Colonel Kurtz

good plan, make it through boot-camp before you do your first misim tour of duty

There's a bunch of guides stickied in this section that have very good advice for people getting into the game. You've definately got the right idea in taking it slow, using hire-gear for a few months. So many people (myself included) rushed into buying their first guns on an impulse and regretted not waiting until had enough knowledge/experience to know what you really want/need. There's 2 main genres of airsoft site; woodland and CQB (close quater battle) and both are a very different style of play. Then there's normal skirmish events and milsim (military sim). Normal skirmish games are usually 30-45minute games with 10-15minute breaks inbetween. Milsim is more continuous, often done over whole weekends and very much more like soldering and less like playing a 1st person shootemup in real life. It's definately worth traveling abit and trying lots of different sites, in the UK there's lots and lots of woodland sites that usually get about 50 people every weekend, and a couple dozen large sites that get double that. Most people will stick to their local little woodland site, and occasionally travel round the country to visit all the big sites.

fair enough lol, I'll start you off; What is your age/gender?: 31/M What’s your day job?: IT Engineer What are you hobbies?: Airsoft, Music Production, Snowboarding, Cycling, Kayaking/Wakeboarding, What is important when you buy your gear? (Price, quality ect?): Style - Quality - Price (in that order) Where do you buy it? (online, small shops or big chain shops): Online What makes you buy your equipment? (reviews, word of mouth ect): Both reviews and word of mouth, or calculated risk What is important to you in life – what motivates you?: Pseudo Psychology and caffine

This is airsoft not paintball, although similar activity, it's a pretty different sub-culture, sure you're asking in the right place?

We could form the Peoples Airsoft Reformation Party and stand in every town with Green candidates Or whats the criteria for getting something legally defined as a religion?

Its a report from a parlimentary select commitee. It is their job to wade through information submitted to them related to a specific issue/topic and come up with a 'factual' report that has had any bias removed. So yes some of the sources of the report can certainly be deemed biased such as Greenpeace, but the whole point of such commitees is removing bias and coming up with what can be considered a factual report. People with any kind of bias are more likely to submit information to them because they have an opinion they want to try and backup with facts. The committee must verify the facts and the validity of the related opinions. Of course there's potential bias in who gets appointed to such committees, and then plenty of bias in terms of how their findings are acted apon. The report is full of reasons for the common justifications of Trident being an outdated misconception, but rather than simply deem it therefor pointless, it has come up with more pragmatic justifications in their place. The generally theme of these being that where America leads we must follow. And this was the decision made, and the next generation of Trident has been signed up for and too many deals made to make cancelling it anything less than catastrophic in cost. Essentially these reports don't really mean anything until the decision has been made and the results of the decision clear. If it turns out to be the wrong decision, then it's the kind of thing cited in parliament against the party/persons who made the decision for why it was an obviously bad one. If no shite hits the fan, then it doesn't matter how 'for' or 'against' the findings of the report the decision was.

