The 'How Did Your Airsoft Day Go? Thread

[gavinkempsell]

Attended my third skirmish yesterday at Players of War Airsoft, Used my usual polymer Scar-L (with much snipers tape to repair the broken stock from the last skirmish), I'd fitted an acog and prefered it to the red dot I've used in previous skirmishes despite needing a riser to get a decent sight picture, did notice that I tended to fire it side on(gangsta style) coz it was too high, think I'll play using the irons next time.

I took my Osprey mk4 to try out & it's a lot easier to wear than I'd expected (never fitted the Brassards, covers or collars & only fitted ammo pouches with one utility pouch(to hold spare ammo & a loader), I had a mixture of high cap & mid cap mags for the day(only using one type per game), not sure which I preferred TBH but I'll need to be more aware of my shots with the mid caps in future so I don't run dry at the wrong time.

First game was over before I knew it as players on our yellow team were fast as f&$k boi and bombed the bank pretty sharpish, can't say I had much impact on this win but I did get a kill without dieing for the whole 20ish minute game.

Second was a role reversal match with us defending think I got a couple of kills but I definitely got shot a couple of times & the game ended as I was respawning so I don't even know who won it.

Third game before lunch we were attacking & I definitely didn't get any kills or die coz I saw NO ONE on the red team at all, after some tactical crawling I helped lay down suppression fire at a few trees that looked menacing while a teammate captured the flag (note to self... use a full mag next time[damn mid caps]), the other flag was captured shortly after so another win for yellow.

At burger & chip time I took my L86A2 to get cromo'd as 'Dave' had managed to fix it for me in the morning (I was secretly impressed that it fired around 410fps).

During the 1st game after lunch we were attacking and after a couple of respawns due to (BOOM) headshot to my noggin, my Scar-L had a blockage so I made my way to the safe zone to clear it (still managed to get shot in the arm which was high above my head BTW), discovered I'd left my clearing rod at home but could clearly see there was a fir needle stuck between the hop up and a bb, what were my options...

should I take my L85A2 into game instead? Decided against it as it fired a couple of hot rounds at the cromo before the morning games, or use the now repaired L86A2 into it's first ever skirmish? NOPE, I knew it was HOT so I decided to quit for the day & took both bullpups to the range instead to try them out & waste/use some BB's.

No more games for me until the end of July due to work commitments.

 

[Dan Robinson]

Matrixed / lucked your way through the bullet stream..

Nathan and I had a chuckle about that (or possibly a similar event later). He said that when I bolted out of cover, a split second later there was just a wall of BBs flying past that formed an arc as I legged it up a path. 

Mind you there is a possibility that when you're sprinting through brambles, the impact from BBs might not be as noticeable as the adrenaline and thorns etc.  My forearms at the end of the day were testimony to that chance.

 

[Gunboat Diplomat]

Sorry I didn't get to put a face to your name again - or are you were avoiding me? ?

Sorry @Dan Robinson, I didn't realise who you were, but now I've seen the photos I do recall unleashing a sustained stream of fire at you during your daring, if optimistic dash to the exfil-point-tent during the Church choke-point game.  Next time I'll try a more standard form of introduction and come and say hello.

This is me and the boy (an image that doesn't really give much in the way of distinguishing features I grant you):

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[Dan Robinson]

LOL - I remember seeing your lad, but you were far to well camofl------ oh wait... ?

My ALWAYS optimistic dashes are in the vain hope to encourage the rest of my team to follow suit.  It never works though.  Perhaps I should return with less blood leaking and fewer missing magazines?

 

[RostokMcSpoons]

Another day at Special Ops nr Olney/MK
After the multi-gun debacle of last time, I went with 3 - the VFC HK416, the DE M906C (well, obviously) and the Classic Army Scarab

Numbers today were much more the usual 50+, rather than the 25-30ish of last time.  Still plenty of room to manoeuvre, and the chrono'ing didn't hold up proceedings at all.

I tested the scarab on the range again, but my ammo supply for the day was 0.32s or 0.28s, and the Scarab clearly struggles to lift the 0.28s.  The chrono read at 200fps when lifting those (again), so I think I'll try the usual ML + Omega combo to see if that'll get the lift without strangling each BB at birth

Rather impressed to find another gentlemen had brought one of these rarities along too - he used his through the day (presumably with a lighter BB, or from closer range than I'd accept!). 

