Move some variants to main mod and conditionally load

[Mike-MF]

Should not be merged until Arma 2.14

We do use the variants_apex optional, but with this being a public mod it's up to you if we want to utilise that instead now or stick with our vanilla units.

• Merged MELB & MILGP stuff into main.
• Also fixed macros in MILGP to have trailing commas.
• Moved CUP variants into main (JJs request)
• Removed Aegis compat
• BWA is staying as an optional.

[jonpas]

We do use the variants_apex optional, but with this being a public mod it's up to you if we want to utilise that instead now or stick with our vanilla units.

Apex weapons are an integral part, so just put it in, either as its own component or subconfigs in weapons and units, whatever makes more sense organizationally. We just don't want a hard dependency.

Merged MELB & MILGP stuff into main.

Self-note: Those are 3.5 MB and 18 MB respectively.

Moved CUP variants into main (JJs request)
Removed Aegis compat

Aegis should also be moved, but just use CUP's files with its own CfgPatches and unit. This will result in 2 C-130s in the editor if both CUP and Aegis are loaded together, but that's a rare use-case it seems.

BWA is staying as an optional.

Agreed, it is 65 MB.

But adding skipWhenMissingDependencies is good, we should do that with all remaining optionals so they can be included in modpacks but not necessarily loaded if the dependencies are not there.

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weapons_hlc / weapons_rhs_usf

I would also merge this, but we can't do "if HLC, but not Apex loaded`. HLC one I don't think sees any use.

RHS one was contributed, but I am not sure how this will play together with a merged weapons_apex. 🤔

[Mike-MF]

Apex weapons are an integral part, so just put it in, either as its own component or subconfigs in weapons and units, whatever makes more sense organizationally. We just don't want a hard dependency.

Doesn't create a hard dependency, part of the Arma platform update for APEX. It's just a preference really.

I'd leave all the weapon ones as optionals tbh. Let people decide if they want them or not as before.

I'd just stick with the CUP C130. It's a lot of effort for the Aegis one for 0 return for us specifically.

[jonpas]

Doesn't create a hard dependency, part of the Arma platform update for APEX. It's just a preference really.

In that case, I would say Apex weapons should be default, HK416s are just more fitting for those units.

I'd leave all the weapon ones as optionals tbh. Let people decide if they want them or not as before.

Agreed, that leaves HLC and RHS USF weapons optionals.

I'd just stick with the CUP C130. It's a lot of effort for the Aegis one for 0 return for us specifically.

See last commit.