Sudden Strike 3: Modern Arms brings modern weapons into Sudden Strike 3's 3D strategy game engine, striving for the same fidelity with which the original developers recreated World War Two. New infantry models and complete arsenals bring modern armies to life in full, including the Russian Army, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Royal Saudi Land Forces, the Syrian Arab Army and others. New structures and textures also help to present the new battlefields.
With the Modern Arms mod recreating even more recent battlefields in the world today, Sudden Strike 3 now includes the conflict in Gaza and Ukraine's Dnipro River battles.
The game's first Israeli campaign, sharing the name of the real operation "Swords of Iron", sets the player loose at the limits of Gaza City with significant numbers of Israeli troops and armor including the Merkava Mk 3 and Mk 4, to command. Opposing forces are aware of their own limits, and will do their best to delay and ambush you rather than destroy you directly.
Israeli bulldozers are even included in the game and perform a key role, crushing barricades and sweeping debris so your forces can reach hidden ammo depots and clear routes for troops and equipment to move on.
There are a total of 5 new custom missions playable with the Gaza Combat download, and they are not necessarily all about the war in Gaza either. The war in Ukraine rages on in the game, now portraying the Ukrainian crossing attempts over the Dnipro with new boat models added to the game.
We then have another view of the Krynky battle, this time from the Russian point of view in the winter of 2023-2024 when the bridgehead deteriorated and was effectively destroyed under the increasing Russian firepower. BMPT Terminators will be yours to command against the Ukrainian Marines in the mission.
A large battle from the Russian perspective, this mission takes place at the fortified town of Avdiivka. Russian Spetsnaz reinforcements arrive behind Ukrainian fortifications via an underground pipe, enabling the dismantlement of the Ukrainian defense in the area.
Returning to the topic of Gaza, try your luck with light paramilitary units eluding a heavily-armed opponent and trying to slip past his guard to achieve your objective. This kind of thing hasn't been playable for strategy gamers since Command and Conquer: Generals, but this time everything is based on real-life counterparts, with different classes of technical truck created in great detail.
These units aren't overpowered, often run out of ammo fast, and can perform unpredictably. Your best hope is guile. Act decisively, but be willing to escape and hide at all times.
Finally, a short challenge in which the player must decisively use air power and can virtually avoid any casualties. This mission is based on failed Ukrainian attacks to capture the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) in September 2022 using special forces units on fast boats. You will have your own helicopter base and waves of incoming Su-34 fighter bombers just for this mission.
Previously published missions are greatly improved. The greatest such improvement is Hostomel, which now accurately portrays the Russian armor drop into the area to suppor their airborne forces. The huge Il-76 transports will arrive just to drop your armored vehicles.
In addition, Ukraine's massive transport aircraft, the An-225 Mriya, will now be present at its hangar in the airport, just as it was in the real battle.
There are a lot of other upgrades to the previous mission packs, too. My only warning is that you should install the latest mission pack again (Gaza Combat) if you backtrack and reinstall these old mission packs, to avoid the latest campaigns disappearing from the menu. If you want to use the z-pack to place Z markings on Russian vehicles, install the last version.
I have not even begun to discuss all the new features added to the mod in the latest downloads. Here are some random videos to show you some of the rest!
Two starter missions let you command daring Yemeni resistance fighters in Sudden Strike 3's full 3D engine, or lead Saudi troops equipped with state of...
The Syrian Arab Army, the Free Syrian Army and ISIS have entered the game with their full ground arsenals in 3D.
Try out the massive 2023 summer battle in the south of Ukraine, in Sudden Strike 3.
The "Azovstal" campaign pack revisits some of the battles on the shores of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov in 2022.
An ultimate David and Goliath strategy battle between the heavily-equipped Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and elusive Palestinian fighters rages in Sudden...
Discover the much-forgotten war in Yemen in full 3D in Sudden Strike 3, as minimally equipped Yemeni fighters challenge the US-equipped might of Saudi...
The Syrian Civil War finally arrives in the Sudden Strike series in full 3D for the first time! Full factions, arsenals, and two faithful scenarios included...
Ukraine's 2023 summer counteroffensive is recreated in its own specially made map playable from both sides' perspectives in Sudden Strike 3.
Version 3. Introducing modern ships, new aircraft and two new campaigns, this ambitious campaign pack lets armchair generals wage the battles of 2022...
Version 5. The first campaign pack for Modern Arms shows the start of combat between Russian and Ukrainian troops in February 2022. Environments are much...
Hello friends my first map for this map is out today.
you can download it from hear Moddb.com
Thanks to kane for helping me to make this map.
welcome, I hope to see more mapping in future. This mod is constantly getting new units and improvements, but maps have been scarce so far
hi, I like your mods, I was very pleased when I saw that the game of my childhood is being modified to this day. I would be interested to know if there will be any more mods on the topic of modern conflicts?
this depends on the level of interest. I have other mod plans but if interest in this mod increases then many further map packs can be made for this mod. The next campaign pack will release most likely next month
Would be cool if you could post some videos, especially of the new features, e.g. rotary wing combat and tunnels!
Screenshots are good but a quick video of a specific feature would be great to see too.
There are videos on the baldmanevil YouTube channel although of more dramatic new content so far. There aren't really new features in a gameplay sense, just units and objects.
Can you tell me how to add modern technology to these maps about Crimea by removing the old WWII era?
Myabandonware.com
I have not been able to edit the original maps, although there might be people who can do that. I find it is easy to just make new maps.
Great! But with modern/correct sound for vehicles and weapons will be much better!
I have decided to continue modding this game longer, and building a better library of sounds will be on my laundry list.
Hello friend, why didn't you start creating campaigns? ? Sudden Strike 3 are very excited to get started