Israel attacking Iran next October

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Having played Iran in a few campaigns, I don't think this is a difficult task at all, mostly becuase the Iranian stuff is so cheap.

For ~5000 points I would be somewhere like this, give or take;

Foot infantry:
6 companies Basij
12 Nader sections
+ some Snipers and Scouts to advance 4 hexes ahead.


mechanised infantry
4 scout secs
12 of the cheapest sniper unit
4 HMG teams
16 boragh apc, or maybe SKOT.

Missile troops
8 * Toophan 2 section, with 8 ammo containers, 8 apc's to carry
8 * Strela section with 8 ammo containers, maybe with apc's as well if you can't cover the advance from deploy zone.
Helicopters
1-2 sections gunship, plus ammo dump section to reload them.

Arty
9 platoons of M110, with 9 ammo dumps, one per platoon.
2 SA-6 sections, only if visibility is bad.

In an open meeting engagement, bus the scouts, snipers the HMG's, the Toophans onto high ground, only move up behind cover. sit the ATGM an HMG on the hill and march the snipers and scouts forward ahead of the HMG and ATGM position. Alternatively if you have hills in your deploy zone with good los fill them with toophan and Strela teams.

The rest move up as foot infantry.

If he advances, the Atgm's will start cooking his tanks and Apc's, and you can cut up the infantry on the ground with the HMG's, plus put the 8 inches onto the troop/tank concentrations.

If the advance keeps coming, the suppressed remainders will be ambushed by the Basij, snipers and recoiless. A platoon of Basij at 28 points will take down a Mervaka no problem, just mob it after buttoning it with the HMG, arty, or sniper. The trick is to stop moving and set the op fire range to 1, the +15 morale means they will not run when the tank runs into them. You will probably suppress it pretty bad or maybe force into retreat, then you can mob it next turn with the other three squads, or put a Nader/RPG up its ***. If it stops advancing the ATGM, gunships and arty will kill it.

If you have lots of ground to cover and adequate cover, especially hills, it may be worth using groups of 4 boraghs to bus the basij to the back of a hill, then rush back to pick more up and ferry them. Send the scouts and snipers over first as a scouting wave. If you engage any infantry, snipe them and dump the enemy with arty, then use the Basij to advance in and mop up once they are routing, and draw any fire from stragglers. Once you can see them you can snipe them.

Without exaggeration, I can say I have achieved a x100 kill rate this way, against an AI enemy at 150% troops. A real person will of course be a much bigger challenge, but it should still work okay.