How do you think it's going to go down? I imagine there won't be an infantry presence until it's practically leveled.
>>65046455Doing that would require destroying Kharg Island, which would have major oil repercussions for years.
Have you ever had a dream where you where you where where you land the troops and and the troops are blown up by the super missile but the trump president trump (!) says no and the troops are ok and they are are they are happy and they shoot the iranian missiles down with their super guns and its ok and the super soldiers kill the bad the bad guys
>>65046455It won't go down. There is not point in it.
>>65046466yeah, We can't do that. We have to take it intact. The entire point is to use it as a bargaining chip to get them to surrender unconditionally. Which kind of simultaneously puts us into our own bind. Say they dig in and we land and experience pretty bad casualties or at least worse casualties than we're used to. But we do take it and then they scuttle it on their way down/out making all our efforts pointless. Attacking Kharg does disproportionately favor the Iranians. I probably wouldn't even bother with it. Both of our terms seem to be completely unacceptable to one another and the Iranians aren't going to trust us enough to agree to a ceasefire any time soon.
>>65046455They're going for Abu Musa not Kharg.
>blow up half the island>land boots on the other half>they get exploded by drones and missiles>???>declare victory
Our finest admirals are on the case and will begin the assault by sending four navy SEALs to execute a kill/capture order on the entire island. They will be supported by one warrant officer in a rowboat and two JAG interns from an unaccredited law school.
>>65046455If you level it you have insured oil wont flow for years and there is no point in landing there.If you want to stop Iranian oil flowing without turning it off for years you have to take it without levelling it.Honestly I think Trump has finally started listening to military advisors and is scared to put boots on ground. My money is on a claimed victory and withdrawal.
>They're gonna do what i tell them to do, bitch
>>65046505>I think Trump has finally started listening to military advisorslol hegseth is still a raging tard tho and fired the U.S. Army Chief of Staff
>>65046516He's started throwing Pete under the bus, he could be going around him now.
>>65046544
>>65046554>implying Pete knows shitHe gets told what to believe by Bibi.
>>65046557I just wanted to cancel the E-7 Wedgetail...
>>65046455>How do you think it's going to go down?Well, considering its in range of Iranian tube artillery stationed on the mainland, not well
I have called in operator soggy. He will destroy the tube artillery by spooging in them.
>>65046516>>65046544>>65046554>>65046557>>65046567are you done talking to yourself, "Lilith"?
>>65046692A swing and a miss.
>>65046455>radio crackles to life>"Great Satan, go fuck yourself.."followed by a loud bang and footage on the 9 o'clock news showing a smart bomb augering into that poor fucking animal.:^)
>>65046455Kharg Island basically looks like a Battlefield 2 map so I imagine it's going to go down exactly like that. There will be rapid territorial gains as the IRGC try to take their defensive neutral control points, unable to attack the US rubber boats. However due to the "assault" style of the map, and the layered defensive lines, it'll turn into a meatgrinder real fast. There will be a building down a hill where all the Americans will shelter and grenade spam onto a poorly rendered hotel uphill that acts as the IRGC control point. The bottom floors are accessible for suicide-C4, but the IRGC will consistently repel squad attacks. Even if the point is lost, the proximity of the next IRGC control point will make it basically untenable to hold for the Americans.The strategy I think is most likely to work is if a squad on voice can get past the hotel on the sly, and coordinate a push on the hotel at the same time as they capture the rear control point. If they both go neutral at the same time? Check mate. But tickets are counting and if this can't be done quickly, we might see a total failure to break out of the quagmire and players will just settle into their roles, hunker down, and wait to go next. Commander's artillery is liable to cause TK and I suspect two commanders from both teams will be autobanned for friendly fire. No one is hitting pg_dn to forgive in this conflict. However, this is an expansion pack so as it stands we're seeing the server failing to populate, and randos hopeful that the server will reach a stable 24 players will continue to fuck around in 'waiting for players to join'. During this time it wont be unreasonable to see the US forces pushed all the way back to their carrier spawn point, and the kind of animosity that will brew from camping the plane spawn might bleed into the game when the match starts for real. If so the cohesiveness of the US air force will be at risk of total disintegration. Welcome to doody.
