For those not wanting to get into “actual” miniatures games, this is a pretty good alternative.
Nice pieces (and plenty of them) will give you many a battle before you get bored, and with expansions / another army on the way, you can always look to grab them once you've played this lot out.
The system is simple yet effective, if lacking a little in depth. They do hide some of the rule complexity inside the unit descriptions, but with only about 5 different types of unit per army it isn't too much to grok.
Your first game may take just over a couple of hours, but comes down quickly to under the 90 minute mark once you know the rules.