i can NOT thank you enough for this early Christmas gift. i like to play around in Zeus like an R.T.S. great mod and can't wait to try it.

Keep up the good work!

A major rework is coming. I will consider the scifi plus mod, but for the moment, the rework will remove the expeditionary forces DLC requirement, replacing it with Arma 3 atlas. Most factions will probably have to be remade from the ground up. I appreciate your patience while i work on this.

looks like im reinstalling arma kek

@22JUAN22 you should definetly use the Scifi Plus mod by S.Collins it adds various 2ACW Uniforms that would fit perfectly for this!

The factions planned for the next update are the "cult of the forest", anarcho-primitivist ghille-wearing psychos and either a Cascadian republic or its militia.

This is so peak, gonna Zeus an entire campaign using this mod.

Cool mod! Looking forward for the CUP version

Hey, thanks a lot fellas. I appreciate the support. Regardless, I’d still like to apologize for this mod’s drawbacks. I’d like to emphasize that criticism is more than welcome, so long as you’re not just saying “the mod shouldn’t exist”. I’m going to do my best to keep improving this mod, adding factions, and tailoring it to those who enjoy it.

Ignore the terminally online dorks. The mod is great thanks for making it.

@Dubs your a nerd dude cope harder lmao

@Dubs, I didn’t lie. I clarified that the previous faction mods were compositions, and that this is the first official one. Yet, despite me clarifying that, you’re still accusing me of lying. Also, 2 people called it mid and pointless, yet 400 have favorited within a week. You’re not wrong to call the mod mid, but you are wrong to imply that I’m deceiving people. I’m not.

I asked, "What's the point of this mod if it adds nothing new and just uses vanilla assets with someone else's mod work?" It's a question. No one told you to take your work down, no one said that it should be taken down, they called it mid and pointless. If you took more meaning than that and took personal attacks from that, then be less sensitive to criticism. Lying to make yourself feel better makes you and your work look way worse.

"Also, you, with an animated avatar YouTube channel, are not really in a place to scrutinize my previous uploads." Oh no, you mortally wound me by repeating my own profile description back to me! Obviously I lack self-awareness to give such a description publicly to myself, how could you make fun of me so harshly? I demand immediate satisfaction for this totally personal attack of mean words on the internet!

^ That's how you're sounding. Chill out. Your mod is mid. Peace.

@Dub. You put “disclaimer” in quotation marks when it’s literally in all caps near the top of the description. Dude, you’re acting like I have some ulterior motive or am trying to deceive people when I really am not. I wanted to save people the task of making factions to apply the patches to. That’s literally it.

@Dub. I didn’t even want this mod to end up with 4 stars and on the front page of the steam workshop, I intended for it to stay small, humble, and only for those who felt a need for it. Just because it did, doesn’t mean it shouldn’t exist just because it’s not up to your standards. Criticism is fine, arguing that I should just take it down altogether is infuriatingly stupid.

@Dub. The other mods were mere compositions. This is the first mod that adds actual factions that appear in the 3den menu.

No, there is nothing wrong with pointing out flaws in this mod, there isn’t even anything wrong with calling it mid. In fact, I agree, it wasn’t meant to be anything else. What irks me about your criticism is that you’re arguing that the mod shouldn’t exist in the first place. Why not allow it to exist as a mid mod? Why do you have to insist on the mod not existing at all because it’s not up to your standards?

Also, you, with an animated avatar YouTube channel, are not really in a place to scrutinize my previous uploads.

"This is my first mod, I didn’t advertise it as anything other than what it is."

This is a really weird defense you're trying to take up against people pointing out flaws and leveling criticism. Especially because I (and everyone else) can see all your previous mods of also-repackaged vanilla assets for Arma 3. You've uploaded quite a few "faction" mods since early 2023, why are you pretending this is your first mod? Even if it was true, it's not a defense, but it's not even true. You're just lying to... save face on the internet, I guess? It's weird, dude.

People are going to call out mid when you post mid, even with your post-criticism "disclaimer." Maybe wait until you're an adult to post stuff so you can handle criticism better? Or at least learn how to make original assets so people will have some work to respect and enjoy? For now take your L.

Does the gear randomise

@Hans, I didn't advertise it as anything else. It's called second american civil war FACTIONS for a reason, because they're simple alive ORBAT factions using what Arma 3 and Aegis come with. You're essentially saying "Erm... you dind't add anything at all, why did you even make this?" Because i felt like it. You don't dictate wether I can or cannot upload it to the workshop. Regardless, I'm putting a disclaimer if it makes you get off my d*ck.

As Dub said, It's literally just a mid asf mod with nothing to add other than flags placed upon Arma 3 Assets and calling it an original fucking mod. This is just a slop fest of nothing to offer.

