OOB 17- Iraq Mod

[Marcello]

The M60 are units 610, 680 and 681. They are available under NIA (New Iraqi Army) Tank Co/Plt. The infantry with M16 are available under NIA Rifle Co/Plt at page 3.

EDIT
One of the M60 has a wrong availability date (102-109 instead of 108-120). I have corrected this mistake and uploaded the corrected version.

[Marcello]

Quick summary of abbreviations.
NIA = New Iraqi Army, the post 2003 Army raised by the coalition.
INP = Iraqi National Police, a mechanized police force mounted on BTR-94/ASV
ERU = Emergency Response Units, basically militias raised among pro government tribes in Anbar and elsewhere.
IP = Iraqi Police, nuff said
FPS = Facility Protection Service, static defense units used to protect fixed objectives etc.

[cbreedon]

Thanks

I was wondering about some of these abbreviations.

[Marcello]

Some others points.
The Baathist units you can find at page three are not supposed to represent baathist insurgents. Rather they are supposed to represent an alternate history
loyalist militia/home guard sort of organization. The insurgents are all available under the guerilla units.
I toyed with the idea of specific formations (Mahdi Army etc.) but given the number of organizations I decided to keep it generic for now.
I also thought about a purely historical OOB but given that for most formations there would be gaps ranging from a few months to five years with no units in service in that period this would present several problems (I also lack the time ATM).

[Marcello]

In case you were interested in gaming current Iraq war scenarios here is the best source online about the iraqi security forces; I have used it extensively for drawing up the OOB.
http://billroggio.com/oob/index.php

[Marcello]

Plans for the next version.
1) I have managed to find some very interesting material on Peshmerga; the kurdish forces are going to be overhauled on the basis of that (availability dates, organization, weapons etc).
2) I am going to include a shiite rebels formation so that you can play scenarios set during the revolts of march 91.
3) Various modifications and corrections.

[Marcello]

The new version of the mod is up. In addition
to the changes described previously several things have been added or modified.
Among other things.
- Jash units (kurdish units fighting alongside the government).
- iraqi paratroopers (there was a british trained battalion in the fifties-sixties).
- I got some info on the early iraqi tank forces. Sherman Firefly, M4A3 etc added.

For the fictional units:
- revised SAMs
- I decided to replace the Milan 3/HOT 3 combo with the Kornet.

And many others modifications.