GeorgePlaysAirsoft

I’ve just come across your post and agree entirely.  It did feel like a ‘mini milsim’ and the standard of player effort was very good. 
 
Are you going to the one this weekend at Tuddenham?  I was the player that travelled from Derby, and all being well will do the four hour round trip again this weekend, it was that good last time.

yes very impressed with gunman tuddenham it has now become my "local" - they basically seem to do everything right which is very refreshing. the saturday night game was very good fun though (and feedback was provided so this isn't a totally unproductive moan) i thought our little squad of "the leftovers" was somewhat penalised for playing the objective as we didn't get any contact for 1.5hrs. fine for a 24h "milsim", less so for a 3hr "mini-sim". I wasn't sure if that was because the enemy team had no reason to intersect our path or whether they were just unable to. On the otherhand, its a testament to how fun nodding about at night is as that 1.5hrs went very quickly and felt more like 30 mins, if that.

I haven't seen much of interest yet but a Stechkin APS with stock from VFC.  GBB assumed.
 
 

The last piece of the puzzle now arrived. 
A custom made full steel accurate L7A2 barrel to finish off my steel L7A2 gpmg. 
 
Just need to get it engraved with the original Enfield markings, and to get it altered to take the original inokatsu hop unit. 
 
Now going to convert my old barrel into the newer type HK L7 barrel, and to use to replicate blank use too. 
 
 
 
 
 
 

My little creation. Since I couldn't find the metal G&P rail kit I improvised to make M11a1 as useful as possible still maintaining slim shape (that is why there are no side rails).
 
Used it last weekend and it was cracking fun. 
 
It is bit of a ugly duckling and won't be everyone's taste but it works perfectly for me and it is Daddy's Lil Monster

"in my day...." 
*Insert old man vibes here*
 
This is a flippant comment due to starting work 10 minutes ago, however to the point
 
Any day where you go Airsofting and think - worth it, or tinker and get things 'just right', buy any kit or *that* piece of kit, new gun day, first day you bring your mate along, hell even good toy cleaning day is part of the golden age.
 
 

This is all so tragically jaded 😂. I've been playing for give or take about 20 years, and for the most part it's all about the same for me. The access to decent reliable GBBRs is a big win, as is my personal access to more disposable income and being able to transport myself pretty much where ever I like.
 
There have always been idiots, there will always be idiots. Social media is fine, its been a great way to meet like minded people to chat shit about what is, and likely always will be, a very niche hobby.
 
Biggest 'issue' I've seen creeping in more and more is how stand off-ish and 'clique-y' it's become. Everyone seemingly wants to find a reason to hate everyone else that isn't in the group they play with, and has an attitude going in to playing that it's going to be shit. Not that the latter is anything new, airsofters hating airsoft is a founding pillar of the hobby... for reasons unknown to me.
 
Edit: I guess I'm not shocked by the general concensus given we're in the land of the dinosaurs... a forum.

For me it's whenever the person gets their rose tinted glasses out. 
 
I remember being new to airsoft and hearing all these stories about amazing events that happened "just" before I got into the sport were.......cut to a few years later and I am hearing these amazing stories about events that I went to that I thought were shit but had nuggets of gold in them. The stories tellers made it seem like every game'/event was pure gold and it wasn't shit was a couple of good moments. 
 
Chat to people now about Tier one at Stanta and lots of people will reminisce with fond memories. At the time it was basically the same event 3 times in a row at stanta with almost no variation except for a decrease in the quality of the game play and event each time. They'll chat about CAG and their events at Otterburn.....that happened like twice. Or the sandpit and how amazing it was, despite the fact they used about 10% of the site (was amazing for big event games though!). 
 
 I'd always encourage people to just make the best of it now, what's happening now, what events/sites are there that exist now. Sparta closed recently (never went) and people were obviously upset to lose a great venue, well.....if it's so great -  go! Don't just settle for just going to your local week in week out - get out there, vote with your feet and do the stuff that looks interesting now, before you look back on whatever site/organiser it is, cause it's just a matter of time before they close down. 

I’m sure some bits will change around once it’s getting used in anger but the arrival of the can and sling sees this one just about there.
 

