K BACK ON TOPIC, I never thought that this thread would keep going when i posted it lol. Lots of things are offensive to people, but heck if they made a game about the war in Iraq I'm sure a lot of people would play it.
As for balance issues this can easily be solved.
-First is the scale, we wouldn't incorporate all of the Russians things like helicopters and jets and the like.
-As for artillery, the Chechens always have readily avalible mortar fire from the mountains.
-To counter inevitable Russian tanks, we can have it so that there are only T55's up to T-72's and no T-90's (since they don't have many T-90's anyways) And in real life the Chechens have many, many, many different types of anti-tank weapons, from regular RPG's to recoiless rifles.
I don't know if it would be a very exciting idea for many people because they would have to work together on the Chechen team if they wanted to win.
Upon adding up all the details, to me, a Chechen war mod would be fun and exciting to play.
However because of the balance issues when given to the average gamer I don't think it would work out.
THEREFORE, I think that a more balanced Eastern European based warfare mod would be the Yugoslavian Civil War.
Each side was balanced with tanks, planes, and helicopters. Also each side had its own legit army as well as its own irregular guerrilla force.
(As for Beslan, many Chechens couldn't care less because to them, Beslan happens every day in Chechnya.)