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As seems to often happen, I found myself back at Airsoft Plantation this morning. Tom and Dan were absent, so I teamed up with a few other people I know. The first game was a simple attack and defend in the woods (yay!). As the attackers, we had infinite regens on a marshal, while the defenders had two lives, one defending the wobbly bridge and the other defending a flag at long walk (it is called long walk because it is a long walk from the start point at the other end of the woods). Starting off on the left flank of our attack, I took out a few defenders and was then hit, so went in search of a marshal; having found one, I decided to move to the right flank as the woodland there is more open and easier to attack through. A large group of us swung wide to the right, hugging the edge of the playing area and pushing across the ditch just before the smoke grenade on wobbly bridge was detonated. With the first objective achieved, we continued our flanking movement, ending up attacking the flag at 90 degrees from our line of advance; it was secured and the game ended. The game was then turned around. I took up a position on the far right where a collection of fallen trees and a couple of ditches offer a number of interconnected positions. Early on, a couple of enemy players came by; I let them go past and then shot them from a distance, so that they would not know where the shots had come from. Soon after, a group of about 12 appeared; I let them go past and shot the rearmost four. The others went to ground; I potted a couple of them and could hear the others discussing where I was. This seemed to be a good time to reposition by using the cover of the ditch and the trees to fall back towards my colleagues. Unfortunately, as I moved back, one of those colleagues shot me by mistake, so I started the long walk to long walk, where I took up a position that covered both the flag and one of the main avenues through the woods. The latter provided a target rich environment and the MC51 scored a large number of hits before the flag was captured. I stayed out on the field, sitting on the bridge at the border, as the next game would see us attacking the village from there and I still had plenty of ammo. Other players eventually came out, as did a couple of marshals; from their radio chatter, it was apparent that they were looking for someone who was believed to still be out in the woods, possibly hurt. As I know them, I asked one of them who they were looking for; he looked at me, did a double take and said "you". Apparently, the guys had become concerned that I had not appeared in the safe zone and had told the marshals, who came looking for me. Anyway, for the next game, we had to get bombs to three targets in the village; we could regen on one of two marshals, one on the border and one on the firebreak, while the defenders had two lives. A group of us attacked along our right, overcoming determined opposition from two buildings before attacking across the conveniently dry pond to take the building behind it and move into that part of the village. The three targets were bombed in due course by part of our team who had swung right round the village and attacked from the rear, so we returned to the safe zone to take luncheon. Having dined and, as ever, marvelled at how Emily efficiently feeds so many players, the previous game was reversed. Defending the front edge of the village, I potted a good number of attackers before I was hit and fell back into the village woods to defend against any enemy attacking from the rear; quite a lot of them were and we had some great exchanges before they finally blew up the three targets. For the final game, both teams had to blow up a target in their opponents' base. Our target was the Bedford in the mortar pits, while theirs was the plane at the DEA base. Everyone could regen after falling back 30m and high fiving a colleague. I was with the group defending the plane; as the enemy could attack it from a 270 degree arc, we sent out a lot of small fighting patrols to intercept them, leading to many confused and messy encounters in the scrub. In one, I spotted a couple of chaps moving through the scrub; I shot the rearmost one and his companion and I exchanged shots, hitting each other. We shook hands and went to find colleagues to regen on; a marshal who had seen the encounter noted it as being a gentlemanly exchange. Eventually, the game timed out with neither side achieving their objective. It was an excellent, if rather warm and very humid, day of airsoft, with around 150 players present and some great play on both sides. It will probably be a while before I can play again, as I will be on Dartmoor next weekend (Hurrah!) and then have various other weekend commitments involving rehearsals and festival appearances. However, if I can squeeze a day in somewhere, I will. Weapons used Classic Army MC51 JG SA58 ASG XP18 Commander (CO2)

TBF, I messaged the admin several months ago and managed to get that sorted, so notifications started working again; at least for a while. Also got him to add the dates that adverts were posted, so you could know if you're messaging about an item from days, weeks or years ago.

I had electrolytes tabs in 3 bottles and dehydration mix in the final one. I drink a lot anyway, as my medication mountain dehydrates me faster as a baseline, but once I reached the maximum daily intake on both the electrolytes (6 doses, 2 per bottle) and dehydration mix (1 dose), I called it quits.

Dear god, that poor, poor two-toned Mauser at the back...

I'm half hoping that parasite Ryan tries his luck for donations and gets laughed away.

8 liters? That's pretty nuts, I hope you have some electrolytes

I must admit that I was also tempted by that. The notifications never worked so when you had been sent a message you had no idea. Then, you got left with shitty feedback for not responding

Went to S8 for the first time in a long time today - played 2 games in the morning, then the first game in the afternoon on yellow team. Took the WE M4 and the DE N4 with me, the former I was running on HPA, the latter my new-ish-ly acquired pile of GM PMags. With the former, I was running a positively stupid arrangement with near enough half a kilo of moving mass (182g buffer and 275g steel BCG), so stealthy wasn't an option, as I could be heard from a significant distance. First game was attack/defend with swapping sides at midway, felt I did pretty well in the attacking component of that, managed to get within breathing distance of the base a few times. Defending on the second half, was hit/respawn/hit and out in the first 5 minutes, which was a little bit disappointing but we just got pinned too quickly on that. 2nd was some description of KOTH with tickets to collect off each player (starting with 3) and a 60 second respawn timer - spent the first 5-10 minutes stuck behind a barrier with enemies at pretty much every angle, so probably only shot the same 10 guys over and over, but at one point had accumulated something in the region of 20 tickets, before spending the remainder of the game pinned in a upturned tree stump hole and subsequently losing all but my original 3 tickets. Game I played in the afternoon is basically my worse nightmare of a game, a lane with minimal structured cover and an object (beer barrel in this case) to carry to the defenders end of the road. Went home after that one, purely because i'd depleted the 8L of drink I brought with me, lost almost entirely to sweating, and it was only getting warmer. All in all, for what i played of it, it was a good day.