Arulco Rebel Command

Arulco Rebel Command (ARC)

What is ARC?

ARC is short for Arulco Rebel Command. Most of the gameplay for JA2 happens in tactical, so I've created this to add a little more to think about at the strategic layer.

What's new?

The two main things here are Directives and Administrative Actions. A Directive is a passive ability that's applied across the country to give you some useful bonuses, and an Admin Action is a passive ability that you can grant to towns that you capture. At the start of the game, you'll only have access to a couple of Directives, with a few more unlocking as you progress through the game. Admin Actions are randomly assigned from a pool to towns, and you'll be able to activate them as you capture towns.

Directives can be upgraded with money, and a new resource (Supplies) are used to take Admin Actions.

By default, loyalty gain is cut in half, and each town's maximum loyalty is reduced based on what difficulty you're playing on.

How does it work?

After completing an early quest, you'll get a popup indicating that you have access to a new website in your laptop, which will look something like this:



This is the national overview. Here, you can set and improve Directives, and have a quick glance at your militia's stats.



The regional overview gives you a run-down of what you can do once you've captured a town. Once you install an Administration Team (the first one is free!), the actions in the region will be made visible and available to you. You might notice that there's a Maximum Loyalty stat - if you're playing with this feature, you'll need to prove to the locals that you're here for real, and a region won't fully trust you unless you send some supplies their way. You may not have enough supplies to fully upgrade each region, so have a think about which areas are deserving of your supplies.

I tried playing this and it makes the game too easy/hard.

You can poke around in RebelCommand_Settings.ini to play with numbers! I can only balance for myself

Info/Spoilers!

Directives list


 * Gather supplies - increase daily supply income


 * Support militia - reduce militia upkeep costs


 * Train militia - reduce militia training cost, and increase militia training speed


 * Create propaganda - increase loyalty gains


 * Elite militia - daily free elite militia in Omerta


 * HVT strikes - reduced chance for enemy specialists


 * Spotters - tactical overhead map (press INSERT) shows approximate enemy locations


 * Raid mines - steal income from mines not under your control


 * Create turncoats - spend intel to create turncoats in enemy groups


 * Draft - gain large amounts of volunteers at the cost of town loyalty

Admin Actions list


 * Supply line - increase max loyalty - this is always available in each town


 * Rebel radio - daily loyalty gain


 * Safehouses - when fighting near this town, free militia can join the fight


 * Supply disruption - when fighting near this town, enemies have reduced stats


 * Scouts - increased strategic vision around this town


 * Dead drops - daily intel gain


 * Smugglers - daily supply gain


 * Warehouses - daily militia resources gain


 * Taxes - daily income gain, daily loyalty loss


 * Assist civilians - daily militia volunteer gain


 * Merc support - assignment efficiency bonus (similar to merc Administration assignment)


 * Mining policy - mine output bonus


 * Pathfinders - travel on foot is faster


 * Harriers - enemy groups travel significantly slower


 * Fortifications - militia and mercs perform better when autoresolving in town

Keyboard Shortcuts

At the ARC website, you can switch between national and regional views with TAB or SPACEBAR, and navigate through regions with A/D/Left/Right

ARC has interaction with a few other features:-


 * Enemy Roles (officers, medics, enemy traits)


 * Intel


 * Militia Resources


 * Militia Volunteers

How can I play this?

In JA2_Options.ini, set REBEL_COMMAND_ENABLED = TRUE.

This was checked in at r9153 and gamedir r2613. This will not break existing save games.

[Updated on: Sat, 23 October 2021 03:32]