Arma 3 Lore: AAF Logistics, Order of Battle, Realism

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[@insertrelevantmeme9219]

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

[@sirfanatical8763]

Regarding the AAF Armor, none were seen in the civil war campaign (beyond hope) and were bought cheaply (wiki says that) from a southern European country in economic struggle (which must have been around 2031 - early 2035)

[@welsh2266]

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?

[@deaghostyt2217]

Exept he makes video based on lore that was confirmed

[@charlieturner5831]

1st regiment has around six to seven companies canon wise that makes sense logistically speaking set the third support regiment would be of a similar size

[@PervonHarke]

Would be cool if there was some sort of document version of this for quick reference. Especially the Order of Battle stuff.

[@sirfanatical8763]

Can you do a video on Altises economy?? I still wonder how they finance all their fancy equipment.

[@automatiiik]

now THIS is quality content

[@Scytheslinger]

Putting aside confirmed lore, I have always found it best for my immersion to imagine that any Arma 3 map is a scaled-down version of what the place would actually be like. Kinda like how towns and cities are handled in The Elder Scrolls. And yes, I know that Altis is literally a scaled-down Lemnos, but I prefer to think of the "real life Altis" as more the size of, say, Cyprus or Crete. Big enough to support a military and fight a civil war, at any rate.

[@sirfanatical8763]

I LOVE that. Thats what I think of when playing ghost recon wildlands, where all them settlements are just scaled down compared to real life. I do it too.

[@6komodo6]

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

[@oyeyae]

this is one of the best lore video

[@detricplace141]

great video i was actually thinking of making a small video on the coup that started the civil war and this helped a lot

[@pavelcerny9803]

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.

[@grog447]

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.

[@pavelcerny9803]

@@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.

[@grog447]

@@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.

[@JoMiMi_h]

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.

[@franciscogaray2530]

great! love these lore videos.

[@FromMyBrain]

Been trying to figure out the force structure for a while now and Support Squadron Support is one of the resistant mysteries. There is some lore that the 3rd regiment is for people whos loyalty is questionable and like you said there seems to be lore they get pressed into fighting often... so yeah support support might for me end up being some really slapped together company. or dunno maybe its where ... yeah so the mission editor lists a basically all the heavy weapons as support... so i think that is where all the tripod carriers go. mortar teams titan teams yada yada.. Whole faction is fascinatingly bizarre as far as needs to appear professional yet not really picking any one thing to do right... all while issuing a Lynx as a sniper rifle...

[@colonelgeorgiousakhanteros9538]

Nice one

[@colonelrichardcrowe9388]

Can i ask in what app did you do the ORBAT?

[@95percentrookie]

I did it in Clip Studio Paint, but it's basically doable in any photo editing software with a bit of effort. Symbol templates can be found on places like wikipedia, generally I just colored/assembled the symbols for the units, placed them where they needed to go then edited in text.

[@Potatgold]

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.

[@phonix6494]

What game mode are you playing?

[@95percentrookie]

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.

[@lerandomguy2109]

Youkinds tell the truth about the whole arma 3 lore basement, AAF it's kinda bullshit and unrealistic in terms of military accuracy, but it's a videogame anyway so we kinda cope with it