These attacks are carried out using drones, rockets, and IEDs and have three primary targets with a distinct geographical distribution: 1) convoys carrying materiel for US personnel and forces affiliated with the Global Coalition Against Daesh and bases hosting them, mostly clustered in central and southern Iraq 2) Turkish bases, in northern Iraq and 3) purported ‘un-Islamic’ activities, largely around Baghdad ( see map below ). ACLED records over 500 events involving these militias or one of their facade groups between June 2019 and March 2023. Since mid-2019 – and increasingly after US forces assassinated Iranian general Qassim Soleimani and PMF Deputy Chairman Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis in January 2020 – Iran-backed militias have engaged in military operations targeted at foreign and domestic objectives inside Iraq. These groups are notable for portraying themselves as the Muqawama, or the ‘resistance’ against the United States and other foreign forces. Such facade groups are generally assumed to operate on behalf of KH, AAH, and HHN ( see graph below ). 1 International Crisis Group, ‘Iraq’s Paramilitary Groups: The Challenge of Rebuilding a Functioning State,’ 30 July 2018 These Iran-backed groups include prominent militias such as Kataib Hizbullah (KH), Asaib Ahl al-Haqq (AAH), and Haraka Hizbullah al-Nujaba (HHN), as well as a number of recently formed ‘facade groups’ like Ashab al-Kahf and Qasim al-Jabarin. Many of these actors are integrated into the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) – a paramilitary group established in 2014 to counter the Islamic State and later incorporated into the Iraqi state forces – and have strong relations with the Iranian regime and its security apparatus.
And as the goal of every hero is to save others and hopefully survive, our heroes strive to prevent the deaths of innocent people instead of getting away from the war as originally intended.The post-2003 security landscape in Iraq has seen the proliferation of dozens of militias identifying with Shiite Islam. Sneaking, distraction, silent kills and use of environment are some of the main skills players will have to take to heart, but a stock of firearms will also be available and useful in completing mission objectives. As each one has his/hers own set of skills and advantages, players must learn to combine them effectively to outsmart the enemy during various missions in a changing environment. Their team expands as they meet new characters who support the same cause.
The heavily history-inspired storyline guides players through the journey of two Wehrmacht soldiers as they go from deserters to hefty guerilla fighters. From boys to men in days, they open their eyes to the atrocities of war and find their purpose in the fight to prevent further meaningless killing. Our heroes, first driven by ill propaganda, soon find their purpose in fighting back the expanding Nazi forces which entangled them into the international conflict in the first place. War Mongrels builds its foundations on these two opposing mental forces. War Mongrels is an isometric real-time tactics game which takes place on the eastern front of World War II, the part of the War that has been receiving less attention in gaming, although it ended or changed many lives and brought forward many stories of courage, comradery, but also many proofs of the darkest parts of the human character and twisted societies.
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