Reply To: Wanting to start with historical gaming.

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Rather than start with a game perhaps you might be better off picking a favourite period, battle or army that you want to play and then work from there?  Any new project is lots of effort so you need to be really motivated by something to keep you going.

If you want to start with a game system that is easy to pick up and is as fun to play as Bolt Action is then I’d echo comments above about Lion Rampant.  It is cheap and readily available and can be learnt very quickly.  It is a fun game with some good pace to it.  Saga is good too but takes longer to pick up and getting good with the battle boards takes a few games.

Perry plastics would be my choice if I were just starting out with Lion Rampant as they cover most Medieval types.  I think the Warlord Games starter boxes are good value, the SPQR one is especially good (if you like Celts).