Summarise A Genre's History For A Newcomer To Miniature Wargaming

A friend is about to spend a few hundred pounds on an army for a game system they only vaguely understand, and the hobby has a dozen overlapping systems with confusingly similar names. This places the system against a couple of well known others in scale, tone, and complexity, in plain terms, so your friend knows what they are actually buying into.

A friend is new to miniature wargaming and asked how {GAME_SYSTEM} fits into the wider hobby, since they have heard names like [Warhammer, Bolt Action, and Kill Team] thrown around without context. Summarise, in plain terms and under 250 words, how this game system compares to a couple of well known others in scale, tone, and complexity, so your friend understands where it sits before committing money to an army.