I started playing there early last-year and didn't see any favouritism of any-kind. Quite the opposite, i once saw a weekly regular guy have an arguement with the marshalls and he was almost tearful because these guys 'he'd known for years' had just decided to ban him from all their sites with no warnings or second chances or previous offenses for kicking off at someone; shouting, being rude to another player about an incident of them not taking hits. Quite simply, they don't need to hold on to customers that much. I've experienced plenty of 'abit more fps wont matter, just make sure you use .25s' and other favouritism and my local woodland sites where they need to keep hold of their core players to make up 30-50 people each week. The Mall gets 100-120 every week and rarely any same faces 2 events in a row. I'm reasonably regular there now and have had two marshall bollockings in what must be about 20+ visits over the past 10 months. Bless me forum for I have sinned; 1.) My first time at The Mall was the second time i'd played airsoft. I was reported to a marshal by someone for not taking hits in the second game. Without me noticing the marshall followed me around for abit and then took me to one side for a chat. He asked if i used to play paintball and if i was new to airsoft. I replied yes to both. He said he noticed that when i was getting hit, I was glancing down at the area i'd been hit as if i was looking for paint or blood. I would then mutter 'hit', stick my hand in the air and walk off back to the spawn. My problem was that i wasn't shouting 'hit' loud enough, and this combined with the couple seconds delay from me looking at my clothes was making it hard for players to tell if i'd taken the hit when involved in battles at either end of a dark coridor. He said whereas i may be actaully taking the hits and walking off to the spawn, a team-mate will quickly take my place in the same spot and it's hard to notice that happening and easy to assume its the same person, unless there's a reasonably instant loud shout of 'HIT'. He said it was a very common behaviour from new players to airsoft and suggested that i try to revive the urge to swear instantly when hit, but to shout 'HIT' not 'f**k'. He also jokingly said that the paintball reflex to check one's clothing was a pretty common affliction for reformed paint-addicts that would pass in time and that i was free to consider this site like a paintball rehab clinic At the woodland site I first went to I hadn't needed to shout 'HIT' loudly as they can see you come out from behind the tree with your hand up very easily, so it was very helpful advice to me as a new player. 2.) This sunday a suprise pyro landed directly onto my shoe (is quite scorched now lol) I paniced and flicked the pyro about a couple metres away. Only the marshall in the room at the time saw this happen and he took me to one side immediately. He said that regardless of me taking the hit without prompt and being the only player in the room i'm banned for life if I do it again in any context that day or any other day. The marshall said that not touching pyro's once dropped/thrown was a rule that had been missed from the breifing that day but he knew i had been told it before and if any other players had been involved or witnessed it I'd been banned right now. I appologised and said it was a moment of blind panic and the closest thing to a conscious decision involved was that i didn't want to get my leg set on fire or made more deaf as my ear defenders fell out a few moments earlier. I was granted a mulligan, but a new player to the site might have gotten a simple warning without significant threat. It was because I was a regular and he knew i knew better that I got the threat of perma-ban. Over all my visits there I've had a marshall point out i'd been hit on pouches etc a handful of times that i hadn't noticed. Funniest one was when a marshall noticed that a BB had hit my hair (was a messy-mullet at the time) He saw a tiny little bit of hair flick up as a BB passed through it and told me immediately as i didn't feel it at all. These guys are very good at spotting this kind of thing, keeping track of the order it occurs in and ensuring the correct people are defined as hit or not hit. They're also very good at telling when you haven't actually hit someone as people get it wrong all the time. I've had an instance where i was positive i had hit someone, and looked over to the marshall standing next to me in disbelief, he told me that it had been possibly the most truely amazing act of not actually hitting someone at close range, one that couldn't be repeated if i tried, i'd managed to shoot around him, between his legs, between his outstreetched arm and body, but not a single BB had actually hit him while he ran and all had hit the glass behind him. The briefings are half the length they used to be. As for the breaks, it's no more or less than any other airsoft site I've been to. I too find it very frustrating that people are so unfit that 10-15 minutes of every hour is spent on a break. Especially as people wear enough fooking molle-gear and pouches etc to carry enough ammo/equipment for a whole weekend milsim and shouldn't need any breaks between games, only a lunch break.

there's some pretty decent introductory guides stickied in the new arrivals section, haven't spotted anyone directing a new player to them so far...

Some the 'BB Gun' sites are kind enough to classify guns are 'garden-use' but lots of the ones they list as 'pro' or 'skirmish-ready' really aren't or at the very bottom of the spectrum. I'd say the best advice we can give new players is that 'BB guns' are substandard compared to what most own, and therfore won't quite give you a competitive chance for ranged battles at woodland sites, but are just as usable as anything else for close-quater-battles. That they should try renting guns for first few games to see if they actually like the sport enough to invest in it, and then buy a half-decent one as so many will buy a cheap two-tone bb-gun, and then replace it with a decent one soon as possible anyways, and leave their first gun to rot in its box. I bought a couple B500A1 and couple crap spring pistols for messing around in private woodland at a friends house, and think we just about got my moneys worth of fun out of them, but I would rather have spent double the cash and have 2 more guns i could still use.

How about a Green-Party themed game at this years national airsoft event where the winner is the team that manages to hug and hold on to the most amount of trees?

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmselect/cmdfence/986/986we13.htm A link to the house of commons defence commitee report on the matter. Edit - removed my lengthy anti-nuke rantings as off-topic. But basically i'd think it's more likely we get nuked due to having to participate in a US strike, than us getting taken over by a foreign power if we didn't have them. On-topic - I shall be voting monster-raving-looney or defacing my ballot as usual, until someone that isnt a douche or a turd is availible to vote for. I'd be interested to see the figures for gun-crime involving RIF in the UK and what the expected result of banning them is. If they became illegal there'll be thousands of illegal RIF floating around the country and many would sell them illegally rather than hand them in to be destroyed (if a paint job wasn't enough to stop it counting as RIF). So effectively it'd flood the criminal markets with RIF and increase the amount of crime commited using them. Of course unless someone shoots you can't tell if it's real or not so very hard to judge how much RIF is used in crime.

