New Insurgent/milita Tank as medium or light

[zordja]

hi all again i'd like to take discussion to a tank that should be in.

the T-54


this tank is very common and the soviets DID make around 90.000 of them so they could appear in this mod, btw it's still being used even today by some armies.

[[R-MOD]Mongolian_dude]

I wouldnt think it a necessary suggestion, as insurgents dont have access to MBTs, nor do they fit in with their tactical doctrine.
The militia already have the T-72, so they dont really need this.


...mongol...

[[R-DEV]bosco]

Militia has the T-62

[zordja]

Originally Posted by [R-DEV]bosco

Militia has the T-62

i'm quite aware of that but it's very common to see this tank with rebels and terrorists.

[[R-DEV]bosco]

That was in response to Mongol...

[davetboy_19]

The last thing we need is the super insurgents with a tank. The unorganized stay-at-main-base brits wouldnt be there because they are idiots, they just couldn't leave the main base.

I can imagine it now on Al Basrah, insurgent tank sitting out of the main on a hill *landy drives out* *boom!* *apc drives out* *BOOM!*...be impossible to leave the base.

[STORM-Mama]

Originally Posted by davetboy_19

The last thing we need is the super insurgents with a tank. The unorganized stay-at-main-base brits wouldnt be there because they are idiots, they just couldn't leave the main base.

Being equiped with an old a extremely outdated Russian tank from the eraly 50s doesn't really make you "super"...

But I see your point. Insurgents shouldn't have any heavy assts at all. A couple of these in the Militia inventory wouldn't hurt anytone, though. After all it's the most common and widely used tank in the world - the AK47 of tanks, so to say.

Thing is that it's not that different from the T-62 that's already ingame. Would be kinda pointless to implement it, really.

[EOD_Security-2252]

Well, Taliban did have tanks in the beginning of Enduring Freedom. Airforce Special Ops destroyed most of them with the help of the Northern Alliance, but Taliban had a fair amount of BMPs and tanks for a while there.

[STORM-Mama]

Giving insurgents tanks and BMPs would still ruin the kind of guerilla warfare that they should stick to in PR, making them more of a poorly equiped regular army rather than a unique partisan faction.

[[R-DEV]Duke]

Originally Posted by EOD_Security-2252

Well, Taliban did have tanks in the beginning of Enduring Freedom. Airforce Special Ops destroyed most of them with the help of the Northern Alliance, but Taliban had a fair amount of BMPs and tanks for a while there.

Ah, see the problem here is that the Taliban are not really 'insurgents' in the sense of the PR insurgents. Remember now that they ran Afghanistan from the mid-90s to the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, meaning that they absorbed the 'real' military of Afghanistan in the process. If anything, id argue the Taliban are closer to a militia/paramilitary force due to the command structure, organisation and equipment they can (or could) field.

The insurgency in PR are more of an unorganised rabble with AKs, which makes giving them a tank a little bit strange in my opinion.