Trying to win Op. Nasr as the Iranians is absolute hell
Going in, I had no idea the Chieftains were so shitty; I played the Iraqi sides of the campaigns a while ago and I remember them regularly wrecking my T-55s-- I looked it up on the steam forums and sure enough there was a few long threads about it with Andrei shutting people down for complaining about 'balance'-- one suprise exception, most of my Chieftains only got enemy personnel carriers before exploding, but one crew managed to kill six Iraqi tanks before theirs got lit up by an ATGM--all four crew members managed to bail and survive the battle, so I guess they are going to be Heroes of the Revolution back home or something
I managed to scrape by in the first campaign thanks to a combination of Air Support, close range ambushes with RPG wielding infantry, and a column of enemy tanks getting bogged down after one of them throwing a track near a ford by the second campaign is really kicking my ass-- ATGM M113s, BMP-1 Malyuks have done nearly all the fighting; my helicopters seem to get turned away quite easily by machinegun fire compared to last campaign, and I don't have enough infantry or cover to adequately overwhelm them with RPGs-- I've had F4 Phantoms do a bombing run in one battle, but they chose extremely retarded targets, to the tune of only taking out a few enemy command vehicles and BRDMs