Iran - Iraq War game

[Eggman]

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.

[Nythra]

Yggdrasil původně napsal:

Love to see someone do a tactical shooter of the Spanish Civil War. Also, the Polish-Soviet war of 1919-1920. As far as asymmetrical warfare goes, would also like to see the German East Africa guerrilla war with the Brits during WW I.

lol didn't the leftist that weren't soviet proxies ended up fighting each other in the spanish civil war ?(socialist vs anarchist) then the fascists/nationalists just wiped the remains..

[Jagdwyre]

Velpecula původně napsal:

Yggdrasil původně napsal:

Love to see someone do a tactical shooter of the Spanish Civil War. Also, the Polish-Soviet war of 1919-1920. As far as asymmetrical warfare goes, would also like to see the German East Africa guerrilla war with the Brits during WW I.

lol didn't the leftist that weren't soviet proxies ended up fighting each other in the spanish civil war ?(socialist vs anarchist) then the fascists/nationalists just wiped the remains..

Anarchism is right wing, not left wing.

[Angry Video Game Noob]

USA, France and UK banned soviet suply of freedom fighters during Spanish Civil War, while germans were free to provide fascists with weapons and ammo.

[Devil Peepee]

I would say Insurgency but most of the servers from what I see are dead. There are still servers but they're either full, empty, or have a high ping. I tried Squad for a free weekend trial and i have to say, it was amazing. Go for Squad instead of Insurgency if you want intense middle east combat.

[Angry Video Game Noob]

I tried it too, by far it's the most realistic shooter about Middle East I ever played.
Insurgency is whole different thing, it's nothing about trench warfare.

[Chumpy]

Try Squad

[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

[Anarchy]

Jesus christ there's some dense mf'ers in here. Squad literally has nothing close to what the dude is talking about lmfao

[FlashBurn]

Why is this back from the dead?

And yes, the Iran Iraq war is totally not like anything squad or insurgency did or does. It was a freaking slaughter fest more akin to ww1 and Stalingrad rolled in with modern tanks, jet fighters, attack choppers, child soldiers, and massed arty. As a subject for an action FPS MP game I think it is freaking awful. The war crime stuff, the child soldier thing, the religious insanity of Iran's non-regular troops or the war of the city crap of shooting ballistic missiles at each others cities.. It was a messy nightmare.

As to ignorant folks trying to compare this conflict with squad and insurgency. It just shows gross ignorance of the subject matter. What a shock. Same kind of folks that ask when do they unlock red dots in Vietnam.........

[Eggman]

I hope a mod comes about, I got Steel Armour: Blaze of War which is a fantastic game. But it only tackles the armour elements of the conflict and I would like something that is a little more comprehensive and infantry based: the wide variety of small arms used in the war, armoured vehicles, Mi24 Hinds and Cobra helicopters etc.

I think the RS/RS2 model would be a good way of representing the conflict, especially due to the objective based dynamics it has.

Just my take on things, plus a 1980s period conflict would be pretty awesome.

[SuspiciouspegasusTTV]

Sorry if I necro dis stuff my guys, but I have to put my 25 cents into the arcade machine, Personally I have wanting to see a war with this setting ever since I found out it was a thing.

This war makes ww1 look like a kitten, while this war was more like a giant meat grinder that has khorne himself turning the handle at record speed, making kids into khornate hamburgers faster then you can say "ded"

[Sowhat]

It would be great if they released one complete game without bugs.

[JustRyan]

Early 2003 Iraq War would be cool tbh

[TalfrynV]

Very insteresting senario!

[Angry Video Game Noob]

Persian Gulf War/Operation Desert Storm would be awesome.
Giant NATO warmachine being humiliated by tiny country with better equipment. We all know that ♥♥♥♥♥♥ maggots never show you their real casualties statistics, because propaganda.