A campaign worth to consider...

[PlasmaKrab]

You could do that by giving the russian player a few hinds with airborne troops on board... then make the blue force a bunch of unarmed infantry units to model civilians... Have on 2 man squad to represent the "character" form the book and his Icelandic female friend.

Quite what I had in mind... But then what about the core BMD batallion?

In both campaigns (first for coherence, second for flexibility) the core forces would have to be kept really small.