It's quite hard to get a site these days, especially down south. Most will be leased via a property management company by square feet, and you wont be able to get pro-rata per day deals. A disused building awaiting development that you can get hold of the owner and arrange such a deal is abit of a holy grail and will require a fair bit of questing & luck to find! My last employer was such a property management company, and i've been trying to use my contacts there to find potential sites in exchange for fixing their laptops occasionally. I wouldnt try running one myself but know some companies i can pass it along to in exchange for free skirmishing for life. So far only had one potential which went nowhere

That would suck if we had to all have twotone/see through guns but the game would continue. I dont really have much sympathy for anyone who quit airsoft due to this, or ditched a friend due to differing political beliefs. In my mind the Green party is abit 50/50 between good ideas and morally good bad ideas. I can def agree with not renting nukes off the yanks anymore, why bother as we cant fire them independantly and theyve got thousands sitting in US subs/silos. And if anyone fires one we're all fooked M.A.D style anyways. The subs themselves would still be there and free to house more conventional weapons. It would mean there'd be many many billions of extra cash in the defence budget, about 5-10% of the total. Even if they cut some it could leave enough money to care for the actual soldiers more, give them better equipment and especially healthcare/support/pay and hopefully make charities like help for heros unnecessary. Green party will never get in anyways, the odds of them even being involved in a coalition gov are very very slim. I would find it hysterical if everyone went more extreme; past tories all vote ukip and past liberals/labour all vote Green. Then we could have a UKIP/Green coalition government. I think theyd need Harvey Dent to run the show and do the coin flipping

Laylax have mentioned it's a modified v6 gearbox, very similar to the FN2000 one, so should be able to dishout decent rifle-performance

This one better be able to perform for near £900, thats like a high class hooker or ten crack whores worth

Hehe yeah it has had the front inflated and behind thinned for sure. But by the same logic your noveske is just an M4 with purple pants on and a different sponsor

That's just the guns the anime creators cited as their influence, i guess the stock is similarily rectangular and has bullpup setup?!? I like the way it looks because i've watched hours of it being wielded by a bird with massive tits, and it's different so more interesting. If this gun is ugly, then why do you consider an M4 or MP5 good-looking?

Yeah kinda like if a TAR made a baby with an SA80 while a P90 watched! I hope so, but i wont be suprised if the battery will go (in the CAD pic) what appears to be a small box connected to the bottom of the stock plate, meaning it'll be another case of squeezing in a mini 8v nimh or 7v lipo until the wires fray. the massive foregrip will prob just be an empty space, and annoyingly difficult to get into

Laylax are a decent Japanese manufacturer of custom body-parts and upgrades for airsoft rifles. I've seen plenty of their P90 kits in use, and various other little bits of kit in the field. All top quality stuff made very well out of decent materials. Laylax have confirmed they'll be releasing their first full custom airsoft rifle this year; the Seburo rifle used by Kusanagi in the latest Ghost in the Shell: Arise anime. This was announced last February as a concept, but yesterday Laylax showed the model version of the gun off at the 2015 Wonder Festival Winter (as the airsoft version wasn't permitted to be used in the building). The whole thing is being done very officially/licensed, rather than just a resin mould of someones balsa-wood model or liberated film prop like most tv/film guns. As of yet there's little details in terms of specs, a modified version 6 gearbox similar to the FN2000, the sight will be detachable, that's about all they've mentioned so far. As a single piece of an airsoft gun made by Laylax costs a hundred quid or so, it can't be too much of a surprise that the airsoft version of this full gun is due to retail for 158,000 yen, which equates to about £875 at current exchange rates. The high price will keep most away as it has no real-steel heritage or PTW standard internals to make it seem worthwhile. Anime fans like me (especially as GITS is my all-time favourite anime) will definitely consider it, for me it's a done deal and will be getting one as soon as it's released. Hopefully wont be too soon so I don't have to sell a kidney (some hobo's not my own ofc) I'm expecting most to dismiss this gun entirely, people either wont like its looks and wouldn't buy it regardless of cost, or won't spend PTW money on one even if they think it looks good. But that'll just make it more unique in my hands

damn good introductory guide, perhaps too good and i'll get less kills off people standing around with their head tilted/ear-covered suffering comms confusions

