Open for suggestions, and Miroprose Tank Platoon. Well, that makes you a prime candidate for Steel Beasts Pro 3.0.
In a nutshell, it is a training tool for the pro military and is used by over a dozen Western armies. In the company's own words, it is a simulator of mechanized warfare, main focus is on platoon and company level, but you can set up batallions, if you want, even brigades. But that hardly ever gets done. It does plenty of what hardware simulators do, much of that pit doe sbetter, and it competes by pricing and for the civilian market: leaving out the hardware cabins and its hardware. However, infantry actions are of limi8ted realism, and air warfare and air defence is dramatically simplified.
The Australiens gave free copies of it to all their tank crews so that they can use it in their free time as well. You get the same sim the pros use, minus external supervisor's interface and with map size limitations that in practical gameplay are meaningless since the maps still are3 25x25 km, and depending on your rig allow viewing ranges of up to 16 km, which usually is limited to more realistic 1000-5000m.
Please understand that what you see is an older graphcis engine. They now use a slightly more modern one. Still, do not expect Crysis-style eye candy, you won't get that. What you get is functional and tactical realism that no other tank game comes close to.
Practically all major tank designs from cold war and present are represented, plus plenty of APCs, IFVs and additional vehicles and platforms.
Bold and Italic with Asteriks* means the vehicle is crewable and has 3D interior, clickable. Without the asteriks it means the vehicle can be boarded for all stations, but has no full 3D interior, nevertheless is functional. All other vehicles can only be commanded via external map view, and scripting.
MBTs:
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Leopard-1A2
Leopard-1V
Leopard-1A5 German
Leopard-1A5DK*
Leopard-AS1
Leopard-2A4*
Leopard-2A5DK*
Leopard-2A5A1*
Leopard-2A5A2-DK*
Leopardo-2E* (Leo-2A6 for Spain)
Strv-122* (Leo-2A5 for Sweden)
Centurion Mk.5/2
M-60A3
M1* (with 105mm L7 gun)
M1A1(HA)*
M1A2 SEP*
Challenger II
AMX-13
T-55
T-62
T-64
T-72B
T-72BV
T-72M*
T-72M1*
T-72M4
T-80U
T-90
IFVs/APCs
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ASLAV-25
ASLAV-PC
NZLAV-IMH
BMD-2
BMP-1
BMP-2
BMP-3
BTR-50
BTR-50PK
BTR-80
PT-76
Bushmaster
CV-90/30FI*
CV90/35DK*
CV-9035NL*
CV90/40-B*
CV90/40-C*
LAV-25
M-113A2
M-113AS4
M-113G3
M-113G4
M2A2*
M3A2*
Bradley Engineers
Bradley MICLIC
Marder 1A3
MT-LB
Pizarro*
Piranha-IIIC
Ulan*
VEC
Warrior IFV
YPR-765 (new 3D model)
YPR-AT
YPR-Command
trucks
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HEMTT transport
HEMTT fuel
M-1025 HMMWV
MAN 10t GL supply truck
MAN SX45 transport
MAN SX45 fuel
Unimog Medic
Unimog Supply
Unimog tropp transport
MB-240 GD
MB-240 GD XO/CO
Ural 4320 transport
Ural 4320 fuel
others
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ASLAV-CS
ASLAV-A
Biber
BMP medic
BRDM-2
BRDM-2AT
Centauro*
Cougar 6x6 MRAP
Eagle IV
Fennek
Scimitar
FV-101 Scorpion
GTK Boxer
GTK Boxer Engineers
Iveco LMV
M-981 FISTV
FOV90* (=CV-90 FO)
Jaguar 1A3
M-109A3
M-1064A3
M-113/FO
M-113 FO "Viking"
M-113A1
M-113FIST
M-113A3 Engineers
M-113A3 MICLIC
M-113 Medic
M-113G3 OPMV
M-113 Bergepanzer
M-113A3 TOW
M-88A1 MRV
M-1064 (M113 mortar)
M-901 ITV
M-966 HMMWV*
MT-55
MT-LB FO
TPz Fuchs "1970s-90s"
TPz Fuchs 1A6
TPz Fuchs 1A7
2S1 Gvozdika
2S3 Akatsiya 152mm
BM-21 multiple missile laucncher
PRB-3 FO
2S6 Tunguska AA
UAV unmanned aerial vehicle
UGV unmanned ground vehicle
1.2t technical truck HMG
1.2t technical truck RCL
1.2t technical truck with mortar
1.2t technical truck with TOW
flatbed with ZU-23/2
YPR-765 PRAT
Wiesel TOW
Wisent ARV
ZSU-23-4 Shilka
8 versions of civilian cars
helicopters:
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CH-47 Chinook
CH-146 Griffon
MI-24 Hind E
MRH-90
Tiger ARH
AH-64 Apache
UH-60 Blackhawk
infantry
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rifle platoon 1-15 men
AGL team
MSL team
HMG team
Mortar team
FO team
optional: UGV for infantry
optional: UAV for infantry
RWS with MG
TOW
Javelin
Spike
BILL
Civilians
Insurgents (armed hostiles in civilian clothing)
The sim is easy to learn but difficult to master. Handling the tanks is not Falcon 4 style hightech wizardy, but making use of terrain to your advantage and mastering tactics and unit cohesion - is what its all about. This is no game for wannabe-Rambos. Rambo dies quick and early in here. I do not MP myself, but they say that MP is very stable, and a blast. the sim sees constant development since yearsd and for years to come. However, while the solftware is not difficult to handle, you need to understand that this is a pro tool for military customers, and not a game package of the likes you know from other PC titles. The content it has and the format is features is to 80-90% due to the military demanding this, and not paying for something other. And that is where their market interest lies. Civilian players are NOT their main customer that pays their bills. This is also the reason why the graphics look dated.
http://www.tanksim.com/topic15_sbp_interview.htm
(P.S. That interview was done in 2006, back then there was no time of day, no dusk and dawn, no night. This has changed since two years, you now have night time and night vision equipment, from NVG and thermal imagers to infrared suicide devices
used - or better not used - by the T-72s).
http://www.steelbeasts.com/
I'm with the earliest incarnations of Steel beasts since almost twenty years now, I think its 18 years now. It's for tanks what Falcon 4 and DCS is for fighters and bombers, and ArmA is for infantry. The developer works with the armed forces of his customers and gets access to their vehciles they want to see simulated, however he doe snot use classified data. But many staff and free helpers are tankers in real life and know their matter inside out, that makes sure by using public data from Jayne's and the like they can make very reasobable guesses of what to make the sim behave like, and what kind off effects regarding armour and ammunition probably would be unrealistic. If they would not do their homework well, defence ministries would not pay them tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars for licenses.