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Site Name: Invicta Battlefield Contact details: 07876 263290 Website Address: www.invictabattlefield.co.uk Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/Invictabattlefield Site Address: Pook Hill Farm, Wilden Park Road, Staplehurst, Kent, TN12 0HP I'm back! After a brief stint visiting sites I had already reviewed, it was time to go to somewhere different! The latest site that @Albiscuit and I visited is Invicta Battlefield in Kent (06/12/2020). This site has been on my list of must visits for some time. It has glowing online reviews and a good community surrounding it. Due to its distance and difficulty in reaching the site, it had constantly been sent to the back of the visit queue, until today! The photos that I found of the playing area were few, but showed a large tower and bunker setup which looked very interesting. This is a small woodland site, which is incredibly undulating on the length of one side and a flattish road on the other. It being winter there was very little foliage around, though the area to the far right and on the Safe Zone side did still have some greenery. The ground was covered in leaves which hid large branches and holes, the ground was quite slippery throughout. There were many buildings through the site. Due to the thickness of the woodland and undulating terrain, sight lines were quite close and as such this is predominantly a short to medium engagement distance type of site, with some notable exceptions. Good: Playing Area: Invicta has very good variety for a site as small as it is. It has pretty much everything you could want to wish for in terms of natural features. It's tough going, but rewarding if you can sneak around the back of the enemy. There were many buildings including a small valley with a large cabin/bunker building which is overlooked on all sides. Overlooking the bunker on two sides are a Checkpoint area and Bunker section. This area, whilst very tough on people trying to get to the Bunker, is very well executed. The main attraction of "Invicta" is "Invicta", the name given to the large tower and village/barricade complex. This is an imposing structure overlooking a clearing in the woodland. It's a tricky complex to attack, which requires multiple attempts and angles. It's a great selling point to the site and we were slightly disappointed we didn't get to do small team CQB at the end of the day inside it! Shop: Platoon stores run the shop on site and is very well stocked in Tac gear, rifles, pistols, gas and BBs. Food: As part of the £30 entry, you get a free breakfast, of which there are vegetarian options! Al opted for the Egg in a bun and a cup of tea. For me, not liking egg and not eating pork I was given a hash brown AND they managed to dig up a couple of veggie sausages for me! I had a very hearty breakfast. Lunch was more typical, with burgers, chips and what not, Al got essentially a box of filth (In a good way) full of food. It was a stomach stretching meal, though it was somewhat expensive. Safety Brief: Was pretty good and explained everything quite well. People listened, I had no queries or qualms and only a few site regulars interjected with poor jokes. So it's good! Clientele: Due to social distancing Al and I had an area to ourselves, so not the usual safe zone banter, but we did find some space at lunch to have a distanced natter. Lots of regulars who were on first name basis with the marshals. Its a real good community feel. We had roughly 30-35 players today, which apparently is quite a poor turn out. I heard very little to no moaning throughout the day. (Apart from Al and I!) Safe Zone: The area was quite compact much like the site itself, it was right next the car park, the shop, marshall area, chrono station and set up areas were within a few seconds walk of each other. All of the set up areas had a roof, some had lights for when it got dark. It was almost full, so I think on a normal days turnout it would be overrun, so a possible expansion should be considered. Marshalling: SO MANY MARSHALS. it might have been the reduced player numbers, but there were marshals everywhere you looked! Loads in the safezone, at 4 in the field. They were professional, pushed the teams they were shadowing and dealt with any issues. Average: Game Modes: Were fairly basic, mostly defend and attack games throughout the day. It worked quite well and probably takes the small size of the site into account, however it would have been nice to see some fall back games, maybe an escort mission etc. Value: £30 with Breakfast. Maybe slightly more expensive then average for the size of the site. Chrono: A mandatory chrono was in play. Guns were NOT marked, but the FPS was noted against your registration number. I would prefer the guns to marked as anyone could switch out during the day without being noticed. AEGs 350fps, DMRs 450fps, Bolties 500fps and a 25 metre engagement distance was in play for the latter two. Turn around time: Was reasonable. 5 minute warnings to go back out turned into 10 minute warnings. About average. We didnt feel cheated out of our time. Hit taking: There were some issues with hit taking during the day. There was one particular player at the end of the day in the CQB mini games that seemed to be made of teflon and he had to be told multiple times by marshals that he had been shot out (Tracers for the win!). BUT it really was not that bad from the vast majority of players. So putting this in "average". Car Park/Entrance: Quite muddy and a tight turn on the driveway up to the safezone. Reasonable sized Car park. Bad: Toilets: A single portaloo that I saw. Really needs more then one. I cant comment on the cleanliness as I didn't use it. Conclusion: We came away from the day with slightly different experiences. I had quite a niggling day in terms of equipment and personal performance so I was feeling a little downhearted, but could definitely see the site was pretty good. @Albiscuit himself was very very pleased with what he saw and had a whale of a time. I had the most fun defending the checkpoint and the CQB centric games. So in conclusion. I was expecting a far larger site going by what I was hearing from other players and photos online, but It's a compact site that fills a lot in, it's hard going in the mud so you get a workout and the buildings are very good. I reckon it would be worthwhile returning to the site in the summer to see how the woodlands bloom! Bullpup Watch: Only my PDR-C and F2000 😕

