GAMBLE

Hi, ALL! 👋
Doing better than expected with my M16 and longest throw on camera! 😂👍

Doing the best with what I have, enjoy it for what it is!
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💷GAMBLE💷 
 
 

Hi, ALL! 👋
Taking out the M16, GAMBLE has gone NATO! 😂

Doing the best with what I have, enjoy it for what it is!
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💷GAMBLE💷 
 
 

Hi, ALL! 👋
Apologies for the delays, here is my Easter game, being hunted by “Bugs!”😂👍

Doing the best with what I have, enjoy it for what it is!
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💷GAMBLE💷 
 
 

Hi, ALL! 👋
Apologies for the delays, here is my 3rd Battlesim campaign game at Red Alert, Vukodlak vs Caladian, Part 2! 🤪👍

Doing the best with what I have, enjoy it for what it is!
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💷GAMBLE💷
 
 

Usually I'll have a few photo's after a game of which one or two are really good, but for this set of photo's I'm happy with all the ones I'm in.

A few from the Battlesim Lite, with Outcast members @Smiling-Dutchman @Honey Badger 63 @GAMBLE and Joan Wick, who isn't on the forum, I don't think.

Hi, ALL! 👋
Apologies for the delays, here is my 3rd Battlesim campaign game at Red Alert, Vukodlak vs Caladian, Part 1! 🤪👍

Doing the best with what I have, enjoy it for what it is!
🔫😎👍
💷GAMBLE💷 
 
 

Hi, ALL! 👋
Apologies for the delays, here is my Lite Battlesim game at Red Alert, Part 2! 😂👍

Doing the best with what I have, enjoy it for what it is!
🔫😎👍
💷GAMBLE💷 
 
 

Hi, ALL! 👋
Apologies for the delays, here is my Lite Battlesim game at Red Alert, Part 2! 😂👍

Doing the best with what I have, enjoy it for what it is!
🔫😎👍
💷GAMBLE💷 
 
 

Red Alert's third Battlesim yesterday, with the story continuing from the previous two. 
This time the ETF forces from the previous years have been routed, with a small hold-out squad roaming the battlefield causing chaos, as the Vukodlak war machine rolled into Calladia.
A great day was had. Blazing sunshine, which wasn't so great for me for the majority of the day, in full ghillie.
But damn my home made ghillie set up WORKS!
One of the regulars, Duncan, has a collection of military vehicles, including a weasel, an open topped tracked atv.
In the morning, while @Smiling-Dutchman and @Honey badgerwere on guard in the fort I was on overwatch outside in the undergrowth. Duncan nearly ran me over. I had to scramble out of the way waving my hand to show him I was there.
 
In the afternoon the ghillie got another test:
At last years event one of the staff, Rozy, was an npc and had been wandering the site all day with a fishing rod, asking for fish. So this year I packed a tin of anchovies in my loadout, just in case. 
Vukodlak forces set up their F.O.B in the morning, and our C.O. tells me that I will score victory points if I can deliver the anchovies to Rozy. 
Who is sat in the pick up truck inside the Calladian F.O.B. The enemy spawn.
Arse. Oh well, forget that idea...
After Charlie Squad (our squad) were instrumental in delivering supplies to the refugee camp, I decided to push out solo and go Calladian hunting. I informed my squad over comms, and struck out into the undergrowth.
After a few minutes out occurred to me that if I kept pushing up that hill ahead of me I would be getting close to the Calladian HQ. 
Sod it, I'm going to try. 
I went into full stealth mode, watching every step, looking out for twigs and branches, trying to be as quiet as possible.
Voices? Ahead of me...
A Calladian squad coming down the hill, through the woods from their spawn. I quickly turned, vaulted over a fallen tree by some bushes and rolled under, my rifle under me cloak wrapped around, MK23 clutched in my sweaty mitt.
I saw them stop and start whispering. They'd seen movement. I waited. They moved forwards. I could see them clearly.  Definitely Calladian, at least 4 of them. I had an easy shot on one but that would lead to me getting hit and blowing the mission. 
My close encounter with the weasel (ooer) had convinced me my cloak works, so trust it!
I just lay still, and after a couple of minutes of no further movement the Calladians decided that there was nobody there and continued forward... all of them passing right by me! One of them I could have reached out and touched. Daaaaamn!
I waited as I heard them trudge off down the hill, then when I was sure they were gone I continued towards their base, moving even more carefully now, crawling through the undergrowth, and like the idiot I am not noticing the patch of nettles until I was crawling through it. 
I managed to sneak right up to the Calladian HQ without being spotted. 
Unfortunately there were quite a few troops their prepping to respawn. 
So I stood up and strolled into their base, enjoying the confusion on their faces as I held my gun aloft and shouted repeatedly "Nobody's shot me yet, nobody's shot me yet"
I stopped short and tossed the tin of anchovies at their feet, causing them all to scatter as if it were a grenade 😆
The Calladian CO picked the tin up and handed it to Rozy. 
Mission complete!
At that point a kid leveled his pistol at me and shot me in the chest as I stood there grinning my head off. 
We all had a good laugh about it then I went off on the trek back to base, reporting my success over comms to my squad leader. 
When I got back to HQ I was met by a round of applause from all the Vukodlak soldiers present. 
Slow, tiring and painful but omg that was worth it!
 
And the day ended in the third win in a row for Vukodlak!
Hats off to all of Charlie Squad, which was all Outcast members and @Smiling-Dutchman who made a great addition to our yearly squad. 
 
