JBM Africa Ablaze

Africa Ablaze is an ARMA 3 mod covering historical Cold War era conflicts in Africa (1960-1990).

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
7. The Ogaden War, 1977-1978

About 2,000 custom classes and over 200 custom textures with many uniforms, headgear and insignia that have never been modelled in A3 before.

Our aim is to deliver factions that are as historically accurate or plausible as we can make them with available assets. We 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 34 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, Irish and Swedish 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)
– uMkhonto weSizwe (jbm_o_mkanc)

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)
– Rhodesian Security Forces 1960s – (jbm_b_rhodsf60)
– Patriotic Front guerrillas 1960s – (jbm_o_rhodguer60)

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)

For the Ogaden War

– Somalia – (jbm_b_somalia)
– Ethiopia – (jbm_o_ethiopia)
– Cubans – (jbm_o_cuban_og)

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 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). Plus various era appropriate props.

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Optional Sub-Mods

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

GM CDLC
Spearpoint 44 CDLC
SOG Nickel Steel
SPEX – Spearhead Extended
SPEV – Spearhead Vehicle Extension
CLV Armored or CLV AML for AML-90s
CLV_UNIMOG
Jzra’s Swift Boat
Mirage F1
Pook H-13/Bell 47
Pook Skymaster
Sabre’s Military Aviation mod
Flying Legends + Secret Weapons Reloaded (for Portuguese, Biafran and Congo CIA B26s)
Mig 15

ADDITIONAL CREDITS

– Jakes for allowing use of his aircraft textures and various infantry gear.
– Lukinator – Indian turban and French headgear models and textures
– 9ACG/Beachhead – French beret textures
– Ban4na for a variety of Portuguese textures
– Billy for some Rhodesian textures
– avry and (S)Zumek for many different custom textures
– Hooky501 for multiple aircraft textures
– simcardo for permission to modify his P37 webbing models
– Giggs for donating a cap and for Biafran land rover 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, furashka cap, SMG webbing (APL-SA)
– Whiplash and Kerozen for additional Fiat G.91 textures for Portugal
– DMOrchard – some generic vehicle textures (APL-SA)
– ROadki11 – helmet scrim textures
– Meloncat for a Belgian brushstroke texture (via KommandoPost)

Asset wishlist

– Helmets – Portuguese M1940/63, South African M63 Staaldak
– Headgear – British and Portuguese berets
– 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 – 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 or just generally interested in the mod jump onto the Discord!

Mod Discord

https://discord.gg/DJJBGF6WG7