3D printed "FANTA" cover for the surefire can, I only had red filament left so the paint has come out a bit lighter on top but I think that looks pretty good

I think it's almost certainly down to the costs associated and the number of players needed to make it viable with using these venues and whether the venues are actually good for Airsoft. 
 
For anyone that did operation blue fox at the fire college, it looks like it should be awesome, crashed trains, planes, oil type platforms, industrial rigs, office buildings, replica motorways with cars etc. Play was awful due to the distances between each set area, all attack routes were via open fields with no cover, attacking areas with great cover, excellent sight lines etc.
 
A lot of existing Airsoft sites aren't actually big enough to host these sort of events (such as the sandpit, which is now closed). 
 
There's a few sites that I have the impression might be big enough but for whatever reason (probably financial) big events are being run there. Not every event provider wants to do more than provide skirmishing 

I think that's it. Only reason it's economically viable is because they get a few hundred players. That said, this one is going to be limited to only 300, down from the 400 of the recent events and the 500 from events years ago. The last two places (Citadel in Dover and the shopping centre in Rochdale) could not take 400 players which was what contributed to the gameplay being centred around meat grinder chokepoints (and the only way people pushed through during the Citadel at least was by charging through them in massed numbers with a few people blatantly not taking their hits).
 
I'm considering it because a lot of the staff from Worthing are thinking of going and are friends with the organisers (as some of them have been going to AI500 for over a decade) and I've enjoyed the previous two AIs I've been to, despite them being a bit of a shitshow, as I play differently to how most people at the events did and was able to make it enjoyable for myself. Still waiting to see the rules in full, but they say they'll be allowing bolt actions this time; I'll wait until the inevitable "only at 1.48J" they slapped on the Citadel event 😂

Did the Gunman Airsoft Night game at Tuddenham.......it was great, easily some of the most interesting events that are happening in airsoft in my opinion at the moment. 
 
It's their second attempt at running a night game (3 hours long) as one single game, it wasn't perfect but my god it's got potential and the site is very open to feedback. Previously their night games have been like skirmishes in a small, but interesting part of their site (the village if you know the site). These events take advantage of the whole site, extra buildings, dense woodland, open areas, tracks, ridgelines trench network etc.
 
Single shot only unless you have a genuine LMG/support weapon, relevant medic rules, mix of objectives, regen hikes weren't silly.  There was also really good use of additional lightning, a few big floodlights and lots of dark areas, the site is big enough to cope with what they are doing!
 
Objectives were provided, with a map and grid references with times that the objectives were open for. Marshalls were present when needed (generally around objectives) but didn't ruin the night team sneakiness when not. Hit taking was good (night games are tricky to enforce). It seemed like a lot of objectives were near each other at similar times, or in a way that you'd have to cross the route from their respawn to their objectives (which we didn't know) to get to your objectives. Much confusion around who is on your team etc. There was a command net and command element that gave out a couple of extra objectives throughout the evening.
 
It genuinely felt like the best bits of a mini milsim. Mix of players with and without night vision, thermal, some with torches and tracer units etc. Made it a really interesting evening. Some of the players had travelled from Derby and Watford for it. 
 
Every other night game they are doing is one of the more immersive types covered above, the others are basically skirmishes in the village. If you're looking to just shoot people in the dark, do the night skirmishes skirmishes, if you want that bit extra, do the more immersive ones. 
 
Very impressed with the management at Tuddenham, massive improvements to the site and the type of events they are running. Really upping the experience of what can be done and achieved, the sort of thing I am sure we all want from our sites. 
 
Re reading this, it sounds like an advert for the site but I am just a customer, albeit a very happy one. 

I meant to do Tudders this weekend, day and night.  I love night games there.  I had a memorable one were I lost both contact lenses and didn't notice until the marshals saved me from wandering around in the plantation chasing a marshal wearing a nightstick that I mistook for a torch...  Poor chap was most unimpressed that some idiot was potting him despite the hi-viz.  
 
What I did was wake up at 13:30 with a pounding hangover, a sense that the preceding evening had gone awry, and that a bit of rest was required.  Shame as several people have commented on how good it was.  

