fill in the gaps in the insurgency

[Cik]

one of the chief obstacles to designing missions around COIN is the somewhat limited arsenal of the insurgents. while they have the basics consisting mainly of:

 

AK armed infantry

russian armor (due to caucasus region)

RPG infantry

MANPAD

basic ironsighted AA guns, shilka etc

 

they are still missing some rather crucial inbetween technology they currently don't get access to. some of this i believe can be attributed to the age of the insurgent units; we're seeing some new stuff being fielded in recent times, which would really liven up the tactical environment in DCS when fighting insurgent forces. new stuff includes but is not limited to:

 

ATGM teams (incl. older TOW launchers, russian malyutka, konkurs launchers)

technicals (incl. various machine guns, improvised rocket artillery, mortars)

heavy machine gun teams

improvised armored vehicles

older MANPADs like the SA-7 strela and earlier stinger blocks and the LAAD redeye

mortar teams

 

these things bridge the gap between the current 'low end' troops (basically just AK-armed infantry) and the high-end (mostly russian light/medium armor) the addition of these new units would help the "weaker" platforms, who do not have access to longer-range or precision guided armor-penetrating weapons, and add some diversity to the mid-tier insurgent equipment.

 

thanks for reading.

[Northstar98]

Personally, the AI needs more improvements rather than just adding more units, we need AI units to not have X-ray magic vision, then I'd probably imagine engine improvements for ground units (suspension, damage modelling, physics) as well improved animations for soldiers