Going the CinC option and buying packs is a bit more within my budget: at CD/CA scale, $12 (one $6 pack of 4 M1s and one $6 pack pf 4 M2s) gives me a full tank company and a full mechanized infantry company of AFVs. On the upside, at CD/CA's scale of 1:5, a "company" of miniature tanks is actually something like an entire battalion's worth of vehicle stands. Though I'd still need to get at least 3 of them ($150 worth) - a Soviet Combat Command or a tank/infantry company, a US Mechanized company, and a US tank company. Still, the Combat Commands seem like a better deal. I see on their website they also have "sampler packs", which is a random assortment of a tank/AFV, another vehicle, a cannon, and some infantry for less than ten dollars. I'd been looking at the GHQ metal miniatures (NobleKnight has a stack at a slight discount). Though, of course, more detailed is fine too, as long as it's nice and inexpensive. (or one kind of each available in two different colors). Basically just two different kinds of tanks, two different kinds of APCs, etc. They don't even have to look all that different from each other (ie, a tank is a tank, and I can use labeled bases to distinguish an M1 from an M1A1 from a T80 from a command T80 and so on). What I'm looking for are inexpensive plastic playing pieces that can reasonably serve as not-too-terrible looking MBTs, APCs, infantry, and a few other things for NATO/the Soviets. I don't really want to invest in a ton of metal microarmor and have to paint them all, and in any case I don't really need diorama-level detail. What I don't have, however, are the actual vehicles and men to use to represent fighting stands. I have a printer, and found a surprising amount of free printable cardstock buildings and roads and other things in the right scale, and have a bunch of green felt and Christmas Village trees I bought for dirt-ass cheap at Home Depot a while back, so I have a reasonably looking and certainly inexpensive layout to play on. However, I don't have the funds or the skills (or, really, the desire) to buy a bunch of metal miniatures and terrain to craft and paint them all. I recently dusted off my old copy of GDW's Command Decision 2nd edition, and found a really cheap copy of their 1st edition CD modern warfare spinoff Combined Arms, and now I've been bitten by the modern miniatures wargaming bug.
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