Captain Hat

As and when we start running events again, I might well do that. If I remember Look forward to seeing you again! -Chewie

Thanks dude. Yeah, I read your thoughts too, thank you as well We do try to get as much feedback as we can from our customers- so far most of it has been positive, which is nice, but really the things you want to know about the most are the things you're not getting right, because those are the things you need to change the most. Most of the marshalling team has plenty of experience of what it feels like to be on both sides of a game of airsoft. We usually have a pretty good feel for how games are panning out and we're not averse to changing things on the fly, but obviously there was some missed communication on the day you and Asomodai attended that we will need to sort out to make sure future games go better. There are definitely areas that we have pinpointed for improvement in terms of site facilities as well, and feedback like yours helps us focus on the most important things for us to get done first.

Hello! I'm part of the marshalling team at Imperium (onsite I'm known as Chewie). Thanks for your feedback! The reason we run the site is to give our players a fun weekend. We want you to go home feeling like you've had an awesome day and we take pride in the quality of our game-day experience and your memories of it! We're making a big effort with professional photography, dedicated videography and of course our amazing military trucks, but we are a relatively new site and we're still growing and developing. As such we're always looking for suggestions about things we can do better and your comments on the opening game are particularly useful to us. We've already done a fair amount of work to improve the game site (mostly groundworks so far) and adding structures in the really open areas is next on the list. Cutting back the vegetation to keep the paths open is a constant struggle as well, but we do try to keep on top of that too! We also have a plan in place to improve the facilities in the safe zone- particularly ensuring that all players will have a covered prep area in the event of rain. We have provided covered space before using our gazebo (which we don't always put up), the containers and the MOG's vehicle shelter as prep areas, but that's not a long-term solution for us- we want to do it properly. We try to organise works days every few weekends, either a Saturday before a game day or on a weekend with no game, but obviously we're not doing anything at the moment due to present circumstances. Our chrono is moving from FPS to Joules. We have also put a number of measures in place to ensure players with HPA rigs and so on are treated fairly. Joule limits are published on the website and on the Facebook page- guns up to 1.3J have no MED or full auto restrictions, up to 1.7J guns must be locked to semi-auto or slower and have a 20m MED, guns up to 2.4J must be bolt-action and have a 30m MED. Guns over 2.4J are not allowed on site. Energies are to be tested with site BBs (usually either .25g or .4g depending on the gun) with specific exceptions at a Marshal's discretion. We are also looking at making our game days more frequent- maybe looking to move towards doing two game days a month or playing every other weekend instead of our current once-a-month schedule. That will have to wait until after this pandemic is over, though. We're not going to put anybody's health at risk by running events while it's still going on; we were one of the first sites in the UK to announce closure, ahead of the lockdown announcement. Finally, I want to thank you for your positive comments on the marshalling team! We do try our absolute best to be as professional and helpful as possible, and we consider it our sworn duty to make sure everyone has a good day out- it's great to hear that our efforts are appreciated :) For those interested, the site itself has a long and interesting history. It has been (at various times) a quarry, a munitions factory/arms dump, a landfill site (as far as we can tell, mostly for old rubber and aggregate), a paintball site (in the bottom field) and a 4x4 offroading centre. There are fishing lakes in the centre of the site which are out of bounds on game days. The site's history makes it more or less ideal to run an airsoft site on, and it's brownfield (which means we can basically put up whatever temporary structures we want, dig big holes etc and with no neighbours to upset and out of view to all). This history does mean you sometimes have to watch your footing though! Thanks again for taking the time to post a review, and do come back in the future as the site changes dramatically in the summer… if we’re lucky, we’ll be there!