Red Alert Newbury, again. I rarely go anywhere else these days, I don't need to as it's such a good site.
Last week I added a Tridos TDC 2.0 hop adjuster to my SSG10 (Video about this in my thread in the media forum).
I put it in because, while I love the Rif, I was fed up of accidentally changing the hop as it was right next to where my thumb sits when shouldering the rifle.
Sunday was the first day of using it since.
As well as the intended result it has added extra power and it's more accurate (it was already pretty good).
So I spent a fun morning totally beaning people with it. Really happy with the results.
Later in the day it became apparent that the teams were a little imbalanced. Yellow, the team I was on, had a lot of rentals but also people new to the site as two other nearby sites were closed this weekend (One of them being Absolute Airsoft, ho ho).
So I ditched my beloved SSG10, and pulled out the Cyma SVD AEG I recently bought second hand, in order to get a little closer to the action and help the team tactics and morale.
The svd was... not great. It has a combat union hop in it, and is pretty fussy. I didn't manage to find a weight and hop setting that resulted in a half decent BB flight, but that didn't really matter as I ended up ditching it and leading from the front with my MK23.
It was fun for me, but also pretty frustrating. Defeat in the first few games had demoralised the yellows, and many of them were not playing the objective, and the rest were all hanging way back.
We lost again, despite myself and the head Marshall attempting to get them motivated.
Oh well. It did, however, result in chatting with lots of new people and they all seemed to have a good day despite being steamrolled. And all the players from "that site" I chatted with were really impressed by Red Alert, but then their bar is pretty low.
In the first game after lunch I was feeling tired, being the creaky old fart I am. I had just cleared out some reds, and feeling that I may be safe I decided to sit on a bench in one of the buildings and take a sip from my camelbak. Foolish old man.
One of my friends in the other team came swinging round the corner and snapped off a reflex shot from his pistol.
Hitting me in the left testicle from less than six feet.
I sat out the next game ?
At the end of the day we had a cqbish game in the town area, basically stick in the mud.
I used my TM MP5K High Cycle, which I recently added a Swordfish rail to. I love that gun. I need to use it more, but it's very situational.
Overall a great day. VERY happy with the changes to the SSG10, the SVD needs some attention, and the MP5K is just so sweet.
This weekend Red Alert are running a Battlesim Lite, which I'm very much looking forward to. Basically a normal skirmish day but the only break is for lunch, with set objectives, teams etc. Their full battlesims are great, and this should be a nice intro to the kind of gameplay that a Battlesim offers, for less experienced players.