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I have gone across the board with this, really. I've gone so far as to take a green propane torch in the woods when I knew conditions would be bad enough. No kidding. I got a lot of looks about that, but when my fire was up and running I was glad I'd done it. Of course, waterproof, "Strike-anywhere" matches in a waterproof container is a must have, lighters of different sorts, flint & steel, magnesium, fire pistons... The list of tools goes on and on. Fire making is a basic idea, but some of the tools allow for different techniques, or even a lack of technique. I believe you're better off learning to make fire with little to nothing. If you have tools & kit to help out, then that's just icing on the cake. Savageagle has started a good thread on "How to". I'm hoping to get a little more info on what you prefer to use when you don't have a stove to work with. Let me tell you about a couple things I've used...
"Flamepons"- These are actually cotton rolls from a dental office, but anything including cotton balls work. The cotton rolls look like tampons without the strings. On that note, and actual tampon would work just fine for this too, I suppose. I took an old jar of hair grease and covered the cotton. It's a pretty messy, and it smells like coconuts, but it burns like the dickens! I'd prefer something without smell, like vaseline or aquaphor, but I used this because it was on hand. I would cover the cotton with grease and they burn for 10-20 minutes depending on how well they're made and what the conditions are. I have also pre-made these by melting wax from candles or wax bite wafers(Again from a dental office). They literally burn like candles. We add them into the tinder & kindling to really get things rolling. Even once we've added wood that's wrist sized, they will usually get them burning with little to no tinder.
"Snack Candles"- Fritos, cheetos, and other greasy snacks like this work well, too. That's assuming you can get them lit to begin with, though. Like flamepons, they won't light themselves. You have to have a heat source to get them going.
There is a surplus fire kit here, matches, and other things that sum up what's available in my kit, but clearly this doesn't go every time I'm out & about. The BOB has different kit than the GHB does, and something as bulky as the torch only goes when I know carrying it won't be an issue.