Runewars: Miniature Game Core Set for 156 months to 180 months

Runewars has 48 models for $40,including cavalry and some larger models. There are some other good suggestions here. Long term, miniature heavy board game kickstarters like those run by CMON give huge collections of models for great value per miniature, but you often have to wait ~2 years to receive them, and in the US, tariffs have hurt the stability of this option a lot.