This is actually kind of a touchy one for me. I think there are times to use miniatures and times where the players should be in the dark about whats going on around them. Occasionally Ill even throw a sheet over half or more of the 'board' to rob the players of whats going on and impose fog of war. I bet everyone here has been in some kiind of fight (even a fist fight) where you turned around and said "where the hell am I??" Thats what I try to do in combat when it calls for it for T2K. But also keep in mind that I try to run combat unusually fast; some D&D games taught me how boring combat can really be in an RPG and I try to go the opposite way.
BTW, I use the last battle counters for NPCs and 1/35 scale figures for players.
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