Ooooh, I see. Yeah makes sense.
Definitely more sense than the acronyms I found on Urban Dictionary 
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I am forced to ask an obvious question: how are you all doing this? Is there a Mudspike ARMA server running 24/7? I don’t get how the persistence and collaboration over time is possible.
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Yes there is, and it is awesome!
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Well that’s pretty flippin’ cool! Don’t know how I missed it. I’ll have to join you all sometime. Zero skills.
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Definitely, please do! I normally get on in the afternoon/evening (US time zones) when I have some downtime.
None required, believe me. 
Do note that if you log in after a server restart, and you’re the first player present since, the world might be empty and you’ll get a “waiting to start game” from Antistasi. This should time out and start after a couple minutes, but you can also log in as admin and start the game yourself, loading the save.
#login spike
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While I agree in principle I believe that the first time there should be someone that played already to show the basics and explain the risks.
As of lately the AAF turned out to be a bit more aggressive than I like…
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Agreed if attempting large scale actions. We’re pretty high in the war level.
But missions from Petros are pretty straightforward for anyone who’s played Arma.
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Good point!
Yeah, no - I mostly meant this part above here.
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Other than drones are there any airborne assets used or is this strictly a land engagement?
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We’ve been airmobile with light helos (civil MD500’s purchased on the open market, captured former AAF Lynx slicks) since a week or two ago; TheJohnnyBol uses the littlebirds to great effect regularly. We did capture three intact Buzzard COIN attack aircraft with the last two airfields, and have a number of civilian single-engine piston aircraft that have been modified/corrupted to drop homemade napalm, handgrenades in tennis ball tubes and similar improvised munitions. There was also a captured Mowhawk medium lift helo at one point, but I fuzzily seem to recall it being lost due to pilot error.
On the enemy side, the entire spectrum of air, land, and sea assets is being readily employed. I shot down an AAF Griffon last night.
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Last night I jumped in for 30 minutes or so, just enough to grab a 4 man infantry patrol and get to the town of Katalaki (closest AAF controlled place to the newly conquered southern Airfield)
We swept through the town like a tornado.
By luck or something almost not police/government forces died on the spot. I healed every single one and then let them go- to try and get a better support from the population.
When I logout the patrol was still in full force, with a pickup truck available.
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Another short hop, trying to continue the groundwork I started the other day.
Bring troops to Poliakko to try and stage an aggressive move to katalaki with the intent of conquering and garrisoning the place.
We quickly dispatch the local police forces and the AAF sends an helicopter with eight troops.
Experience forewarned me of this move so I took defensive position around a two story building that gave me a few open windows on the freshly dismounted troops.
The firefight lasted only a couple minutes but with the help of night visions and suppressors the enemy never even located us.
I searched the body of the team leader and found interesting news.
We are literally bleeding the AAF dry- which is probably why CSAF is conquering so many outposts…
Nevertheless one more city is ours.
No losses recorded. 
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Nice! 
That’s sounded like an epic little skirmish
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In a certain way it was too professional, especially for me. 
It played very cleanly and it never felt like we could lose control of the situation.
But it’s not all me, eh? Our troops are absolutely formidable…
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So, one step forward, one step back…
I managed to destroy an enemy plane after they missed me by what amount to “Just enough” with their Napalm.
Alikampos is ours after I snipe the police forces…
but we lost Katalaki to the constant AAF influence. 
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The other night I spent some time pushing FIA troops into the border towns, which fell under our influence but hadn’t yet yielded to our control. This was a simple operation, rolling in with motorized infantry and sweeping out the last vestiges of AAF loyalists.
Very little resistance, all of which was swiftly crushed. The AAF attempted a small counter-attack as liberating troops rolled into Infestiona, but this was likewise repelled.
Then last night, TheJohnnyBol and I were given the mission of assassinating a traitor who threatened to reveal our great leader’s browsing history. We went in undercover, but things turned south when an unlucky policeman got in our way, resulting in a small firefight and the ignominious defeat of two barely-armed FIA spies against an entire AAF rifle squad.
The traitor fled, speeding toward the nearest AAF sanctuary in a pickup truck. We managed to re-incarnate as trained helicopter pilots and chase him down, intercepting by landing our Littlebird in front of his truck Black Hawk Down style. I leapt from the helicopter and plopped in RPG into the truck, demonstrating the price of such treachery against the glorious FIA.
This protected our secrets, but then for no reason at all the AAF launched a massive assault on our unnamed Airbase to the south (ICAO: AAC), beginning with a cluster bomb that cleaned out much of the garrison there.
A helicopter gunship soon followed, along with the first wave of 5-6 Mohawk medium transport helicopters. We arrived right after the clusterbomb impacted, and fought for over an hour, beating back several large air assaults, with the base flipping back and forth two or three times. It was a brutal, ugly fight, and the AAF was not reluctant to use all the resources at their disposal, including artillery and additional airstrikes. Casualties on both sides ran high, but eventually we came out as the winners, although a Pyrrhic victory indeed.
Losses included our last Gorgon APC, which was heroically used by TheJohnnyBol to down almost an entire wave of helicopters carrying AAF reinforcements with autocannon fire before an air-to-ground guided missile took it permanently out of the fight.
I forgot I had some screens of our conquest of the AAF outpost and airfield on the coast several nights ago that I never posted:
The last remaining AAF hold-out wipes FIA blood off his boot after stopping the attackers on the cusp of success.
The only image taken during the capture of the airfield, captured FIA Gorgon in the foreground.
An unlucky AAF fighter pilot meets his captors.
The first FIA improvised napalm (dropped out of a modified Caesar BTT) proves to be far more effective than envisioned.
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Wait, when was this?! Last night when I played we held many of those now blue towns…
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It was several nights ago, beginning of this week if I recall. I forgot to post anything about it.
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