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So yes, this will be a AAR about Iraq. Why Iraq? Just because they have lots of oil .
If I had thought more earlier, then I should have picked Iran...

Settings:
Military-very Hard
Economy-default
diplo- very easy or default, dont remember.
Allied victory-on.
Wv- very high.
Starting funds-low.
Debt-yes
Many grammar mistakes-yes (because I use an Estonian Firefox, and it doesnt check English grammar )

Hullu MDC mod 1.24.
I will look after Estonia (obviously) and Czech republic (no idea why), help my other allies (Egypt, and the Saudis), have some allies I dont really care about (Syria, Jordan, Angola, Algeria) and dislike almost everybody else.
Because I am 1 year into the game, I wont post any ingame-pictures right now.

Anyway:
As I had become the president of Iraq, my first moves were to start building many oil derricks, research centers, aircraft factories and land factories.
Why?
Because thanks to Hullus big mistake, all the world was (and is) epicly short of oil. (current oil market price is 850$ per bbl). I think you can guess, where my money comes from.
So, anyway, I looked at my military, and discovered, that its... köhh-köhh... not the strongest in the bunch. Huge amounts of Hummers and light infrantry, some tanks, some ancient artillery (everything is towed!), even older AA. Those are the land forces. They are almost sufficent. But the air force... Some L-39 trainers, some Mi-8 helis, 2 C-130 and some few small Russian fixed wing transports. And the Navy was even worse: 12 patrol boats (couldnt carry missiles).

So, after I had made sure, what I have, I DOW-ed Kuwait.
Why? Because I could . (And those pesky Americans were busy with Mexico and Cuba).
It was a nice and a short battle, altho, my troops failed to understand that I want their army intact :( . I only got their Oil Derricks and 1 M1 tank. (I think I got an Apache and 1 C-130 too, but Im not sure, perhaps I had them earlier, perhaps not ).
After Kuwait was dead, I looked if anyone had noticed anything. They hadnt . So my oil production rised from 1 m bbl per day to 2m per day. And that meant: more money for me!

So sometime went past, and the bloody jews DOW-ed me. Cause they were already fighting with almost all the Mid-East, I didnt care much about it. Altho, I tried to supply Syrian troops with my C-130-s. But 1 of them got shot down almost instantly, so I didnt try that again. After the Jews offered peace (asking 500m to prove that they are still Jews) I accepted, cause keeping my DEFCON on 3 would have drained more money in long term.
At somepoint Russia DOW-ed Estonia, which meant that I sent them all of my modern weaponry (To Estonia, not to Russia) (So bye-bye Abrams and BTR-3U)+ alot of oil, money and MG.

Time went past, I started building more things, as the oil money started coming in. I researched some things. (like Basic Missiles) Bought the Gripen and SEP-W from Sweden, Leo 2 A5 from Germany and S-400 from Russia, watched how my idiotic workers made some S-400-s. (cause they were absolutely horrible, I sent them to Estonia. They didnt deploy them ) Those morons made some Lions(not Leos) too, I kept those for myself .
I also started building some Gripens. I wonder if they will fly? I hope so.

Anyway, at somepoint IRAN DOW-ed me. :( Due to the fact that I was playing Warcraft III at the moment I didnt notice it at first ). So, I took over, when computer had succesfully gained the initative. It was a nice war with lots of casualities on both sides. (my casualities page shows 359/177/279,425) I occupied most of their oil derricks and when I had almost all of them, I offered peace. (because I was way too weak to take their capital) They happily accepted. In that war I lost all of my navy and one third of my land forces (+ discovered that trainers arent good for air combat).

And now, May 12 2011. Iran DOW-ed me again.
At least the saudies are fighting them too .

I usually go for the saudis, UAE and Iran. If you manage to get most of their oil reserves, then you will be the uncontested second superpower, holding most of the Oil Ex/importsin your hands and fueling and military machine, I think . Just a suggestion

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But the Saudis are my friends
I couldnt backstab them, could I?(+ I think they would kill me )

