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Royal Netherlands Army: 198X

The Royal Netherlands Army (Koninklijke Landmacht in its native Dutch) is the land branch of the Dutch military. The current version has existed since the Napoleonic Wars, but has a military tradition dating to the 16th century.

In 1949, the Netherlands (occasionally referred to as "Holland," though this is widely considered to be incorrect) joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, agreeing to stand firmly against communism in Europe. This commitment resulted in the Royal Netherlands Army becoming a strong and well-equipped force by the 1980s, despite the small size of the country. The Dutch cooperated closely with West Germany to coordinate the defense of northern and central Germany, should war breakout. As part of NATO NORTHAG, the Netherlands contributed over four divisions to the force.

This mod contains gear to emulate the Royal Netherlands Army circa 1984. Due to asset limitations, the mod is not 1:1 with all variants of equipment operated by the Dutch in the 1980s. The uniforms and individual equipment in this mod are derived from S&S; these models have been modified to include distance LODs, which will improve performance. Vehicles are provided by GM, CSLA, SOGPF, and CLV Armoured. Weapons are provided by the Free World Armoury.

In order to keep dependencies low, certain mods that add individual items of equipment or equipment of a visually lower quality. These files were, however, included as soft dependencies:

UNSUNG Redux - https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2554978758 - Adds M107 and M110 Self-Propelled Guns and M114 Howitzer
Military Aviation - https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=938711359 - Adds TF-104G Starfighter
SFP: Bo 105 - https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1298165770 - Adds Bo-105BC and variants
CLV Air Vehicles - https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2875337711 - Adds the NF-5A Freedom Fighter
ArmsCor - https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=714598902 - Adds the SA 316 Alouette III

Also, as always, this mod supports ranks when loaded with S&S.

Still working on doing some work with the compat packs. Would like to add theC-130 and maybe the F-16A, but I'm currently kinda burned out on the Dutch to do that for the initial release. Also, the YPR-765 APC is something I'm interested in adding, but I currently do not possess a model (which is a shame for how important that vehicle was to the Dutch in the Cold War).

Special thanks to Simcardo, Justin N., Motta, Jujurat, and the rest of Goonworks for making the original models and allowing me to edit, repack, and otherwise screw with them.
Thanks to the developers of GM, CSLA, and SOGPF for the vehicles, weapons, and turrets that support this mod.
Thanks to El Polaco for CLV assets.
Thanks to TepacheLoco for FWA (and unrelated to this, but Spearpoint as well).
Thanks to Sabre for Military Aviation (soft dependency; mod required for that content).
Thanks to Swedish Forces Pack Team for the Bo-105 (soft dependency; mod required for that content).
Thanks to UNSUNG Mod Team for the artillery in the UNSUNG Redux mod (soft dependency; mod required for that content).
Thanks to PetraCephas and the ARMSCor Team for the Alouette III in the ARMSCor mod (soft dependency; mod required for that content).


All models were made by Goonworks with limited edits by Delta-Gamma (me).
New textures for vehicles and equipment were made by Delta-Gamma.
Configuration packages were written by Delta-Gamma (who was taught by Lukin); DMOrchard's vehicle config files were referenced (and largely misunderstood).
Simcardo taught me how to do a soft dependency, so thanks to him for people no longer having to play in the folders.

Did I miss anything?