So, to combat with the usual two-gun combo.   As we set off the heavens opened with a short thunderstorm.   Enough to get everyone soaked, and for everyone with glasses or goggles to fog up.  Including me.  Even my ESS goggles couldn't cope with the 100% humidity and general wetness.   The first game passed me by as I struggled to make out anything.  I decided to strip the optics off the 416 I was trying to use, but gave up on that and went to the DE (thinking; if you can't see - throw lots of BBs in the right direction).  This was a sensible choice, but I lost a lot of time, and it was a harbinger of the bitty (not in the good sense) day that I had. 
Luckily the sun came out for a bit, the downpour stopped and the fogging went away after a brief pause in play to give everyone a chance to sort themselves out.

Long story short though, problems continued where basically I kept mislaying kit, I left my main bottle of BBs at the safe zone (800m away), eventually my new crane battery decided to run out of juice and I found I'd left my alternates back in the safe zone.  Trying to swap back to the gas gun failed as the bolt decided to get locked up, and I couldn't get the gun apart enough to free it.
I mislaid my face pro, I mislaid gloves, I had my DE gun buried under a pile of rental gats while I went off to get the batteries for it... I had the stocks on both guns loosen up at bad times (in spite of tightening them up the night before!) and on the way out the strap on my rucksack decided to disassemble itself. 

No way was I buying any lottery tickets.

There was also a few salty cheat calls today, Carlos was having his hands full.   I think most of the problem were the two prolonged rounds with medics, as the guys doing the attacking were seeing the same faces popup shortly after getting a hard-earned hit.  I suspect I was one of those, as I had a very good session in the sniper tower (this time with the DE pinging super-accurate shots into the church) and racking up a lot of kills. 

(One thing I found today was my DE was set to burst mode.   The motor got hot and the gun seemed to be not enjoying itself, so I switched to semi.  That sniper tower session had me spamming a lot of fire, to the point my hand was getting overheated through my gloves... I had to let it cool down.  A better motor, and perhaps a downgrade to a 7.4v battery could well be in order)

I got hit a few times, but one of our attentive medics was near enough to get me back in the game within a minute or two each time.  Must have been annoying to the attackers.   Shame I missed much of our attack, because at that point my gun started to chug as the battery gave out. I was going to work hard on suppressing the tower and organising a rushing attack.
 

In the end a bunch of people left early.  I suspect they'll have some negative feedback to spread.  Carlos did his best to tell everyone how he'd kept tabs on the hits / medic use, but that obviously didn't really convince.   
How do other sites use medics?   (At Spec Ops, the 5 medics can run to a person, count out loud down from 5, the victim shouts "back in" and that's it.  The medic can also 'drag' someone to cover)

Final PITA is that when I attempted to fix my 416 I left my rear body pin in the gun box.  I can't find it now  Are body pins generic or do I have to order a specific VFC one?

 

[Dan Robinson]

In the end a bunch of people left early.  I suspect they'll have some negative feedback to spread.  Carlos did his best to tell everyone how he'd kept tabs on the hits / medic use, but that obviously didn't really convince.   
How do other sites use medics?   (At Spec Ops, the 5 medics can run to a person, count out loud down from 5, the victim shouts "back in" and that's it.  The medic can also 'drag' someone to cover)

Based on last time I was there Ping Ping is too confined for medics, as you rightly pointed out, the opposition will think you're not taking your hits because 5 medics can cover the entire area too effectively.  We really struggled to break your team last time in the afternoon.  Whereas you took over BBC quite quickly in the morning.

 

[Gunboat Diplomat]

There was also a few salty cheat calls today, Carlos was having his hands full.   I think most of the problem were the two prolonged rounds with medics, as the guys doing the attacking were seeing the same faces popup shortly after getting a hard-earned hit. 

I did think last week that maybe it needed a cap or cooldown on revives before the downed player is forced back to respawn. 
 

That said, and perhaps this speaks volumes about me, I found it hugely amusing harrying the medics as they dashed back and forwards having to revive the guys I’d just rekilled immediately after they saved him. 

 

[Cannonfodder]

BBC

Were Jimmy and Rolf there? Or is it the other kind of BBC??

 

[Dan Robinson]

Were Jimmy and Rolf there? Or is it the other kind of BBC??

Officially it stands for "Bluebell Corner"...  But that's the PG13 version. 

 

[steveoh]

Hot day yesterday at AirsoftGB but a good day, nonetheless.

I took my newly repaired CM16 Carbine (thanks to @andydrgfor fixing it up) and it shot like a dream all day. Some great kills with that!

