How big is my table?

 This is not a bragging post; but I am trying to figure out how large an area my 8' by 5' (2.4m x 1.5m) table represents for various rules.  I am also going to freely convert rules expressing using yards into meters without any conversion factor.

Are you talking about my napping spot?

Command Decision:  1" = 50m, so 4.8 x 3 km

Spearhead: 1" = 100m, so 9.6 x 6 km

PanzerKorps III (at 10mm): 1cm = 50m, so 12 x 7.5 km

Rommel uses a square grid of 1km.  I can cover my table with Kallistra hexon which is 10cm; at 1cm = 100 m, the table is 24 x 15 km.

Division Commander, by Bruce McFarlane: 3" = 1 Mile.  Roughly 48 x 30 km.

Of course, each rules set is useful for something different.  I would probably use Bolt Action or the like for Pavlov's House, and fluid situations are great with the Command Decision scale.  But if you want to use miniatures to cover even one serious attack at Kursk, like Totemkof on July 12-13, you need a large scale rules set.

I will be chewing on this problem for a while.

A Second Game of Command Decision

 So I tried the same scenario again with Ross, a bit more slowly and using what I had learned of the rules since the last game.  

The game flowed a bit faster thanks to practice.  With and understanding of the armour combat rules, more German tanks were hit, with results other than immolation.  

The Reds have deployed; the Germans are still trying to cross the river

Burn, baby, burn.

Maybe we can circle around to the right.

I'd say the key rules learning was the number of causes for a morale test, all of which have to be deferred to just after orders are issued.  The plan for the next game is to mark units that need testing, and to introduce observers.