Egon_247
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Saturday jaunt to "under 18's" day at Apocalypse in sittingbourne.....
I took my boy and three of his mates, normally this isnt a major issue but we got rid of the Peugeot 3008 funbus last year and that could carry everything, so logistics was the first problem. 5 people and waaaaay too much airsoft gear in my Giulietta caused a few head scratching moments!!
Got there, braved the hill (its a big assed steep hill from the car park to the staging areas!!) and signed in. Got everyone set up and chrono'd, only to find my WE galaxy not firing, i think i picked up the wrong mags, some of our Glock/AP ones don't play nicely, so that got relegated to the bergen.
Using the DE M904 on 0.32 all day. Shoots at about 1 joule. which is pleasant.
First game was a washout for me as one of the batteries i had promptly fell over and the ETU said no, so back to safe zone and buy a new battery. It was old to be fair to it.
The boy came back grinning but complaining that his VMP1 wasn't hopping, and in fairness to him, i tried it on the range. Yup. poop. Need to do something about that as the replacement ones are £100 and that's a bit steep really. apparently the barrels and hop unit are very specific to this model. Hmm.
Second game the reds (us) just got steamrollered by teh blues in a pole domination type thing, three posts, have to be your colour side up at the end of the game. If you've ever been to apoc, you'd appreciate how bloody big this site is and once the blues got dug in, we just kept running into the wall of death!! LOL.
Lunch was the usual fare of "stuff we dont get to eat at home because mum says its shite" so we all enjoyed that.
Did my bit for helping out a new player, young lad rocked up with a cyma AK and jumped on the end of our bench set up, so we got chatting and it turned out it was his first game using his own pew, (you get a free game if you spend over £100 on rifs at the shop) and someone had given me a load of BB's in unopened bottles, so i gave him a couple cos i could hear him chatting with his mum about buying some more. Nice kid too.
Afternoon games included a respawn swap from the pole game to keep it fair (we still got flattened!) and then a short CQB gig in the village. I try to avoid the last game of the day as i'm usually knackered and it can get a bit mad. I'm too old for all that.
Tested out the P90 with the M4 mag attachment. thats VERY silly. Seems to like 0.32 better than 0.28's too, but at that fire rate (its modded a fair bit!) it burns through rounds like its an LMG!!
The boys had a great day, still love going to apocolypse, even after 4 years of going up and down that sodding hill!! Good marshalling, had a couple of cease fires with face pro issues, coupe of usual suspects on the bulletproof players, but they got corrected with a few more 0.32's....
Good day all round, spent Sunday just chilling as everything ached (had finished my shifts on Friday, needed to mong out for the say really!!!)
Good:
*The badger rocks. probably needs a service and a warhead 32k,
*Kids listen to the instructions more than the adults
*Never seems to get stale, the marshalls are awesome
*Snipers were playing fair too
Bad:
*Batteries dont live forever but at £15 i cant argue really!
*VMP needs looking at so it can hop something better than a 0.25
*mags need marking up a bit better as all the glock/ap/galaxy ones look the same
*Interior of the car now needs a damn good clean...
Love it. Game on......
I took my boy and three of his mates, normally this isnt a major issue but we got rid of the Peugeot 3008 funbus last year and that could carry everything, so logistics was the first problem. 5 people and waaaaay too much airsoft gear in my Giulietta caused a few head scratching moments!!
Got there, braved the hill (its a big assed steep hill from the car park to the staging areas!!) and signed in. Got everyone set up and chrono'd, only to find my WE galaxy not firing, i think i picked up the wrong mags, some of our Glock/AP ones don't play nicely, so that got relegated to the bergen.
Using the DE M904 on 0.32 all day. Shoots at about 1 joule. which is pleasant.
First game was a washout for me as one of the batteries i had promptly fell over and the ETU said no, so back to safe zone and buy a new battery. It was old to be fair to it.
The boy came back grinning but complaining that his VMP1 wasn't hopping, and in fairness to him, i tried it on the range. Yup. poop. Need to do something about that as the replacement ones are £100 and that's a bit steep really. apparently the barrels and hop unit are very specific to this model. Hmm.
Second game the reds (us) just got steamrollered by teh blues in a pole domination type thing, three posts, have to be your colour side up at the end of the game. If you've ever been to apoc, you'd appreciate how bloody big this site is and once the blues got dug in, we just kept running into the wall of death!! LOL.
Lunch was the usual fare of "stuff we dont get to eat at home because mum says its shite" so we all enjoyed that.
Did my bit for helping out a new player, young lad rocked up with a cyma AK and jumped on the end of our bench set up, so we got chatting and it turned out it was his first game using his own pew, (you get a free game if you spend over £100 on rifs at the shop) and someone had given me a load of BB's in unopened bottles, so i gave him a couple cos i could hear him chatting with his mum about buying some more. Nice kid too.
Afternoon games included a respawn swap from the pole game to keep it fair (we still got flattened!) and then a short CQB gig in the village. I try to avoid the last game of the day as i'm usually knackered and it can get a bit mad. I'm too old for all that.
Tested out the P90 with the M4 mag attachment. thats VERY silly. Seems to like 0.32 better than 0.28's too, but at that fire rate (its modded a fair bit!) it burns through rounds like its an LMG!!
The boys had a great day, still love going to apocolypse, even after 4 years of going up and down that sodding hill!! Good marshalling, had a couple of cease fires with face pro issues, coupe of usual suspects on the bulletproof players, but they got corrected with a few more 0.32's....
Good day all round, spent Sunday just chilling as everything ached (had finished my shifts on Friday, needed to mong out for the say really!!!)
Good:
*The badger rocks. probably needs a service and a warhead 32k,
*Kids listen to the instructions more than the adults
*Never seems to get stale, the marshalls are awesome
*Snipers were playing fair too
Bad:
*Batteries dont live forever but at £15 i cant argue really!
*VMP needs looking at so it can hop something better than a 0.25
*mags need marking up a bit better as all the glock/ap/galaxy ones look the same
*Interior of the car now needs a damn good clean...
Love it. Game on......