Some unusual gameplay thanks to a Juggernaut in play who switched teams when taken out by a grenade or melee kill and that added another level to the day.

Numbers dwindled as the day went on and I didn't make the last game myself due to feeling a little rough but it was a good natured day with mostly good hit taking, and very well run by the Marshall team.

 

[OTH21]

First time at Driver Wood. Just went for an afternoon session, £20, not too bad. Safe zone is good, albeit hectic because they had airsoft, airsoft 'beginners' and it seemed 2 lots of paintball. So lots of people, I left most of my kit in the car. 

Safety brief was concise and quick, and team ID was via 2 x armbands - so no sneakily hiding an arm out of sight. Initial game brief was good, and I sort of followed the crowd because I didn't know where any locations were. Took a few good ambush hits and went back to re-spawn. Whilst I was meandering back in to play I'd missed an altercation between an apparent 'site regular' (40ish year old) and a younger player - who's brother then weighed in. I witnessed or heard none of it, and others may give an eye witness account. But ultimately it resulted in the players being booted out and banned. Worse still the older gent decided he'd wait outside the site to continue the argument, the last I overheard from the marshalls were the 2 brothers had 'filled him in'. All over a heated exchange of plastic pellets, pretty pathetic.

After that it took a while to get going again, with poor communication between the marshall team/players. 

Second game was less punchy but there were a group on the green team, that some orange players said were not taking hits. 

First day of pewing since early May, and it's reminded me why I tend to stick milsim/battlesim. Shame because the site is only a 25 minute drive from the girlfriends. 

 

[Shamal]

Sad to hear that.

Hope you managed to salvage a half decent game though?

 

[OTH21]

Yeah, I'm definitely not writing the site off my list. It's convenient, good facilities and the game zone itself suited my style of play. I had a few good trades and got the drop on a couple of people , as did others on me. 

 

[Colin Allen]

Today, the lad and I headed over to Dragon's Lair in Essex, a site that we visit 3 or 4 times a year at most.  It is a small, heavily wooded site with lots of structures including a village, a fort and quite a few barricades.  It has a rather decent and surprisingly large safe zone, with free tea and coffee available throughout the day, a basic site shop, provided by Airsoft Zone, and an in-house tech.  We always take pizza when we play airsoft, mainly because it has become something of a ritual to do so, but also because most sites do not really cater for vegetarians.  Today, we were very glad that we did as lunch was not available on site and it is quite a long way to anywhere that sells food.

We were rather surprised at how few players were there today; we are used to there being around 100+, but only about 50 were present today, with fewer after lunch and as the afternoon wore on.

One nice surprise was that finding that they now chrono using the BB weight that you will be using, rather than just using 0.20g BBs; I know that we can discuss whether chronoing serves any real purpose, other than providing a moderately reassuring ritual, but this seemed like a significant step forward.

As usual, the games were fairly short, simple, straightforward and good fun; having fewer players present helped as the site can feel a bit "wall to wall" when it is busy.

We played a good variety of relatively simple games throughout the day, with the first one being particularly memorable as I ended up behind the opposing (attacking) team and had great fun crawling around in a heavily overgrown ditch taking players out and hearing them complaining about being shot by their own team.

In the reverse of that game, we completed the objectives in about 30 minutes, whereas the other team had taken nearly an hour.

Other games played included a push the flag game, last man standing in the village and frozen (when you are hit, you have to remain still and can only be released by someone on your own team shooting you).

Overall, it was a good, fun day.  The games played worked well with the numbers and the marshalling was on point; the teams were rebalanced a couple of times in the afternoon as player numbers decreased.

Weapons used:
Me:
CA HK33
CA HK53
Milbro M1911 Classic CO2

The lad:
E&L AKS74U
CYMA AK105
ASG XP18 Commander CO2





 

Worse still the older gent decided he'd wait outside the site to continue the argument, the last I overheard from the marshalls were the 2 brothers had 'filled him in'. All over a heated exchange of plastic pellets, pretty pathetic.

That is really pathetic; it is supposed to be fun.  One site that we play at makes a point of mentioning in the safety brief that, if you lay hands on another player in anger, they will support the 'victim' if they want the police involved.  It is one of the best sites that I know for player behaviour.

 

[RostokMcSpoons]

Based on last time I was there Ping Ping is too confined for medics, as you rightly pointed out, the opposition will think you're not taking your hits because 5 medics can cover the entire area too effectively.  We really struggled to break your team last time in the afternoon.  Whereas you took over BBC quite quickly in the morning.

