Attack Vector: Tactical

Hey everyone, a friend of mine, myself and my oldest son have been looking for a good tactical spaceship combat game and a few people have steered me in this direction, so I am checking this out... I have read a little and see some people saying the rules are very complex, which is ok with us.

Has anyone here played Battlefleet Gothic? I had played that for years quite awhile ago, but Games Workshop stuff has been getting so expensive, nobody I know has wanted to get into that game again. How does a game like this compare?

Is there a link anywhere to the different miniatures available that can be used in this game? I quite like moving little minis around on the grid rather than cardboard markers. I also like the hex map much better than using a measuring tape (games workshop), but a question I have is - does anyone have any resources to purchase a black 'star field' looking grid that will work with this?

I did see some of the photos on BGG and have been reading up more on it, and the '3d' feel of the game really seems to add a lot to it in my opinion, I have read some bad reviews and some good reviews, it almost seems like there is a small fraction of people really into this game, and the rest of the people just don't grasp it.

I personally have gotten to a point where I no longer have the time to start painting a lot of miniatures (one reason I got away from Warhammer and 40k), but I do like little space ship minis though, so when I saw this game and photos for it using minis I was a little more interested, however, I do see the benefit of the little cardboard 'cubes' of the ships, it is a really interesting concept to take a flat hex grid and make it 3d like that using the plastic holders, very nice!

This looks like a very detailed and difficult (in a good way) game that might fill the gap in my gaming needs that I have been looking for! when I first started reading up on it and trying to see if it is something I would like, I was completely lost, then as I read a little more and looked at some photos it all just all of a sudden clicked (the way they have the 3-d environment setup) and I was thinking 'Wow! I can't wait to try playing this!'...