From Skirmishes to Armies - Wargaming and its scales Guide for new players

Wargaming games can be divided according to many (often overlapping) criteria - activation method, model size, genre, and so on. However, most wargaming games can be universally categorized by the size of the battlefield (or the number of warriors on it) and placed into several boxes that better help determine the type of game before a potential player opens the rules. These are skirmishers, regimental games and army games.