If the setting and tabletop gameplay interest you but the craft and painting side plus the associated cost puts you off, it might be worth looking into Tabletop Simulator. Basically a virtual tabletop, and one of the many things you can play on it is WH40k - and now, of course, all the models come pre-“painted” and at no additional cost per model
I moved into wargaming with lego instead, some of the communities / games they just make their own lore too. I find it more entertaining than subscribing to the whims of a 5 billion dollar company.
the two largest that come to mind are Brikwars and Mobile Frame Zero.
MFZ is a “large scale by small peices” mech game where people make various fighting machines that are probably no taller than one’s finger at most.
Brikwars on the other hand, if I could compare it to anything, is to compare it to One Page Rules. In spirit at least (it has its own rulebook). but its heavily based on people just making whatever armies and battlefields they want, and declaring them to be units that follow X Y Z stats etc.
If the setting and tabletop gameplay interest you but the craft and painting side plus the associated cost puts you off, it might be worth looking into Tabletop Simulator. Basically a virtual tabletop, and one of the many things you can play on it is WH40k - and now, of course, all the models come pre-“painted” and at no additional cost per model
I moved into wargaming with lego instead, some of the communities / games they just make their own lore too. I find it more entertaining than subscribing to the whims of a 5 billion dollar company.
What system uses Lego?
the two largest that come to mind are Brikwars and Mobile Frame Zero.
MFZ is a “large scale by small peices” mech game where people make various fighting machines that are probably no taller than one’s finger at most.
Brikwars on the other hand, if I could compare it to anything, is to compare it to One Page Rules. In spirit at least (it has its own rulebook). but its heavily based on people just making whatever armies and battlefields they want, and declaring them to be units that follow X Y Z stats etc.
https://mobileframezero.fandom.com/wiki/Mobile_Frame_Zero:_Rapid_Attack
https://brikwars.com/
Im not actually all that familiar with MFZ other than being aware it exists, IDK if they have online rules like brikwars