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What's people's opinions on Comms? For a full on Mil Sim, I'd like every player wired up, so they can speak within their team, and then one individual within the team acting as a signaller who can speak higher up the chain with Main (ExCon). What's people's experience, good and bad, with working two way Comms during a scenario? Any thoughts on what are good radios? I'm looking at Ex Mil Clansman radios but these can be heavy and cumbersome! Their are some very capable civilian Motorola type radios available for a decent price with remote presses and headsets! After some advice on what you would like to see used?

Well the exercise we're considering does have quite a significant river flowing through it. I'd have to check about river crossings as no doubt this would affect the insurance, and people would need to be properly trained. Their is the option to do bridge building I suppose if we could manage to get our hands on some kit. I like the idea of an amphibious assault and this is something we could look at doing after running a few events. There's certainly enough training areas out there where it would be possible. I think for the first few it's going to be a case of not trying to run before we can walk! Once we've a better idea of how things are panning out and started to hopefully gain a bit of a reputation then we can consider more exciting scenarios. Teddybhoy, we'll bare that in mind about the airsoft show! It's really a case of getting down to see what's available and discuss some supply ideas with different companies.

Well things are starting to take shape. We've started to think about a few different scenarios, we've looked into Public Liability Insurance, and registering with the UKARA. We've got some ideas in mind for locations and will make enquiries when in work on Monday. We've decided to attend the Air Soft Show in two weeks time to take a look around and talk to people, and then start trying to bring everything together!

We've got an idea of a training area, and are planning on speaking to the Range Warden at the beginning of the week. It's not on the same scale as Salisbury Plain, with Copehill Down, or Eastmere Village on STANTA, but it has a good variety of bunkers, ammo compounds, open fields and woodlands which would be amazing! I've just looked on the Tier1 website and it looks really impressive. That's exactly the kind of thing were looking at doing but obviously on the other side of the country! We'd like to concentrate fully on MilSim as they do. Obviously the Pre Event training would be tricky for us!

We should be able to get Comms without too many issues! These are one of the must haves to add to the realism as far as we're concerned. Obviously it will be dependant on the size of the exercise area and numbers involved! I'd love to be able to offer the option to allow people to dig in, but I know that a lot of the Training Areas have restrictions on it. This obviously won't be a problem if we don't use MOD land

Thanks for the offer of help Baz, much appreciated! Mike 636, that's the kind of thing we hd in mind, just allocate different jobs within the teams and let them figure out how to achieve the objectives! Russe11 I love the sound of that! I was just chatting to my mate about adding realism and looking at Helo's via a few of our friends for inserts and casevac etc! I remember taking a cab down to a Mil Vehicle Convention one weekend and there were loads of vehicles there! No doubt those guys would love to come and thrash their vehicles around

Like the evening break for beers and BBQ idea! Then crack on again at first light! I'm leaning towards the Full Mil Sim experience. Maybe run 1 a month but make it big! Especially now I know theirs scope to run it on MOD Training Areas! We're planning on visiting a few different sites over the next month or so to have a chat and see how things are run. Taking on other bits of advice, it's key that we advertise it well! What are the most popular magazines that people buy? Also noticed that theirs the occasional program on TV! I've just been letting my mate now the feedback we've received so far and reckon we need to give it a good few months of advertising before the event. If we were to focus our attentions on running one a month as a full mil sim I reckon we could make some great, challenging and realistic weekends! If we could recruit 100+ players we could run real time Company attacks etc with numerous objectives

This is all great info. Thanks a lot Nick M! You're right Baz, their is a large Afghan Style Village on STANTA. We used to work it when they were training the new JTACS ready for Afghanistan. Interesting about the MoD being wilco with their TA's! This is something we'll defo look at. We would aim to go for more of a mil sim package rather than the skirmish type. Our scenarios would be full on and packed with realism based events that we've been involved with. Because of this we could keep changing them on a regular basis to keep things interesting. I suppose we'd have to see how well it took off before ruling out running smaller exercises. Interesting on the price though, if we could run a couple of mil sim events each month and get a good reputation then it could be something that we could fully focus on! Anybody else care to list what they think makes or breaks a great event? How clued up on tactics are the people that compete in the events or would you say it's normally a good split? I suppose when we advertise the event we could mention the level it's being pitched at?

Yeah agreed! We're very aware of easy it would be to get carried away with it, in the quest for perfection! We're all sitting down over the next fortnight to discuss finances etc. if we could find somewhere good to rent then I think we could do it without need a business loan! I've noticed that theirs an event forecast for Sennybridge,mwhich was originally meant to be at Copehill Down! Are the MOD on side then for allowing events on their training areas?

That's been one of our concerns! We know it's a bit out of the way so would people travel to it? That's why we've been thinking of ways to make it as realistic as possible. Would their be an appetite for weekend scenarios do you think? We're considering an Option where teams arrive Friday night, receive orders, then move out into the area for a scenario that runs through the weekend into Sun afternoon! We've managed to procure some respirators to consider doing an NBC Phase as well

Hahahaha! We've not longed moved from around that area! When I say West Mids, it's the far West! Shropshire area we're looking at towards the Welsh Border. There's some nice areas we've been to see with differing terrain and loads of potential

This is defo something were planning on doing. At the moment our focus has been mainly on finding a plot we could use. We are looking to hopefully have something up and running within the next 5/6 months. As we've never been to one of the big sites or competed in a big match we're unsure of the amount people pay to participate in it. We've been comparing it to Paintball as a rough guess. We've looked at different starter kits on the internet and built a lit of suppliers to talk to when things progress a bit more

I think that because we could split it between 3 maybe 4 of us the time commitment issue wouldn't be that bad! We would all be involved in the planning process and would use a maximum of 6 different scenarios which would be pre designed and planned. Then just let them run their course on the day with video de briefs afterwards

We've only messed around with some kit on our Camp and are planning on getting a few of us together to visit a local site soon. We all really love it and thought what a quality job it would be to do! We've all got something different to bring to it from an experience point of view and are working on different scenarios rather than just skirmish style scenarios. Like the paintball idea too, these are things we hadn't thought of. We're also considering doing corporate team building days as two of us are high ropes instructors so we could have a small area cordoned off for that. This would obviously load the insurance policy a bit more!

Renting is something we had considered. It's finding the right place that's proving difficult. We're more than happy to throw everything we've got at this and certainly don't mind putting in the ground work to make the scenarios as good and realistic as possible. Do you run a site yourself Baz? This is all good info by the way thanks

Well were currently looking at pooling some of our savings together and buying some land. We would love to run scenarios that we've all been involved in for real just to add a bit of realism to it. We've got some good ideas but would really like to see what people really enjoy about the sport and what they would have in their ultimate games! We'd consider doing full weekend events with things such as UAV coverage which can be down linked to ground stations, all this equipment we've already got. We understand that it will be a lot of commitment and we're all ready to give it everything to make it a success. We need to get a few Insurance quotes as we've not looked at that yet! We're focussing our attentions on finding the right plot first. That's why we want people's opinions on what they like about the sport, as I said we've only just scratched the surface of it ourselves. We've got a mixture of different experiences to bring from AH Drivers, Infanteers & EOD experts.

West Midlands! Theirs a group of about 3 maybe 4 of us interested in it. We've only just started playing around with the sport but really want to do something

Hi everyone, just registered and thought I'd say hello! Seriously considering setting up an Airsoft site with a few guys from work after playing around on the airfield. Thought that this would be a great site to find out people's thoughts? If I've posted in the wrong section then accept my apologies!! I can give more info about we've been discussing if people wish, but it would be great to receive your ideas about what makes a great site!