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The focus of Iron Warriors (T-72: Balkans) is the control of the your own tank, but the ability to command a number of attached units (armour, vehicles and infantry up to platoon strength) is given through the use of a command and navigation map. Artificial Intelligence (AI) controlled tank crewmen can man any station and be ordered by the player via hotkey's, or you can take the seat as tank commander, gunner, or driver yourself at any time. Internal and external free motion camera views provide an exciting and dynamic overview of the battlefield.

The game provides scalable realism settings, giving you a lot of flexibility to adjust the game to your own liking and system capabilities. Newbies can set the realism to lower levels to allow them to get the hang of modern armoured combat while the armour grognards will want to tweak weapons performance to their realistic, and lethal, levels and enable all the nitty-gritty details like barrel wear, engine stalls, restricted internal viewing angles, full collision damage and even engine and transmission management and starter battery failures!

Environmental factors are simulated in mind blowing detail with the advent of a powerful and flexible 3D world engine. The powerful physics modelling provides deformable terrain which leaves realistic shell-holes after impacts of high explosive rounds and allows buildings and other structures to be partially or fully destroyed. You can even watch as trenches are dug out of the terrain in real time with the BTM-3 engineering vehicle. Vehicles damage is detailed and various internal and external components can be damaged and destroyed even including tracks getting sheared off.

A full ballistics and armour penetration physics engine produces realistic combat results - including after-armour effects based on precise hit locations, ricochets and glances, damaged and destroyed combat systems and crew, realistic weapons effects, wide assortment of available ammunition types, accurate laser and manual range finding procedures and much more. After each mission, players can explore the battlefield and even review every shell impact with a handy vector overlay display which shows the precise shell hit angle, penetration amount and effect!

Other graphics features include a powerful particle engine, ultra-realistic shadow and optical flare effects, intricate simulation of weather (cloud shadow effects, fog, haze, snow, rain drops obscuring optics, even rainbows), detailed simulation of water surfaces and amphibious vehicles and much more round out the simulation.