As touched on by @Adolf Hamster movement/understanding of your environment is far more ‘overpowered’ (fuck me do I hate that term) than any form of camouflage. As for the armbands thing, they don’t exist to give people’s position away they exist as a means of distinguishing which team your on. If you choose to make that information less obvious, then you can’t complain if the lack of it gets you nailed by someone on your team. TLDR - Ghillie/leaf suits are just another variant of costume, if they’re working for the user then it’s because the user knows what they’re doing... and they could get much the same result without wearing one. Edit: This is a reply from someone that uses ghillie/leaf suits and is absolutely not someone that knows how to use them.

My wife is a Statistical Epidemiologist. Double Masters, spent fifteen years working in the Respiratory Disease Division of Public Health England, specialising in Flu Vacinnes. Her ex boss is on secondment to the WHO and is running their Covid Team. She also has experience of Vaccine trials and sits on a Medical Ethics Committee. She is quite happy to have the vacinne, but if someone who failed GCSE Biology thinks they can persuade her otherwise because they read something on the Internet...

Hi. Congrats on your amazing paint job👍 So long as your base paint is completely dry and hardened off I think you will be ok with clear lacquer. Regards

Tbh for the most part i'm in agreement, but a bit of light hearted banter every now and again isnt so bad. End of the day it takes all sorts, speedsofters might be an easy target but there is an argument that every team needs a few folks doing that job just like it needs slow buggers like me methodically picking people off at range and one cant function without the other.

If it's the site rules to put the band on your arm, you put it on your arm. It's not even hard to stay hidden and if you can't remain undetected with a small band around your arm, you're doing the whole ghillie suit sniper thing wrong. Most airsofters won't see you as long as you stay still, don't silhouette yourself and aren't dressed in some sort of flourescent onesie; managed it with a solid black fleece last weekend. You're totally right though. My local site has started balancing out the snipers at the start of the day to stop one team having too many and getting absolutely stomped as they're becoming more and more common. However, good ghillies are still fairly uncommon; as has already been said, most people use leaf suits that just don't blend into their environment and have no idea how to actually stay hidden, silouetting themselves against trees or barricades and moving all the time. So I don't think it's OP, but I do think it makes the game a lot harder as most games require you to take objectives and doing that with a boltie is... hard.

Had an Awesome day at Dog tag airsoft yesterday. First game of the year and god I am feeling the pain now.

They can give your position away (if nothing on the rest of your kit has), but that's just part and parcel of it. Gaming the system by putting them on your ankle/chest/belt in order to gain an advantage is against the spirit of it, because you're essentially trying to either hide your position, or buy some more time when someone spots you and tries to work out which team you're on. Having it on your ankle when the marshal has told you not to is just breaking the rules rather than bending them.

He was cheating - and deliberately continuing to cheat once told to wear his armband properly. If he had any sniper ability he would have been able to wear a visible armband on his arm and minimise it’s sight to the opposition - by angle of view etc Any player who wants to wear their colour in a particular way (for example on the back of their goggle strap ‘to avoid friendly fire from behind’ is welcome to wear an extra one

wait, there's more to airsoft than moaning about how other people play airsoft!?!?

