Mass Effect in Wargames

You can really get a feel of war due to mass effect in a tabletop wargame quite easy by using 3mm, 6mm or 10mm miniatures. Lots and lots of them. Even 15mm is usable for a limited mass effect, nearly impossible in wargame-terms for 1:72 and from this scale/measure on (28mm and many others), only skirmish encounters can really be recreated. For WW2 and modern warfare representation brings a little realism. For sea and space related miniatures you need a scale of 1/3000 or something appropriate, to have many of them on a table and to catch a feel of great war operations.