Cringe in Airsoft

[Jez_Armstrong]

Ok... page then.

No, as you can see in blue it says join which means I'm not part of that page

 

[ButcherBill]

Maybe we should all join, it would seem the chicks love a bit of SF kit.

 

[Cannonfodder]

Just found that page and bloody hell it hasn't gone well for him in the comments.

Also 99% of the posts look like the  modern version of the postcards you used to find in phone boxs

 

[Lyndication]

Anyone taking it too seriously , or even remotly seriously . We are playing dress up and running around with toy guns Dude !

Eh, I guess it depends on how serious is serious. It's part of the LARP to engage with it as if it matters.

Otherwise it's a bit like turning up for a five a side and telling everyone to chill out and have a beer for the 90 minutes. 

Obviously it's games at the end of the day and you shouldn't go burning bridges over the results, but IMO it's more fun to take it seriously while you're playing it.

 

[THE FNG]

A few years back, I was playing at Anzio camp and I was deep in the embassy building.

There were a bunch of proper try-hard milsimmers there (wasn't a milsim day, just a standard open day) and they had caused a few moans from thier "we are better than everyone else" attitude.

I had dug myself into the embassy when the milsim team started to push in. I was on my own at the time.

I could hear one of them closing in on my position, so moved around him and stuck one in his back. 

He took his hit and he walked off chuntering to himself, scalding himself for not checking the corner properly. He was genuinely so angry, was a bit embarrassing and It made me feel a bit bad. 

A bit later on, the same team were pusing into the D buildings.

I had taken watch on one of the stair cases. I ended up in contact with 2 of thier guys; I shot one and the other took cover and tried to fire some suppressive fire.

I was able to angle a shot through a window, perfect chest hit.

He immediately got pissed and started shouting for a Marshall for blind fire. I asked him if he wanted to check my go pro (head mounted).

He fell very silent. I ended up checking the gopro later just to make sure (im very self doubting, unlogically so) and sure enough, it was a perfect shot, very clear on camera. 

 

[EvilMonkee]

That deserves so much more than just a Haha reaction.

I doubt he could pull in a brothel with a suitcase full of £20 notes

With his dick sandwiched between two major credit cards....

 

[CamboL]

Lead marshal at a well known site in Suffolk (Ex RAF airfield...) Throwing a full blown tantrum at lunch time because someone had pissed on the portaloo seat was both equally funny, tragic and cringe

Yes feet were stomped, yes there was shouting, yes we were all called dirty c*&ts, yes the scrawny fecker promised to knock out the pee offender followed with the threat of a lifetime ban, no me and my pals haven't been back since (Also no we didn't do the peeing - we chose a far nicer tree to relieve ourselves against as opposed a dirty portaloo in the middle of summer!)

Don't get me wrong - peeing on the seat is a bit grim, but watching a man child have a full blown temper tantrum - was not expecting that!

Also side note - didn't appreciate this Marshall make comments regarding "mongs" and "mong like behaviour" during his briefing. I'm by no means a snowflake, but having previously worked with SEN kids and adults, that just wasn't funny - no matter how many times he dropped it into the briefing...

 

[Galvatron]

The biggest cringe I remembered was a team of speedsofters in their purple and white uniforms at the Battery. In fairness, a couple of them were reasonable but one player was the most insufferably self-satisfied twat who took play and himself far too seriously and had no self-awareness.

Even in CQB, you may have to give your opponent the benefit of the doubt with hit taking because you may not feel a torso hit if you're wearing a plate carrier - just shoot a different part of the body. One of the speedsofters (on Blue team) claimed to land a hit on an opponent on Red team but the latter didn't call it. Speedy boi had a go at in the game but the marshal nearby reminded him with short shrift to take it up with a marshal and not to have argue over hit calling and that it was mentioned in the briefing. Back in the safe zone after the game, the speedy boi confronted the Red team player and had a go despite the marshal's warning. It started to get heated but the speedy boi came up with an absolute howler "We're a serious team and we play by the rules." putting his hand on his chest in the most smug Will McKenzie fashion. The Red team player was initially pissed off but he scoffed and laughed at the speedy boi taking himself so seriously.

Another game I was in at the Battery had the same speedy boi team with the same self-satisfied player who insisted he shot an opponent but a marshal and I both had a better line of sight than he did and he clearly didn't as the BBs went a good foot wide to the left of the opponent's shoulder yet McKenzie swore he hit the target, which to be fair probably was true as I assume his target was the thin air to the left of his opponent.

 

[Tackle]

What's the odds he's a "member" here ?

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[Colin Allen]

Marshals that try their hardest to be funny during briefings, meanwhile said briefing has gone on for 10+ minutes and everybody in the safe zone has already zoned out and stopped listening

Hmm, which site could you be referring to?

 

[Austeyr]

Hmm, which site could you be referring to?