But some progress:
The second Iranian war was 6 months long. My combined losses are now 644/219/370,414.
So, I lost 100 000 soldiers and gained... Almost nothing.(I already had most of their oil)
I did get some troops, so my Air Force has now 33 units! Epic! Also my navy has gone from 0 to 13! Woot! It would be larger, but those damn Iranians sunk my newly made Viking sub. With their Kilos... Speaks volumes about my wonderful workers and soldiers.
My military fabs are growing rapidly, I now have 19 land, 11 air, 4 naval and 10 missile fabs.
Which makes me 4. overall. For my navy I bought Zumwalt from the USA. Considering how well my other high tech things have done, I excpect them to sink at harbour.
Gripen NG got chosen as the next main fighter of the IAF.(Due to large amounts of bribes to the Saab) Also we made a new set of S-400, which even shot down some planes in the Iranian war. Altho, both batteries got almost annihilated by the Iranians. And Leos are being built. In the Iranian war, they managed to conquer 1 hex. I consider it a great victory.
I want a battleship for my navy, but I havent decided, should it be the Bismarck or Iowa.
Bismarck will probably win the competition thanks to its longer range tho .
Anyway, on the other news:
Nigeria ate Niger.
Russia ate Lithuania and Georgia
South Africa ate one country which name I dont remember
North Cyprus got eaten
And USA has got a positive treasury.

Somewhat funny stabbing at Jews aside, I couldn't help it but to notice this



Does this mean what I think it does?

If you think, that I sent my trainers versus Iranian fighters then unfortunately no I wasnt that stupid ...
I sent them versus supply planes. Those Estonian military strategiest who think, armed trainers can replace Gripen/F-16 are crazy. 4 full groupes couldnt even considerably damage An-26 transports. I know, this is Supreme Ruler, but still. Those things are awful, they cant do anything right in this game. Altho, they could be perhaps used as a small missile carrier platform, as they have capacity of 45 and max missile size 4. The Iranian air supply was a pain, cause I couldnt do almost anything against them. As said, my L-39-s were horrible, and the lack of proper med-air AA made it quite annoying. And at the time I only had 2 batteries of SA-20. 1 got almost shot to pieces by a 7 garrison city which was standing next to one highway, the second one was almost destroyed by my defence minister, when he sent the poor things escorts away to guard some oil derricks or something.
Anyway, I killed of the saudis, in a short campaign where a small strikegroup (7*SEP W, 2 7*Leo 2 a5, 7* AMS, 2* S-20, and 5* supply truck) cleared out one of their main bases, and the road to the capital. The capital was bit harder, there I also added 4 7*light infs to the strike force. They moved their capital once, but the same force took that one too.(after repairs)
Overall, the saudis had a nice beggining, making the fighting quite intense in the first few hours of the conflict, but Gripens and 2*Su-25 (which I got from my Iranian friends, alongside with other planes) killed off many of their troops which traveled without any AA cover. After the first hour saudis resitance became more heretic, and altho their battalions were quite numerous, they arrived one by one, so the result was clear. My Leos kept them nicely at bay, so they couldnt hurt my support units. I dont remember any serious resitance from the saudi air force, probably they were dead after the first hours.(cause it seems, that only 1 AH-64 and 1 IDS seem to have survived the conflict on their side) But its worth mentioning, even until I took their second capital, they were still sending some units at my troops, so the AI seems to be slowly improving.

On the other news.
Israel got killed off. (as always )
Serbia too (not a big suprise either)
Sierra Leone got eaten.
Kyrgystan was picked to death.
Switzerland had it coming.
Togo is dead.
Mauritania has bit the bullet.
Mexico couldnt take it anymore.
Cuba sunk like a Titanic.
Guatemala was boring anyway.
Belize has had enough.
El Salvadore is no more.
Honduras played with fire.
Nicaragua had it coming.
A seven combo from the AI USA. Did you just see it?

Indeed, the USA made some incredible performance for SR AI. Eating almost all of Central America. Altho, now it has almost run out of funds.(like always) I am considering putting it at 5 defcon, but I am almost sure, it would go to 2 again... Due to the fact that it dowed smaller countries without belli, it is now hated by everyone.
Actualy, the AI has suprised me so far. The Iranian war was boring due to fact, that the saudis and iranians had been fighting for so long, but the Saudi war was not too shabby. And around the world the AI has performed quite well (looking at the large number of destroyed countries. And its only 2013 now). Russia would be a performer perhaps, but with my constant help to Estonia, it was stoped there, so it couldnt attack Finland, Latvia and Poland anymore. Belarus was doing quite okay, but then I started sending aid not only to Estonia but also to Latvia and Poland.
I know, it interferes, but being the worlds strongest economical power is a bit boring. (with 5,242,169 M right now at the treasury, and I think I have sent at least 1,5 to allies) I have 58/22/5/42 fabs, which keep making things. I also have a mini-war with Eritea, which means that my navy bombards everything to pieces on their small piece of land. (I wanted to see, what Tirpitz could do, so I DOW-ed a nearby small country with 100 casus)
The lack of wars in Western Europe slows down my computer by quite a bit . Interference would be wrong, but... Germany vs France anyone? Or, even better, Italy and Germany kill of Austria and then a 3-way FFA war.+ I think Czechoslovakia needs uniting.