How many of you have a character?

[bornleverpuller]

Hi, after reading a magazine on airsofting I found in Smiths it seems that some players have characters that they sort of build their load outs around. (Hoping that's right). How many people generally do this? Is it popular or are you more likely to see people running around with whatever they think looks cool? Do you find that mates generally have all the same sort of stuff?

 

[M_P]

What it means is that it isn't uncommon for people to base their kit on that of a real world faction or military unit. Most people just wear whats practical and looks cool, others spend their time matching stuff to perfection, just down to what you yourself want to do.

 

[bornleverpuller]

What it means is that it isn't uncommon for people to base their kit on that of a real world faction or military unit. Most people just wear whats practical and looks cool, others spend their time matching stuff to perfection, just down to what you yourself want to do.

Yeah I get that was just interested in how many people do do it, I'm a little bit OCD when it comes to my hobbies, for example I have played warhammer for a decade and would never paint my models anything from the colour they were meant to be becuase to me it just doesn't look right, I think I'd be the same way if I were to build a full load out.

 

[Carrel]

Of topic but what did you collect?. Good thing about airsoft is that as long as you enjoy your loadout then there's not really anything which people can do about it. Not up to them what you wear. The only thing they can tell yo wear is the type of eye protection. Everything else is really just suggested. As long as you can take people maybe thinking you look funny wearing something which is a bit out of the normal then its all good

 

[TheFull9]

On the internet: Quite a lot.

When you get to a skirmish: Very few. At least at all the games I've ever gone to.

If you go all out and want to have to sleep in a tent/sleep with your eye pro on/stag on guard duties etc and go to a full on mil-sim weekend then a large majority of the guys on the ISAF team will be replicating British or American military. At the average sunday airsoft game 90% of people are just bombing about in either standard civvie clothes or some simple camo with perhaps a basic vest or a couple of pouches to hold some kit.

 

[bornleverpuller]

Of topic but what did you collect?. Good thing about airsoft is that as long as you enjoy your loadout then there's not really anything which people can do about it. Not up to them what you wear. The only thing they can tell yo wear is the type of eye protection. Everything else is really just suggested. As long as you can take people maybe thinking you look funny wearing something which is a bit out of the normal then its all good

I've got about 12000 points of space wolves, 3000 grey knight, 6000 word bearers, 8000 high elves and then about 6 different blood bowl teams.

 

[adam bussey]

I've got about 12000 points of space wolves, 3000 grey knight, 6000 word bearers, 8000 high elves and then about 6 different blood bowl teams.

ouch! although those are al SM armies so how many models?

 

[bornleverpuller]

ouch! although those are al SM armies so how many models?

Over a 1000 I would have thought never counted.

 

[Ian_Gere]

I have an airsoft alter-ego: he is LCpl Ian Gere. He is somebody that IRL I doubt I'd like much. He exercises personality traits which I have found unhelpful IRL and have, to the extent that they existed, which in some cases was actually quite small, but with nevertheless disturbing potential, largely trained myself out of. Impatience is probably the main one. IRL me, spiders, and stalagmites are on the same page. LCpl Gere shot a prisoner in the legs several times for not complying with an order within 3 seconds...

Edit: he isn't a regular soldier however, he is a mercenary.

 

[Unrustle_Thine_Jimmies]

Vasily,the angry ex-gru GRU scout/sniper.

He's the nutter who,although carrying a sniper rifle,likes to run into the fray screaming out enemy positions and getting up close and personal,before inevitably getting shot. Years of having bricks smashed off his stomach have hardened him and a little field medicine usually has him back on his feet.

Only uses his scope 40% of the time,when he actually has to do some sniping,where he is a surprisingly good shot.

Often likes to sneak up behind enemies and either shoot them from point blank or try decapitate them with a shovel.

On the run from the Russian military for murdering a bunch of military officials.

He gets made fun of by his mercenary friends for his KLMK suit which looks like a set of giant feety pyjamas.

 

[Ian_Gere]

Ей товариш, для Василій я має запровадити Іан Якович Гір!

 

[Unrustle_Thine_Jimmies]

Я придумав iсторiy дла Василiй той час як я писав!

(I made the story for Vasily while I wrote!)

 

[TacMaster]

Smith, the daft if not stupid ex-bodyguard.

His preferred weapon of choice is an MP5, however he has a particular fondness of bright colours, hence the turquoise camouflage system he's painted his MP5. He has multiple weapons in his arsenal; a patchy blue Desert Eagle which he used to kill Osama Bin Laden (don't listen to the American lies!) and an also stupidly blue pump shotgun, which he won Duck Hunt 2000 with.

While others on the battlefield choose to wear fully loaded plate carriers for ultimate protection, Smith wears a very small bodyguards' MOLLE chest rig. This chest rig offers 0 protection from the deadly firepower of his adversaries, and can only fit an MP5 triple mag pouch and a 5.56 mag pouch which he cannot explain why it got onto his rig.

Smith also lives in the past; he wears CS'95 DPM smock and combat trousers instead of the new-fangled Multicam and MTP he sees so often. One often sees Smith charging about like a lunatic, usually capturing objectives in the last few seconds of the game.

 

[Moose87]

yer i think that people dont base it on a specific person but on a faction so to speak, you see most people in either PCS or CS95, i dont know why people like PCS i think just cos its new people have to have it.

 

[jcheeseright]

I like PCS cut clothing because it's more comfortable than CS95!

 

[TacMaster]

If I had to have MTP for a team or something, I'd go with '95 cut MTP. Don't want to end up wearing PCS kit, pyjamas are for sleeping in not airsofting

 

[jcheeseright]

I dunno, it was designed to be (and is) more comfortable clothing to wear while fighting.

the north vietnamese army did pretty well in pyjamas too!

 

[M_P]

Wearing MTP as a team camo would be stupid imo (unless your team is based on a british loadout or something) So many people wear MTP and MC these days that it doesn't stand out and isn't hugely recognisable- which is probably the point in having a set camo for your members.

I'm alright on the PCS vs 95 front, with atleast 2 sets of each :lol: Though tacmaster i'd disagree with you, I definitley prefer wearing the PCS stuff- definitley the trousers.

 

[TacMaster]

Don't know about that, I've been pretty comfy in my '95s during training and while in the field. Either way it's gonna be forced upon me and the rest of the cadets in my battalion so I have no choice, unless I buy some surplus '95 cut stuff.

 

[Moose87]

Well having served in both uniforms, i always felt more comfortable in 95s. the majority of people i served with preferred 95s as well. velcro on a uniform.....worst idea ever.