The 'How Did Your Airsoft Day Go? Thread

[Dogsbody100]

After what seemed like an eternity I managed to get everything together for my first ever non rental game (big boy now) like a CM16 and a Titan battery to power it. 

Additionally a mate of mine said his kid wanted to play and had no idea where to start so we all went to Airsoft Plantation so I could show them what the deal was and make sure he liked it! 
 

It was a fairly safe bet, AP do a nice game day and the rental kit is always good. 
 

I was a little apprehensive playing without the reassurance of being able to just get any gun issues fixed like I did when I rented but I must say both the new gun and battery performed really well, when I checked the cells afterwards they were still way over 7.4v total and they could have gone longer if I’d have wanted to. All that said it the nerves were initially counterbalanced by only paying 25 quid for the walk on - much easier on the pocket! 

My mate and his lad had a great day too, even though it rained some the day wasn’t spoiled at all, we played some excellent set  pieces at times and had really enjoyed the games. 
 

The battleaxe 200rd mid caps I had fed just fine too, highly recommended! 

 

[colinjallen]

After what seemed like an eternity I managed to get everything together for my first ever non rental game (big boy now) like a CM16 and a Titan battery to power it. 

Additionally a mate of mine said his kid wanted to play and had no idea where to start so we all went to Airsoft Plantation so I could show them what the deal was and make sure he liked it! 
 

It was a fairly safe bet, AP do a nice game day and the rental kit is always good. 
 

I was a little apprehensive playing without the reassurance of being able to just get any gun issues fixed like I did when I rented but I must say both the new gun and battery performed really well, when I checked the cells afterwards they were still way over 7.4v total and they could have gone longer if I’d have wanted to. All that said it the nerves were initially counterbalanced by only paying 25 quid for the walk on - much easier on the pocket! 

My mate and his lad had a great day too, even though it rained some the day wasn’t spoiled at all, we played some excellent set  pieces at times and had really enjoyed the games. 
 

The battleaxe 200rd mid caps I had fed just fine too, highly recommended! 

Which team were you on?  It was a good day, wasn’t it?

 

[Dogsbody100]

Which team were you on?  It was a good day, wasn’t it?

Blue, found the reds to be a very decent opfor! And yes it definitely was a decent days gaming, I knew it’d be a good intro for my mate and his lad, he messaged me yesterday asking about batteries for guns, looks like they’re hooked already ??

 

[colinjallen]

Blue, found the reds to be a very decent opfor! And yes it definitely was a decent days gaming, I knew it’d be a good intro for my mate and his lad, he messaged me yesterday asking about batteries for guns, looks like they’re hooked already ??

Excellent!  That is what we want, more people prepared to splash their entire disposable income on toys .

Blue here as well, wearing CCE and toting an MPiKM (morning) and an AMD65 (afternoon).

 

[Khyber]

More peeps! Perfect. I have taken 2 different peopleto my local site with 2 more saying they will try it too. Makes the gameplay much more enjoyable for newcomers if they know someone to come along with. 

 

[Skullchewer]

So, today was a particularly fun one.

Five of us have been playing online games together, for nigh on 20 years. Some of us have never met face to face.

This weekend we finally all met up. Three not that far apart, one from Scotland and one from Canada.

I've obviously played a lot.

One of us had played about 5 games.

The Scottish guy had played Airsoft once before.

The Canadian played once with me last weekend.

That other had never played before today.

We went to Red Alert in Newbury.

What a superb day.

First time at the site for all of us, and it was a great site. Good sized playing area, lots of great terrain and buildings (standard wood builds but good quality and varied), lots of varied game modes, very welcoming staff and they marshals could not have been more engaged. 

The atmosphere was very good.

All five of us had a great day, and all of the varying levels of newbies are very keen to play again and are all talking about getting their own kit (I loaned out a lot of kit today and got it all back in the same condition I lent it out in).

Red Alert is highly recommend, I've booked in for their next battlesim weekend.

Oh, and we got some comemmerative patches made up for the meet up, that we wore today.

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[EDcase]

Yeah, Red Alert is a good site ?

Hahaha, brilliant patches ?

