Conventional Warfare In Project "Reality"??
Posted: 2010-07-08 20:41
I don't get why Russia and Canada are fighting against each other on a random patch of grass.
Why is Russia invading Beirut, fighting Israeli soldiers?
Why is Britain and China, China and America, fighting in jungles and islands?
Why is there even something called the "MEC"? the Middle Eastern Coalition?
Isn't this game called Project "Reality"??
I understand that this is a game, and people want to have epic tank clashes, dogfights, and full-on conventional warfare. But it doesn't seem realistic to me when the sides fighting are nuclear-armed states, economic partners, and countries that would never fight a war in real life today in the present, nor in the next two decades.
At least the Taliban, the "militia", and Insurgency factions are pretty faithfully portrayed.
I'm just wondering, can anyone explain to me why Russia and Israel are fighting?
Because of this, I add a backstory to all the conflicts to make the wars make sense.
*NOTE* THIS IS ALL FICTION I don't mean to offend any real political organization or scare anyone with this HYPOTHETICAL situation. LOL.
Russia and Israel are fighting because Israel accidently bombed a Russian embassy in Beirut during a military operation, and the Russians used this incident as a pre-text to war when tensions were already high between these two nations when Israel installed an anti-missile shield backed by the U.S that cut Russian nuclear capabilities in half. So the Russians sent out an invasion force to fight a limited conflict to protect Russian interests in Beirut, and stating that their secondary objective is to protect human rights in Lebanon, they invade to drive out Israeli forces from Beirut.
A Canadian oil company, Husky Energy for example, unwittingly discovers vast reserves of oil and natural gas in an island in the Arctic Ocean (or Atlantic) off the northern Russian coast, and establishes oil plants on the island named "Yamalia". The Russians discovered this too, and demanded the Canadians to withdraw from the Island. Canada, angered that Russia is attacking its fellow ally Israel, masses an expeditionary unit to guard Yamalia from Russia, but the Russians, claiming the Island as their rightful territory receives approval from the U.N. to wage limited warfare for control of Yamalia, and Canada and Russia fights a short 7-day war for control of the island.
Meanwhile back in the middle east, an angry Pakistani general and an angry Saudi Arabian general angered at U.S. involvement in Arabian affairs gains ties with Russian militias in Chechnya and other former Soviet states (inspired by the ultranationlists from Call of Duty 4) launches of a Coup that spreads all across the Middle East. These generals spark a gigantic civil war in countries such as Yemen, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, etc. and they formed the MEC "Middle Eastern Coalition" with a goal to drive the U.S. out of the middle east and to launch and invasion of Israel. Plus the MEC has ties to a Chinese power-hungry general who supplies them with weapons and logistics.
However, NATO responds with a gigantic show of force, launching sweeping operations throughout the Middle East, and there's a lot of loyalists who still support the antebellum governments, so the new MEC is swiftly crushed in a matter of weeks, and the fighting dies down to low-level insurgent guerilla warfare.
British and Russian units launches operations in former Soviet states, trying to hunt down all the organizations that helped generate the coup. The battle for Iron Ridge is an example, as well as Fools Road.
In China, an extremely conservative hard-liner general who is extremely charismatic and has solid loyalty from his endeared troops launches a coup to try to gain power and destroy Western influence in the region. His armies are quickly crushed by loyalists like his allies, but the general flees to jungles, and several islands off the eastern coast of China.
The British fights the rebel Chinese in an "Operation Ghost Train", while the U.S fights the rebel Chinese forces in the battle of "Qwai River" and destroys the Chinese general's forces in "Operation Barracuda". Operation Flashpoint 2: Dragon Rising portrays some of the warfare between the U.S and the rogue Chinese general in the island combat.
Now it's just mopping up the remnants of the rebel Chinese, the fragments of the MEC, the continued war against insurgents, and a hunt for rebels in the Caucasus regions of the former Soviet Union.
