Cold War Commander Inquiry

[MGH]

Our group is going to play our first game with this venerable set of rules and I'm working on setting up a scenario. I notice the measurements are in centimeters but we Americans want to use inches. Stubborn lot, we are, yes.

So I divided the ranges by half as 1 inch = 2.54 centimeters. OK so even with that something like a helicopter firing a TOW missile shoots 90 some inches. Yikes. That's our whole table and more width wise and almost the full length of it too.

I am setting up a scenario in the Iran-Iraq war. Yes, that's an extreme example but even tanks can shoot 75, 65 inches and we are using 3mm miniatures.

It all seems a bit too much.

Any one of you who have played these rules, do you tone down the ranges some or play it as is?

[Cat]

Shifting the ranges/movement works fine.  Especially with 3mm figures, the game will look fine if you reduce the distances.
 
I play WW2 BKC with 1/87, and increased the ranges/movement to look better since they were designed for 10mm.  I also used hardwood dowels and made dedicated measuring sticks for the game which I find easier and quicker to use than tape measures for long range firing.  Also made shorter ones that are easy to handle for movement and short range fire.