''Iron Warriors: T-72 Tank Command'', known as ''T-72: Balkans on Fire!'' () in Europe, is a

tank A tank is an armoured fighting vehicle intended as a primary offensive weapon in front-line ground combat. Tank designs are a balance of heavy firepower, strong armour, and battlefield mobility provided by tracks and a powerful engine; ...

- driving simulation by

Russia Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, and extends across Time in Russia, eleven time zones, sharing Borders ...

n game developers IDDK/Crazy House and published by Battlefront.com.

Summary

The game is set during the

Yugoslav wars The Yugoslav Wars were a series of separate but related#Naimark, Naimark (2003), p. xvii. ethnic conflicts, wars of independence, and Insurgency, insurgencies that took place from 1991 to 2001 in what had been the Socialist Federal Republic of ...

of 1991–1995. The player is a Russian volunteer tank commander who is there to aid the

Serbs The Serbs ( sr-Cyr, Срби, Srbi, ) are a South Slavs, South Slavic ethnic group native to Southeastern Europe who share a common Serbian Cultural heritage, ancestry, Culture of Serbia, culture, History of Serbia, history, and Serbian lan ...

. The player can use the

T-72 The T-72 is a family of Soviet Union, Soviet main battle tanks that entered production in 1973. The T-72 was a development based on the T-64 using thought and design of the previous Object 167M. About 25,000 T-72 tanks have been built, and refu ...

B (Ob'yekt 184), the

T-55 The T-54 and T-55 tanks are a series of Soviet medium tanks introduced in the years following the Second World War. The first T-54 prototype was completed at Nizhny Tagil by the end of 1945.Steven Zaloga, T-54 and T-55 Main Battle Tanks 1944–2 ...

A (Ob'yekt 137G) and the

T-34-85 The T-34 is a Soviet medium tank from World War II. When introduced, its 76.2 mm (3 in) tank gun was more powerful than many of its contemporaries, and its 60-degree sloped armour provided good protection against Anti-tank warfare, ...

. The game has realistic physics, including the tank engine's complexity being simulated as well. The player can switch between the different tank positions, such as the driver, the gunner, the machine-gunner, and the commander. Several players can play in multiplayer mode and occupy different stations in the same tank.

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* * {{Battlefront.com 2004 video games Computer wargames Multiplayer and single-player video games Video games with co-operative vehicle control Strategy First games Tank simulation video games Video games developed in Russia Video games set in Bosnia and Herzegovina Video games set in the 1990s Windows games Windows-only games Yugoslav Wars in fiction