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On our Unit Spotlight #01 we will be taking a look at the 13th MEU Milsim, an Arma 3 combined-arms community running on US Eastern Time! Built around Lotus Company, they balance a relaxed atmosphere between ops with serious, structured teamwork once they step into the field. Instead of just running standard infantry, they field rifle squads (Comanche and Blackjack), a dedicated medical element (EMC), and air support under 2MAW, so all the moving parts of a Marine Expeditionary Unit actually work together on the ground and in the air. They also have a really solid setup behind the scenes on their website, including OCAP playback to review past missions, clear rank progression flowcharts, and campaign storyboards. With trainings on Thursdays and Fridays and main ops on Saturday nights, they keep a steady pace without turning the game into a second job. Check out their full profile on MilSim Units: milsimunits.com/unit/13th-me…

Big Halloween news from @PlayBellum: Standard Edition owners join weekly testing on December 3, and Founders' spare Standard keys are live too. The new devlog shows off BTAC command tools, mortars and replays, shares the content priority chart, and sets the 24/7 Early Access launch for Q1 2027. Here's what's changing and what your unit should know before December 2: blog.milsimunits.com/posts/b… Who's bringing their squad in on December 3?

Ground Branch Chapter 1 lands November 12, and the game is moving to Unreal Engine 5. V1.1.0 brings a Persian Gulf hotspot with three missions on Tanker, Rig and Docks, HVT captures, civilians who run for alarm panels, and campaign-specific Ready Rooms. Then BlackFoot Studios dropped the big one: a UE5.8 migration is underway. Here's what it means for your unit: blog.milsimunits.com/posts/g… @GroundBranch #GroundBranch #milsim #tacticalshooter

🏆 Top 10 Milsim Units This Week Ranked by community daily voting. Votes reset every night, so this is who actually showed up. ReaperCrew takes the first #1 with 504 votes. Congrats to @506thIRRU, @3rdIDRealism and every unit that made the list. Full breakdown 👇 blog.milsimunits.com/posts/t…

FRONTLINE LIBERATION, WEEKLY INTEL & SITREP 📡 New offensive on the ground. A living frontline across the map. On the Arma 3 Frontline Liberation server, UKAF forces have cleared OPSBOX USA and are pushing east into France and Germany toward the Eastern Airfield and Maksniemi City—pairing Force Recon observers with shoot-and-scoot artillery to crack miles of Russian trench lines (marked in red on the sitrep map). Meanwhile, five updates this week (v2.2.4 to v2.2.8) overhauled the fight: ▪️ Living enemy sites & 3-line trenches: Garrisons sit by campfires, walk patrol rings, and rotate shifts—then sprint to fighting positions on contact while rear reserves fill fallen soldiers' posts. ▪️ Instant counterattacks & recon raids: Taking a cell triggers immediate OPFOR battlegroup counterattacks, while enemy DRG recon teams slip behind BLUFOR lines to hunt quiet squads. ▪️ Operations pay out in physical crates: Captures and ambushed convoys drop ACE-loadable supply, ammo, and fuel crates you have to haul back before OPFOR retakes the ground. ▪️ Night flares, smarter weapons & big FPS gains: AI fire flares that light up the map out to 1 km, deploy bipods and lasers, and the client mod now runs on standard Steam builds with zero-network-load fortifications and huge FPS boosts. MilSim Units will be covering Frontline Liberation every week as the campaign unfolds. WEEKLY OPS MON: EU Operations, 22:00 CEST SAT: Main Operation, 22:00 CEST SUN: NA Operations, 16:00 CDT Full server info and the modpack are in their Discord: discord.gg/zGJb4QpBv #Arma3 #Milsim #ArmaLiberation

Two of the biggest names in milsim spent the last week fighting the same enemy, and it wasn't the other team. @GrayZoneWarfare opened Rogue Ops with a ban wave already loaded: 293 accounts permanently banned for cheating during the Supporter Preview and the first hours of release. Meanwhile @WARDOGS is fighting on three fronts with a 175 ms ping cap, permanent bans for exploit abuse, and players pushing back on false bans. Here's what unit leaders should know about vetting recruits and reporting cheaters: blog.milsimunits.com/posts/a… How does your unit handle a suspected cheater?

