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I mean, you have to admit it's pretty ridiculous to cast the American military juggernaut as the plucky underdogs like video games like cowadooty.

In terms of miniatures and other tactical games, I think it would be really hard to balance the rules for a one-off fair fight battle which a lot of gamers expect because of GW. Mideast insurgents aren't likely to wipe out a whole USMC company IRL so you'd have to craft a ruleset where the insurgent player gets points for slowing down the American player, injuring soldiers with traps, goading him into killing civilians, sabotaging infrastructure needed by the occupiers, etc.

The modern military seems way more restrictive and organized than most people would want for an RPG. Maybe you could do an interest Heart of Darkness type story where the characters are leaderless national guardsmen left behind after a pullout or some sort of deep cover special forces. But in general I don't like modern guns in RPGs since I know my /k/ommando friend would ruin it with autism/arguing.