I love these little analysis videos on arma factions. I would love if you did the same for the other factions like the VC/PAVN in the cdlc's like Prairie Fire or the Tura in Western Sahara
How about your future aaf vids like this: pick a large enough base, make it home for a platoon or company with a full compliment of troops and vehicles for that platoon and you become a soldier talking about the base and your unit there?
Yay, another video from my favorite ArmA channel. As I always say, I love the AAF aesthetics, but story wise, it's a bunch of incompetent dicks with whom I wouldn't like to work with at all :D Story wise, I have to side with the FIA. Regarding the tanks, it is noted that the AAF bought them with spare parts for cheap from a ''South European country'' which's economy pretty much collapsed. Lot of people forget that Altis isn't located on the same place as Lemnos in real life is, and I feel like it makes some sense to have some tanks if some North African dictator or somebody decided to occupy Altis. It's more of a deterrent I guess. Regarding the scale, while I always know Altis is small, I take the sizes with a grain of salt. In my headcannon, Altis is somewhat bigger and has bigger army as well, which isn't reflected in the game because of technical limitations at the time (size of the map, etc..). I see it as an indication of how the AAF works than an exact estimate of it's size. But yeah, that's me deviating from the official lore, I guess.
So to add onto this, NATO has been on the economic downturn for a while possibly since 2028, the equipment was all bought during this downturn which is why most the equipment is German. Their tanks and what not are all semi-modern with them having 2A7's, but this doesn't extend to most their gear since they have 30-40 year old American infantry gear. Also for some reason Altis is located under Sicily which is pretty funny but a weird bit of lore.
@@grog447 It's actually not a 2A7, but the Leopard ''Revolution MBT''. Appart from Wiesel (Nyx) and Fennek (Strider), which they most likely got from Germany, there isn't more German equipment as far as I know tho. I'd say the AAF has a little bit more of a Brittish equipment (Mora, Mohawk, Wildcat,..) It's a former English colony after all.
@@pavelcerny9803 I was wrong on the Leopard, but I don't believe the AAF being a former colony has as much to do with their equipment, moreso just the NATO countries' economic declines. The Colony ended somewhere in the 80's and I think they got the old British equipment because it was collecting Dust in stockpile in the 2020's, but I suppose both are possibilities.. They might find favor with the Brits, but I can't imagine them handing out that stuff to a small Mediterranean country.
My headcanon for the tanks, and do note I haven't finished Beyond Hope yet, but I would have presumed somewhere that the Loyalists may have got their hands on one or two old British MBTs (e.g. a Centurion or Chieftain) from when the islands were British territories, kinda like how some insurgents-to-not-be-named in Iraq got their hands on Chinese T-54s that were in storage. After that, even though they could've just acquired more anti-tank weapons, the AAF acquired those Leopard 2s.
The Gripen makes sense for the AAF. I know the Norwegian air force where thinking of buying them instead of the F35. The Norwegian Air force and the Altis Airforce would probably have the same mission of Airspace Defense, escorting foreign aircraft out of your airspace etc, makes sense with how Altis is based of a greek island the Turks would probably be intruding on Altis Airspace a lot.
AAF having heavy battle tanks feels like a big gift from NATO or CSAT but one that forces them to rely on them. It's a simple.story seen in real life and my own country. Being exchanged as a vassal nation to whatever super power. In this case it's happening. We see the exchange. It's sad for common folk though. Always is but an unfortunate reality of the world. It's pretty cool they tackled it the way they did and it wasn't just cold cut x=bad guy bs. The cut content kind of leaves a lot out. The one guy from the light tank missions is cool. As he speaks why he's on AAF's side and is a man of morality, a sense of good and common place. It was neat seeing the FIA perspective. Like all nations that struggle in these exchanges they suffer from dependence and are at the mercy of the superpowers. Corruption and scandals happens honestly it's pretty cool how they tackled it.
@@jackncoke8527 It isn't, the 2PL isn't an urban centric modification and lacks the hull armour seen on the Kuma, the MBT-52 is a Rheinmetall upgrade package that Indonsia purchased. Canonically, it was bought from a financially ruined European nation in ARMA's timeline.
I just plopped down some units in the editor using random patrol waypoints from LAMBS. It wouldn’t take long to setup something similar using Drongo Map Population for it to be truly random.
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Would be cool if there was some sort of document version of this for quick reference. Especially the Order of Battle stuff.
