One of the things I remember always,  always  seeing in the early days of my journey in gaming, was a section explaining ground scale and figure ratios. For me, these gave a benchmark, an idea of how things should look, and how they moved and behaved. Indeed, I opened my newly acquired copy of Spacefarers as I attended to my morning observances, and there it was on page 1, that essential information. They set the scene, they gave you an idea of what those figures were capable of. They were essential. I could easily understand how to transform real world unit sizes into miniature equivalents. A 600 strong pike and shot regiment with a shot to pike ratio of 2:1 could be easily worked out based on the WRG 1:20 figure to man ratio as 20 shot to 10 pike.  But nowadays you don't see them, or at least very rarely, and I think that it's another 'dumbing' down of our hobby to accomodate a generation who want everything to be like a video game in it's simplicity, which to me...