Recon Company,
Thank you all so much for your patience over the last week. Several core members of our team were away in Las Vegas to attend The Special Operations Association Reunion (SOAR) 2025.
As it is every year, the experience was incredible. It was a rare opportunity for us to ...
2025-10-24 18:03:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Attention, Pilots!
Last time, we were on the ground looking at the USMC's growing family of LVTP-5 variants. This week, we’re pulling back the canopy on the A-4E Skyhawk to give you an unfiltered, behind-the-scenes look at the incredible nitty-gritty work that goes into making an aircraft...
2025-10-10 18:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Devildogs, attention! At ease.
In our last update, we showcased the incredible, ground-pounding detail going into the Centurion Mk 5/1 tank. This time, we’re shifting gears from heavy armor to amphibious assault with a look at another massive undertaking: the LVTP-5 family of vehi...
2025-10-03 18:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
G'day everyone,
What an incredible time we had at last Saturday's Nickel Steel MIKE Force session with our Patrons, Milsim, and streamer friends! It was a blast putting the new Dong Giang terrain through its paces - the Central Highlands makes for such a unique combat experience. Rob and I ...
2025-09-29 00:08:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone,
I think we're all still in awe of what the team put out in the latest Nickel Steel update. Man, the OV-10A Bronco scratches a particular itch for SOG enthusiasts, the LVTP-5 adds a crucial missing link for the USMC, the VADS is great for everyone's daily dose of BRRRT, Dong Gi...
2025-09-19 02:46:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey team,
Of all the vehicles coming to Nickel Steel soon, one stands out to me personally as an iconic and quintessential piece of SOG history: The OV-10A Bronco. This is one of the most versatile and unique airframes I've ever seen in Arma - and as a player, I am totally stoked to take th...
2025-09-01 23:32:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi y'all! We are excited to bring you an update on Nickel Steel's upcoming terrain, Dong Giang! Thanks to Tanner for interviewing this gorgeous terrain's creator, Walsh. Very grateful for Walsh providing some beautiful screenshots of this terrain, too! We hope you'll enjoy.
Hey everyone,
Sam here - I’m thrilled to be your new community manager! Thank you for your patience over the past few months. I'm excited to update you on the projects we're currently working on!
2025-08-26 20:39:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello all,
Last week we showed you the incredible progress on the OV-10A interior work. LeroyCake, Snoops, and Apollo have also been putting in the time on the exterior and that's we've got for you today!
Below are a series of WIP images of the Ov-10A in flight and a variety of weap...
Howdy all,
Last time we shared some of the nuts and bolts of the OV-10A. Complicated animations of how the landing gear retracts, how the cockpit panels hinge.
Since then a lot of work has been done and it's time to catch you all up.
For today we want to show off just how far...
Howdy everyone it's update time!
Bacon Oreos has been working hard on developing this unique weapon. Hopefully these WIP images and footage can bring some insight into just how complicated it is to build this asset. Bacon and Snoops are still hard at work polishing the physics and projectil...
2025-02-21 01:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
We have a pretty exciting weapon to announce today.
This is the M201-Z Gas Gun. Originally designed in 1930, this single shot breech action weapon fires 37mm and 38mm rounds. As you can see below this allows some serious flexibility in it can load.
Artist Bacon Oreos has been hard at ...
The last time we saw 'The Fridge' was to show off some high-res interior detailing. It's been a while since then and that's because artist NodUnit has been in the detail intense nitty-gritty of exterior detailing.
Today we wanted to give you all a look at just how much goes into creating ...
Our Seattle trip report continues today with a brief background on Lynne and Dick, and a wonderful image of our documentarian Paul Hildebrandt.
Lynne and Dick became friends and ran off-the-books missions for rear echelon soldiers to experience combat - known as the “Black Dynamite ...
Savage Game Design is well-known for working with MACV SOG Special Forces veterans on its 2021 video game release Arma 3 S.O.G. Prairie Fire. What the casual gamer may not notice, is how deep those relationships are, and how much the studio’s ambitions have grown.