Red Alert Battlesims are always awesome. This one I will take away some great memories.  
 
The next battlesim will be next year, the next battlesim lite is July 23rd, with no kit restrictions or camo requirements. 

Did my first battlesim today, at Red Alert.

Was good fun, even tho both my RIF's didn't get used. One of them was still 2 above the FPS limit, even after shortening the spring. The other one had the MOSFET burn out...
Thankfully I met up with @Skullchewerand @GAMBLEand their squad (Thanks again for having me join and thanks for putting up with me!), and one of them had a spare RIF for me to use (absolute legend!).
 
The gameplay itself was great, much slower pace than the usual airsoft skirms, but it did involve more squad communication (even tho the comms failed sometime around lunch, which left me and 3 others (out of 9) as the sole people with working comms) and more tactical manouvering which made me feel very tacticool!
 
Looking forward to the battlesim light Red Alert is going to start running.

Hi there I haven't been to any Airsoft events I've seen a few on YouTube they look fun so will be going to one soon.
Anyway thanks for adding me 🙂

Another great write up, as always.
 
Yesterday Red Alert ran their first Battlesim LITE.
No kit restrictions.
Arm bands in use.
No medic rule.
Only break was for lunch.
 
Basically one long skirmish day with set teams and shifting objectives throughout the day, and one constant objective.
Red won the day convincingly (boo hiss), and overall the day was a great success.
 
It was a good intro for anyone interested in battlesims/milsim/filmsims that don't want to invest in specific kit.
Discussion is going on about what worked and what didn't, in order to tweak the rules as this may become a regular event every couple of months or so.
 
I had great fun, with the highlight being escorting two WWII jeeps across the site to an objective point.
But by the end of the day my back was giving out to me (I'm an old git), so I switched to war reporter mode and live streamed the last 20 minutes to Facebook, which I've now uploaded to YouTube and included below.
I also took off my facepro and subsequently took a round right on the top of my nose (shown on the livestream🤣)
 
Disclaimer: video contains foul mouthed old crusty!
 
Red Alert's next actual Battlesim (not lite) is on the 21st of May. Book at this link:
https://redalertpaintball.co.uk/battlesim/
 
 
 

I once saw him sprinting across a site with a double ended light saber.
Got kills too. 

'There's @GAMBLEwith a melee weapon in his hand. '  I believe he was born with one there tbh...  

Hi, ALL! 👋
Apologies for my absence and hopefully get some gameplay footage uploaded soon! 🤞👍
Doing the best with what I have, enjoy it for what it is!
🔫😎👍
💷GAMBLE💷 
 
 

Wherabouts are you? I see you're considering Reforger, I have playted there a couple of times, it's not bad.
If it's not much further from you I can highly recommend Red Alert Airsoft Newbury.

Speaking of.....
Back to Red Alert yesterday, for a day of silly easter games.
Escort the bunny, build a bomb out of easter eggs, Buggernaught, etc... Loads of fun. The weather was excellent, lunch was good as always, and I don't think I heard a single grumble about hit taking all day.
My back gave up again, so didn't play much in the afternoon, and my QRF seems to have developed a piston leak I'll need to take a look at. But overall a bloody ace day of stupidity.
Added to this, we finally got the custom patches for our... well, it's not a team, just a collective of idiots who play together sometimes, The Outcasts.
The Scottish division of Outcasts came down from Glasgow for the weekend and had a blast at Red Alert. James particularly enjoyed handling my Pulse Rifle (Ooer).

As you can see by my headgear, the Outcasts take Airsoft super seriously.
@GAMBLE @Gloombones
 
 

Nice work, about 40 mins drive for me
 
@GAMBLE must be good for you too? 

@GAMBLE Have you seen this? 

Hi, ALL! 👋
First video of 2023, at my home site, trying something different with my editing! 🤪
Doing the best with what I have, enjoy it for what it is!
🔫😎👍
💷GAMBLE💷 
 
 

Hi, ALL! 👋
Apologies for the delay on this video, the last video of the Battlesim! 🤪
Doing the best with what I have, enjoy it for what it is!
🔫😎👍
💷GAMBLE💷 
 
 

Hi, ALL! 👋
Day 2, Scavs sharing loot and making plans! 🤪
Doing the best with what I have, enjoy it for what it is!
🔫😎👍
💷GAMBLE💷 
 
 

Greetings to all and sundry.
 
Complete noob to all of this but after a couple of rounds of CQB I believe that I may have found a new hobby.
In a former life I got to play with real life bang sticks and had lots of practice at standing still in sideways rain. 
So, after ignoring the stigma attached to airsoft I took the plunge and went along with a bunch of work colleagues and thoroughly enjoyed myself.
I shall be doing lots of reading before taking the next plunge and purchasing my own set up.
M.
 

Hello all, 
My friend and I are looking at getting into Airsoft. Neither of us has ever played a game before. I'm looking for any tips, info, local contacts or forums, local site info, anything really to help us get started please. We live in Blackpool Lancs 

Hello & welcome.
 
Definitely rent for a few games to make sure it's for you, speak to other players and ask lots of questions (at games and here) then get your UKARA sorted and watch your bank balance evaporate 😂
 
Call your hits and if you're not sure, call it anyway.
 
Oh, also check out @GAMBLE's YT channel, there's advice, tips & gameplay on there.