It'll take a few visits to a skirmish site to get a feel for where to position youself, as Chock says the range airsoft battles occur at simply isnt enough to make true sniping possible, it's barely enough to justify a scope. People are creatures of habit so it's just about getting a feel for where people usually move across and camp themselves. I found the only advantage a sniper will give you is the first couple shots due to alittle extra range. This range is quickly moved across or compensated for by aiming higher when spraying full-auto with an AEG. If you can make those first couple shots count then it's damn good fun. So the best tactic is to position yourself so people will be coming towards you, as you stand a chance of remaining hidden for those first couple shots. Agressive sniping is tricky business as you're just as if not more likely to be spotted by the opponent first and as i said the range advantage is small, not enough. Most snipers i encounter seem to position themselves round the perimeters as that at least reduce the direction you can be attacked from by 180degrees. Infact i've had more fun sneaking round the edges with an AEG clearing out all the snipers than being one myself. I had the luxury of borrowing a very well and expensively setup sniper which did give me a decent bit of extra range, but i think if i'd had a stock spring one i'd have just found it frustrating and wished i had an AEG. I found that for my tastes sniping wasn't worth it, too much sitting in a bush and not enough action. Don't get me wrong it's good fun, but just as much fun and far more frequent fun using a full-auto AEG. Makes it even more frustrating when people don't take their hits when sniping, rarely poor sportsmanship of people not seeing where it came from and ignoring it, usually because the range is so much that the bb doesn't actually hurt/register or because everyone insists on wearing so much assault vest/molle stuff they don't feel it. I'd say give it a try, and if you don't like it you don't need a new gun, you just need to return the SIG to a 350fps full-auto state. Depending on what's been done to the SIG that could be a pain in the ass, but airsoft guns are modular enough that it's possible to get both out of a gun, just by swapping a spring, inner barrel and making the lock to semi-auto only something you can reverse by taking it apart. a new barrel, spring and possibly selector switch would cost £100 max.

and now he gets the bus to his nearest Iceland... i hope he got it for a good price as giving Peter Andre a full ferrari's worth of cash could count as helping to perpetuate Petre Andre... Although it'd prob be more a case of funding Jordan via child-support payments, which is worse hehe. Yeah it's a beauty, most expensive thing i've ever bought. Haven't been able to get my money's worth out of it for sure, barely get a chance to play with it! Still, feels appropriate owning a veritable super-computer when work in IT. But it's still very much the PC equivalent of buying a brand-new Systema PTW and a bunch of real-steal body parts/accessories and then only going to a skirmish once every month or two

you were correct, i tip my hat to you sir

Agreed, it's just a club and any 'conspiracy' related to it is no more than club members favouring putting their business to other club members where possible. I think the alcy was mostly bullshitting, and any 'shunning' experienced by him was due to him failing to maintain the level of behavior and brotherhood expected. There probably are even more exclusive clubs for more powerful/richer people, but i don't think the world is that organised, and 'illuminati' etc just wishful thinking as that kind of power and organisation is a comforting thought compared to chaos and pragmatic opportunism.

It's definately in my top 3 but my favourite anime has to be Ghost in the Shell. But if you like giant robots then all the rest, gundam etc isn't fit to lick entry-plug of an Eva Ahaha tell them it is the illuminati and ask them if they want to know the secret handshake. As a kid i worked in a very exclusive golf-club on the bar, there was this one bar-hugging alcy that always used to bitch about the members being free-masons and how he'd been kind of banished by them although he still held his token position at the local lodge. He used to rant about free-masons having a link to the supposed illuminati at a high level. He insisted that there was a secret masonic handshake, and strict protocols involving it depending on your rank and the rank of the persons hand you were shaking. He showed me it and it essentially involved linking 4,5th fingers or tapping the persons using yours, depending on the rank and where the lodge ring was on the finger. After months of nagging/teasing he finally convinced me to attempt a masonic handshake with one the high-ranking club members, who he particularily detested and was a guy who insisted on shaking everyones hand all the time anyways. So i did it, he went to shake my hand, i switched to the left hand and tapped his 4th and 5th fingers with my own, twice. He stopped and looked at me like i'd just slapped his balls. He walks away and goes up to my manager, they go into his office for about 10 minutes. My boss then calls me into the office and tells me I'm being moved to work in the kitchen, and am free to resign if i don't want to do that. I took the kitchen job and lasted about a month before i found a better job. To this day i've no idea if i was moved to the kitchen because i actually used a 'masonic handshake', or because i'd simply tickled this guys hand and he thought it was some kind of stroaking gay come-on