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Originally Posted by Anthony
That's just being willfully inept at unit conversion. Unless for some reason you have 1:3937 scale miniatures, just use different scales depending on the rulers people are using (so a weapon with a range of 1,000 meters is treated as range 10 inches or 25 centimeters). As long as people aren't using two different rulers at one table, it doesn't matter.
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Well, A Fistful of TOWs 3 is a Gold seller on Wargame Vault; (don't know the Lulu rank for physical books). The earlier versions of the game have been popular with modern wargamers since the late 1990s.
So the the use of dual measurement systems doesn't seem to have hurt sales.
And your solution doesn't really reflect how the game is played. Short range is determined as 1/2 of effective range. Long range is 1.5 x effective range. And no pre-measuring is allowed. Therefore, calculating and eyeballing distance is something players do. As noted, it's easier to multiply 12 by .5 or 1.5 than it is to multiply 25.4 or 25 by .5 or 1.5.
At the end of the day, you haven't really articulated why it is a better idea to use the metric system for a game mostly played by Americans. But you seem to want to do so really badly.