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Colin Allen said:
I went there once; it was enough.
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We quite enjoyed our gameday there, but I remember the map being pretty large and the directions rather vague.  Wouldn't say no to going there again, but we have so many options within that driving radius.

 
Dan Robinson said:
We quite enjoyed our gameday there, but I remember the map being pretty large and the directions rather vague.  Wouldn't say no to going there again, but we have so many options within that driving radius.
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When I went, we played the worst fallback game ever.  In one section of it, all 30 or so of us had to defend a small circular area with virtually no cover against an enemy who could go wherever they wanted and attack from any direction; it didn't last long.  In another section of the same game, the same number of us had to defend the world's smallest killhouse; there was barely room to breathe, let alone move.

In another game in the CQB maze thing, we had to pretend that we could not see our opponents through the rather large gaps in the walls.

The safezone was good and had WiFi.

 
Colin Allen said:
When I went, we played the worst fallback game ever.  In one section of it, all 30 or so of us had to defend a small circular area with virtually no cover against an enemy who could go wherever they wanted and attack from any direction
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I had the same exact experience funny enough. The safezone was nice though, except from the 3 hour treck to the toilets!

 
JinxDuh said:
I had the same exact experience funny enough. The safezone was nice though, except from the 3 hour treck to the toilets!
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Ah yes!  The toilets!  They aren't exactly conveniently located.

 
it's actually not too far from an actual pill box, if you remove the upper floor so you can stand up inside, put down a chair or two, it will be a chill spot

 
I swear I started a similar thread a while ago with the intent to post all maps I find.....

But yeah, it doesn't need to be a work of art or even anything beyond simple line drawing with basic features and names. 

First time (awhile ago now) at a new site (ambush Botley) and they start talking about locations "yeah, but where is it?" - oh just follow someone....

By lunch we had a conversation with owner about it, we had done a very rough sketch of the rest of the afternoon by the end of the day, someone had found a dnd map maker and boom, a usable map was born.

The Gaol do theirs very well, with the "long game" locations, timings and scoring options all listed. Shout out to Justin as it hits 10Years in May.

CS used to hand a copy to all site first timers. 

Many smaller sites might not need to bother, Red1 chiselhurst for example is compact enough to have have its areas clear and easy to navigate. 

As is mentioned already,  it doesn't need much. 

For me, the effort of getting a map either on website or handed on game day speaks volumes about the sites level of welcome to new to site visitors. Excluding of course the smaller sites that don't need to...

 
Jaylordofwaargh said:
First time (awhile ago now) at a new site (ambush Botley) and they start talking about locations "yeah, but where is it?" - oh just follow someone....

By lunch we had a conversation with owner about it, we had done a very rough sketch of the rest of the afternoon by the end of the day, someone had found a dnd map maker and boom, a usable map was born.
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…. Did it look anything like this?

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When we ran events there, circa 2010, they had a faded whiteboard up with a rough sketch.

I can’t remember if we put together the map or they gave us an existing source to overlay ours onto.

We produced a giant ‘bare’ poster board edition to overlay event specifics in the safe zone briefs.

It should still be in my garage, hung from the ceiling acting as a shelf for tents - but the prints probably disintegrated/rubbed off over the years 

I like site maps, as a descendant of a dodgy ‘ship wrecked’ Norwegian I have no sense of direction and rely on map/site feature recognition ….. and at Camouflage Bournemouth during pre event setup I lost half the objective props for a while - I had stacked them on top of a hill whilst taking them a couple at a time to set up, and couldn’t find my way back to the hill.  So I geotagged every location at Ambush.

 
That's not ambush activities Botley is it? Thought the site was squarer than that? 

There was a white board with some x's and y's but no other marks as the game was explained using named locations...

 
Jaylordofwaargh said:
That's not ambush activities Botley is it? Thought the site was squarer than that?
 
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It is, and represents the wooded areas

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The zones still in use may be in more of a square, (and possibly the larger of the woods contains the normal zones)

Jaylordofwaargh said:
There was a white board with some x's and y's but no other marks as the game was explained using named locations...
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It sounds like the same whiteboard map is still going, and probably wiped away a few times since then

For a fuller large scenario we would like to open up into more of a sites. With Ambush having been in the game for many years there were ‘abandoned’ zones which we would have brought into featured points and they will also have shut down & rebuilt new areas since.

Parts of the site are prone to flooding so would be available or unavailable at times of the year 

 
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