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[gigaraptor487]

For PC quite like R.U.S.E., that can be considered for quite large scale, and Company of Heroes is good for small scale.

Also, something quite large scale but very cheap is 6mm wargaming, especially things like Heroics and Ros minis and the like (~$0.60 a model tank).

Blitzkrieg commander is excellent and played for about 2 hours in small scale games, the overall cost for the rulebook is £12 as a pdf although you can get it elsewhere.

It costed me overall about £80 to build 2 large armies(~2500pts each which is about 20 vehicles and a lot of infantry and support) with the overpriced games workshop paints and brushes and a print of the rulebook, which is clearly far cheaper than with say Warhammer Fantasy/40k. Although this game is generally more suited to higher scale engagements there are other rulesets for smaller scale(Bolt action springs to mind).

[Anvilfolk]

I'd say RUSE and its sequels Wargame sequels are more RTS than wargame. The old Close Combat series was real-time but a bit more wargamey.

I think the best introduction to wargames is Unity of Command. It's super sleek, hex-based, and still pretty hard but easy to get into. There's also some free wargames at Shrapnel Games, like winSPWW2 and stuff like that

[gigaraptor487]

Armoured Brigade Is also a good wargame in the sense that you go in with just your units and can't recruit mid game like wargame. No idea about close combat however.

[gigaraptor487]

Found an awesome little collection of wargames by Specialist Military Publishing.

They are battalion-brigade level wargames for used with 6mm although can be scaled up or down.

Check out here: http://www.blitzkrieg-commander.com/default.aspx?Area=CWC


They are really cheap and having played some games with them it is really fun.