I spent my Sunday shooting at Red Alert for their SantaSoft. Took the kid as well, who got given a tiny smock from his uncle, so he was toasty all day, stack up provided the balaclava, so he looked mini para.
The games! First was a variation on swarm/zombie: shoot someone-medic them and they are now on your team. This led to many roving groups, getting into lots of fire fights, and some where you just find yourself in a larger group and become the steamroller. It was amusing getting to the town, as it turns out, Yorkshire Puddings split at some point and rolled up the whole site from two different angles. Good warm up.
The kid used his Firehawk, and loves it, need to load him up with three hi-caps next time....
I used, well tried to us the TM mc51....I am now having selector and trigger issues, oh and the fps is still really low, so a new shell and lots of internals from santa in the new year! Instead I used my sig226, and wow, gas is shit in winter!
Safe zone for quickish mag up and the mc51 works when testing, so I go back out with it for Santa Slaighs...Santas start near the fort, have to clear town and collect presents the Slaigh then gets escorted up the hill, again lots of fun. The lad managed to get a great angle into town and essentially held the whole flank for a long time.
Should have grabbed a spare whilst I0 had the chance! In the end I did go back half way through that game and switch for my brothers VSR, first time with a long gun that works well and oh my, what fun. so used that for most of the rest of the day.