Just offering this as we've used it at the shop and it works in terms of pacing and the general feel of the setting.  Some of the rationales behind the math are in the first couple of pages.  And then we noted the results of a couple of turns to show how it played out in one scenario.

We've only touched Imperial and Chaos so far.  But I have converted the Terminus Est, as well, since I'm a Nurgle fanboy and the model just looks so spiffy.

In case someone wants it.  If not, no big

Pardon the typos.... Having a hell of a time with the wife's ipad.

A friend and I were able to test Ql in regards to how it might handle historic battles. Our counters were way rough but he had a hex mat that looked pretty sharp and top down card stock terrain.

Anyway, it was a hypothetical battle in which the Russians actually engaged the 1st Army's advance guard at the Korean town of Wiju.

On one side, elements of Kashtalinski's 3rd Eastern Siberian Rifle Division:
3 battalions / 9th regiment
3 battalions / 11th
3 battalions / 12th
3 arty batteries (not Qf)
3scout companies from regiments listed above

VS
3 battalions infantry (better quality)
3 cavalry squadrons
2 arty batteries (2.95")
1 engineer co
Slated reinforcements.

The Russians had to take the town before Asada's troops were reinforced.  They actually gained a foothold in that burg after crossing the open ground to it's east.  One tweak, though, will be to reduce arty attack dice.  Guns are represented 1-1 if in terms of size.  But our thought was ad should be trimmed down to 2:3.  The Japanese guns suppressed two battalions of enemy infantry, blowing 2 steps off one, before Kashtalinski reached the town.  Then they mauled a Russian battery in record time.  One thing we agreed worked was that the Japanese guns could fire If, which the Russians, to mirror their historical inability to fire their guns from concealment, don't have that.

We also liked the as-yet unpointed  ability of cavalry to "harass" enemy formations....inflicting suppression on a 1 or 2. 

Moving on, riflemen with the 12th finally drove off two battalions of japanese infantry, then held against the cavalry (mowing down Two squadrons).  Russian scouts advanced around the town, and set up on the road behind it, effectively surrounding Asada's troops.  But this turned out to be a stupid move on my part as his surviving riflemen just teamed up with the reinforcements now entering through his map edge and wiped my boys OUT.

The battle ended by mutual agreement with my grunts and his locked in the town and his fresh horsemen poised to hit my arty, already battered by the better Japanese crews.

Scale right now is an infantry battalion at size 4 or 5, representing 750 to 950 men.  A cavalry squadron at size 1 marking 150 or so horsemen and batteries at 1 size step per gun.  There are some house rules/ traits for the various units, which so far feel pretty on target.  As mentioned, I just have to neuter the aty a bit as even their suppression is a bit too much.

Thanks
Matt

Knowing next to nothing about this game to date, would it be a good way to try a large scale land warfare game in the IS universe?

I have a long-standing interest in the Russo-Japanese War o' 1904-1905.  Got books of my own, read others owned by friends. But there are precious few games tackling the time frame.  And I also have an interest in IS.

So I'm hoping there'd be potential to represent battles at Yalu and Nanshan where you not only have riflemen and machine guns and quick firing 76.2mm guns, you also have the first gen, crude warmachines driven by captured Martian tech :-)  ...putting it in the sci-fi realm.

I have orders of battle for all the various battles, along with maps and deployments.  I know the rifle strength of the typical East Siberian company, battalion, rifle regiment and brigade.  I know how many Cossacks were in a squadron and regiment.  I know the number of guns to batteries and how MGs were organized.  Got similar info on the Japanese, as well as some notes on how they fought -- ie, the Russians still tended to fire in volleys, even with bolt action rifles. 

I just think it would be fun.  Historical weapons along with Heat Rays, gas, etc.  And eventually, timeline wise, it could be walked up into WWI.

But I don't know if it's compatible.  I was thinking of individual infantry / cavalry units being represented as companies.  As each company was 250 men strong - and each squadron about 160-170 men, each step of damage would equate to 50 guys?  So a company would be a "5," a squadron a "3."  Batteries would have a value equal to each gun.  Hexes would be 100 metres each? 
Would it be feasible?  If so, I gotta think up of how I would actually rep the units with playing pieces.

Matt

I see a couple of folks are playing in the setting.  Just curious what thoughts might be, positive and negative.

If I ever got the energy to further the timeline...and won Dan over into allowing another installment, I'd like to know what people thought worked for them, what sucked, what there should be more of, less of, etc...what struck them as generic, what stood out as different enough that it should be taken a little further.  Stuff like that.

I still haven't bought my own bound copy, which the wife gives me grief about.  I really should do that.

Is MJ12 ever going to look at a micro armor game?  I have some rule sets I really enjoy (have some friends I play Cold War Commander with).  But I think there's a market out there for a different approach to modern battles. And it'd get me another means of playing with the one collection that's entirely based, and painted, and ready to go :-)