WARDOGS Season 2 is getting cut short. @WARDOGS studio lead Joe Brammer says Season 3 now starts Thursday, November 12, just four weeks after Season 2 went live. On the first episode of The Hot Zone podcast, the team laid out why: the top 25% of players leveled 2.4x faster than in Season 1, and day-one vehicle use jumped from 9% to 44%. Going forward, seasons should run about three months with a mid-season update, Limited Mode servers (no power weapons, no vehicles) are tied to Season 3, and the Intel progression system looks like Q2 next year. Here's what it means for you and your unit: blog.milsimunits.com/posts/w… Jumping back in on November 12?

A seven-year-old, 10,000-member community on @discord was wiped in minutes over the weekend—and the server owner didn't fall for a fake login page or hand over a 2FA code. Instead, root-level malware injected into the Discord desktop app (spyware.discordstealer.compromisedJS) stole his active session token straight from memory, pivoted into his Google accounts and phone through sync, popped a ransom terminal onto his desktop, and ran an automated script to purge staff and lock every channel. We broke down the post-mortem shared by Huckleberry from Platypus—why standard 2FA didn't stop it, why anti-nuke circuit breakers and config backups only help if you arm them ahead of time, and the 12-point security checklist every unit commander needs to run today: blog.milsimunits.com/posts/h… When was the last time your staff audited your unit's Discord permissions and backup settings?

🎙️ Milsim Units Podcast – Episode 53 is LIVE! This week, our Podcast Host C.Brock sits down with Col.SF, Commander of the UK Special Forces Strike Group (SFSG), an Arma Reforger unit uniting players across the globe. Inside the episode: Building a UK-based unit with a global footprint Answering the call to leadership & evolving SFSG Uniting distinct personalities for unforgettable missions SFSG’s vision and outlook for the year ahead 🎧 Watch Episode 53 now: youtu.be/V49kp8tTM_I Want your unit featured? Check out Tier 1 at milsimunits.com/pricing #MilSim #ArmaReforger #SFSG #MilSimUnits #GamingCommunity #Podcast

We’ve all sat through a 2-hour walking simulator just to get wiped in 10 seconds by an aimbot MG in a bush. Want to level up your mission maker team? We broke down the 4 rules every great Zeus & Game Master lives by, from pacing contacts to 10-minute AARs: blog.milsimunits.com/posts/w… Who is the best mission maker in your unit? Tag them below! 👇 #Milsim #Arma3 #ArmaReforger

WARDOGS just capped official servers at 175 ping to fight cheating, and real region locking is next. Players on NA and EU servers say they can already feel the difference. But for a lot of Aussies, South Africans, and SEA players, 175 means they're effectively locked out of the servers they used to play on, and OCE players worry the cheaters will just land on their servers instead. @WARDOGS says it's a temporary fix while they work on something better. Community servers can still set their own ping limits, which matters a lot if your unit is spread across the globe. We rounded up what players on both sides are saying and what it means for international units: blog.milsimunits.com/posts/w… Is 175 the right call? Where do you play from?

Hell Let Loose Update 22 lands in November: frozen Lake Balaton, a brand-new vehicle class, and planted rifle grenades. We also break down what HLL: Vietnam Patch 1.7 changed today, from the M1A1 Thompson to no more redeploy penalty. What it means for your unit 👇 blog.milsimunits.com/posts/h… @hell_let_loose #HellLetLoose #milsim

Gray Zone Warfare's Rogue Ops Supporter Preview is live ahead of the Oct 22 launch. How to switch branches, what the soft wipe keeps, and the one PvE/PvEvP choice you can't undo. @GrayZoneWarfare @madfingergames blog.milsimunits.com/posts/g…

Squad is coming to PS5 and Xbox Series X|S in 2027, and a free PS5 alpha is live right now through Oct 25. We break down what's in it, how crossplay works, and how day one went. @JoinSquad blog.milsimunits.com/posts/s…