The aaf before the civil war sounds like a dream retirement home for ex-militaries from around the world . I bet their salary was high
now THIS is quality content
I love these little analysis videos on arma factions. I would love if you did the same for the other factions like the VC/PAVN in the cdlc's like Prairie Fire or the Tura in Western Sahara
Nice one
How about your future aaf vids like this: pick a large enough base, make it home for a platoon or company with a full compliment of troops and vehicles for that platoon and you become a soldier talking about the base and your unit there?
Yay, another video from my favorite ArmA channel. As I always say, I love the AAF aesthetics, but story wise, it's a bunch of incompetent dicks with whom I wouldn't like to work with at all :D Story wise, I have to side with the FIA.
Regarding the tanks, it is noted that the AAF bought them with spare parts for cheap from a ''South European country'' which's economy pretty much collapsed. Lot of people forget that Altis isn't located on the same place as Lemnos in real life is, and I feel like it makes some sense to have some tanks if some North African dictator or somebody decided to occupy Altis. It's more of a deterrent I guess.
Regarding the scale, while I always know Altis is small, I take the sizes with a grain of salt. In my headcannon, Altis is somewhat bigger and has bigger army as well, which isn't reflected in the game because of technical limitations at the time (size of the map, etc..). I see it as an indication of how the AAF works than an exact estimate of it's size. But yeah, that's me deviating from the official lore, I guess.
So to add onto this, NATO has been on the economic downturn for a while possibly since 2028, the equipment was all bought during this downturn which is why most the equipment is German. Their tanks and what not are all semi-modern with them having 2A7's, but this doesn't extend to most their gear since they have 30-40 year old American infantry gear. Also for some reason Altis is located under Sicily which is pretty funny but a weird bit of lore.
@@grog447 It's actually not a 2A7, but the Leopard ''Revolution MBT''. Appart from Wiesel (Nyx) and Fennek (Strider), which they most likely got from Germany, there isn't more German equipment as far as I know tho. I'd say the AAF has a little bit more of a Brittish equipment (Mora, Mohawk, Wildcat,..) It's a former English colony after all.
@@pavelcerny9803 I was wrong on the Leopard, but I don't believe the AAF being a former colony has as much to do with their equipment, moreso just the NATO countries' economic declines. The Colony ended somewhere in the 80's and I think they got the old British equipment because it was collecting Dust in stockpile in the 2020's, but I suppose both are possibilities.. They might find favor with the Brits, but I can't imagine them handing out that stuff to a small Mediterranean country.
My headcanon for the tanks, and do note I haven't finished Beyond Hope yet, but I would have presumed somewhere that the Loyalists may have got their hands on one or two old British MBTs (e.g. a Centurion or Chieftain) from when the islands were British territories, kinda like how some insurgents-to-not-be-named in Iraq got their hands on Chinese T-54s that were in storage. After that, even though they could've just acquired more anti-tank weapons, the AAF acquired those Leopard 2s.
great video i was actually thinking of making a small video on the coup that started the civil war and this helped a lot
this is one of the best lore video
great! love these lore videos.
The Gripen makes sense for the AAF. I know the Norwegian air force where thinking of buying them instead of the F35. The Norwegian Air force and the Altis Airforce would probably have the same mission of Airspace Defense, escorting foreign aircraft out of your airspace etc, makes sense with how Altis is based of a greek island the Turks would probably be intruding on Altis Airspace a lot.
Love your lore videos❤
AAF having heavy battle tanks feels like a big gift from NATO or CSAT but one that forces them to rely on them. It's a simple.story seen in real life and my own country. Being exchanged as a vassal nation to whatever super power. In this case it's happening. We see the exchange. It's sad for common folk though. Always is but an unfortunate reality of the world. It's pretty cool they tackled it the way they did and it wasn't just cold cut x=bad guy bs. The cut content kind of leaves a lot out. The one guy from the light tank missions is cool. As he speaks why he's on AAF's side and is a man of morality, a sense of good and common place. It was neat seeing the FIA perspective. Like all nations that struggle in these exchanges they suffer from dependence and are at the mercy of the superpowers. Corruption and scandals happens honestly it's pretty cool how they tackled it.
Probably NATO since their MBT is a Polish urban-centric modification of the Leo2A7.
@@jackncoke8527 It isn't, the 2PL isn't an urban centric modification and lacks the hull armour seen on the Kuma, the MBT-52 is a Rheinmetall upgrade package that Indonsia purchased. Canonically, it was bought from a financially ruined European nation in ARMA's timeline.
What game mode are you playing?
I just plopped down some units in the editor using random patrol waypoints from LAMBS. It wouldn’t take long to setup something similar using Drongo Map Population for it to be truly random.