[Proposal] New Middle Eastern Armies

[Tannhauser]

Originally Posted by 162eRI

Egypt?

Unless a clone of Nasser comes back to power, Egypt is a no go... Ô_o

Oh and don't forget the mighty Oman and Yemen armies, who's gonna defend muttrah otherwise?

[SocketMan]

A friend of mine (and a fan of MEC) would like to see these:

Originally Posted by [GCA];

I would like to see:

~ Kurdish Militia
~ Modern Iraqi "Army"
~ Iran Army
~ Iran Republican Guard "High Speed Militia"
~ Syrian Army
~ Hezbollah
~ Saudi Arabia or Jordan Army
~ Turkey Army
~ Ethiopian Army
~ Somalian Warlords
~ Pakistan Army

[GreedoNeverShot]

I personally like the MEC. It give the DEVs a creative license for a faction and adds variety. Plus the idea of the entire Middle East holding off the West is much easier to believe if its a coalition of Islam countries. China would never enter in a war with the US, maybe we should take them out too, since that is unrealistic. /sarcasm I like the MEC's variety. The new armies would all have old US surplus and that would be redundant. Plus the US would easily take down one country and crush its regular army, like they did to Saddam's army.

Even if we just renamed them to the Iraqi Security force I'd be happy.

The Iraqi security force was started by the US government, so it would make little sense for them to fight the US. Plus they wouldn't cover the whole Middle East.

[Rudd]

I dont have a problem with specific factions and lots of them, but the problem is MAPS

People I know are annoyed over the lack of Brit maps these days, but more and more factions mean that you need to get more and more maps or you have to cut the current map pie in to smaller and smaller pieces.

MEC can be diversified WITHOUT having to go in to too much work imo.

Different skins and maybe a different weapon selection for current MEC maps decided on their geographical locations would be nice, but you can start small and get the new stuff straight in to a working team. otherwise...you're gonna need more maps.

[aperson444]

I think there should be a separate Iran faction, and MEC should be changed to all the Arabic speaking countries.


A Saudi Arabia faction might be good too, since they are increasingly more friendly with the West.

[RedAlertSF]

The main problem is that MEC maps are from different areas. Would Iran or Syria fight in Muttrah city? :/

I'd like to get rid of MEC, but then Syria and/or Iran isn't enough. Then we need A LOT new factions. Generally it isn't a problem as they probably all use the same voices and only thing you have to do is reskinning, but it's still big job.

[HughJass]

telling you, should be AMA (arabian military alliance, or mec) and Iran army...

[STORM-Mama]

Recodring Persian voices will not be that hard, really. I know alot of old friends and people that live close to me that speak farsi.

[[R-COM]Glimmerman]

Interesting idea, i like it

[Lt Mic]

when i play kashan desert allmost every noob changes faction to usa....
it's allso the stupidest idea of the year to make new arab factions...MEC is great
if you want to make new arab faction make one but make allso new maps for them
and leave MEC as it it is and give them the vodnik back!!!!
find some idea for new CATA factions but like Somalian insurgents
even some fictional like Zartakistanum Army or Ossamaist states army
i might be happy to see bmp-2(bmp-1) instead of bmp-3...

PS. DeltaFart: MEC have many fans in old CATA players which played as MEC all the time
i see everybody love NATO factions(sing ups in prt 60-75% of ppl want to go to NATO only)
but if somebody wants to make new faction ok but leave the MEC as it is...