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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Red Priest" data-source="post: 4216118" data-attributes="member: 43486">Most miniature war games use inches instead of squares.  This way, all you'd need would be rulers and/or measuring tape.  There's a lot more freedom of movement when using a distance-based, rather than squares-based system. The original Chainmail rules are easy to learn and use the distance system and is available in pdf from Paizo for $4.  There's also a d20 version of Chainmail available from them for $4 as well.  Being as it's updated for d20, I'm guessing that it might use squares instead of inches.  Dunno about the d20 Chainmail, but the basing for the the original is very easy and designed for individual figures.  So, theoretically, you could use real minis, chess pieces, coins, dice or cardboard figures for the combatants.Some other good options are Hordes of Things, DBA and Field of Glory.  The later two would require you working out your own magic system (but, how cool is that?); Hordes already incorporates magic.  Hordes and DBA are easy peasy to learn and you can play an entire army battle in just about an hour.  Field of Glory is a little more complex, but also plays fairly quickly and it has the added benefit of kicking all kinds of ass.There are also a ton of free miniatures rules available for download.  All very googleable!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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