Eh, my personal preference/thoughts is drum mags only look right on specific RIFs... often, but not limited to, ‘support weapons’. But I don’t tend to try pushing my opinions on others. Irrelevant of how folks get enjoyment out of what they use and how they use it, I’d rather have folks to play with/against than not. I’ve said it before, but people spend far too much time worry about what other people are doing/using. Often to the detriment of their own enjoyment. I swear airsoft is a secondary hobby to some, with the primary hobby being ‘moaning about airsoft’.

... and any other medicine that has had adverse side effects otherwise not presentable from study phase (but I see your point)

More information? Energy output? what bb weight are you trying to lift?

After promising myself not to buy anything else this year, saw that a particular forum member put up a lovely G&G F2000 Tri rail for sale for 50 roubles. A no brainer.

https://arniesairsoft.co.uk/forums/index.php?/topic/218970-for-sale-huge-bundle-worth-over-£800/ £800 worth gear but no details on what the guns even are!

Hello and welcome. 🙂👍 Regards

Welcome 👍

As previous: I have now confirmed the date of Saturday the 27th February 2021. 1830 - 2300 I understand March had 2 more votes, but I did tag everyone who said they wanted to come and only got a couple of votes with dates on it. To book your place, please send me a private message with all names including your own of "your party". Not bothered if you are taking 100 people in a car. I just need to know the amount of people and their names. There are 5 rental spaces available - please let me know if you need a rental Once you message me with your names and walk on/rental then I will put this onto my excel spreadsheet. I will then send you my bank details which you will have to pay £25.00 per head, unless hiring, which then becomes £40.00 - These are the ZED prices, not mine. Once I have all payments received, I will pay ZED and post a screen shot on here (blanking out my details) with proof of payment to them, for anyone that doesnt trust me. Again, as previously stated, we need to get 26 players to make it £25.00 per head so hopefully we have enough interest. Thanks, Any questions, please DM me or post here

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As a general rule i tend to use the macaron+omega nub combo in all my guns. Tan for general use (which for me is in the .3 range) or green if i wanna shift the heavies. Some guns however might not like the longer feed lips on the maple leaf stuff so i'd use the pdi w-hop with standard nub, but that's pretty much based on trying and seeing. Of course those are just my personal go-to's and as the yanks would say your milage may vary.

return it all as it is all shit think some of them G36's will not take regular mags Tell Dom at BBGuns4Less to stop selling shitty plinkers to newbie players raises hand - I found out the hard way by a Cyma cheapy gun cm.5xx or something from patrolbase if funds are tight - at least you'll get steel gears in a box you can repair than plastic gears that will shred first sign of a jam/lockup

not laughing at you get scammed btw, but you quoting Airplane's Jive ass dudes stuff too

Finally an up-to-date armoury picture

Agreed. Figured we needed more representation in the states, so I got another L series. Daytona L85A3 to go along with my STAR L86A2.

So I Added a 203 to the XM177

While this thread isn't perhaps the best choice to make, @Hovis452 hasn't broken any rules in doing so. It's in off-topic discussion, so it can stay. I must say though, you guys are being a lot nicer to the OP than I imagined you would.... 😅

Oh do f*ck off. Don't bring that conspiracy theory balls here.

Not sure if this is Mack's material but here goes. According to wish.com this is a poster of a captured Fedayeen armoury in Iraq. They look suspiciously like cheap SMK air rifles to me

A good bit of wear is always nice.

Hi @Barry08 Welcome to the mad house.🤪 Try and checkout @GAMBLE's website( utube) channel. He has really good info and tips aimed at helping you find your way. That's gotta be worth a like. Eh? Eh? Lol Regards

I guess I got used to this kind of behaviour so it doesn't bother me too much anymore. I used to really get angry at cheaters and general bad sportsmanship, but now I just shrug it off and try to have fun no point in spoiling your day because you're dealing with manchildren.

Beleive it or not i've quit the hpa, gone back to aeg's with a little gbb mixed in. Daytona'd e&l is very tempting though..........

I've had to stop myself many times from saying "TAKE YOUR F*****G HITS" 😂