I have been involved in one of the two playtests that I know Frank has run.
At that time he was using 25mm figures because they were so nice to look
at. He has since gone to 1/285 scale since the 25mm limited the forces
deployable in each area to about a company (a battalion seems more
necessary for game purposes). The setup was that you divided a world into
areas (about five or six areas the rules for doing this were very vague
since this was a combat system test ). Between each area was a geographic
obsticle (usually a hill).
The various areas were rated by what you could loot out of them. We
had a city, a desert, a forest, and two areas of farmland (or something
like that). Most areas had a town or bonus objective (the desert had a
nuclear plant). The defender placed his forces into the areas based on
how he wanted to defend them. The Space Vikings then landed in various
areas of their choice. To move between areas you move onto the obstacle
and depending on your movement catagory moved off sometime later.
Essentially foot took a long time and everybody else was a turn or two.
Both sides ran the full specturm of unit types from high tech to cyberpunk.
The battle was close, but leaned toward the Space Vikings.
After the second 25mm playtest (and my purchase and painting a unit,
sigh) Frank switched to 1/285 scale (can't complain too much since it was
my idea originally). He also is going to make the rules more Command
Decision like (they were more like our miniatures version of First Battles
during the first playtest).
Tom Harris