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There’s the deliciously physical driving experience for a start. The T-72s in Iron Warriors lurch, buck, twitch and teeter exactly the way T-72s should. You can stall them by driving them into obstacles or by attempting to pull away in too high a gear. You can de-caterpillar them on fallen trees and other hazards. Cross-country perambulations that would be soporific in other tank sims are stimulating in this one.
True, that probably has as much to do with the wrinkled ground surfaces as the plausible physics. Few genres benefit from close-knit terrain mesh more than armour sims, and, once modded, IW’s topgraphical wireframes can produce seriously lumpy battlefields.
Artillery bombardments and dozer blades make them lumpier still. The titular dyspeptic dacha is capable of digging its own scrapes. Deploy the necessary accoutrements (Ctrl+D) and drive backwards and forwards for a minute or two, and hey presto, you’ve got yourself a potentially lifesaving hull-down position. That pit in the image at the top of the page was excavated by Yours Truly in the lull before the Leopards loped over the hill and began slinging sabot rounds.
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