Hi gang,
I've never been much of a modern guy (LOL), but getting back into Flashpoint Campaigns with Southern Storm and playing some Combat Mission: Cold War recently, I think I got my fix and ordered a bunch of 3mm packs from Oddzial Osmy to put together a few battlegroups over my end of the year vacation (actually 33 packs, but I won't use all of the figures, especially not of the support vehicles, of course).
What I am planning to put together are 2,5x2,5cm bases with one or two vehicles and/or infantry (not quite decided yet, some rules want the dismounted infantry as seperate bases, some don't) representing platoons. A company would then be 3-4 bases, fairly abstracted to work with my 2-3mm-ish terrain boards which I also use for my 3mm Napoleonics.
Noooow to possibly the most difficult part. Which rules to use?! I'll give
AlienStar's WW3 a go, they look fairly streamlined and have nice interactive combat mechanics (while the main system is IGOUGO). Heard that Modern Spearhead is quite popular still?
Any other suggestions? They should work fine on such an abstracted level, have a bit more nuance than plain IGOUGO, put emphasize on command and control/friction and be reasonably streamlined. Team Yankee and Cold War Commander thus don't seem to scratch the itch for me.
Cheers!