Quote from: Pelorus5. Classic Traveller. (shotguns in spaaaaaaace!!!!!!!)

The things you could do with a sandcaster and molasses.

Twilight 2000 still has a very strong fanbase on the net, and a version 3 was mooted but appears to be little more than a tired retread of the original US-centric cold war fare - that's sadly out of date now.

I've been running a PbP T2K game for eight years, we topped at 20 players (a short platoon) and currently have three Iraq vets, two of whom were in Panama, and on Vietnam veteran. Also, one of the players is a real life polish mechanised infantryman. I'm a civilian, so I feel like I've been doing an online degree in military social studies!

The elegance of t2K is that it needn't be Rambo, although it can be if that's your play style. I've converted the setting over to Cyberpunk 2020 rules and this makes the lethality go straight through the roof. My players avoid combat if at all possible, so we mainly play in a ravaged world of war.

I have a lot of admiration for T2K, although it's become a global game now (strongly represented by Australians and Scandinavians for some reason) and work is needed to make other nationalities equal to the depth that the US military gets.

For anyone interested in T2K, I strongly recommend going over to Paul MuLcahey's Site. Probably the best on the net.

I'll toss in Blood & Guts by RPGObjects, an excellent d20 Modern conversion for modern soldiers. It has pretty much everything you need.

Quote from: Pelorus5. Classic Traveller. (shotguns in spaaaaaaace!!!!!!!)

It wasn't the sole focus of Traveller but you could easily run an entire campaign as either a mercenary company or within the military.  The careers covered the military fairly well and there was lots of info available on equipment, ships chains of command, rosters, and such.

Quote from: BalbinusRules of the thread, no posting of names without reasons.  It's the reasons make the thread interesting.

Quote from: BalbinusFor me, in no particular order, I have:

In Harm's Way
Recon Deluxe
Twilight 2000

Forget something, Balbinus?

Does Bughunters count ? The characters are marines fighting against thinly-disguised Aliens.

Does The Price of Freedom count ?  IIRC you could play characters in the Soviet army helping to crush American resistance.

Does the Battletech/Mechwarrior RPG count ? Players often end up forming their own mercenary units.