About the Author:

Hi all R0adki11 here the author of the Nogovan Armed Force Project Add-ons, here a little bit about me. Ive been playing BIS games since the OFP Demo was released and have been hooked ever since. Ive made add-ons for OFP and Arma2, and still in process of adding units for my ever expanding faction.

Inspiration:

The main inspiration of this project was the unreleased and unfinished Nogovan Armed Forces Project from OFP, which i have the permission to use some of their unreleased models.

Updates:

Most if not all updates will be posted on this website and within the BIS Forum Topic: (http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?117030-Nogovan-Armed-Forces-Project)

Nogovan Armed Force Project Add-ons:

I created these add-ons to fill the gap in the military of the Nogova Islands, completely fictional, but trying to make them are realistic as possible. This includes manpower, military spending and equipment. Cheers R0adki11

Nogovan History

Nogova is a island which is part of the Resistance expansion which was released, my Nogovan Light Infantry are representing years after the main campaign in the game is fought, showing a full army for defence purposes compared to weekend militia as portrayed in the game. The army is responsible for defending the interests of the Nogovan Republic which comprises of Nogova, Everon and Malden.

Nogovan Republic:

The Islands of Nogova, Everon and Malden formed a Republic during the 1980s as a better way of defending itself against soviet aggression, a better way of combining its resources and acting as a single unity for the people of the Malden Islands. Thus the Nogovan Republic was born.

Nogova:

http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Nogova

Malden:

http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Malden

Everon:

http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Everon

Republic History:

Following the wars that ravaged the islands in the 1980′s, it was decided that the old militia system of weekend warriors with a minimum of training was insufficient to ensure the defence of the Nogovan Republic. Permanent armed forces based on universal conscription were therefore established, built around a core of former FIA guerilla’s and returned expatriate officers.

The modest resources of the islands of Nogova, Everon and Malden preclude massive investment into modern armaments, leading to an emphasis on acquiring smart soldiers rather than smart weaponry. Rigorous and extensive training programs have been developed to ensure that raw recruits are brought to a high professional standard with a variety of military skills. In joint exercises with Western militariesNogovan draftees have outperformed the foreign regular counterparts on multiple occasions.

All soldiers must pass an extended basic training for a period of six months before entering advanced military training. Part of the soldiers are then enrolled in the combat arms, part in the supporting services.

Due to the relatively long ininital training all forces have a firm background in basic infantry skills regardless of their subsequent specialisation.

The main part of recruits enter the light infantry which provides soldiers with training for operations in both alpine and desert conditions. Nogovan light infantry doctrine places a high value on dispersed and independent operations by platoon sized units against numerically superior or more heavily armed forces, mimicking the resistance tactics developed in the wars against the Soviets.

Part of the troops are assigned to the armoured corps, which specialises in combined operations with tanks and armoured personnel carriers.

The Nogovan Light Horse endorses fast aggressive tactics to quickly disrupt airborne or amphibuous invasions before initial assault forces are able to establish a firm bridgehead. Its reliance on brute force contrasts with the more fluid tactics of the rest of the army.

After basic military training and the light infantry course the best and brightest of the recruits can volunteer for service with the airborne company, undergoing extensive advanced training imparting airborne and amphibuous infiltration techniques, demolitions skills and use of foreign weaponry and equipment.

Endurance and initiative are highly stimulated in airborne candidates, a high number of which eventually enter non commissioned – and subaltern officer training courses at the ViktorTroska Military Institute.