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[Galvatron]

Lead marshal at a well known site in Suffolk (Ex RAF airfield...) Throwing a full blown tantrum at lunch time because someone had pissed on the portaloo seat was both equally funny, tragic and cringe

Yes feet were stomped, yes there was shouting, yes we were all called dirty c*&ts, yes the scrawny fecker promised to knock out the pee offender followed with the threat of a lifetime ban, no me and my pals haven't been back since (Also no we didn't do the peeing - we chose a far nicer tree to relieve ourselves against as opposed a dirty portaloo in the middle of summer!)

Don't get me wrong - peeing on the seat is a bit grim, but watching a man child have a full blown temper tantrum - was not expecting that!

Also side note - didn't appreciate this Marshall make comments regarding "mongs" and "mong like behaviour" during his briefing. I'm by no means a snowflake, but having previously worked with SEN kids and adults, that just wasn't funny - no matter how many times he dropped it into the briefing...

I was 95% sure I know the site you're talking about as its portaloos are shocking, even by festival standards. Mentioning that it's an ex-RAF airfield is redundant at that point. 

 

[Nick G]

Eh, I guess it depends on how serious is serious. It's part of the LARP to engage with it as if it matters.

Otherwise it's a bit like turning up for a five a side and telling everyone to chill out and have a beer for the 90 minutes. 

Obviously it's games at the end of the day and you shouldn't go burning bridges over the results, but IMO it's more fun to take it seriously while you're playing it.

I agree up to a point , yes take the objective of the game seriously and play your best with your team in order to achieve it , with a healthy dose of 'who actually cares who wins'. But as soon as someone starts screaming 'take your hits' or behaving like they think they are an operator and yelling orders at other players and generally acting like a tit then they need a time out .

 

[Lyndication]

I think we're agreeing with each other here, yeah.

 

[Colin Allen]

But as soon as someone starts screaming 'take your hits' or behaving like they think they are an operator and yelling orders at other players and generally acting like a tit then they need a time out .

Either that or get a life.

 

[mrfoxhound]

where to begin .......
people that sell second hand stuff that's broken or will break when the new person uses it ,

idiots that buy HPA because they have been told its the best , and they have no clue how to operate the equipment (been at chrono and the marshal asked the guy to turn down the regulator ..... he then asked the marshal '' how do i do that ?'' 

General shit talkers , with subjects that relate to RS firearms or gear they have watched on a YouTube video

dickheads that use ghillie suits ... and don't follow the principles of camo and concealment, using heaviest ammo and only getting 50m

shops that dont give the correct advice for new people , and just use them as a sale 

pallet sites 

player marshals 

any airsoft team that has the following words in there name , or associations to ancient history, Spartans, hoplite , immortals , guards , wolf , dog , dragon, phoenix , 

headless chicken squad 

names nicco

any youtube video that is set up like a call of duty commentary with hit markers and killfeeds and music

any event that uses ai images to advertise an event, that goes for shops too 

obnoxious geardos  

idiots that have go pros , on everything 

call signs for team members 

anyone that turns up in a german ss uniform un ironically or not at a ww2 event

people that dont know the limitations of there equipment 

too friendly regulars .... people that think there regular site is there personal toy box and complain when they lose  

walts 

people that played about a years airsoft , equate that to them knowing everything , and telling you the best gear  and upgrades to use 

 

[Gunboat Diplomat]

names nicco

 

pallet sites

Is this a ‘thing’?  My local site makes use of a lot of pallets, but they’ve made a good job of turning a lot of them into proper fully fledged structures or using them as walkways to stop the ground getting churned into sludge when it’s wet.  

I will say it is infuriating when the pallets are just stacked on top of each other, making anyone taking cover behind them clearly visible, yet the ‘no-shooting-through-pallet-gaps’ rule reduces you to a ridiculous immersion breaking Mexican standoff.

 

[Impulse]

dickheads that use ghillie suits ... and don't follow the principles of camo and concealment, using heaviest ammo and only getting 50m

As a dickhead who uses a ghillie suit, this one actually really resonates with me and I totally agree (though I've been using civvie loadouts recently to make sure I keep the skills sharp as if I can hide in a hawaiian shirt, I can hide in actual camo); if I had my way, I'd say that you need to use a bolt action to use a ghillie, or a DMR if you're wearing a cobra hood, not a hood with a cloak; cobra hoods are head and shoulders only and people seem to willfully misunderstand that's what those are.

But the number of ghillies that I see who basically just walk around with either some sort of HPA m4, or their bolt action rifle slung and never used with a mk23 loaded with .48s that they shoot people up close with...

 

[Rickwales]

Loving this topic as I'm new to airsoft. I had to look up impulses profile to check as I repeatedly got shot by a guy in a Hawaiian shirt last weekend at Outpost Chester, but don't think it was him.  

 

[Impulse]

Loving this topic as I'm new to airsoft. I had to look up impulses profile to check as I repeatedly got shot by a guy in a Hawaiian shirt last weekend at Outpost Chester, but don't think it was him.  

Nah, not me. I'm down south in Sussex, and wasn't airsofting last weekend