As a follow-up to SOG Pr...
2025-01-28 23:28:31 +0000 UTC View Post
We showed off the first M163 VADS images late last year. Today we have more WIP focused on this complex M168 gun. Dialan and Apollo have been working hard to dial in all the nuts and bolts of this cannon. Early turret actuation animations included!
2025-01-24 19:57:45 +0000 UTC
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Hi everyone. Today we have some more M50 Ontos WIP images to showcase. Apollo has been working on crewing this uniquely wonderful vehicle. Moreover witness some early firing animations! 
2025-01-17 03:30:00 +0000 UTC
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Here's to everyone having a lovely Christmas filled with loved ones, cheer, and presents if you're into that. Our gift to you is this series of early WIP images of the M50 Ontos. BaconOreos and Apollo have been working away behind the scenes as you can see. I know they're looking forwards to doin...
2024-12-25 19:57:43 +0000 UTC View Post
It's been quite the year for us at Team Savage. The recent release of Nickel Steel content was a big achievement for us and we couldn't have done it without you; our incredible supporters. As a thanks we wanted to show you something we've been keeping under wraps . Almost like unwrapping your one...
2024-12-24 18:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Alright everyone. We’ve been tight-lipped about Across the Fence for a while now. The runup to Nickel Steel 1.1 is over and it’s about time we talk about it. You’ve been asking questions and we’ve seen that. We decided the best place to start was to have a conversation with Spoffy, the le...
2024-12-13 18:08:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone,
Some of you have already seen this because we have a select team of incredible supporters who have been sponsoring this set of USAF gear. For those of you who haven't the let this be a surprise. Our artist Facel has been working directly for this small group building out thes...
Hey all,
We want to share something that you may have seen way waaaaaay back in a less finished state. This is the HD Military Pistol produced by our artist Slow. Enjoy these high quality renders.
As you've seen in our public posting we're coming up on the release of S.O.G. Prairie Fir...
Howdy everyone,
Today we have some updates from artist Brasiel on the M12 SMG.
The detail in texturing has really progressed. Below are a series of angles with the updated texturing. For those interested in how these things work in game there's also a composite image of how this renders in...
Hey all,
Our artist SCOOBERSKI has not only build out on the M77E details but has also finished with some beautiful textures. 
2024-12-03 18:00:05 +0000 UTC
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Hi everyone,
Last time you saw the FM24/29 we showed our in game reloading animations. Given the proximity to the release of our Nickel Steel update we figured it was time to show off the finish high-end renders of this awesome weapon.
Artist BaconOreos has done just an excellent job o...
Bolec has been hard at work since the last sighting of the M50 SMG. Check out these newly textured WIP images since we last saw it. 
2024-11-29 18:00:09 +0000 UTC
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Hey all,
The Nickel Steel update is coming! We'd like to share some more of what we've been working on.
Slow has been quietly working on the L1A1 (SAS) Shorty and here is a first look!
This 7.62x51mm battle rifle was used by Australia and New Zealand duri...
2024-11-27 18:00:13 +0000 UTC View PostHey all!
I just wanted to let you know where we are with the next published update.
The next Nickel Steel update was ready 3 months ago, but as it contains a grenade launcher, and we rotated all the grenades 90 degrees in 1.31 of the DLC (so our UGLs and M79s are compatible with vanil...
2024-10-31 10:18:15 +0000 UTC View Post
We told you we had some in depth images to share. Below are the unique landing gear and door opening animations LeroyCake has built as well as a whole series of closeups of the incredible interior he's built out.
The level of detail is overwhelming so we're including a few different angle...
Happy Monday everyone,
Today is the first a a few special days for Team Savage. Rob is leading a slice of our team at SOAR, the Special Operations Association Reunion. The team will be helping with a variety of presentations given by the veterans that have taken us under their wings. It's ...