You will take the role of a mercenary pilot who has recently arrived at A.R.E.A 18, one of the main bases of A.R.E.A mercenary group. Choose your aircraft for each mission, earn money achieving goals and kills on your sorties and become legend.
This is a story driven campaign that will give you many hours of fun, playing historical missions and daily missions.
In the daily missions you can choose the type of mission you want to play (A2A, A2G, cargo, etc.). Each time you play a daily mission, the events during the flight, possition of targets and enemy forces location, etc will be different for a great replayability.
Once you earn enough money, you will unlock the next history mission to progress in the story.
Campaign intro video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isDh6sr_h7A
How to Play A.R.E.A 18:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-3dW2kyJ4Q
DCS Forum thread:
https://forums.eagle.ru/topic/280973-area-18-multi-aircraft-nearly-endless-history-driven-campaign
IMPORTANT:
(2022/09/02): A.R.E.A v2.1 has been released for everyone (click on "download" button). Please, take into account that v2.1 will not be maintained anymore.
A.R.E.A v3.0 has been released for Patreons (
https://www.patreon.com/DummyPilot)
Examples of A.R.E.A 18 random daily mission:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9c-UR4tuwg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AA9f5pLd7TI
You will need some mods that will enhance your experience. Look for them below.
There is multiple slots to play different aircrafts or helos. Select your mission in the ready room (or play one completelly random). Choose an aircraft that fits the mission and enjoy.
I haven't tested it in multiplayer, but I think it should work too. If you want to upload it to a public or private multiplayer server and adapt what is necessary to have it working, be my guest. Please give me feedback if you were successful ^_^
List of required mods:
FOR INSTALLING IN "<YOUR USER>/SAVED GAMES/DCS/MODS/TECH" FOLDER
VP airfield equipment 0.9.4:
https://virpil.com/en/news/58-vpc-airfield-equipment-dlya-dcs-world
NATO personnel and items
https://forums.eagle.ru/topic/190965-nato-personnel-and-items/
Aircraft Mat Mods - Modern:
https://forums.eagle.ru/topic/233670-suntsag-lockdown-modsliveries-collection-new-and-revised/
FOR INSTALLING IN "<YOUR USER>/SAVED GAMES/DCS/MODS/AIRCRAFT" FOLDER
Civil aircraft mod
https://cam.em-key.de/
Hercules
https://forums.eagle.ru/topic/252075-dcs-super-hercules-mod-by-anubis/
VNAO ready room
https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3310351/
VNAO T-45 Goshawk
https://forums.eagle.ru/topic/203816-vnao-t-45-goshawk/
MB-339
https://forums.eagle.ru/topic/209209-mb-339apan-by-frecce-tricolori-virtuali-new-version/
Please enjoy