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Happy Holidays from TAW Arma (+ wallpaper)

TAW's Arma Division would like to extend a happy holidays to everyone! 

As our gift to you, in this post you'll find a festive wallpaper you can rock on your desktop or mobile device to show off your TAW pride this season.

Several months ago, our unit completed it's 2nd year as a division in TAW. A little known fact is that the seeds for our game were actually planted over a year before we launched out of vanguard when Arma 2 (no expansions) first released, premiering battles throughout the dense trees of Chernarus. That time was also when the modding community was just learning the ropes -- fast forward many years later we now have such pixel concoctions as jungles, nukes, and, of course, how could we forget the "battlebus."

We've Been Busy

If you haven't checked out Arma 2 (or perhaps have already picked it up for DayZ) and you're wanting the rewards that happen when dozens of players invest themselves in large-scale battlefields accompanied by the usual tactics and strategies of war requiring communications and logistics to boot, TAW Arma may be the team you've been looking for. We're still going strong, currently fielding teams devoted to either European or North American time zones; teams who take organized teamwork to a whole new level week-to-week at our private events and who play Combined Operations, ACE/ACRE, or both -- whichever is your preference. While our focus naturally remains geared at internal custom missions our members enjoy,  we recently updated one of our public missions. Featuring a new base location and more weapons, vehicles, and combinations of these two than ever before, this mission runs as one of the world's most popular Domination servers. Here you will find a fresh MP experience paired with all the epic experiences and performance you've come to expect and the reasons you filter for "taw". Now, all this has been upgraded with protections to do a better job at preventing random and intentional griefing and teamkilling.

We're tracking current bugs and actively tweaking things with each version of this. Our talent should be able to do a better job deploying updates to this mission seeing as we're not anticipating running into another Bohemia Interactive game update debacle as happened to Arma's entire community this past summer.

A big thanks to our very own TAW_MacKelnuts for his edits and to TAW_JonBons for assisting in our newest take on Xeno's original mission.

Onboarding

If you have recently filled out an application to TAW's Arma Division, please plan to have some extra patience over the next week or so. Our unit (as does most of TAW) effectively goes on break until January 6th, with our own events being optional and many members spending time with family and/or traveling. Don't worry, if you've submitted the application correctly and met all our requirements, we'll do our best to get you into our ranks and trained despite this downtime!

TAW Holidays Wallpaper

Grab similar wallpaper as featured on our server's loading screen here.

Again, happy holidays from TAW Arma -- be safe and have fun fraggin' into the new year!