INDFOR

INDFOR (short for "Independent Force" or "Independents") is one of the possible Sides in any ShackTac mission. It is the "third" side in the BLUFOR-OPFOR-INDFOR triangle, representing forces that are not directly aligned with any of the world's superpowers.

INDFOR can represent a variety of different paramilitaries, private military contractors, guerillas, terrorists or criminals. It can even be used for civilians/VIPs. The only commonality between these is that they are unaligned with either BLUFOR or OPFOR, and may cooperate with or fight against either of these, both of these, or even switch allegiances between them during the mission itself.

If INDFOR players are armed at all, they may use any variety of weapons. Terrorist or Guerilla INDFOR are typically armed with low-tech OPFOR weapons (AK-47s and similar old weapons), whereas PMCs can be armed with very modern weapons and auxiliary gear. Vehicles, if available, are similarly different from one type of INDFOR to the next. Heavy vehicles, such as Tanks, Jets or Attack Helicopters, are never available to INDFOR as they do not have the military infrastructure to support such vehicles.

INDFOR appears very rarely in ArmA 3 ShackTac videos. It appeared more commonly during the ArmA 2 era, especially in Adversarial missions such as Dark Business. In Dark Business particularly, there were actually two different INDFOR sides: one for the hostage-taking rebels; the other for the unarmed VIPs who were being traded. In the ArmA 3 era's Cooperative missions, INDFOR is usually the player side fighting against either an AI-controlled OPFOR or AI-controlled BLUFOR. Occasionally, INDFOR is used as a separate BLUFOR-aligned or OPFOR-aligned force that needs rescue, or simply operates under a completely separate command structure from the main player group (and sometimes with conflicting objectives).