Having this story in the back of my head makes Project Reality much more enjoyable to play
Why is Russia invading Beirut, fighting Israeli soldiers?
Why is Britain and China, China and America, fighting in jungles and islands?
Why is there even something called the "MEC"? the Middle Eastern Coalition?
Isn't this game called Project "Reality"??
I understand that this is a game, and people want to have epic tank clashes, dogfights, and full-on conventional warfare. But it doesn't seem realistic to me when the sides fighting are nuclear-armed states, economic partners, and countries that would never fight a war in real life today in the present, nor in the next two decades.
At least the Taliban, the "militia", and Insurgency factions are pretty faithfully portrayed.
I'm just wondering, can anyone explain to me why Russia and Israel are fighting?
Because of this, I add a backstory to all the conflicts to make the wars make sense.
*NOTE* THIS IS ALL FICTION I don't mean to offend any real political organization or scare anyone with this HYPOTHETICAL situation. LOL.
Russia and Israel are fighting because Israel accidently bombed a Russian embassy in Beirut during a military operation, and the Russians used this incident as a pre-text to war when tensions were already high between these two nations when Israel installed an anti-missile shield backed by the U.S that cut Russian nuclear capabilities in half. So the Russians sent out an invasion force to fight a limited conflict to protect Russian interests in Beirut, and stating that their secondary objective is to protect human rights in Lebanon, they invade to drive out Israeli forces from Beirut.
A Canadian oil company, Husky Energy for example, unwittingly discovers vast reserves of oil and natural gas in an island in the Arctic Ocean (or Atlantic) off the northern Russian coast, and establishes oil plants on the island named "Yamalia". The Russians discovered this too, and demanded the Canadians to withdraw from the Island. Canada, angered that Russia is attacking its fellow ally Israel, masses an expeditionary unit to guard Yamalia from Russia, but the Russians, claiming the Island as their rightful territory receives approval from the U.N. to wage limited warfare for control of Yamalia, and Canada and Russia fights a short 7-day war for control of the island.
Meanwhile back in the middle east, an angry Pakistani general and an angry Saudi Arabian general angered at U.S. involvement in Arabian affairs gains ties with Russian militias in Chechnya and other former Soviet states (inspired by the ultranationlists from Call of Duty 4) launches of a Coup that spreads all across the Middle East. These generals spark a gigantic civil war in countries such as Yemen, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, etc. and they formed the MEC "Middle Eastern Coalition" with a goal to drive the U.S. out of the middle east and to launch and invasion of Israel. Plus the MEC has ties to a Chinese power-hungry general who supplies them with weapons and logistics.
However, NATO responds with a gigantic show of force, launching sweeping operations throughout the Middle East, and there's a lot of loyalists who still support the antebellum governments, so the new MEC is swiftly crushed in a matter of weeks, and the fighting dies down to low-level insurgent guerilla warfare.
British and Russian units launches operations in former Soviet states, trying to hunt down all the organizations that helped generate the coup. The battle for Iron Ridge is an example, as well as Fools Road.
In China, an extremely conservative hard-liner general who is extremely charismatic and has solid loyalty from his endeared troops launches a coup to try to gain power and destroy Western influence in the region. His armies are quickly crushed by loyalists like his allies, but the general flees to jungles, and several islands off the eastern coast of China.
The British fights the rebel Chinese in an "Operation Ghost Train", while the U.S fights the rebel Chinese forces in the battle of "Qwai River" and destroys the Chinese general's forces in "Operation Barracuda". Operation Flashpoint 2: Dragon Rising portrays some of the warfare between the U.S and the rogue Chinese general in the island combat.
Now it's just mopping up the remnants of the rebel Chinese, the fragments of the MEC, the continued war against insurgents, and a hunt for rebels in the Caucasus regions of the former Soviet Union.
Having this story in the back of my head makes Project Reality much more enjoyable to play
