I've read mention over on RP Open that Savage Worlds was created to be useable as a straight miniatures wargame in addition to an actual RPG. (I've even seen some people criticize it as 'a wargame with RP rules clumsily bolted on', but that doesn't seem to hold water to me; it just seems to be a design goal of the combat system.) I think the biggest contributor to this is that the way it handles damage is alot simpler than most RPG's but still kinda niftily done; even 'wild cards' (PC's, or 'special characters' in a wargame) have no more than 4 wounds, which is comparable to a special character in 40k. The Explorer's Edition even includes rules for large battles, even though the regular combat rules look like they'd be alright for a small skirmish or 'kill team' game.
So, in light if that, I'm curious if anyone's actually done it. I see SW gets talked up alot as an RPG over in RPO; for some people it's their go-to system. But despite the 'also a wargame' claim I've seen, I've not heard of anyone actually using it as such. Admittedly, I haven't started regularly looking at Other Games until recently, so I might very well have missed it.
I think the biggest obstacle would simply be statting the units. I haven't seen any 'army lists' for SW; I wouldn't be surprised if they exist, but my guess is that they'd be homebrew. How would one decide on the stats to use? What about point costs, not just for the units but their gear?
Anyway, what does everyone think of the idea? Has it been done? Should it be done? Has it been discussed here before, and are there any particuarly good threads one could link to? Any good resources on the web for it?
PS: I feel I should confess that one of the reasons I'm thinking about this is that playing the Valkyria Chronicles demo has triggered a bit of a wargaming itch, and while I'm currently too broke to afford free samples, I do already own SW.