>>65046741>Kharg Island basically looks like a Battlefield 2 map That's because it's based on a Battlefield 3 map. Iran never paid a cent to the hard working game developers who came up with the idea.
>>65046768Yet another case of Iranians stealing Swedish intellectual property rights. However, here we go straight into politics; because if the US recognised the ICC then they could avoid this conflict simply by issuing a C&D. This would reduce tickets to zero and password protect the server on map change.
>>65046484what happens if we commit a bunch of resources to taking it and then they just say fuck you eat shit we didn't want it anyway we're not giving up and then just wreck the place?
>>65046455Bomb it and that's it. Kharg isn't worth holding, it's not Iwo Jima, it's a barrel for ducks.
>>65046833yeah that was kind of the scenario. We killed their government twice now. So they might be at the point where nothing short of marching into Tehran or nuking them will actually get them to fully capitulate. And them letting us have anything at all to bargain with just isn't really in the cards. So if they know we want their government to just completely surrender and let us remake their government in our image why would their government let their puppet replacement have Kharg island when/if we win? I'd just blow it up after taking a few hundred marines with it or saturate the entire island in oil and set it off like a roman candle the minute US boots hit the ground. Fuck the enemy, fuck the gulf, and fuck every living thing in that gulf.
There is a 99.9% chance Kharg island will not be invaded by ground troopsThis entire war is over in a few weeks
>>65047070>This entire war is over in a few weekswe've heard that before. I don't think Trump realizes he can't just end this.
It turns out that when you go to war with the explicit aim of wiping out the existing establishment and begin assassinating their leaders, it's probably going to make the establishment a little stubborn
>>65047074>I don't think Trump realizes he can't just end this.Sure he canIf US forces depart, the war is effectively over
>>65047085>the war is effectively overExcept Iran would still block the strait, and we're still be in a state of war with no ceasefire or treaty signed. So no, it would not be over. The only one that can actually end this immediately is Iran.
>>65047085Pulling out would be a significant emotional event for Trump and thus isn't really under consideration as far as he's concerned unless it can be done without giving the IRGC a "win" in the process
>>65047085Leaving the conflict without opening the straight would be a 1:1 equivalent to the British Suez Crises humiliation and would end our credibility as a power projecting superpower overnight.There would be no reason for any country to take us seriously ever again.
>>65047091>Except Iran would still block the straitMaybe, for a short whileThe only reason the strait is blocked right now is because the US is there
>>65047230six letters, repeat after mes-t-r-a-i-t
>>65047085It takes one party to start a war and all parties to end one.Iran just just keep hitting US bases, allied infrastructure and Israeli cities long after the USN goes home.
>>65047232>Maybe, for a short whileYes and it would be open at Iran's leisure. You really want this to be a US big dick move don't you???
>>65047243Iran and Israel will always be trading strikes regardless, they've been in a proxy war for decades
>>65047249Iran has more incentive to open the strait and gets its tankers trading oil than to keep it closed and shut off their own trade.
>>65047257There is "open to freedom of navigation", and there is "open, subject to approval and a 2 million USD toll fee paid directly to Iran". Only the first is acceptable to the US and its allies, and only the second is acceptable to Iran. If the US bails, then the straits remain closed to everyone who Iran doesn't like or who doesn't pay the aya-tollbooth.
>>65046455>until it's practically leveled.IMPLESSIVE. now post terrain map chang
>>65047282Physically, nothing is stopping Iran from setting up a toll and they've been doing it in the short term as a form of leverage.Economically and diplomatically, it's not sustainable. It just triggers economic retaliation and damages their own trade.
>>65047310Given that now French ships are passing through freely, collecting a toll isn't feasible. It's pure thirdie fantasy.
>>65046701I know about inspect element too, you aint slick.
>>65047603> French ships are passing through freely,That was one (1) ship that passed in cooperation with Iranian authorities (they paid in Yuan or Crypto)
