[Faction Proposal] Islamic Republic of Iran Army

[sheggalism]

AFAIK, the Army is not Iran's only major force. "Pasdaran", or "Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution" seems to be a very active branch of the military, although it looks like some kind of evolved militia, with its own land/air/naval forces, with assymetric warfare policies (IED, etc...). I've seen photos of Pasdaran units, and they use mainly russian firearms, and they are responsible for strategic missiles.

So, could it be interesting to see a map mixing both kind of Iranian forces ? (basic military defence + inusurgency-like tactics)

[aperson444]

Originally Posted by sheggalism

So, could it be interesting to see a map mixing both kind of Iranian forces ? (basic military defence + inusurgency-like tactics)

That would be interesting, but I doubt the Islamic Guard does those offensive operations.


It would be good for defensive however.

I think we should keep MEC, and create Iran separate. rename MEC to Islamic League or something.

We need someone to make a Zulfiqar tank model. It is based off of many MBTs.

For the HAT kit, the RPG-29 should be used. Lend the RPG-7 to the Islamic Guard or something.

[Psykogundam]

Anyone willing to contribute to an Iranian faction?

[McBumLuv]

I would, but I pretty much can't model anything, nor have I ever churned out a playable bf 2 map yet, soooo, we'll see. Maybe I'll take the time to finally look over the many tuts on the web.

[Scot]

Originally Posted by McLuv

I would, but I pretty much can't model anything, nor have I ever churned out a playable bf 2 map yet, soooo, we'll see. Maybe I'll take the time to finally look over the many tuts on the web.

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This would truly be awesome to get in game

[McBumLuv]

Where's the report button, I'm experiencing lolcat abuse.

But I'd love to see Iran's army in game, I'd be able to roll into the US base with the hummer look-alike undetected, and they'd be all like "WTH?" when they get killed, but don't see any tk messages

[STORM-Mama]

I know that the regular Army is not the only capable fighting force in Iran. But it's still the regular army that would be fighting the conventional battles in case of war. The IRGC is trained for assymetrical guerilla war and the Basij can be called a large militia consisting mostly of civilians.

The regular army would be most interesting to model because what PR lacks in conventional non-NATO or "OpFor" armies, not unconventional militias.


I've created a new design plan.
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Basically just replaced the G3s with KH2002s and the F-4 with the locally produced the Saeqeh (although a model of that is not high priority - the MiG-29 can still be used). Also decided to go for the PKM for the automatic riflemen. MG3 can be used as their deployable machine gun maybe?
Still havn't found any info on what weapon and UGL their grenadiers use. Seems like the Khaybar rifle cant be fitted with any type of UGL, since no sites ention anything like that. Same goes for the hand grenade, but I guess we can use the F1 as placeholder.
The only sniper rifle in the Iranian inventory comparable to rifles like the M40 and M24 (bolt-action, long-range rifles) is a .50 caliber sniper rifle called Steyr HS. Do you think that would fit for the sniper kit?

Btw, there are some reskin-jobs required. This is how the Iranian paint-job looks like for some of the vehicles.

BTR-60:


MiG-29:



Su-25:

[Psykogundam]

if this were given some attention from past contributors and current developers with experiance in reskinning, it would go very quickly, and from the looks of it, it would be available for consideration for the next release of PR...but dont quote me on that.

[Rudd]

http://img88.echo.cx/img88/1465/4527450yk.jpg

well thats just been made hasn't it with a very similar texture.

Good luck with the faction

[Psykogundam]

like storm-mama said, the faction doesnt require much work. most of the usable vehicles are allready in PR.

anyone got a Zulfiqar-3? :P