Another day at Outpost in Chester on Saturday with 7 of us. Me, my missus who was playing for the first time, my youngest and her boyfriend who was playing for the first time, 2 mates and my future son in law. Standard day playing standard games, capture the flag, attack/defend and some variatio s of the same. Great gameplay in the morning as there was about 10v10 so lots of movement with good comms and excellent hit taking.
After lunch was a completely different kettle of fish though! 2 groups of first time rentals arrived, one group of young teens on a birthday party and a group on a stag day. They numbered about 20 between them and good game play, comms and hit taking went right out of the bloody window. I'll admit it was fun watching the kids screaming as they charged forward on the whistle but I, and some others, decided to stay at the back as we knew there would be lots of friendly fire as they were just too excited. We were right. Absolute blatant not calling hits and some of the younger getting upset and removing their eye pro but mostly was dealt with.
So, fun but not as fun as it could have been.