Some pics from a recent mission in the campaign from T-72 Tank Commander/Balkans on Fire/Iron Warriors. My task was to meet with a recce patrol on the road to an enemy-held village then check out the latter, in my solitary tank. I'm playing with the Gastello mod which much improves most AFVs and gunner's sights, amongst other things. Here's the mod's improved Leopard 1A4, next to the eponymous T-72.



Advancing cautiously, we run into an advancing platoon of T-34s, of which we make short work.







Skirting the woods, there's a hairy few moments when we're hit frontally by an unseen adversary. The smoke trails give him away as an RPG operator. And after backing into cover, we mow him down with the co-ax and then resume our advance.



A pause for observation, before moving on.



At the edge of the next patch of woodland, just visible in the long grass, is an enemy MTLB tracked carrier. Fortunately, it's not the variant with the roof-mounted ATGM. I put a round into him and then machine-gun some dismounted troops to his rear.



The village is in an awkward position, strung out along a road on the far side of a steep ridge. At least the trees provide cover for my approach. I manage to descend without rolling the tank, halting every few metres to scan for enemies. The village is apparently clear.



At this point, the sim CTD'ed, something I've not seen before. Didn't stop me moving on to the next mission. During which, my tank got blasted from behind by a pair of enemy-crewed T-55s which completely outflanked me. Everybody's using the same kit so identification, friend from foe, is something of a headache.



Once the campaign is over and I've got the hang of things, I'm planning to run through some user-made missions I got from the guy who runs a Facebook page for the sim. This pic, from one I tried earlier gives a flavour - not to be attempted until you have mastered things such as shooting down marauding Mi-8 helicopter gunships!



At least that mission gives me the T-72!

Good show 33 Lima ,,As usual a superior AAR Thank you for the post.

Looking nice 33Lima.

The op of the mod video showed up at the Steel Beast forum In a thread I opened with IW T-72. He agreed to post Install Instructions In English for the Steam Install among other pointers. Glad he stopped by. Will post results over here at SimHQ as he post them. Keep em coming!

Good stuff! The only issues I have with this mod so far are is that the in-game menus are in Russian/Cryllic alphabet and more significantly, I no longer see the on-screen text translations of crew speech. It would be good to know how to restore full English localisation.

In the meantime, I still needs lots of practice. I can quite happily pick off parked helos (and appreciate the new T-72 gunner's sight with range dial and red loaded indicator), but hitting them in the air is a whole new ball game!