Re: Request for help with campaign I'm building
 

I would say from the reports of English language papers from the region, IRG and Shia militias are handing IS their hats. In this fight, Iran is doing the heavy lifting against IS, not attacking Western interests.

This is to be a campaign right? Then dedicate a scenario to have those SAM's reclaimed. That would make for an interesting twist...Shia malitas and IRG units take back the SAMs. If they fail, the campaign gets much tougher, or the campaign is over.

I doubt 25% of Bagdad is IS. Either way, the Green Zone is massive and very much defensible. Especially, given the several US bases within the immediate vicinity of Bagdad, such as Ain al-Asad USMC base just 30km. Still an interesting concept. Intriguing.

"It's your thang, do what you wanna do." Isley Brothers, 1969.

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Re: Request for help with campaign I'm building
 

Yeah, ISIS will probably be driven back underground pretty much by 2018, but hey, this is a fictional scenario!

Yep it's a campaign, and yes part of it takes place at the airfield. All I'm gonna say about that for now.

One of the reasons I'm setting it a couple years in the future, on the assumption that for one reason or another US (and other non Iraqi) military presence in the area is essentially non-existant. The MEU is there in the first place because of the tensions and the lack of other significant non-Iraqi forces.