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cbreedon · #1 June 24th, 2007, 02:20 PM

thanks
maybe no one plays Iran before 1980 :-)

Noah_Vaile · #2 June 26th, 2007, 07:20 AM

Wasn't "Imperial Iran" that had the best tanks?

cbreedon · #3 June 26th, 2007, 10:02 PM

they had chieftains... which at the time were pretty good.

Noah_Vaile · #4 June 27th, 2007, 06:29 AM

Yes, that is what I meant. Better tanks (at least for the period) than they used/bought after their "revolution."

PlasmaKrab · #5 June 27th, 2007, 09:58 AM

If anyone is up for another what-if mod, an Iranian OOB without the revolution could be quite fun. They had slated about 1000 of what would become the Challenger-1, and were expected to get fair quantities of LAVs, F-16s and other goodies.

cbreedon · #6 June 27th, 2007, 12:38 PM

Without the revolution they would probably have been one of the best equiped armies in the world. The amount of cool stuff the US and other were selling them was incredible. A well equiped Pro-Western government in the region would have change history quite a bit. No Hezballah. Probably no Iran-Iraq war. Without that no Gulf War I and who knows after that??? Interesting alternative timeline.

Marcello · #7 June 27th, 2007, 05:38 PM

"Probably no Iran-Iraq war"

Definitively no Iran-Iraq war. The iraqi attack was born out of opportunism, taking advantage of the iranian weakness. Saddam would not have dared otherwise. My memory is a bit rusty but IIRC there were some clashes in the 70's during the imperial era and the iraqi forces involved were smashed pretty badly.

"No Hezballah"

I would suspect that long as the israeli go into Lebanon as historically did something like Hizballah would probably come out.Even with Iran out of the picture there is still Syria for material support.They might not be as powerful of course.

"If anyone is up for another what-if mod, an Iranian OOB without the revolution could be quite fun."

I have been toying with the idea for some time.If and when I can find some time...