OPERATION NORTHERN DAGGERSHEET 00 // SITUATION
DISCREET. PRECISE. DECISIVE.
Sixteen hand-built special operations on one contested border, run as a season. Deniable, deliberate, and quiet: the cleanest night is the one the enemy can never prove happened.
VERITAS. CUSTODIAN. FUTURI.
ops.aegismilsim.com:2302First run: about 20 to 40 min to set up the modset, then about 90 sec to connect. After that you drop in anytime.
// Situation
TRUE TASKING // find and dismantle the network, then make it deniable
Operation Northern Dagger is a sixteen-mission season on the Virolahti border, run roughly in order so the story accumulates. Task Force Spear is a small SOF element under a border-security cover, sent to find and dismantle a deniable foreign network without forcing the public escalation the adversary is fishing for. You start treating the border as a crime problem and end up realizing you have been holding a front line the whole time.
This is Sicario meets NATO special reconnaissance: quiet, professional, deliberate, a little cold. A night can be lost without a single friendly down, through compromise, a civilian hurt, a blown cover, or a noisy exfil that hands the enemy a win. You win with positioning, patience, timing, curated kit, and a clean ACRE2 net, not with everyone carrying a launcher and a thermal.
The enemy is an escalation ladder you climb across the season: smugglers, paramilitary border cells, professional sabotage and recon teams, a deniable PMC, and the near-peer armor the whole campaign exists to keep from crossing the seam. Above all of it is the Obsidian Group, the hostile SOF mirror force built to our standard and pointed the other way. You feel which rung you are on in the first exchange of fire.
// Operations
Sixteen hand-built operations, each with its own insert, objective, and exfil, rotating one night to the next. They climb the enemy ladder across three acts toward the finale, Red Snow.
A police problem that is not
Following it up the ladder
The mirror and the front
A night runs eight to fourteen operators across eleven seats: Team Leader, Assistant, RTO and JTAC, Medic, Breacher, Engineer and EOD, Marksman, Automatic Rifleman, UAS Operator, and Pilot, with a Zeus running the night from above.
Shadow and Reaper for ISR, loitering munitions and FPV for the close fight, and JTAC-lased A-10 and F/A-18 close air support. ACE medical, land navigation, and a whitelisted kit make every choice cost something.
A rear-area staging base is the home you return to: draw a curated kit, run ACE medical and ACRE checks, zero weapons, rehearse the breach, then step off into the night.
// Forward bases
Alongside the scripted operations, the forward bases on the map are ground you fight over and keep. Claim them, make them yours, and defend them against an enemy that comes to take them back.
A network of forward operating bases sits across the area of operations. Take one by clear-and-hold: empty the zone of every enemy, then hold it with an operator present until the timer flips it to AEGIS.
Every base you hold becomes a forward spawn and a staging point, ground that carries from one night to the next instead of resetting with the mission.
The enemy never concedes. It grabs neutral bases, reinforces the ones it holds, and musters at hidden staging areas to march on yours in escalating waves.
Repel the assault and the base stays yours. Get pushed off and it flips back, forward spawn and all. The ground is only yours for as long as you can hold it.
// Reporting Instructions
The Steam Workshop collection is being finalized. For now, ask in Discord for the modlist and import it in the Arma 3 Launcher (Mods, then Import, then select the file). It is about 43 mods, so allow time for the first download.
Open the Arma 3 Launcher, confirm the AEGIS mods are checked, and start the game.
In the multiplayer browser, direct-connect to the address below (or add it to favorites). The server is open, no password.
Join the Discord to coordinate, find people to play with, and hear about operations.
Join the Discord// Comms Plan
Briefings, coordination, and the fastest way to find a fireteam. This is the AEGIS front door.
- members, - online
Join the DiscordIn-game voice for operations. Direct, low-latency, and always on for the team.
voice.dallas.hosthavoc.com:10049
Connect to TeamSpeak// Personnel
AEGIS Intelligence Group runs for players who treat restraint, clean comms, and deliberate tactics as the point, not the overhead. No rigid schedule, no PvP: drop in, slot a role, and hold a front line on Virolahti against an enemy that pushes back on its own timetable. Register with the unit on the official Arma 3 units page to deploy under Northern Dagger.
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