Entirely possible, with it being cerakoted I imagine the paint has a lot to do with variance in how tight thing are/aren't. Very impressed by the kit on the whole, just waiting on a can to arrive from HK to finish it. Did end up opting for the Inline Arisaka mount which arrived today. May well swap the sling out for a Trex Arms one, like the look of the AOR1 one but prefer the functionality of the Trex. Will post up some nicer photos once the can has arrived 👌
 

Colt M727 - A1, convertion from Marui M4 Next gen with real steel parts ( Stock and handguard) .
Upper is an E&C modded to fit the NGRS units.
Replica of the IDF rifle, original IDF sling. 
 
 

cheese and rice.. mount out of a molehill much?  Forums are really really dying guys, try being encouraging i.e. the oppposite of what this thread instantly descended in to with a clearly young bloke who's first language isn't English...

How its meant to look...🥰

Getting the new hammer to work was a lot harder than I was expecting 🤬

Sounds perfect! 😂

Some new, some used bits for the MWS. Just waiting on a new light as I managed to rip my last clone off in a door frame 😂
 
HAO rail is lovely, even used I can appreciate the quality, holy moly the fit is tingly good.
 
LWRC stock and short tube need fettling.
 
 

Apocalyptic sounds.
 
 

Last weekend was my first opportunity to skirmish this year.
 
Truth be told, I had lost an awful amount of desire to skirmish after bills kept rising, AEGs kept breaking and magazines kept leaking!
 
I scrambled together some kit that I knew was working: TM M4A1 MWS, TM M9A1 and TM L96 (a recent purchase and my first spring sniper rifle) as well as my tried and trusted Ranger Green kit.
 
Ace Combat has changed since I last played there, which was probably 2019. Ah, those pre- pandemic days...
 
The car park, safe zone and check-in areas have all changed location and it is now a long slog to haul kit to the safezone (located between field 1 and field 2). This slog was made even more tedious when my bag's zip failed and sent a lot of the contents into the mud. I was very close, dear reader, to turning around and going home!
 
I made it to the much improved safe zone and was glad to see the same Ace faces as were there years ago. The covered safezone now has ample room for everyone and there was a 3rd party shop selling the usual onsite-found range of entry to mid tier airsoft products at what looked like reasonable prices.
 
My main issue with Ace has always been the standing around and waiting between the action and is was still a factor that hasn't been improved upon, sadly. Another aspect that affected the day was the loss of using the open part of field 1. This, plus the relocated safezone has cut by about 1/3 the available space to play in, on an already compact site when compared to Battle Lakes and Dog Tag. 
 
The games were suitably Halloween themed and ran well. I don't think I heard a single accusation of 'Teflon armour' during the whole day and the atmosphere was fun and pretty chilled.
 
My MWS combined with a RS ACOG was almost like a cheat code. I ran .32s and probably scored the most 'kills' that day with it that I've ever done. The M9A1 also scored some hits and my lighter kit was as comfy as it has ever been. Rocking out an old school Adventure Tech Goretex jacket in night camo/DCU is something I've not done in airsoft for about 15 years! I didn't get to debut the L96 though, which was a shame.
 
The new CQB area in the woods by field 1 is a nice addition and overall it was a good day that left me and my two buddies wanting more out of airsoft for the first time in a long time.
 
It probably won't be at Ace again - for a while at least - as the usable site now is just so small compared to what it was. This is a real shame and for me represents a loss to the local airsoft scene. I hope that field 1 can be re-incorporated into usable space, but it didn't look promising. 
 
Thank you Ace for rekindling a dormant flame.
 

Kicking Mustang did WHAT!?

Gunman’s Namsoft series continued at Eversly Alpha with a one off objectives day to replace the sadly cancelled Cajun Chicken game.  The weekend consisted of short-ish limited objectives in the rhododendron forest that stretches over chalk stream laced hills of mixed solid and marshy land.  Part of the aim was to get the teams back into the team objective ethic.  I think that Josh was tiring of the cat herding exercise tbh.
 
Due to Covid a few players were down, and final team numbers were US 12, VC and PAVN 7.   
 
We were missing a couple of lipos for some reason, and I couldn’t use the support gun.  Back to the spare/loaner CYMA AK47 then. 
 
Saturday morning saw the usual high standard of brief complete with maps and an A4 handout that covered rules and safety etc.  We were issued our VC tunnel trapdoors.  These act as re-spawn bags, and can only be set up by the VC players (not PAVN).  We had to deploy three and stop them being found by the GIs.  This was a real ding-dong battle to wake us up, as I think that we underestimated the size of the playing area and distributed the doors in too small an area.  Luckily, we managed to distract the US team into a series of fights that led away from them.  By close of play though, only one remained undiscovered. 
 
