For me ALiVE + UNSUNG is what comes to mind

Thx for your reply Beaver

I don't really have the abilities but I'm trying to make one: there seem to be many issues between UNSUNG faction recognition and ALiVE, though the map has been indexed OK. My favorite mission so far is

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=959340725

@Beaver Unsung factions are not grouped using vanilla Arma config groups, so ALiVE will not recognize the faction names by default. Can you try this compatibility mod (why is it not on Steam???) and see if it helps? https://forums.bistudio.com/forums/topic/198097-the-unsung-vietnam-war-and-alive-compatability-mod/

Thanks Heroes, you're a gent. Actually, I'm chuffed that you've seen this as I've noticed how kind, patient and useful you've been with other ALiVE amateurs like me. As a matter of fact, I've been using an unpacked version of your excellent Inshallah Insurgency as a tutorial to model mine. I've already been using the info in the link you point out (as well as the author's 1968 pbo's - not sure about where those go, but placed 'em in the x/alive/addons folder and can spawn in units from them); I've also added the requisite init into the ALiVE Required module. So far I've got civs working, but no luck with Vietnamese animals, a group that exists in the config viewer (I wanted pigs and chickens in villlages). Spyder's CTP works on churches, but I'm still tweaking that. Due to all the water in this map and encouraged by bludclot's hint that "water is the only highway here" I wanted to use Spyder Addons Ambiance to manage the very fetching sampans available in Unsung. I've seen that this isn't supported in https://github.com/ALiVEOS/ALiVE.OS/issues/5 but nevertheless I have got it to spawn in sampans, having got the right classes out of config, it's just they spawn in on dry land as well. Enemy inside works, and the VC sappers I use are deadly. So far I figure I can cover some of the river but far from all. It's going to take me a while!

btw the unsung team has stated that Unsung mod is coming to steam soon.info can be found here: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/gid/103582791440870933

Hey Beaver thanks for the kind words! You sound like more of a risk-taker than I tend to be (because I'm a wuss!) so I'm excited to see what you can come up with! I wish I could be helpful with advanced usage for Spyder's mod, but I've never messed around with changing the animal types or the CTP sound file or any of that. I know when he first made the mod, the idea was for it to be flexible, to allow mission makers to take his tools and cater them however they'd see fit. I just never bothered to try editing anything beyond the defaults but it would be neat if you can figure it out and getting everything working the way you'd like. Just be sure to send me your mission when you're done! That will spare me from having to me make my own! :)

You're very welcome, Heroes, but thank YOU. Is there a place we could take this conversation? I don't want to hijack Bushman's thread and I just know I'm going to have lots of issues coming up. I have a BIForums id or a Google+.
Bushman thank you for that news, welcome indeed - currently I use A3Laucher to keep it uptodate but here would definitely be easier.

@Beaver good idea taking this private. Yeah the best place to reach me is through PM on BI forums. I spend a lot of time there during the daytime.

If anyone knows of coop scenarios using this map please link them here, thankx.

I might be making one sometime soon. I have been making lots of WW2 scenarios and am now changing to working on Vietnam ones. Most of my scenarios are just for me and my friends but if people are interested I can start making them public.

@Cyberjax - Sounds great man,I'm interested in seeing what you do.

Great Mission Beaver, I played it last night and with my AI settings man it was tough going but I prevailed

glad you enjoyed it

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1084565171 This one is the very best one so far for exploring the terrain!