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IRON WARRIORS: T-72 Tank Command AAZ_1 engine ver 1.3 DEMO
Build Mar  6 2006 13:17:37
IRON WARRIORS: T-72 Tank Command AAZ_1 engine ver 1.3 DEMO
Build Mar  6 2006 13:17:37
T72 BALKANS ON FIRE!
1. Quick start
2. System requirements
3. Installation
4. Troubleshooting
5. FAQ
1. Quick start
	To get started quickly:
	1. Start the game, select menu item: "Single mission".
	2. Choose one of the single missions. After clicking on the mission title with the left mouse button, a briefing and the topographic map are displayed.
	3. To start the selected mission, click on "Play".
	4. After the mission loads, the player finds himself in the tank driver's station.
	5. To start moving:
	- E - start the engine,
	- Up arrow or mouse scroll - increase fuel feed,
	- B - release mountain brake,
	- A - switch into first gear.
	6. Turn using Left/Right arrow key or Left/Right mouse button - left or right turn control levers (move your mouse with the pressed left or right mouse button to the left or to the right, respectively).
	7. Crew positions:
	- F5 - driver,
	- F6 - gunner,
	- F7 - commander,
	- F8 - AA machine gunner.
	8. At gunner position:
	- S key - turn on fire control system (SUO);
	- Left, Right, Up, Down arrows or X and Y axis with left mouse button pressed - turret rotation or gun barrel up/	  down;
	- Mouse scroll or Numpad - and Numpad + - zoom out or zoom in, respectively;
	- B and N keys - select ammunition type;
	- R key - load chosen ammo type;
	- Enter or right mouse button - activate range finding;
	- Space key - main gun fire;
	- Q key - co-axial machine gun fire.
2. System requirements
	Minimum system requirements:
	CPU 		    -  1 GHz Athlon or Pentium III
	Memory 		    - 	256 Mb RAM
	Sound card 	    - 	DirectX 9.0 compatible
	Video card 	    - 	GeForce 2/4MX, Radeon 7500
	Hard drive 	    - 	2 Gb free space
	Operating system    - 	Windows XP/2000
	DirectX 	    -	9.0c
	Recommended system requirements:
	CPU 		    - 	2.8 GHz Athlon XP or Pentium IV
	Memory              - 	512 Mb RAM
	Sound card          - 	Hardware support of DirectX 9.0 (for example, SB Audigy 5.1)
	Video card          - 	GeForce FX5600, Radeon 9600XT
	Hard drive 	    - 	2 Gb free space
	Operating system    - 	Windows XP SP 1
	DirectX 	    - 	9.0c
3. Installation
	1) Make sure that more than 2 Gb of free space are available on your hard drive and that the Windows XP/2000 operating system is installed.
	2) Install the latest CERTIFIED drivers for your video card after you DELETE the old drivers. Drivers can be downloaded from the card manufactureris web site. For example, for Radeon cards visit www.ati.com, for GeForce cards check www.nvidia.com (Drivers are also available on the installation CD).
	3) Install DirectX 9.0c (Available on the installation CD).
	4) Install DIVX codec (Available on the installation CD).
	5) Install game files into a directory on your hard drive.
	6) Read the user manual (docs\user_manual.pdf). Read the section labelled "Troubleshooting" (Chapter 6) carefully!
	7) Make sure you learn the game controls (in the game manual or also on the CD at docs\controls.pdf).
	8) Start the game by going to START->PROGRAMS->BATTLEFRONT->T-72->T-72 Game.
	9) Play the game.
4. Troubleshooting
	1) The game has been tested with GeForce 4200Ti, Radeon 9000, Radeon 9200, Radeon 9600XT, Radeon 9500, Radeon 9700, GeForce FX5600, GeForce4 MX440, and Radeon 9800 video cards.
	2) The game can be played with GeForce 2 or Geforce 4 MX cards but most visual effects are not available or don't work properly. Choose minimal video settings with these cards.
	3) It is recommended to use Detonator 53.03 or newer drivers for nVidia chipsets and Catalyst 4.2 or newer drivers for ATI chipsets. Use CERTIFIED drivers only.
	4) For best results with ATI video cards, it is recommended to set the slider to QUALITY in the driver settings of the 3D\Direct 3D section.
	5) High-speed HDD and more than 512 Mb RAM are required to minimize loading time.
	6) In network multiplayer mode close all running programs like WinGate. Check that the network adaptor is installed and TCP/IP protocol is properly configured.
	7) If you have problems with playback of video clips in the game, install DivX codec.
	8) If your computer restarts or an error message on a blue screen appears when the game is running, choose "sound: hardware rendering" in the game settings (provided that your sound card is integrated into your motherboard).
	9) Night vision mode for T-55 and T-72 tanks requires Radeon 9500 and GeForce FX5200 video cards or better. The display of thermal imaging causes loss of performance with GeForce FX5200 type video cards.
	10) If the game doesn't start, check that Morgan Multimedia Stream Switch (MMSwitch) codec is not installed on your computer. If it is, uninstall it (the codec is usually installed in the Program Files directory as MMSwitch.ax file). You can simply delete the file.
5. FAQ
	Q: Why doesn't my tank fire?
	A: 1) The gun is not loaded - Load with R key, 2) no ammo, 3) machinegun is selected, 4) for T-72, in order to load first the gun has to be set at the correct loading angle ("angle" indicator lights must be on). If SUO is on, this
is done automatically, 5) the gun is damaged.
	Q: The tank does not move even with full throttle.
	A: Release the mountain brake (B key).
	Q: Cannot hit target.
	A: Range should be measured (right mouse button) for every round type with the SUO on (S key). If target moves then range finding is done twice within 1-2 seconds to allow the targeting computer to calculate the correct lead angle.
	Q: Gunner's sight shakes when on the move so that it is impossible to aim.
	A: Turn armament stabilizer on (S key). The indicator lights up. No stabilizer is available for T-34.
	Q: Why can I only fire armor-piercing rounds?
	A: Use B and N keys to change ammunition types.
	Q: I hit the enemy tank several times but nothing happens.
	A: 1) to kill enemy armor it's best to hit it in the side or from the rear as it has less armor in those locations, 2) you need to make the right choice of round for every target: for tanks n armor piercing (BPS) or hollow charge (BKS), for BRDM (lightly armored reconnaissance vehicle) or MTLB - high explosive fragmentation (OFS), for
helicopters - guided missile (UR), for infantry - machinegun (P).
	Q: Why can't I fire from the commander's station?
	A: You need to turn "Dual" mode on (D key).
	Q: Why does the T-55 and T-72 engine stall in fifth or sixth gear?
	A: Higher gears are designed for good roads. They can usually only be used on hard-surface roads.
	Q: Why is the gunner sight blurred for a pretty long time after firing?
	A: To reduce kicked up dust from firing, try to fire while on a hard surface or on grass.
	Q: Why does my tank always overturn?
 	A: Try not to move so fast. Slow down before turning.
 	Q: Why does my tank start moving when I exit the driver's station and go to gunner or commander station?
	A: You must have issued the order to move forward or chosen a waypoint before. Therefore the driver AI tries to follow your order. Don't forget to order the command "Stop".
	Q: Why can't my attached units use the bridge to cross the river, and instead move along the river bank?
	A: Choose on-road movement mode in the map.
	Q: Why can't I find the correct range?
	A: Turn SUO on (S key).
	Q: After I quit the game to go to the menu, the game quits to Windows for several seconds and then loads the menu - why is that?
	A: Because the menu and the game itself are different programs.
	Q: The game won't start. What should I do?
	A: Carefully read section 6 "Troubleshooting".
Tank T-72: Balkans on Fire! AAZ_1 engine ver 1.3 RELEASE
Build Jan 22 2006 15:50:33

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