Well, to be fair, @oriskany and @elessar2590, I’m building up in 6mm because it’s my preferred scale, and not specifically to go hybrid. My initial and main aim is to play Cold War Commander with them, but as with all “historical” wargaming, they’re not rule specific, so I decided that I’d also use them for Team Yankee, which I dislike the look of in 15mm, and use them to try out Fistful of Tows, which is probably the crunchiest of current modern rulesets.

It was rather nice of the dudes at Lock’n’Load to include some sort of conversion thingy to enable us to play their game with miniatures, but I wouldn’t use hexes, for instance. I’ll just use their rules as just that, rules. I think Storming the Gap is particularly nice over other tactical hex and counter games due to the fact that there are no tables for you to reference and the stats for the units are presented mostly as a regular miniatures wargame stat line. Battletech Quickstrike allows for much the same, though sadly most battletech miniatures are hideous, which is why I use counters when playing it and therefore pretty much only play it as a hex and counter.

That said, I mostly agree with what you, @oriskany, say. Just yesterday I was playing Nations at War: White Star Rising [WWII] with a friend and it really allows us to play a full battalion in a very small space (each map is a 9 x 11″ geomorphic sheet) to conclusion. The map and counters are beautiful, thought they aren’t a substitute for a full blown minis game, but I did get it to the table a couple of weeks after it arriving at my door! Then I was thinking that playing, say, Steel Panthers (back in the day), which was a computer tactical wargame gave me much the same feeling with the added benefit of the Fog of War being handled by the computer, and some sort of visual spectacle but also lacking the feel of the miniatures and the social aspect of the physical opponent.

I’m a patient dude, though, with that sort of thing. So, I don’t mind collecting and having stuff not painted for a while (sometimes a big one)