''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 good battlefield mobility provided by tracks and a powerful engin ...
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driving simulation
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by
Russia
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n game developers IDDK/Crazy House and published by
Battlefront.com
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Apart from publishing the self ...
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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 in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, SFR Yugoslavia from ...
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 the most numerous South Slavic ethnic group native to the Balkans in Southeastern Europe, who share a common Serbian ancestry, culture, history and language.
The majority of Serbs live in their na ...
. The player can use the
T-72
The T-72 is a family of Soviet/Russian main battle tanks that entered production in 1969. The T-72 was a development of the T-64, which was troubled by high costs and its reliance on immature developmental technology. About 25,000 T-72 tanks ha ...
B (Ob'yekt 184), the
T-55
The T-54 and T-55 tanks are a series of Soviet main battle 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 ...
A (Ob'yekt 137G) and the
T-34-85
The T-34 is a Soviet medium tank introduced in 1940. When introduced its 76.2 mm (3 in) tank gun was less powerful than its contemporaries while its 60-degree sloped armour provided good protection against anti-tank weapons. The Chri ...
. 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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2004 video games
Tank simulation video games
Multiplayer vehicle operation games
Video games developed in Russia
Windows games
Windows-only games
Computer wargames
Strategy First games
Video games set in the 1990s
Video games set in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Yugoslav Wars in fiction
Multiplayer and single-player video games