Yeah there was a change in the rules so that once a medic got shot, instead of being able to respawn by going to smother zone, he'd lose his armband and ability to revive.  My team managed to keep most of the medics alive throughout, while the other team lost theirs and eventually got overrun.  Maybe 3 medics instead of 5 would have worked better, but if the plan was to have rounds lasting 45 minutes plus, then it worked fine

 

[Skullchewer]

Took my VFC G3 GBBR out for the first time yesterday.

Within seconds of the whistle blowing for the start of the first game I had two kills. 

I absolutely looooove this pew pew.

Great day all over all. My friend took out his new Vorsk VPM1, and it's crazy fun, very accurate with surprising range for a compact SMG.

Got shot in the balls again. Thankfully I've never wanted children. 

End of the day, after most people went home we messed around on the Attack Sense range. There's a competition running now, £1 for 3 goes, best time at the end of the month wins a free game day. 

I am not winning. ? I set a decent time, but my reflexes are not those of someone 30 years younger!

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[AirSniper]

Played sunday, HPA boys were in and not taking their hits however, plenty of trigger spamming from them.

The one was bad mouthing me in the safe zone because they wouldn't accept that I had actually hit them and they denied I had, claimed I couldn't have turned around with my gun fast enough to shoot, the assumption he was making was I was playing right handed when I am in fact an ambidextrous player and was at the time left handed pointing the rifle in the direction of the door that he blind fired around to hit me.

You can't make this shit up, the bruise is one of several from one of the HPA players who was clearly over limit because no rifle / pistol aeg or hpa should be able to leave someone with a bruise like that.

I hear that Anzio have now made HPA limits lower than AEG, which I applaud, it levels the playing field, better sites do it than allowing government to legislate and limit HPA if it is to remain and hopefully these other sites that are going to follow suite will clear out the nobs who can't follow the rules.

The problem on some sites is that CQB as in actually playing CQB doesn't mix with the speedsoft bois.

So apart from an HPA nob and the further injuries from the group of lads that were onsite this week, it was a good game.

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[Skullchewer]

Wait, so you're telling us you DON'T like HPA?

I am shocked. 

I've never had bruises or broken skin from AEGs, EVER.

Are you expecting more sympathy back in this thread than the one you started in the off topic sub, then abandoned when nobody agreed with you again.

 

[AirSniper]

Wait, so you're telling us you DON'T like HPA?

I am shocked. 

I've never had bruises or broken skin from AEGs, EVER.

Are you expecting more sympathy back in this thread than the one you started in the off topic sub, then abandoned when nobody agreed with you again.

No body agreed because they are incapable of accepting a truth or a fact. HPA is too much for CQB.

I have never had broken skin from AEG's but HPA, every game where there are a group of HPA players who trigger spam, I find myself peppered with wounds that bleed.

As for HPA not being liked, there will be changes coming to the sport because lots of places have had enough of HPA idiots, I grant you that there are some players that respect the rules and have kit properly set up, like the guy who was next to me in the safe zone this week, we went halves on tracers because I forgot mine, his rig doesn't leave any wounds like what I get from other nob HPA players.
 

This is another one on the same arm. Again from an HPA player.

One thing I noted is that those particular players were all wearing padded kit, so they didn't mind dishing out the pain but didn't fancy taking hits themselves.

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[Colin Allen]

Played sunday, HPA boys were in and not taking their hits however, plenty of trigger spamming from them.

The one was bad mouthing me in the safe zone because they wouldn't accept that I had actually hit them and they denied I had, claimed I couldn't have turned around with my gun fast enough to shoot, the assumption he was making was I was playing right handed when I am in fact an ambidextrous player and was at the time left handed pointing the rifle in the direction of the door that he blind fired around to hit me.

You can't make this shit up, the bruise is one of several from one of the HPA players who was clearly over limit because no rifle / pistol aeg or hpa should be able to leave someone with a bruise like that.

I hear that Anzio have now made HPA limits lower than AEG, which I applaud, it levels the playing field, better sites do it than allowing government to legislate and limit HPA if it is to remain and hopefully these other sites that are going to follow suite will clear out the nobs who can't follow the rules.

The problem on some sites is that CQB as in actually playing CQB doesn't mix with the speedsoft bois.

So apart from an HPA nob and the further injuries from the group of lads that were onsite this week, it was a good game.

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I picked up a welt like on Sunday; there were no HPAs at the site.

You probably should take up another hobby; airsoft seems to cause you nothing but stress and angst.