On Sunday my dad and I took a trip out to First and Only's Anzio Camp after dropping me back off at Uni. It's something a little different for us, usually playing woodland sites and being very sneaky doing so but we decided to give it a go.
On arrival we turned up to a fairly generously sized safe zone consisting of 2 old buildings and a large barn, with the usual free teas and coffees, along with a very good onsite shop. Chrono opened promptly and was run efficiently, and the FPS tested on the weight of bb you will be using. Around the safe zone where signs telling players that the safety briefing took place at 9:30, and that if you missed you, you would be briefed at 11, a great way to keep the game going despite players who insist on turning up last minute and taking ages to get ready. The brief was called promptly and was thorough without being too long.
The day started out with a game based around holding the med building, with the aim of assessing the skill level on each team in order to balance them out, and a few players were switched around after this game and throughout the day in order to try and keep the teams balanced. The rest of the games where based around the yellow team having a downed pilot in a building and having to extract them, the red team having to get a bomb along with the technician to each of the "D" buildings and hold them for 5 minutes to set the bomb off (The highlight of the day for me, although I think the game would have run better if the defenders had 2 lives in each building, as the game ended with the entire yellow team defending one building), and finally a competition to hold the Pub and Med building for the longest time. It was in this last game where the issues came out for us. Firstly, quite a few members of the yellow team left as they felt that they were being hammered all day and the teams were one sided, and this also resulted in the remaining players becoming quite frustrated and tempers boiling over at times. However, to their credit, the marshals were trying to balance the teams out the whole time, even in the last game.
Overall it was a not a brilliant day due to some of the issues with game design and the high tempers towards the end, but it was still better than a lot of sites and we would definitely return again.
Weapons used:
Me: G&G SRL build, SRC MP5 and ASG XP18, and various BFGs
Dad: CA HK33 and HK53, Milbro classic 1911