WARDOGS Season 02 lasted about 11 hours before the devs hit undo. It brought a lot: rain and thunder that hide your footsteps, 4 new guns, 4 new vehicles including the T-72B3 and the Gepard, and big damage cuts to .308 and 7.62. Then the Lonestar bonus sent half the server stampeding to blue, and a supply-crate exploit had people in tanks within the hour. Credit where it's due: @WARDOGS came out and said "We're holding our hands up and we got a few things wrong." The blue bonus is gone, the exploit is patched, exploiters are getting temp bans and resets, and Limited Mode servers are coming. A lot of players respect the honesty. A lot of them still want a full re-wipe. Where do you land? blog.milsimunits.com/posts/w…

🦅 MilSim Units × Frontline Liberation Partnership Get your Community in today! Frontline Liberation is a full rework of Arma 3 Liberation for serious milsim, dynamic Director AI, real 250m front lines, hidden HQs, AI air & artillery, and more. Weekly ops - All are welcome!

🎙️ Milsim Units Podcast – Episode 52 is LIVE! In this episode, we sit down with 1SG Congo from Task Force Halberd (TFH), an Arma Reforger unit taking combined arms warfare to the next level. Inside the episode: 💥Evolving from infantry realism to full combined arms 🎯Crafting memorable, high-immersion mission sets in Reforger 🎖️Leadership, community standards, and unit legacy 🚀What’s on the horizon for Task Force Halberd 🎧Watch Episode 52 now: youtu.be/SDXdPEn2IdA 👍 Like, 💬 comment, 🔔 subscribe, and share with your battle buddies to help us continue spotlighting the communities shaping the future of milsim! #MilSim #ArmaReforger #TaskForceHalberd #MilSimUnits #GamingCommunity #Podcast

UNIT SPOTLIGHT: CANADIAN TACTICAL GROUP (CTG) Established in April 2020, Canadian Tactical Group is an international ArmA 3 milsim unit focused on emulating the Canadian Special Forces, primarily drawing inspiration from the Canadian Special Operations Regiment (CSOR). CTG operates within a roleplayed NATO task force, combining realism-focused gameplay with a coordinated approach to military operations. With an established community and a focus on immersive milsim, the unit continues to build its presence in the ArmA 3 community. WHAT'S NEXT FOR CTG? As CTG wraps up its current campaign, the unit is preparing for a special Halloween event on October 31. Players looking for something different can look forward to a scary, themed operation before the next campaign begins a week later. With new operations on the horizon, there is plenty to look forward to from CTG in the coming weeks. Interested in learning more about the unit? Check out their Milsim Units profile, there you will find their website and all other info! milsimunits.com/unit/ctg #Arma3 #MilSimUnits #CanadianTacticalGroup #CTG #CSOR #Milsim

Your op is only as good as the server it runs on. This month we're shining the light on the two hosts that milsim units trust to keep the mission running. ⭐ @NewHorizonCloud | Built for units that refuse to lag. - AMD Ryzen power + blazing-fast NVMe - Up to 17 Tb/s DDoS protection, so no one's knocking your server offline - 99.99% uptime + 24/7 support that actually answers - MilSim Units members get 20% OFF. "They take ownership of issues and make sure problems are resolved thoroughly." – LtCol Harvey, 15th MEU RU ⭐ @RevelationHost | Built for the mission. Literally. - White-glove setup: they build and configure your server FOR you, before you pay a dime - Hand-built hardware made for Arma, not recycled cloud boxes - No slot limits. Bring the whole battalion. - Free tier to get started. "The best server hosting provider we have had in 12 years of operation." – Ghost Platoon [GPLT], running 70+ player ops at 100–200 server FPS Shopping around? Our directory has 16 more trusted hosts like @HostHavoc, @GTXGAMING, @ArmaHosts, and new this week Terabit, plus exclusive member discounts. Find your unit's next home base: milsimunits.com/server-provi…