 

[Gloombones]

What a day was had at ‘Red alert Newbury!’ for some of us it was bit of a commute (Scotland) seriously good folk in attendance, seriously good marshalling, but most of all seriously fun skirmishing, 10/10. 

thanks to @Skullchewer for providing extra kit/weapons and advice on the day, I forgot to bring my patch home…I was one of the famous five 

and Lone wolf Scott it was great to meet you

Next Sunday…going dark for some first time CQB at ‘the Depot’ in my home town

 

[Skullchewer]

It was like this:

 

[PopRocket123]

An awesome first day back at Worthing airsoft after about 4 years away. I took a few guns out for their first games, my tac 41, VFC MP7 and TM USP c and took the bullpup ak out for the first time in ages. Overall, no complaints. Once the ho bedded in and I dialed in the hop and scope I was nailing people with the tac 41 from way out of their range with .4s. The USP c also ran flawlessly and got a couple of good kills with it. The MP7 was a little disappointing in the morning at the range but once it warmed up it was actually pretty good. I didn't manage to use it in a game though as I only had the one mag. The AK didn't pass chrono but I think that was because of some stray .2s in the mag. I'm not complaining though as it encouraged me to use the sniper. I played a bit too aggressively at first and got shot a lot but as it settled and I started to trust it more I was able to push the ranges further. My absolute highlight was flanking hard to the south side right at the bottom of the site. I got behind the enemy held objective and cleared it out single handedly. I pushed in with a couple of others and we captured it with 30 seconds to go, winning the game for our team. I thought I'd gotten away relatively unscathed right up until I got nailed in the head by a sniper in the final 2 minutes. He came over and apologized after but I was all laughs about it. 

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[MalcyFett]

Had a good day at Spartan CQB in chippenham yesterday. 

Morning started with around 50 people, at least 25 of which were rental players. As per usual with rentals, we were finding a LOT of folks not calling hits. Marshalls were really good at enforcing it when they saw any issues, so much so, we could constantly hear "you're hit", "you're hit" from the Marshalls. 

After lunch gameplay was spot on though, 20 of the rentals left during lunch. We were down to around 30 players, suddenly everyone was calling hits, play was a LOT better.

All in all a good day. 

 

[Jaylordofwaargh]

Spent the day at Red1 Cheselhurst today. First time out this year. What a great start for the year. 

Looks like the chill and clouds and small drizzle kept the hoards away only about 40 of us. Excellent numbers for this site. There was a large group of rentals, about 10 or so, marshals from the off went over and told them they were being split so they could shoot each other. Another excellent piece of marshaling in my opinion as it gave balance to the smaller teams. 

Hit taking great (over all - there were comments from the rentals that the rentals were not taking all hits) overall.

Red1 have a shinny piece of kit - a bomb set up with multi function. They used this on a number of games which worked well. 

Only gripe about the site and how the day was was run was that the game briefs were lacking in some detail, with marshal distracted having to stop himself to stop other people talking during them. Mentioned this to the head (I think) marshal and he was already thinking ahead on how to fix the issue for next time round.

Airsofters, being airsofters they were not the quickest getting out of the safezone for games despite the Red1 staff being vocal and trying to conjoule the players out quickly

It might be 90mins by public transport but so far it has 2/2 good shooting days

 

[Badgerlicious]

I thought I'd gotten away relatively unscathed right up until I got nailed in the head by a sniper in the final 2 minutes. He came over and apologized after but I was all laughs about it. 

Ouch! Our usual blood sacrifice was off today so I think you pulled the short straw ?

Great day at Worthing. Smaller turnout than usual and a fair few left towards the end of the day making the teams quite small. Honestly I thought it was great, it adds a new dynamic to the field. For some reason our team had about 8 snipers on it though, but everything was still very balanced, it was quite back and forth all day thanks to a lot of the objectives requiring pushing into and area and holding it. Blues made some good pushes after a few encouraging words from some of the players. I managed to eat s*&% jumping a branch on game start. On the plus side, my gun can take a bit of a fall and keep working! What was actually much worse was taking cover behind a tree, only for my knees to find every single chestnut shell on the damn site, the one time I don't bring knee pads ? 

That was due to my newly made ghillie trousers! I also did a bit more crafting on the suit. Much fun, much invisibility. I think my summer ghillie with what I've learned is going to be excellent Unfortunately my red dot died while I was in some great close range spots which made things a bit harder.

We also t6ook my friend's brother out for his first game too and he had a great time, so the squad grows! 

All in all, a great day as usual. Next weekend I've got a private game at the ucap bunker in portsmouth, so that should bring some great stories! 

