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Ever since OFP, I've liked making combined armed scenarios where teams fight to control an island that they don't start on (ex, malden with the training island on the south east, and the small airstrip on the north west).
Arma 3's VIV + slingloading, and placeable static ships enable such a scenario like never before, yet I feel the vanilla implementation is lacking.
While most balance between factions is a matter of the mission maker, some scenarios just can't be made balanced with vanilla assets, without use of vehicles belonging to NATO by CSAT
Consider 2 scenarios:
1) Bases are ships several km offshore, and fight over an island/islands between them:
* CSAT would have no hope at controlling the air: Black wasps against Xians is very one sided. Combined arms with fast movers is off the table for a balanced scenario.
* Even the war on the ground goes badly as CSAT can't deploy anything heavier than Ifrits and Quillins, against NATO medium armor: Rhinos and Marshals. A balanced combined arms scenario with armor is off the table.
2) Bases are on different Islands, and fight over an island/islands between them (such as on Tanoa):
* CSAT can now match NATO in the air, and even the AAF can pose a threat it the air.
* CSAT ground vehicles still are horribly outclassed. On a map like Tanoa, the Marids can be brought into play since there's not too much water to cross, but Marids are horribly outclassed. Even The AAF ground vehicles win in this case (gorgon)
* I have yet to find a map that is both high quality, and of an appropriate scale so that the respective airbases are sufficiently far apart. Using ship bases, you can easily get 30km separation on Altis and Tanoa.
So I made a mod adding various items to each side, so that there are more options available to mission makers. All vanilla assets remain unchanged.
This includes a number of Arma 2 assets that I have ported and modified
This mod adds:
Static ships:
Non-side specific body armor additions:
CSAT specific, Infantry armor:
CSAT specific, Infantry weapons:
CSAT specific, ground vehicles:
CSAT air vehicles:
NATO Infantry suits/armor:
NATO infantry weapons:
NATO ground vehicles
NATO air vehicles
Independent faction changes.