Add the caniballs clan

@Dub. It’s not crying, it’s called a counter-argument, genius. I’m retorting your argument that I shouldn’t have made the mod whatsoever. I’ve actually responded to valid criticism quite reasonably, I just don’t consider your criticism in particular valid because you’re arguing for a stupid idea.

@22JUAN22 Oh no, my feelings! However will I cope with such amazing comebacks? You have mortally wounded me sir.

People said mean things about you on the internet and called out your mid mod. Cry harder and you'll make everyone retract their mean words, it totally works that way.

@Dub “erm dude???? What’s the point of saving people hours of work and just letting them have the factions premade so they can have fun when you can just not make a mod at all???” Ahh argument. Coming from a guy with a whopping ZERO workshop items, your argument isn’t really valid to me. I didn’t mislead people. You get what you’re told you’re getting.

@Dub. This is my first mod, I didn’t advertise it as anything other than what it is. You get what you’re told you’re getting. I made factions from a second American civil war using what was available in Arma and Aegis. You should spend months making your own mod if you hate mine so much little man.
Also, your assessment is just blatantly false. The factions I made, such as the insurgent factions, which you may have seen had you not used like 1 faction and then gone on this ridiculous tirade, are completely different from any existing faction in Arma. So yes, it is Arma 3 vanilla and Aegis content reorganized, but I didn’t advertise it as anything else.

This... isn't even a reskin. The only thing you added is the TFR flags/patches and placed them on existing assets with no real changes or updates. Why not just make a mod adding the custom flags/patches and let people put them on whatever vanilla/mod assets they want?

Actually, you didn't even make that much. The flags/patches are just ripped from LoopDeLoopers mod. What's the point of this mod if it adds nothing new and just uses vanilla assets with someone else's mod work? Mid, dude.

@Hans Cope and sneed. I actually like Arma 3's 2035 setting and wanted to create a unique near-future civil war mod. If you want something more contemporary, you can always play the son's weve lost or wait for my CUP version. Not to mention, this is my first ever mod, and people seem to like it enough.

2035 Slop, It's just Arma 3 Retextures. Mid asf.

wow the fire rises now in arma 3

have you considered using the scifi factions mod for uniform retextures? they have a 2ACW selection of uniforms

looks very cool, looking forward at the CUP version.

Can we have New California Republic?

Getting the error "Addon 'O_APLA' requires addon 'EF_B_MJTF_Des'. Anyone getting the same issue?

Hey man, just wanna say, this stuff looks awesome.

tfr in arma is so fire

THE FIRE RISES IN ARMA!!!!!!!

thank god the DLC less version is coming, because i love TFR but i'm not paying for this mod when i got the factions from another mod-pack already.

This is awesome though, so I don't want to seem like I was being overly negative! I just have a lot of thoughts since I made a similar set of factions in orbat years ago using cup assets but never got to put it up on the workshop, so it's cool to see it brought to life like this!

This is great!

A few things that might want a rework though if you are planning on giving this an upgrade later.

The main factions, Union and Constitutional govenrnment could use a bit more variety in their unifroms. Having both sides head to toe in marpat makes them very same-y, which i get is part of the point with a civil war mod, but maybe consider having one side in more army themed camo vs the other in MARPAT? Texas could similarly have more arid/desert themed uniforms.

Either the Communist factions or the Ultra-nationalist factions might make more sense in the INDFOR faction grouping, since right now the APLA cant fight the Confederacy for example, which feels weird.

It might also be cool to add bit from a colored armband mod, since IRL those seem to be the way armies are starting to identify themselves when fighting against similarly camo-ed armies.

I do want to once again apologize for the DLC requirements, I’m not trying to paywall the mod or anything, but expeditionary forces had uniforms and gear that were essential to make any kind of realistic looking second civil war mod. A CUP version is coming eventually

The Fire Rises Arma Edition

@Robert McFry, I think this is because dynamic recon ops struggles with factions made using the ALIVE faction creator. If I can learn how, I’ll try to fix it

Actually, I am indeed planning to make a CUP version, it's always been on the agenda. I guess you can call this version a proof of concept. But yeah, I understand why the DLC requirement is burdensome. I tried to do it without it, but it just has some essential things that I wouldn't have been able to create the mod without. No worries, the CUP version is coming.

Please do a version with RHS and CUP and without the DLCs

This should have been done without DLCs, either with CUP/CFP or RHS/3CB

you should do Cascadian rebels

Whenever I do a Dynamic Recon Ops Mission and I use your factions it always uses CSAT instead, I have used multiple different maps and the same thing, is there a fix?

Please Make This Mod Without DLC Asset I really want to play this mod without spending money on DLC

this in antistasi would go crazy indeed

This mod looks pretty interesting, as the idea of a modern-day American Civil War fascinates me (look at the 2024 film Civil War, for example). I hope to see more stuff come to this mod in the future, and I'm really looking forward to it.