Okto Eight Milsim

Welcome to the forum and UK airsoft. There are a few large weekender games each year. AWA get about 100 players on their weekend skirmishes in Herts.

We never understand people who cheat in milsims. They play milsim saying they want it to be realistic. If they cheat when they are hit by pretending they weren't, then how is that realistic and surely they are only depriving themselves of the realism they crave ?

In our humble opinion, creating rules to stop cheats is the wrong way to go. Cheating should be stopped other ways and rules should be made for safety or to make the game better.

Never had them so cant criticise them but believe there are better products on the market from the feedback we get. Dont believe Umarex actuallly manufacture so you would need to know who the maker is behind the name. We use Cyma as rental guns and they are pretty tough and vfm, so yes.

Never seen it happen at ours, but if your primary weapon is hit, it's considered disabled. If you have a secondary weapon and that gets hit, that is disabled as well. You then have to survive without any weapons and rely on buddies to get you to safety.

Assuming your parents buy you a two tone, you will struggle to find anything new and decent under £100. You probably need to up your budget a little. Look at JG and Cyma but they tend to offer be imported at over 350fps so you need to factor the downgrade in to your budget.

You are really lucky in Kent - there are a lot of sites in the county and if you drive, you aren't that far from the M25 which gives other possibilities. You don't need to be in a team to milsim. A lot of our milsim players turn up on their own or with another mate. Can't speak for all the milsims, but generally you can choose to be on a specfic team at time of booking. Certainly with our games, you get to scheme and plot with your team mates online long before the game and we have had some of our players make really good mates through the Op's to the point where they arrange to meet up at the next one and keep in touch through our community group.

We hear really good things about CAG and they have set the bar for their level/type of milsim on their first debut game. With Tier putting out their recent press release, it will be interesting to see what happens with Sterling/Tier/CAG and the way that type of game moves.

There is no right or wrong to this really. It depends on the site and as you've found out there are lots of variations. We play milsims and have a ruling that a hit to a weapon only disables the weapon, but we don't accept the use of body armour or helmets in terms of hit prevention. A hit to any part of the body or gear (excluding weapon) is a wound. When we reach anything controversial regarding these kind of rules, we have polling votes within our player community to seek buy-in. We recently discussed having kill and wound areas on the body following one of the players posting up about a new electronic milsim scoring system that somebody had made in Poland. In the end, the community didn't buy in, so it didn't go any further. The worse we could think of is some sort of unified sport ruling so every site was the same. That would be so boring.

Ah OK. Smudge at Combat Airsoft Group is starting to run some good hardcore milsim games up in the north east. Gunman do intermediate level one day milsims at their Norwich site, we have a weekender at Tuddenham near Thetford in April and Zoro XM have just launched a new theme on Facebook today, which will be played at Tuddenham as well. That probably covers the whole gamut.

Not at all. The Okto game at Eversley is fully booked in December and our next game in April is in Tuddenham a long way from Surrey/Dorking. There are other Filmsim games at Eversley - there was one last week, but nothing to do with Okto Eight.

No you can go on your own, but you will need to make the effort to talk to people - ask them about their airsoft imitation firearms for example.. Alternatively, play a cooperative game like a basic milsim where the game demands that you work together. Its always a good icebreaker.

Judging by your profile location, there are good milsims at our Eversley site near Aldershot/Reading area. The Filmsim ones are our top tier games.

The MP7 are different to the MP5 so dont think the MP5 ones will fit, but there are MP7 ones available. http://www.tactical-kit.co.uk/ammo-pouches-100-c.asp

This is a new theme airsoft game being run by our parent company Filmsim. Its a conflict between a PMC company made up of mostly ex sf operatives who are employed by governments, banks and multi-national companies to combat the crime organisation, known only as "X". It has some pretty neat features and like many of the Filmsim games, will be low numbers (about 40 players), high on props and backdrops and with civilians interacting. Its more security forces versus the bad guys and will be fought out at different locations with different missions. As a game, its unusual in that it runs over a weekend from the Friday night to Sunday, but players can drop in and out we believe and there are night observation ops, etc. I think they ran something similar a few years ago and one game was quite unique in that it was played over two different sites within a few miles of each other which gave it an interesting mix of location.

The Okto Eight Milsim weekend game will be held here in April 2016. Tickets will go on sale just before Christmas.

Tuddenham run milsim lite games which are effectively skirmish games with medic rules and more of a milsim ethos, but they allow two tone weapons and hi caps.

Our sister company Gunman Airsoft runs milsim lite and intermediate level milsims at their sites in Eversley, Tuddenham and Norwich. The differences are subtle and some players use them as a work up to the more embedded Filmsim type weekend milsims that we run. In answer to your question, no you can just go alone if you wish and join a team. Few milsims operate a rank system; its a recipe for disaster and not needed.

Good choice. Its a PMR446.

Generally yes, but it does depend. The channels on PMR446 are universal so shouldn't be a problem. Be careful of buying radios that have a rotary knob with Channels 1 to whatever. This are more positions than channels and they can be programmed with different frequencies so Ch1 on one set can be completely different from Ch1 on another.

If the radios are licence free PMR446 radios which are limited to 0.5W output power, you will be lucky to get 500-1000m on them, probably less in forest or a built up area. Manufacturers make range claims based on using them in free space/line of sight which are not relevant for most skirmish or urban use. Ideal for talking to team mates on patrol with you, but not so good at communicating across an airsoft site or back to the safe zone.

If you go PMR446 licence-free, the Motorola T8's are good. There is merit in trying to get one with a rotary volume knob - its murder trying to turn it up or down when you need to toggle keys and cant see them because they are in a pouch.

Licence free or are you planning to buy a licence ?

This is a photo from our last Operation. "So you intend to breach this building. Do you know how to communicate which side is which to the rest of your team ?"

We are looking at having the April milsim at Tuddenham.