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Absolutely, @rastamann – I was just saying you’d need an army about the size of yours to do MOST hex-based command-scale tactical games in miniature.  Now to be fair, I haven’t seen Storming the Gap in person, so I could be wrong.  And the table would look amazing … it would just have to be one hell of a table (and miniature collection).

I’m definitely a BattleTech fan, but agree, there are some very seriously derp-y looking designs in that ‘verse.  I shamelessly admit that my lists / collections are built more or less along the lines of how the miniatures / mechs look.  There are hard-core purists who raise an eyebrow regarding why I choose certain mechs that might not have the best game values/ abilities and shun others despite their objective superiority …  Also when I pick the newer re-designs that old-school 1980s fans see as “heresy.”  It’s because I think they look dumb.  Nuff said. Who cares, it’s sci fi.  Background? Tactics?  Context?  That what Historicals and Moderns are for.  😀

Still not 100% sold on the idea that putting ALL the data on the counter makes for a better H&C game.  It crowds the counter design, or makes the counter too large, (which in turns limits the number of hexes in the battlespace, oversimplifying / abstracting terrain), limits the mechanics of the game …  But hey, I’m just glad there are other H&C players out there.

And +100 “SitRep Points” for the mention of Steel Panthers.  Especially the Main Battle Tank moderns version – I still play that game once in a while to this day.  Maybe we should stream it?  😀  There’s something you don’t see on Twitch every day.  Maybe get some of the “hipster retro” crowd into our viewership.  😀 😀 😀