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[RostokMcSpoons]

Stonking day at special ops yesterday, beautiful weather, a more reasonable player count of around 60 people meant there was more chance to push, and reasonably balanced teams all added up to a good day

Personally I had some tech issues..  I brought my new Tippmann HPA M4 along, expecting to actually use that for the whole day, but ended up not using it at all - instead the trusty Double Eagle M906c was my choice throughout.  And I got a mountain of kills with it, thanks to it reaching out a decent distance and me getting in some good positions or just being outright reckless with some pushes with some hip-fire suppression as I attacked.

Possibly my best day of Airsoft since I started playing again in November

 

[Mr. No_Face]

Was actually a last minute decision to go today but the forecast is looking pretty shitty for the next 2 weekends and today was perfect weather for GBBRs. I actually took a risk attending since I haven't finished making the necessary amendments to my kit but surprisingly I didn't drop any mags.... probably because I was playing twice as reserved as I usually do. I had a blast running my MWS CQBR despite being on a team that refused to push for the objectives and lost every single game.

Had a super toxic guy and his toxic girlfriend on my team who were constantly giving the rentals shit about them loafing around and not pushing for the objectives. I mean, the rentals were pretty useless today but it's not that serious. Usually I would have probably given them a lil kick up the arse too but I was having far too much fun running my GBBR. Eventually the toxic dude had enough of being on a shitty team and gave up mid game, but not before telling the rentals how incompetent and shit they were lol. I managed to convince one of the rentals to make one aggressive push with me to get closer to the objectives but he seemed more concerned with my loadout and just staring at me, weapon at his waist. An enemy BB to the noggin quickly snapped him out of his trance lol.?

So Toxic dude decides to re-join for the last game in which we had to defend 3 objectives with 1 life per player and in record timing our team is flanked from both sides and wiped out within 5 minutes of the game starting leaving myself, toxic guy and his girlfriend to defend the objectives lol. At this point all we can do is laugh......we lost again 

So in concluding, I had a great time despite being on a team that lost every game. I kinda feel bad for the rentals though, since that's not the kind of introduction into this sport they needed. I wont be surprised if the majority of them choose not to come back after their encounter with "Toxic guy and Toxic girl".

 

[Tactical Pith Helmet]

 I wont be surprised if the majority of them choose not to come back after their encounter with "Toxic guy and Toxic girl".

Good write up.  Shame about the moaning bastards.   I never understand playing when not prepared to enter into the spirit of the game.   

 

[Mr. No_Face]

Good write up.  Shame about the moaning bastards.   I never understand playing when not prepared to enter into the spirit of the game.   

Unfortunately some people show up with winning as their primary objective as apposed to fun. Also I've notice that dude's that show up with their missus always feel the need to be "alpha chad" for some reason.

 

[Cannonfodder]

I've never understood the whole winning is everything mentality as some of the best games I've had have been when I'm on the receiving end of an arse kicking, also being severely disadvantaged and having to think about what you're doing makes you a better player. I mean how are you supposed to improve your game if every game is a cake walk? 

Having said that, if the teams were so mismatched then surely the marshals should've swapped people around to make things more balanced? 

Hopefully some of the rentals would've seen that Mr and Mrs toxic were a small minority and will be back

 

[Jaylordofwaargh]

Having said that, if the teams were so mismatched then surely the marshals should've swapped people around to make things more balanced? 

Exactly this, and part of what made my day yesterday. Head counts are one thing but if all rentals seem to be one same team..... Same as for the 'teams' and groups that rock up together. 

Also if rentals have other rentals to shoot at ...

 

[Mr. No_Face]

Having said that, if the teams were so mismatched then surely the marshals should've swapped people around to make things more balanced? 

Hopefully some of the rentals would've seen that Mr and Mrs toxic were a small minority and will be back

Were it not for the fact that the other team had just as many rentals they probably would've re-balanced.  They just happened to have much better rentals who were more engaged and seem to understand the game better. It also didn't help much that they had 2 regular site members who were skilled snipers.

The marshals clearly saw that our team was getting absolutely hammered and even took on coaching roles, trying to encourage them to push up and fight back instead of loafing around at the back of the map. I was trying to encourage them too but to no avail.

But yeah, hopefully that cussing they received hasn't killed their enthusiasm for this sport. Wouldn't be surprised if it has though. I'm certain many of them went home feeling like absolute garbage.