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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
6. The Kagera War, 1978-1979

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.

All factions are Alive compatible.

The mod contains 28 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)
- 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)
- FNLA 1975 (jbm_b_fnla75)

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)
- Mozambique Armed forces - FPLM (jbm_o_fplm)

For the Nigerian Civil War

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

For the Kagera War

- Tanzania - (jbm_o_tanzania)
- Uganda - (jbm_b_uganda)

(if you're curious Uganda is BLUFOR because Tanzania is OPFOR to make its historical alliance with Mozambique work. The FPLM sent troops to aid Tanzania)

Civilians/Miscellaneous

Three civilian factions

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

- Eastern Bloc Advisors (jbm_o_advisors)

Flags and Props

Flags are also provided for the relevant African and European nations. Many 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

Africa Ablaze will now use the following CDLC/Mods if they are loaded for various assets in various factions:

- Spearhead 44 CDLC
- GM CDLC
- Sabre's Military Aviation mod
- Pook Skymaster
- Pook H-13/Bell 47
- jzra's Swift Boat
- Mirage F1
- CLV_AML or CLV_ARMORED for AML-90s
- CLV_UNIMOG
- Flying Legends + Secret Weapons Reloaded (for Portuguese B26) + Douglas A26 Invader SOG (for Biafran B26)

My work here is mostly 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) and the people listed below.

ADDITIONAL CREDITS

- Jakes for allowing use of his aircraft textures and various infantry gear.
- Henriksson - F1 Lizard texture
- Lukinator - Indian turban and French headgear models and textures
- 9ACG/Beachhead - French beret textures
- Ban4na, avry, (S)Zumek) and Billy 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
- OokamiJamie - panamka hat (APL-SA)
- Whiplash and Kerozen for additional Fiat G.91 textures for Portugal
- DMOrchard - some generic vehicle textures (APL-SA)

Asset wishlist

- Helmets - Portuguese M1940/63, South African M63 Staaldak, US M1 and UK MkIII in UN markings
- Headgear - 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

We're looking for more team members so if you're interested in working on uncommon factions, models or textures, please DM.

Mod Discord

https://discord.gg/DJJBGF6WG7