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JBM Africa Ablaze

Africa Ablaze is an ARMA 3 mod covering cold war era conflicts in Africa.

Currently it covers several conflicts:

1. The Congo Crisis, 1960-65
2. The Portuguese Colonial Wars or Ultramar
3. The South African Border War and Angolan Civil War
4. The Rhodesian Bush War
5. The Nigerian Civil War, 1967-1970

My aim is to deliver factions that are as historically accurate or plausible as I can make them with available assets. I try to minimise use of placeholders and will generally (but not always) pass on trying to represent equipment with implausible placeholders.

The mod is in two parts, this - the main one which I try to keep relatively modlight, and an accompanying expansion mod that adds additional armour and air assets at the cost of increased mod requirements.

The expansion is found here:

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3423406705

All factions are Alive compatible.

The mod contains 23 factions:

For the Congo

- Congo mercenaries - (JBM_B_Merc60)
- Katangan gendarmes - (jbm_b_katanga)
- Belgian paratroopers - (jbm_b_belgian)
- Armée nationale congolaise (ANC) - (jbm_i_congo_anc)
- Indian and Irish UN peacekeepers - (jbm_i_congo_un)
- CIA - (jbm_b_congo_cia) (found in the Africa Ablaze Expansion)
- Simbas (1965) - (jbm_o_simba65)

For SW Africa/Angola

- FAPLA - (JBM_O_FAPLA)
- Cubans - (jbm_o_cuban)
- SWAPO - (jbm_o_swapo)
- SADF - ( jbm_b_sadf)
- MPLA 1975 (jbm_o_mpla75)

For the Portuguese Colonial Wars

- Portugal (jbm_b_portugal)
- PAIGC (jbm_o_paigc) for Guinea-Bissau
- MPLA (jbm_o_mpla) for Angola
- FRELIMO (jbm_o_frelimo) for Mozambique

For the Rhodesian Bush War

- Rhodesian Security Forces - (jbm_b_rhodsf)
- Patriotic Front guerrillas - (JBM_O_RHODGUER)

For the Nigerian Civil War

- Nigerian Federal Forces - (jbm_o_nigeria)
- Biafran Forces - (jbm_b_biafra)

Civilians

Three civilian factions

- Rural Africans (jbm_civ_rural)
- Urban Africans (jbm_civ_urban)
- Europeans (jbm_civ_settlers)

Flags and Props

Flags are also provided for the relevant African and European nations. Some uncommon ones, Katanga and Biafra, plus various African political movements and guerilla armies (MPLA, FNLA, ZANU, ZAPU, Frelimo SWAPO etc).

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Sub-Mods

Over time optional mods will be added and the existing expansion discontinued. The first one adds a B-26 to Biafra but to see it you will need the 'Flying Legends', 'Secret Weapons Reloaded', and the 'Douglas A26 Invader SOG' mods all loaded.

All my work here is in config to pull it together. I didn't create the actual models or textures used in the mod. All credit for those belongs to Bohemia Interactive, the SOG Prairie Fire team, the CUP team, S&S (Brian Hates Games), Laffing Lizard in the Bush (Meloncat).

ADDITIONAL CREDITS

Jakes for allowing use of his aircraft textures and various infantry gear.
Henriksson for his F1 Lizard texture
Lukin for permission to use his Indian turban and French headgear models and textures
9ACG/Beachhead for permission to use his French beret texture
Ban4na and Chad for a variety of Portuguese and Rhodesian textures
LNX for making his gear interaction mod open source.
AEGIS mod for a variety of APL-SA assets from their github mainly headgear
Libertad mod for a variety of APL-SA assets from their github mainly headgear

Asset wishlist

- Helmets - Portuguese M1940/63, South African M63 Staaldak, US M1 and UK MkIII in UN markings
- Headgear - Soviet panama hats, Belgian, British and Portuguese berets, Rhodesian Swallowtail cap
- Webbing - Portuguese M64, South African P70, South African Pattern 83, Rhodesian pattern 69, Rhodesian vests
- Weapons - Vigneron SMG, Franchi LF-57, R4, Star pistol
- Vehicles - M8 Greyhound, M3 Scout Car, Ferret
- Textures - many different aircraft and vehicles

I'm looking for collaborators so if you're interested in working on uncommon factions, models or textures, please DM.

Mod Discord

https://discord.gg/DJJBGF6WG7