Noobs and Milsims

[Mack]

Ive just seen a milsim game advertised as a 35 hour game. Would you want to play airsoft for 35 hours straight and sleep in game with specs on?

Yes, and theres quite a few others who also like it.

 

[Okto Eight Milsim]

While there are a lot of milsimmers who like the long continuous games of 24 - 48 or even 72 hours sometimes, we accept that not everybody wants a game that long or intense. That is why we offer two continuous 8 hour games with a decent nights sleep in between.

Theres nothing wrong with either; its just customer choice.

The eight hours is where the Okto name comes from.

Our new Technical with a .50 cal AEG

 

[jcheeseright]

Ive just seen a milsim game advertised as a 35 hour game. Would you want to play airsoft for 35 hours straight and sleep in game with specs on?

Yep, quite often do. Means you effectively get a long day game, then a night game and then another long day game afterwards, without any real break! Obviously everyone gets a bit of sleep, but not all at the same time

 

[Samurai]

I haven't been on a two day game that would actually be two full game days. The first day is okay, the night is so-so, but the next day is absolutely crap. People are tired and many of them have just gone home.

 

[Antt570]

Was speaking to my missus last night about Milsims..
I've never been to one. Obviously nor has she.

I'm interested in one, but my missus actually wants to tag along too (I'm eyeing a weekend away or something like as an excuse..!). The thing is she doesn't want to play, she wants to be part of a civilian population or something along the lines of that?

I looked at a few milsims all over the world a while back where they have civilians just walking around amongst the play... (Wearing eye protection of course)

Is there anything in this country that has such a thing?

 

[Okto Eight Milsim]

Yes we can accommodate that. Get in touch.

 

[Sacarathe]

Do you do embedded press for civilian roleplay?

 

[Okto Eight Milsim]

Yes but they still have to pay like the other players.

We have one at the next game who is a player, so armed, but has a secondary role as a government military journalist.

 

[Okto Eight Milsim]

We find that airsofters make bad civ pop because they find it hard to do passive roleplay and want to get in the fight or at least affect the game direction.

 

[Sacarathe]

Well, speaking like David Peterborough/Bill Oddie while the squad is sneaking, or standing up in the middle of a gunfight, or such and such. Cliché Vietnam Movie Military Journalists - clueless.

Or Guy with camera who calls hits just like everyone else.

These are not questions

 

[Antt570]

Yes we can accommodate that. Get in touch.

Would she play a role, or just be milling around in a market/shopping area? Only plucking ideas I've seen from videos of milsims..!

Where do you host?

 

[Okto Eight Milsim]

Usually civ pop assume a personality and role play that. We play at Eversley near Farnborough and its a weekend game. If its of interest, PM me as its probably not fair to derail the thread with details. However. to answer your original question, its possible for you both to come down for a weekend with you playing an active airsoft player role and her playing a civ pop non combatant roleplay character during the game.

 

[Sacarathe]

Are you able to provide (for a reasonable charge) pickup in a 5km radius (not for this event)?

 

[NickM]

If you are after something a bit different and more on the LARP end of the spectrum, Gunman do a running series called flying lead, its wild west themed, not much shooting its way over on the role play side but looks like a giggle. Although I'm not sure I could pull it off. They also have did a WWII game based loosely on allo'allo with French civ pop who could also play the part of resistance, but could only be detected when they pulled a weapon and were caught in the act.

There were a series of games based in a war torn middle east area with civ pop who would mill around and populated a market. In some cases they even traded items with both the military personnel and masked the presence of insurgents. No idea who it was doing it though. But I think it was at some Fibua place.

 

[Okto Eight Milsim]

no sorry, we just dont have the manpower to do collections from stations or hotels. Players who dont drive normally just get a taxi to the site.

 

[Okto Eight Milsim]

The Filmsim organisation who run Gunman and Okto Eight provided civ-pop for one of the hardcore milsim companies and the setting was Afghan. The civ-pop ran a coffee shop with civilians, but the players were a bit hyped and killed them all. I think the same milsim people tried a game with real Afghan civ-pop but it was chaos as they started to get bored and wouldnt do as they were told.I seem to recall they all went off and started a game of football.

Flying Lead is also played at Eversley.

If you are after something a bit different and more on the LARP end of the spectrum, Gunman do a running series called flying lead, its wild west themed, not much shooting its way over on the role play side but looks like a giggle. Although I'm not sure I could pull it off. They also have did a WWII game based loosely on allo'allo with French civ pop who could also play the part of resistance, but could only be detected when they pulled a weapon and were caught in the act.

There were a series of games based in a war torn middle east area with civ pop who would mill around and populated a market. In some cases they even traded items with both the military personnel and masked the presence of insurgents. No idea who it was doing it though. But I think it was at some Fibua place.

 

[Okto Eight Milsim]

This guy was a noob to milsim and came to our first game Operation Skylight.

Im sure he wouldnt mind us describing the fact that he is somewhat of a mature player.

Unfortunately he hurt his back on thr first game so his review was a bit salt and peppered because he only saw the first days action.

Undeterred he came back and played our April game, his second ever milsim and this is his review,

We didnt have to pay him either.

http://thesecretairsofter.com/2015/08/09/return-to-moldistan/

 

[Okto Eight Milsim]

Not everything in milsimland costs lots of money. These little contraptions are called Dominators and only cost a few Pounds.

They can be adjusted to secure webbing ends or provide hooks off Molle or lots of other little uses and they are so much more tactical and durable than elastic bands.

We could have a competition to see the diversity of uses in milsim and airsofting.

 

[TheFull9]

Not to tread on Okto's toes, but to add something to the current discussion. I actually did a bit of reading on the site of a company that organises 'milsim' games for the first time yesterday, noticed they have quite a lot of slots open for the roleplaying side of things at their next event.

http://war-zone.co.uk/live-role-play-booking-form/4589032664

 

[Okto Eight Milsim]

Not at all. Its a noobs and milsims topic, not an Okto advert. We just post occasionally to keep the soil turned.

Not to tread on Okto's toes, but to add something to the current discussion. I actually did a bit of reading on the site of a company that organises 'milsim' games for the first time yesterday, noticed they have quite a lot of slots open for the roleplaying side of things at their next event.

http://war-zone.co.uk/live-role-play-booking-form/4589032664