Arma's 2nd Battalion is unstoppable!

When we first launched into Arma III, our members were skeptical, and rightly so. We left behind an established and much loved game in Arma II Combined Ops, and walked into the unknown. Our old game was not only rich with developer created content, but also with modifications from the community. It felt like we were starting all over again, desperately searching for the right recipe to make our public server thrive, and make our mandatory ops into something amazing.

We failed. After a month I took over as CO, and we had hit our all time low, just 30 members sat in the European Battalion, and having taking down our Arma II server, recruiting was minimal, and the new game was taking its toll on our mission makers. It just wasn't good enough. But we kept going. Slowly more and more content was released by Bohemia Interactive, and the modding community gave us gems in the form of new vehicles, weapons, gear and more. If that wasn't enough most of our much loved Arma II content and maps were being ported over as well. To top it off our members were creating custom scripts to make things work better, and our entire Division rebranded, giving us awesome custom squad tags on our uniforms in game, and giving us a more structured and disciplined approach to our Ops. Things were looking up.

In 2015 I arrived at our first event in a Ferrari. No... really... I pulled up in front of the battalion, around 50 guys, all lined up in their squads, with the SL up front. I parked up in the middle, just behind where the XO, SO, SA, TS and FS were stood. I gave a little speech about how awesome we are, and then the FS cracked straight on with his briefing. We were heading out on a full scale push against known enemy targets. 1st Platoon were heading off in Humvees and Hunters, backed up by a few Infantry Fighting Vehicles. 2nd Platoon would be dropped by Fast Rope from a Blackhawk helicopter flown by the Sierra Squad in 3rd Platoon, our dedicated team of PIlots. "The Expendables" were standing by at base, ready to push out in Littlebirds or C130s should they be needed in their capacity of Quick Reaction Force....

It sets the scene for an awesome and epic mission, a mission that is different every night that we play. And you can see why we get so excited about it! And when we're done? Well we normally sing some karaoke with Redsword. I think that's why we hit 65 members today, and we keep growing. That, and the incredible team that works tirelessly (and often thanklessly) to make sure everything is ready for our members to have an awesome time.

We play every Sunday and Tuesday at 1930 GMT until 2130 GMT. We have our own modpack, but anyone of us can help you to get that. Once you've got it you can come and join us whenever you like. Our DIs will always help fellow TAW members to get used to the controls, and particularly the way the Radios work. Just give us a shout. In the meantime, here are a few screenshots that I took over the past few weeks.

Just send me a message if you want to know more!

Cheers,

Maverick