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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wombat" data-source="post: 1429560" data-attributes="member: 8447">Overall, I find battlemats and miniatures both slow down the game tremendously and bring in more of a "wargame" feel.  The whole thing tends to boils down to minute manipulation of figures and minor tactics (many of which would not work out if you were to use simultaneous movement), along with a "God's Eye View" of combat, which is illogical.We (my group) don't worry too much about AoOs.  We don't worry too much about the specifics of combat.  Instead, we concentrate on the "tale" of the combat.Then again, I know people who like the "old school wargame attitude" of 3e combat.I, too, came to D&D via wargames (mini-gamed from 1971-6)  -- and I was very happy to finally get away from the minutiae and arguments that such battles led to.</blockquote>