Please help me find a rules set that is right for me!

[janner]

Well it sounds like Operation Squad or Rules of Engagement are the ones to look at.
Out of curiosity, how are people liking Bolt Action?

In line with previous comments, I think Bolt Action are okay, although there have been various debates on the relative (in)effectiveness of Light Machine Guns.

[Kieffer]

Hello everyone,

Longtime fan of skirmish gaming [...]
Does anybody know of or can recommend a rules set that is:
 28mm
 Resolves each persons actions separately (rather than as a group)
 Small scale with no more than a dozen or so men per a side
 Has rules for vehicles such as armored cars

The two rulesets i would recommend are :
-Operation Squad + Vehicles expansion (http://www.torrianimassimo.it/operationsquad/html_uk/game.html)
-Disposable Heroes: Point Blank (http://store.ironivangames.com/dihepobl.html)

The easiest to learn is Operation Squad, you are ready to play faster, but Point Blank got more depht.
You will need expansions for Point Blank to have vehicles not covered in the main rulebook.

[King Tiger]

Operation squad.
Disposable heroes (not played point blank put the basic system is my all time fav gaming system)

Personally wouldn't bother with bolt action, its just moaning players and 40k rules.

[gorgarrak]

Normandy Firefight should suit you, designed for 1:35 but playable in 28mm

Mike

[z1pp132002]

Bolt Action
Operation Squad
Point Blank
Troops Weapons and Tactics but hang on with this one as Chain of Command might just be better. Same creators..

[meatpuppet7]

I picked up Operation Squad for my skirmish game.  But I think that I might also get Bolt action for any larger games I might want to play.

[john Hollyoak]

If you like Op Squad they are doing a larger scale game but there are no clues as to when it will be released.
John

[meatpuppet7]

Thank you everyone for all your help!  Now just a few more questions.   

What is in the reinforcements book for Op squad?
Is it worth getting?
I purchased the first two books as PDFs, Is third available in electronic format?

[obsidian3d]

I don't think the Reinforcements book is available as a PDF, although I recently emailed the creators to ask if it were in the plans. No answer yet, but that was only a few days ago.

If you want more army lists their website does have a ton of new ones to download for free. Several of them are for the four nations in the main book, but they also add some French, partisans, Japanese as well as African and Pacific front lists. I was quite impressed with them...and I'm looking forward to building some figures from those lists soon!

[Sirius]

Reinforcements adds heavier support weapons (AT guns etc), and revises the original support weapon rules to allow weapons teams to activate together with a single order, much like vehicles. Includes additional lists for each of the 4 original forces. Also includes errata/clarifications/revisions for the Vehicles book (which I thought was a bit cheeky on the part of the publishers - those pages should have been a downloadable resource).

[obsidian3d]

For those who are interested in a PDF of the Reinforcements expansion for Operation Squad WW2, I just picked up a copy from Ganesha Games for $9.50. I'm impressed with the quality of the layouts and think the price is good. For all three books you're paying less than $30. With the free army lists and all three books you've got dozens of squads you can build and around 10 scenarios to play. I think that's more than enough variety for some great WW2 gaming.

Now I just need to finish gluing together my Russian and German squads so I can play a few games!