Conflict: Middle East Political Simulator - War

War

A country can only invade countries with a shared border. The four states neighboring Israel in Conflict are Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.

Libya, Iraq and Iran are also present in the game, and can invade the countries which neighbor them, but they have no common border with Israel and so cannot be invaded by the player (and do not have to be defeated to win the game).

The Israeli army, at the beginning of the game, consists of:

• 7 brigades of infantry
• 450 thousand reserves
• 2000 main battle tanks
• 50 light tanks
• 20 SAM units
• 200 fighter aircraft
• 5 anti-tank helicopters
• 5 bombers

When a war occurs, certain unit types attack certain other unit types in the opposing army. So, for example, anti-tank helicopters destroy enemy tanks, while losing a certain number of their own numbers in the process (which may relate to the number of SAM units).

• Infantry seems to be the main determinant of whether or not the battle is being won or lost. It can not be bought.
• Main battle tanks probably attack other main battle tanks and support infantry.
• Light tanks do not obviously attack anything; they may support infantry.
• Anti-tank helicopters reduce opposing tank numbers, and rather effectively too; it is better to buy 50 anti-tank helicopters than to buy the replacement tanks for the same money.
• Anti-SAM helicopters reduce SAM numbers (but only at the ratio of about 1 to 1, so it costs 8M for a single helicopter to destroy a single 1M or 2M SAM unit - but SAM units attack 39M aircraft, so it may be worth it!)
• SAM units ought to attack all air units, but often do not seem to have an effect; for example, if Israeli has literally thousands of SAM units, enemy aircraft do not seem to be affected much at all
• Fighter aircraft seem to attack everything and have a fair effect on battle progress, although they take losses rapidly.
• Bombers can take out military, industrial, civilian targets and nuclear installations. This is the only unit that does not need a declaration of war to use.
• Reserves seem to have an effect on the possibility of using weapons, as the more weapons lost in war, the more reserves killed, the fewer weapons that can be used.