So are there any other recent games that sort of let me play like that? WW2 theme is great but it doesnt have to be. There is a neat mod available for the game which caters to the way I like to play which gives you a base to defend and supply trucks which drive to it so you can buy new equipment and the enemy pours in from all around in greater and greater force for one hour but I miss being able to recover enemy vehicles when they are constantly pouring in and it only lasts one hour total which is a bummer. I wish they were more random/dynamic with that. in the beginning the enemy will send one infantry squad every several minutes or so, over and over again until you take the next flag which then triggers them to send a light tank plus an infantry squad every few minutes, over and over again and so on. What I dont like is the maps have very static scripted enemy reinforcements based on how many flags you took.

do daring special ops using a few commando type infantry behind enemy lines, like flank an enemy at gun, kill the crew and demolish the gun, so my vehicles can move up try to recover said damaged vehicles and make them my own

I probably dont play it exactly like most people though, what I like is just playing single player skirmish mode and do this: Been having a lot of fun playing this older series - particularly assault squad 2.

Men of war assault squad 2 pause