Second objective was to take three boxes to a specified drop off point, where they would be safe.  A team of four took the boxes, two carrying and two on the flanks to guard them.  The remaining three of us formed a fire team to engage and distract the US team.  We did excel ourselves this time.  We must have pinned down about a dozen or so players continuously.  By rapidly moving, shooting and moving again, we fought for possession of the wall area of the site for what seemed forever, whilst the other squad sneaked two boxes through.  Not a bad result, and a huge amount of fun.  Absolute constant action and intelligent gameplay. 
 
After lunch, we had to defend the fort against the US players.  This went less well.  We were simply too small a force to hold a static objective.  WE were quickly overrun, although another player and I managed to leave the fort and intercept the other team as they attacked, shooting a fair few in the back.  In retrospect we were going to lose this from the start, but it was great fun ambushing the unsuspecting enemy players.  By now we were sweating buckets and the post lunch dip had been chased away by sheer hard work. 
 
The fourth section was the best.  For this, the US team had to push through a valley, which they were not allowed to leave, and take three objectives, whilst we occupied the sides/slopes.  We deployed three VC one side, four PAVN the other.  We really minced the US in this game.  We actually pinned them down to the point that the marshal decided to make us retreat to the next objective.  I was really impressed that no one threw a strop through frustration.  There was none of the ‘they must be cheating to beat us so badly’ bollox. 
 
The last big push of the day was hilarious.  As we had a radio, we asked for the next objective to be taken.  When we arrived we were alone, and radioed in that we were two to 30.  The reply was ‘do your best.’  In the event, the rest of the team had already deployed in front of us.  The US were told that they faced two players…  They sauntered up and got hammered.  I was well dug into a shallow pit at the top of a hill.  When we were finally pushed back, I lay undiscovered listening to my mate who was in charge; describe how the hill was basically clear, and that they had merely to rush it.
 
I could hear someone breath the other side of the mound of earth that I lay behind and as I readied myself to shoot them the second that they showed themselves the final whistle went.  The chap stood up and almost had a heart attack.  Despite slotting several players in the course of their advance, I’d been forgotten about.  I was perfectly placed to shoot the US team from the back if they had advanced. 
 
We went to our campfires feeling great with a lot of story swapping and I discovered that I had forgotten my bloody steak!  Luckily another attendee gave me their left over chili and some pitta bread.  We had a really decent talk around the camp fire as the rain drizzled.  A fair few beers were drunk.  A few new friends made and stories swapped.  The previous evening, we’d all shared an exquisite curry that someone had made.  We were eating and drinking like Gods all evening, and it was a bloody good laugh. 
 
Great bits:  the whole scenario was a great idea and really appreciated as a replacement for Cajun Chicken.  The gameplay was great, there was no arguing or bad sportsmanship.
 
Wearing pure black teaches you proper field craft.  There is no room for error when you stick out like a sore thumb.  I was soon festooned with fern and green from scrambling through trees. 
 
Poor bits:  the rain on Sunday led to mass departures.  I ended up being the only opfor player, and the game was cancelled.  I was asked if I wanted a glorified game of hide and seek, but Mrs TPH had developed a bug in the night and looked proper poorly, so I opted for an early bath.  We packed up and by 11 it was lovely and sunny, and we could have played for a few hours, even if you were unprepared for playing in England in October…  Seriously, throwing a poncho on is hardly hard work!
 
This was one of the absolute best games that I have ever played.  It really leaves skirmishes in the shade.  I got home after a nearly five hour drive and still felt energized.  Number 1 son slept the whole journey home through exhuastion; Mrs TPH was coughing but happy. Shame that people left so early and again the numbers were low.  We should have been playing Cajun Chicken too, which matches the rain perfectly.  This was cancelled due to low sales.  I wonder if fuel bills and inflation will kill a few games from now onwards.  Covid certainly kept a few away.  I hope that this is a lull and not a trend.
 
Given the quality of the event, a shame it had to end early.  It was well worth the effort and expense, and I am really looking forward to next year’s Nam season. 
 
Du ban GI!