Introduction to Armed Assualt

TG Domination is an extended engagement or persistent mission in the game Armed Assualt (ArmA). Armed Assualt is well documented as the leading gaming enthusiast's "military simulation". The developer or ArmA and its predecessor Operation Flashpoint, Bohemia Interactive, produces game engine variants (VBS2) that are utilized by various national armed forces around the world including the United States Marine Corps. For more information on Armed Assault please visit the following resources: Tactical Gamer, SimHQ, ShackTactical.com and the Official Website.


ArmA is set primarily on the island of Sahrani. Unlike most FPS games, this island is massive (Driving time from end to end is a roughly 30 minute investment) and the island is 100% available throughout the mission using a "streaming" technology developed by BIS that loads only the portions of the island in the vicinity of the player onto the GPU and CPU. The breadth of the island and its varying terrain presents both unique tactical opportunities and real game-play challenges.

At the heart of ArmA gameplay, there are four popular and competing styles (COOP vs TvT and Respawn vs Limited-Respawn Play) and the Admin team at Tactical Gamer has spent a great deal of time learning about how to balance these among the community utilizing the three available server instances. At this time, it is not uncommon to see both an intense veteran style COOP game running on the COOP server and a well coordinated, but more open-ended COOP game running on the Public server.