campaigns means lots of potential

Have been playing the Fear and Faith Horror game and have only scratched the surface with it. Not even started the expansion "Kooky Teenage Monster Hunters" I downloaded yet!




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PS To get started all you need are three measuring sticks, a few dice, and a handful of minis.

There are some scenarios or just make up your own.
A Yahoo group has some useful free support material and advice if required.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/songofblades/

MERCS is pretty good.

http://www.mercsminis.com/

A pair of factions (12 models) plus their game cards is $118. The rulebook is $35.

If you club together with a friend you are looking at $76.50 each for a complete game.

The other thing you need is terrain. You can just improvise with a green cloth over books and stuff, or use terrain you already have from other games.

INFINITY offers good value as well, especially as the rulebook and an excellent army builder are... free!

Puscifer wrote:Hi all,

I'm looking for a Skirmish game to start playing that:

A) Doesn't involve spending a huge amount of money.
B) Doesn't involve GW in any way shape or form. My finances can't take the immense amount of money it costs to build an army.
C) Is quite fun to play.

Thanks.

Brushfire is only $35 to get started, and you don't need to spend anything more to have a good game. You can easily add more troops/heroes to you force and get up to 40k size model counts, but that's not the standard game size (10~20 models is a moderate size game, 20~40 models is a Big game).
No link to GW at all, small Florida based company.
I rather enjoy it, but I might be biased.

I've just had a look at Infinity and the models look amazing and are cheap too.

Might go with that.

Anything else out there along the same sort of lines as Infinity?

I would recommend Malifaux. They have a mini rulebook that is ~$15, a deck of cards (replaces dice) is ~$8 and a starter Crew is ~$35.

I can vouch for infinity as well, fantastic game.

I can only recommend INFINITY as my personal favorite.




Also, the Beasts of War guys made an awesome themed week about Infinity that makes the game really easier to begin with, specially with the Free Quickstart Rules.

I've heard of a game called Urban War and Metropolis???

Can anyone comment on those?

Infinity and Malifaux.

Infinty offers their rulebook free, Malifaux has a 15 dollar rulebook, both use non D6 systems, and both are relatively cheap to get into.

I just tried Small Scale INQ and it was great fun.

I have a post relating to this in the Large Scale games section.

I might actually play this as it is easy to get into, individual models and parts are easy to come by and relatively cheap and lastly it promotes good paint and conversion jobs and is quite cheap to set up (Around £20 for a really nice converted warband of 5-7 models).

Another +1 for Infinity.

Another Sci-fi skirmish game is AE:Bounty. I bought the rulebook as I liked the look of it and it's quite cool in that you can shape your crew to represent various ideals - like a loan Predator, or a band of lowly orcs, or a buddy tag-team.

So you can use your models from other games and represent their idea through the game's rules.

Sounds cool to me but I've yet to play it - been playing too much Infinity. I do intend to play it though!

+1 on infinity

Models are great, can be played with only a few models. Rules are free....

+1 on Ganesha

Easy rules, you can use anything you want, even create youre own modelstats.

Puscifer wrote:I've heard of a game called Urban War and Metropolis???

Can anyone comment on those?

Metropolis is the larger scale game so I think you'd be more interested in UW. I thought it was an interesting ruleset. It's alternating actions (you move a dude, I move a dude) that are broken down into different initiative phases dictated by the orders issued to the models. They also have an interesting way for handling trooper experience: a grunt (caliber 0, as the game referes to it) can run, an elite trooper (caliber 2 or 3) can run a bit faster. Ultimately showing how a more experienced trooper is more efficient on the battlefield. There's a second ed coming out. You might want to give it a look.

Yeah, as I understand it 2nd Ed. is coming out June 1.

Just an fyi, the Malifaux rules manual is on their website in pdf form too. Just check out the forums.

It's a great game. I could explain the rules to you in five minutes, but the amount of depth is staggering.

Malifaux is awesome, it has caught on like willdfire recently at my local game store.

It has just the right amount of action, mixed with the right amount of humour, tricks, and silliness.

Also it is perfectly legal to openly cheat. What's not to love.

Shadowseer_Kim wrote:Malifaux is awesome, it has caught on like willdfire recently at my local game store.

It has just the right amount of action, mixed with the right amount of humour, tricks, and silliness.

Also it is perfectly legal to openly cheat. What's not to love.

Can it be easily used/adapted to other genres? I really dont care for the gothic horror gimmick, but Im looking for a good (not Mordheim) fantasy skirmish game.