One Page Rules (OPR) publishes two full wargame systems — Grimdark Future for sci-fi and Age of Fantasy for medieval fantasy — and gives both away for free. No starter box, no codex to rebuy every couple of years, no restriction on whose miniatures you field. The list builder, Army Forge, handles point costs and spits out a ready-to-play roster in a browser tab.

That pricing model changes the math for a new player. A $60–$150 starter box from the bigger publishers buys you one army. The same money spent on a resin printer and a spool of filament buys you an army, terrain, and the next army after that. OPR was built for exactly that pipeline — print your force, print your table, play.

Two Systems, One Table

Grimdark Future runs in the Sirius Sector — Human Defense Force, Robot Legions, Alien Hives, and a growing roster of Star Creator factions from indie studios. Age of Fantasy covers the medieval end — knights, undead, orcs, elves, the full roster of a classic fantasy skirmish or army game. Both use the same core system, both scale from small skirmish games up to full army battles, and both are genre-flexible enough that terrain built for one setting usually reads fine in the other with a different paint job.

That flexibility matters for anyone building a table on a budget. You are not locked into one aesthetic. Gothic ruins work for Age of Fantasy sieges and double as bombed-out sci-fi cityscape for Grimdark Future with the right basing.

What the Table Actually Needs

Because OPR rules are free and army-agnostic, terrain is the one place players still have to build something themselves — and it is also the one place the rules genuinely reward good decisions. Cover that blocks line of sight, height that creates real firing lanes, and walls that force a route decision instead of just sitting there decorative.

The Half-Height Fantasy Walls in the photo above sit at chest height on most 28 mm troops — light cover that lets a unit hunker down without disappearing off the table. Pair them with the Compact Two Storey Corner Piece for a taller blocking element that anchors a table corner without eating the whole board.

On the Grimdark Future side, Scrap Huts build fast frontier settlements or scavenger camps with a silhouette that never repeats, and Space Robot Scatter Terrain fills plazas and ruined tech sites with broken statues and debris that give small bases somewhere to hide. None of it is tied to a specific army or publisher — which is the entire point of a system built to run with any miniatures you bring to the table.

Getting Your Table Ready

If you are building toward Grimdark Future, Age of Fantasy, or any Army Forge list, send me the faction, scale, and how much table you are covering. I will quote terrain to match — modular pieces that hold up across scenarios, sized for the games you are actually going to play.