Request for help with campaign I'm building

[shahadi]

Originally Posted by Suhiir

Yeah I plan to have an extremely international flavor to this on all sides. After all it's not too often these folks get the chance to actually wipe out a US formation and the diplomatic personel of their allies!

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.

Originally Posted by Suhiir

Oh I'd agree on the airport ... IF ISIS hadn't seized control of the local SAM sites! Sure an airstrike could eventually be put together to neutralize them

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.

Originally Posted by Suhiir

... but can the Marines and diplomatic personel hold out that long against say 10-25% of the population of Bagdad? Far better to get away from the city first then evacuate.

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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[Suhiir]

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.