Silent War mod for ARMA: Cold War Assault

Silent War: Polish-Belarusian Conflict is a Operation Flashpoint mod developed since 2002. The mod focuses on titular conflict between Poland and Belarus – a fictional scenario, yet one which occupies minds of military planners, since both countries are allied with opposing world powers. Without unnecessary moralizing, and arguing about right and wrong, Silent War tries to show how this hypothethical conflict would look like if it was to really erupt.

Content and features

Silent War aims to realistically portray armed forces and locales of Poland and Belarus. To achieve this developers made numbers of new, accurate models of equipment used by both sides – including well-known items and vehicles of Soviet manufacture, and indigenous armament, never seen before in Operation Flashpoint. Examples of those are Polish Beryl rifles, W-3 Sokol and SW-4 Puszczyk helicopters, Honker and Star transports and Belarusian Volat and MZKT trucks or Caiman amphibious vehicle. Similiar attention is given to the new terrain developed for the mod, based on several places on the Polish-Belarusian border. Finally Silent War is going to bring new playable content in form of both singleplayer missions and campaign, and multiplayer gamemodes such as co-op, CTI and others.

The mod is still under development, having gone through several revisions, transformations and even alleged collapse. However in February 2021, a Polish Light Infantry Teaser was released, making it our first release since 2006 beta! Development continues as evidenced by release of Polish Light Infantry Patch in August 2021.

Team

Silent War is currently developed by following people:

• Gemenis – project leader, 2D and 3D art, configuration and scripting
• Krzychuzokecia – 2D and 3D art, configuration and scripting
• [PR] Slavko – 2D art, configuration, scripting and sounds
• [25DKP] (RW) KaWo – technical adviser
• [PR] Daro – beta-tester

Contributors:

• Alex_Mercer_1479 - configuration and scripting
• K. Astrozhski – 2D and 3D art, configuration
• Macser - animations and scripting
• =SappeR= – 2D and 3D art
• Guziczek101 – 2D and 3D art

Thanks:

• Adam Rucki - Militech font
• Bohemia Interactive - 2D and 3D art
• Jackal326 and SJB team - sounds
• JAM team - configs and sounds
• Kenoxite - configs, scripting, sounds, 2D art
• OFPL team - 2D, 3D art, configs and sounds
• OFrP team - sounds
• Sanctuary and WW4 team - 2D, 3D art, animations, configs and sounds
• STGN - standing reload animation

Former developers and contributors (in no particular order): Grey, Christoph, Pawel Ryszka, MaRcin, Arika, Raddar, SeaDemon, Towarzysz Szumek, Offtime, Ofman, Devek, Smookie, Alderous, Panda, Hawk, Sejtan, TomiD, Ktos, Sigma-6, Turkish Union Mod.