One Page Kill Team is a set of free science fiction rules for small skirmishes. The authors write:
One Page Kill Team is a single-page ruleset designed to be fast to learn and simple to play. It is a great way to play with just a handful of miniatures and experience heroic skirmishes in a short time.
– Updated January 2015
Realms of Chaos Blog has a posting about the old GW game called Chivalry, which appeared in an issue of White Dwarf. All the relevant pages there are posted, so you can recreate this classic on your own. It’s a card system for combat between knights.
I like this technique for making bases for your washer-mounted trees. As it is now, I just put the washer mounted trees on a bit of irregularly cut felt.