Okto Eight Milsim

Rent first and see if you like it. They will provide you with face protection - suggest you take a hat, gloves and stout supportive boots. If you like it, come back and dig a bit deeper. Generally the first thing to buy is your own eye pro as often the supplied masks are not very comfortable.

The Op was a great success. The government troops managed to protect the prime minister on Saturday who survived to politik another day and the rebel troops managed to capture the Titanium mine, warehouse and railhead after some bloody fighting on Sunday afternoon. Operation Claw Hammer to follow.

Its worth having a trundle down to Airsoft Zone in Romford if you live up the A12. In our experience, players start off wanting weapon A and end up buying something totally different once theyve seen it in the flesh or talk to some more influences. Have a look on their website to see what they have in their warehouse and then go there (parking outside off street) and handle some of them. We use them a lot for different things and find Alex and his crew very reasonable and fair minded. If youre not up to tinkering, at least you have the peace of mind of being able to ring them for tech support or take it back if it needs fixing.

Wet wipes. A decent milsim organiser will, if they are running a long game like that, provide you with a list of kit as it's in their interest.

Kill Flash. Probably won't need it next game though !! :-)

Looking at it, it would be nearer the £50 mark per head for a days course but it would be a full, intensive day of training and practice scenarios.

Okto attracts players of mixed abilities and experience and we wondered if players would be interested if we organised a group training session between our scheduled milsim games for newbies ? The intention would be to hold an intensive training day, run by a credible tactical instructor. Between us, we have a number of contacts in the military and could probably get a top notch instructor. Although we would primarily run this for our milsimmers, we would envisage opening it up to others if there were spaces. Ideally we would cover the basics such fire and maneuvering, ambush techniques, weapon transitions, dealing with multiple threats, patrol procedures, small/fire team tactics and battle drills, CTR, fire support teamwork and other tactical behaviour, etc to basically "up" peoples battlefield skills. It would quite likely be at our Eversley site near Farnborough and although we haven't finalised prices, it would probably be in the range of £50-80 per head depending on numbers. Would there be interest ??

We did pass two rather posh young ladies on horseback who are well used to us. They didn't seem at all surprised to see a black Technical with a .50 cal on the roof, a Russian general in the back seat and a shotgun toting bodyguard and driver up front. We gave them plenty of room and drove slow and low. We got a cheery wave, which we returned. One was heard to say to the other "Oh look Clarissa, its men with toy guns !!" - thats Hampshire for you.

Our Operation Firestorm this weekend.

Usually the qualifying site will do it for you, especially if you are having membership ? We (Gunman) do ours.

If you are into LARP'ing, its worth volunteering for the GUNMAN CREW who attend a lot of milsims (not just their own). Free to attend and you get lots of bacon sandwiches, but don't expect any trigger time. Its absolutely nothing to do with airsoft and is probably closer to amateur dramatics in a warzone environment. This goes wrong when airsofters sign up as they normally feel disappointed when they have to follow a role brief and can't get involved in the fight. Not everyones cup of tea, but different strokes and all that.

Just a few days to go now until our Operation Firestorm. Looking forward to it immensely. Its not until you start loading the props, kit, weapons and SFX into the vehicles for the journey to Eversley that you realise the enormity of it.

Yes we lost some fence panels at Eversley a few months back, but they were caught making off on a ATV and had to jettison some of their loot.

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

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.

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/

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Yes we can accommodate that. Get in touch.

Marshals can make or break a game. Simple as that.

Welcome to the group Greg. We run our games at our site at Eversley near Farnborough. The main reason for airsoft is the craic. We camp out for the weekend war with lots of big boys toys including vehicles, RPGs and props and have a campfire on the Saturday night with a few beers and high jinks. Taken in the right spirit, Airsoft is a medium for a lot of fun with good mates and camaraderie.