How do you do fire fights? Maps?

[weswood]

In the past I've used everything from hand drawn maps to minitures on the table. Mostly mini's were used to denote PCs order of march and general location during fights. I didn't stick with scale for ranges and I've used all kinds of table garbage for oponents (this pencil is a T-72, it's 200 meters from you. This big black D6 is a machinegun nest, it's 150 meters away, even though said object may only be 1 foot from the PCs).

I've got a ton of plastic 1/72 scale soldiers but not all are painted. But I haven't played T2K since I've collected the modern ones. Plastic soldiers are cheaper than metal, usually $12 for a box of 36 to 50. The hard part is finding Cold War era figures.