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Eggman Aug 25, 2016 @ 7:23am
Iran - Iraq War game
Iran Iraq war has interested me for a long time, I have been wondering for some time when I saw this released whether the game developers were considering an Iran Iraq war game? The Iran Iraq was one of the bloodiest conflicts of the 20th century and is all too neglected in comparsion with other conflicts. From 1980 - 1988 both sides bled eachother dry fighting for a short distance of land http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/iran-iraq.htm.

Battles were intensely brutal and merciless with thousands dead, trenches dominated the landscape and massive armored attacked tried to penetrate their enemies fortifcations in vain.
I personally believe that tripwire should at least look into this war, the weapons used in the war stretch from old WW1/WW2 gear to the latest weapons such as the T72MBT, recoiless rifles, Anti Tank Guided Missiles such as the AT3 Sagger.

Troops literally fought for 100m of ground, with no value. Kurdish forces in the north raided the Iraqi military which led to murders and bruatlities.

If Tripwire wanted a battlefield which could utilise the RO2 style of gameplay best, the Iran Iraq war could show this easily: with brutal trench warfare, merciless mountain battles and unbelievable airbattles.
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Originally posted by Hull & Drones:
all of you silly people going to make me bump a 3 1/2 year old thread. "go play squad" "go play insurgency" none of you know what the Iran-Iraq war was and at the very least, you could have just looked up what it was or looked up some footage. There is no game out there that can compare to the Iran-Iraq war. That is how ♥♥♥♥♥♥ it is.

Iran had AK47 bayonet charges, while the Iraqis used sarin gas. WW1 with AK's and PKM's

The iraqis literally ran barbed wire through lakes so that they can electrocute iranians running through to attack

"In order to defend Basra, the Iraqis poured water into a pre-existing lake east of Basra, known as Fish Lake, and filled it with barbed wire, floating land mines, and high voltage electrical power lines to make it impenetrable to the Iranians."

Here is some of the more iconic footage from the war showing Iranians attacking an Iraqi T-72. : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jmo04Nw5Vdg&feature=emb_title

So in closing, this game cannot be compared to squad or insurgency at all. It was the longest war of the 20th century that went on for 8 years


EDIT: Forgot to add that Iranian children would be used as a frontline human shields to clear barbed wire, landmines, and blow themselves up under tanks.

"During the Iran–Iraq War, children were drafted into the Basij army where, according to critics of the Iranian government, they "were sent to the front as waves of human shields".[148][149] Christopher Hitchens has claimed that Iranians "lost maybe a million and a half of their kids that way",[150] including due to machine gun fire and when clearing minefields and barbed wire, a job given to children so that older troops could pass.[151][152] Other sources have estimated the total number of all Iranian casualties to be in the 200,000–600,000 range.[153] One source estimates that 3% of the Iran–Iraq War's casualties were under the age of 14.[162]"

lmao @ play squad bro
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SichuGun Aug 25, 2016 @ 9:07am 
not interesting
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Kayatoshi Aug 25, 2016 @ 10:25am 
sounds very interesting, ELF you suck
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Nedly Dedly Aug 25, 2016 @ 10:34am 
I would like to see finally some Iraq War game tbh (not to mistake with Gulf War(s)), too bad that Six Days In Fallujah got cancelled.
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=(e)= Lemonater47 Aug 25, 2016 @ 11:02am 
Originally posted by Sigmund Freud:
I would like to see finally some Iraq War game tbh (not to mistake with Gulf War(s)), too bad that Six Days In Fallujah got cancelled.

Well Iraq war was incredibly one sided in terms of battle casualties. Not saying it was easy but it was a highly trained and conditioned army vs an army using extremely outdated tactics and equipment with the wrong mindset.
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RonieTheKhan Aug 25, 2016 @ 11:39am 
Wow wow easy cowboy they have not finished they vietnam conflict.... and i think it will be after 3 years maybe, they will start consider about next part.
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koyaan Aug 25, 2016 @ 2:54pm 
I would like to see a game like Six Days in Fallujah.
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Eddie Aug 25, 2016 @ 4:17pm 
Why dont we focus on the current game?
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Skellenator Aug 25, 2016 @ 5:20pm 
You could try squad for a game with a similar time period but I think if you want something like that from tripwire it might take a while
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ozymandias Aug 25, 2016 @ 6:23pm 
Hope they include the Ahwazi Arabs that were forced to fight as a playable unit
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Angry Video Game Noob Aug 25, 2016 @ 11:08pm 
Squad, Insurgency?
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BmoreBraap Aug 26, 2016 @ 1:31am 
Yea....try Insurgency
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Eggman Aug 26, 2016 @ 8:57am 
Iran Iraq War is in the 1980s...
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Eggman Aug 26, 2016 @ 8:58am 
The Iraqis invaded Iran in order to control Khuzestan, huge battles took part involving thousands upon thousands of men in trenches.
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Eggman Aug 26, 2016 @ 8:59am 
This isn't the Iraq War of 2003, this is the Iran Iraq War of the 1980s....
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BmoreBraap Aug 26, 2016 @ 9:56am 
Originally posted by SALMON (S2016):
Iran Iraq War is in the 1980s...

Oh whoops, not going to lie skipped from title to comment :)
But now that you say it, that really would be a cool game idea for something like full multiplayer.
Maybe it has a lot to do with politics....not many western developers are willing to make a game about a middle eastern war with muslims killing eachother IMO-just a little to risky and might draw the wrong kind of attention? Although there are so many worse game ideas
I also think an even better war setting(Vietnam being my #1-I wish battlefield would do this route) would be the Soviet-Afgahn war from 79-89. Would be a fantastic setting with the afgahn mountains
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