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Isn't Phoenix where kicking mustang plays? That'd put me off. Not just because of him individually, but if they tolerate that sort of play I'm not interested.

@Jacob Wrightthanks mate, kind of you to say. I'm a massive fan of the site in general, it has provided some of the best and worst Airsoft I've ever done, but on balance it's much more likely to be decent to good. Their Halloween night game was something else! But I've been to sites where it's been awful and never had the prospect or potential to be semi decent (awa Herts, I'm looking at you!). Some sites just aren't for you, I recently did Blackstone cqb and I can't fault the site (in fact, from a business/service they excelled) but it just isn't for me. I suspect some rotten luck and the wrong games types are the cause here.

The wall of text isn't doing the ops point much good. However I think the general consensus is a moan about the site, hit taking, lack of action from the marshalls over issues, not having dedicated marshalls. I am a "regular" there, although in 2024 Im not sure I did more than 5 games. I'm not a marshall, but I have been attending for 12+years. Over the years it has had its ups and down, currently it's mid way through a change of manager, different people will be running the different weekends they run (skirmish, battlefield and filmsim). The brambles have always been an issue and are worse than ever, but keeping on top of all the maintenance is very hard! They have done loads, loads more is needed. I've noticed the dates the op mentioned, some would be skirmish, some battlefield and possible a filmsim. They have very different rules and are meant to be very different experiences. I suspect the lack of consistency comments and it being their personal playground is connected to this. Generally tuddenham is great, though I've had some truly awful days there too. Of all the sites I've done, it's the most consistently good (sometimes amazing), if i rated every event I've ever done, I'm confident tuddenham would have the highest average of all sites attended. However they are not perfect. I've seen (and mentioned on the how was your skirmish thread) how some days have been awful. I did a game in September time and it was truly the worst day of Airsoft I've ever witnessed. It was also the day I've seen the most non regular attendees at tuddenham, I spotted several large groups who were visiting and they effectively hijacked and ruined the weekend. I've personally witnessed the marshall deal with cheaters and seen people told to leave the site. I've seen player marshalls work very well and badly. General advice, pick your event there carefully, want more "realism" , then filmsims are for you, want to squirt loads of bbs for your hpa pistol, do the skirmish. Even then, there is the potential for it to go wrong, they can only provide the venue, rules, rule enforcement and encouragement, a lot is on the players. As mentioned, I've done a lot of sites over the years and it'd be a real shame to write tuddenham off, it's generally far better than most sites I've been to. After 3 bad visits I can understand why you would though.

10 is probably too young, the closer you are the more it hurts. I still have bruises from last sunday. Id say the youngest with supervision would be 13. Some sites do young airsofter games (check out battle stations in Norfolk) at lower power levels for an example, but that'll be hiring the guns and using them on their site. Bio bbs work, they're better than they used to be. As you clearly aren't an airsofter, you'd have to get a two tone anyway. One of the major things about airsoft is that they look for realistic (generally), but two tone allows any over 18 to buy an airsoft gun as over 50% of it is a bright colour (you generally have to pay extra for this). If you do ignore the advice and get one anyway, a full face mask is essential, people regularly their teeth shot out.

@Jez_Armstrong, that's awesome and cool as. Id love a night game where that type of tracer are required, would add a whole new element to it.

Welcome to the sport, I'm 40 and I've been playing for years now (think it's approaching 13.....man I feel old). Anyway, I wanted to make a few points. 1. Hold off buying too much. It's easy at the start to think, it's amazing, I'm going to do this big time and spend a fortune. Most of what new players buy is crap and they realise it's crap after not long. Also, it's as easy to lose the love for the sport as it is to fall in love with it, then most of the money youve spent will be wasted. There's "airsoft" bits that really get some people and make them fall out of love with it. 2. Everyone at airsoft are adults, dressing up to play pretend toy soldiers.....a bit like that trick where public speakers picture everyone is naked, you should try picturing everyone there as a massive nerd into playing toy soldiers.....which is exactly what we are so there's not really much reason to have social anxiety around us.....except for the neck beard body odor stinkers....avoid them. 3. Everyone loves to talk about their gear and guns, sometimes it's hard to get them to shut up, even if you didn't ask. Great for starting conversations but can be extremely dull. 4. Try different sites, some sites are great and some are crap, most are ok. But you could be going to a crap one and not realize it.....or you could be going to a great one and experiencing a crap one will make you appreciate the one you have been to. Anyway, welcome and stuff.

Yes and No. I have had a GHK v2 M4, a TM MP7 and a TM MWS and now I don't own any of them. I still have TM recoils that I bought around 10+ years ago. The GHK, I just had regular misfeed and issues with and it ruined at least 3 day games, games are precious for me, I am a dad to young kids and I don't get to go often, so I couldn't stick with it. I am sure with some fettling it could have been great, but I didn't have the time or the will. The TM MP7 was awesome, I wish I still had this, I had no issues whatsoever and 40 round mags and size meant carrying a few extra was easy. It also convinced me that the GHK problems were that it was a GHK issue, not a GBBR issue. As such I sold that and got a TM MWS, put around £1000 into it (mags, rail, hob nub etc, nothing to change anything significant) and again, had problem after problem with it so I gave up on gas guns. The nozzle arm thing got bent, mis feeds, gas mags venting, mags not taking gas properly due to metal nozzles on gas cans. Again, with some fettling or knowledge, this is probably easy enough to overcome. Having the knowledge and spares available to make adjustments on the day is key too. I was too hot to run on some days, even with the weakest gas. I have just picked up a GBLS DAS (not used yet). The mag capacity was never the issue, I currently run a ngrs with the 82 round mags and will be running 60 rounders next. The tactile nature, feedback, fun when shooting etc of a gbbr is awesome but I just found the inconsistency when actually pulling the trigger, the percentage of times it didn't work was too high for me.

£650 ish. Unfortunately having recoils upgraded, even by well known techs is a massive money loss. I've seen multiple times of people trying to recoup their costs and their rif is for sale for months with gradual reductions until around this mark.

This thread seems to have died, but is there a current or relatively active gbls das resource on another platform? Just purchased one (not got it yet) and looking for what I need to do/get in to ensure it's ready for the first skirmish

I guess you must have gone on Saturday then! I went on Sunday and it was probably the worst I have seen at Tuddenham (or any site) for years. The Marshall team did a lot to try to tackle it, "motivational speeches", threats of overzealous marshalling etc. but unfortunately there seemed to be so many bad apples there it was basically impossible to adjust. Groups cheering when players finally took hits, terrible hit taking, over killing and shooting to yield, players gloating about the fact they'd hurt others through intentional head/face shots etc. As a Tudds regular, it was very very surprising to even have it there as normally it's just not done. If anyone attended tuddenham on Sunday, please don't judge the site based on that day alone. It's not a reflection of the site or regular player base.