Speaking of Palladium, I think I should use this time to get a copy of Recon (that Vietnam War RPG from the 80's) off of DriveThruRPG while I still can, since Palladium owns the rights to that.
I'm not actually familiar with Palladium and their games at all, but I've always wanted to play or run a game of Recon.
Ideally, I'd like to get the original 1982 version of Recon, which was made by an independent publishing company that Palladium later bought out. Unfortunately, I cannot find that version of Recon anywhere on DTRPG and hard copies on Amazon are prohibitively expensive. But I could easily get a PDF of the Palladium version of the game released in the 90's (Deluxe Revised Recon), which kept the Vietnam War aesthetics but used fictional stand-ins for the various countries and belligerents and expanded the scope of the game to include global conflicts throughout the 60's, 70's, and 80's.
The 1982 original used actual countries and historical events, and there was a limited miniatures line, as well as two adventure modules and a single supplement for games set in the Arab-Israeli conflicts of the 1960's and 1970's (this supplement even had a system for vehicle combat), and the original publisher had announced they would do supplements for playing as mercenaries as well as a Korean War supplement, but the company went out of business and Palladium bought the rights to Recon and did their own version instead.
I've mentioned Recon before, and I would love to own it. But I think for now, if I want to run a military-themed campaign, I can currently use my hard copies of the Third Edition GURPS Basic Set combined with GURPS Special Ops, one of the more popular 3E books.
