NAE13 The Ground Zero Weekender

[Arden]

I can see that to much lube could almost create a small vacuum holding the bolt back?

 

[Airsoft-Ed]

I did think that as well, but it's what the tech we gave it to on the day did to sort it out.

I'm looking after it for him because he doesn't want his 'rents to know he bought it (epic win for me) so I'm going to look up a take down guide or something and try giving it a proper clean out. It's probably full of all sorts of sandy shit from the site.

 

[Ian_Gere]

DELTA DELTA DELTA!!

So yeah, brilliant weekend! Next year, everyone else is joining me and Arden on Delta, yeah?

Yeah, Delta always seemed to be the first to start chanting their team name ad nauseam, "Delta, Delta, Delta..." Sort of reminded me of those cocks who make up the audience for Jeremy Kyle going, "Ooh, ooh, ooh..." in imitation of yanks whom they imagine are cool, but are in fact merely incapable of expressing themselves without reverting to basic primate behaviour, as a result of the inculcation and extirpation they received in place of an education. Desmond Morris would love Delta :lol:

What was it we Others were going to be, Liam? "Annihilated" wasn't it? Second by eighty seven points is hardly that, is it? And when you consider that at least half, but probably more, of our team, including our leaders, were either in fancy dress and/or just nobbing about the whole time, or literally the walking wounded (like the bloke who stepped up when our 2IC was too incapacitated to walk, after being ordered off site the night before by paramedics who treated him for a leg swollen 20% and still going once released from his boot, whom himself had had a stroke and a heart attack only two months previously, just as one example), the fact that you only just beat us goes to show that in reality the minority of Others who did take it seriously and were in the mood and condition to actually play for points totally owned everybody else in the field!

No Liam. No.

Others or nothing. Being a nob with my new AK was far too much fun.

Yeah Ed, give me a blue tag or give me dea... an ice cream! Now that Phatima is getting acceptable outdoor range, I can recap the whole 'jog about shooting willy-nilly' experience. Reminded me of the 2nd and 3rd times I ever skirmished and I loved it!

And, of course, there's my new love affair with Svetlana to consider, whose scope i finished zeroing by shooting at a few cheeky Deltas whom I spotted scouting the eastern end of the Landing Zone, after presumably creeping across from somewhere around the pond - probably some of the regenners from their spectacular defeat at the Fort, in which I believe you were mentioned in despatches, non mesieur? Anyway, just nobbing about with a sniper rifle, which I created pretty much as cheaply as possible and still have something worth the effort, was a right laugh!

You can run around being a nob on Delta too. It's not like we were actually an organised team. The team descriptions don't seem to mean anything.

Oh, but they do. Delta's description seems to draw a much higher %age, if not all, of those geardos with Systemas and, as often as not, a curious inability to feel hits shot by 'softers younger than them and/or those whose gear they consider 'inferior'. Delta also seems to attract a higher %age of 'softers dressed as yanks. make of that what you will...

Who knows what went through the minds of this year's Bravos? Despite several warnings about non hit taking by marshals, they wore their force fields and, despite that and several attempts with more than a three to one numerical advantage (the accepted requirement amongst military scholars for an attacking force to overwhelm a defended fixed position), they were incapable of storming Heartbreak Ridge, even when we were down to three live defenders left, ffs!

From my experience of my fellow Others, it seems our team attracted the highest %age of foreigners, for whom English was sometimes an almost nonexistent 2nd language, and as mentioned above, the fancy dressers and people who were generally just up for a laugh and didn't care who won, alongside the spectacularly brave / flamboyantly reckless who cared about winning enough to pull off some amazing stunts, such as the sniper in full ghillie suit whom I saw rise out of the ferns by the side of the path opposite Heartbreak Ridge, past / into which plenty of Bravos had been strolling / patrolling, only to eschew his rifle and secondary to sprint 35-40m up to a lone Bravo for a knife-kill! :lol:

As for the AK, I'm all about that, though I may look for one with wood bits.

It wouldn't take much work with a dremmel and drill to fit RS AK furniture onto a G&G RK47. The main work would be drilling a 19mm Ø hole from the space under the butt plate almost up to the receiver for a NiMh stick, or 21-22mm Ø for a LiPo, and a couple of 8mm Ø holes, filed together into an oval, from the new battery compartment into the receiver for connectors. Either that or discard the blowback mech and fit a battery under the top cover...

2nd edit: you should come over to the dark side, Liam. We can have a friendly competition: pick the most obvious bell-end from your former team mates from any approaching group and each name parts of the body for the other to try to hit...

 

[NickM]

My first ever time at GZ and was on Delta as that's the team my normal team always plays on. I enjoyed most of the weekend there however there were a few times I was a little pissed off with things. The game was tight points wise which makes every objective count.

I know people on Delta weren't happy with hit taking on both bravo and the others sides, and it's clear from this discussion that it's the same for those teams when asked about delta. With that many people on site there are always going to be issues with those who fail to follow rule number one, "Don't be a dick!". Like the Other player that decided not to bang kill but to place a pistol to the side of a Delta players head and unleash a few rounds. There was no call for that it makes no sense whatsoever.

I know at least one instance of a Delta responding to a challenge from a group of Bravo that he was bravo allowing them to walk towards the base he was in thinking they were safe before taking them out. Bad Delta. Or the group of Bravo who walked out of a dead zone 20m ahead of our team on the path, we decided to leave them be so they could get back to their line to join in, who then decided to drop their hands and raise their guns and were then surprised when we took them out. They started shouting at us that they were dead and continued towards their lines. While I took the hit that I had received from them.

My observation was that the quality of play declined rapidly from about 12 on Sunday, Delta were warned about overkill, many of Delta were complaining about hit taking for both of the other teams. I know there was one small path held by players on the others team, 3 or 4 players emptied high caps and even a C mag into a position with bb's being returned from said position no hit was ever called from the other even though a few snipers that were with us scoped it out and could see the rounds hitting the player. The marshal was eventually called over to deal with them.

Numerous times we had skirmishes with others up by outpost 7, we had a guy stationed ahead of our front line who was our FOP, he heard and saw many of the dead players walking back to the DZ and calling out the positions of our players to their mates. Alternatively the people using the regen to gain an advantage, going to a DZ that took them past our positions then returning to the game far to our rear, way ahead of any route that would have got them there safely otherwise.

As I said at the beginning there are probably members of Others and Bravo who have similar stories about Delta. All I know is I called every hit I felt or heard, even some that were questionable and in one instance one I didn't even think was a hit but its better to be over cautious, I didn't give away any intel I gained while walking about 'dead'. And if you can say/know you are the same then its just a shame that some others can't.

I liked that there was such an international feel to the event, we had a team of 4 Hungarian guys on Delta ( 1 who had never played before) and a team of at least 25 French guys most who didn't speak English, good thing one of our guys is half French so he could help them out.

BTW it was fairly obvious that The Others had something against Delta on the Sat, I didn't see a single orange tag all of Saturday.

 

[NickM]

Oh and Ian, the Delta chanting at the campsite I didn't and still don't get, all seemed overly competitive to me. At the village on sunday it was a bit of a laugh, def added to the atmosphere for me, at least twice up there it was started by a German guy on my team. And we were encouraged to use it as a battle cry, although I don't think it was used much.

 

[SgtTalbert]

No Liam. No.

Others or nothing. Being a nob with my new AK was far too much fun. I'd forgotten how much fun it was to run around with hi-caps not giving a shit about anything and carrying next to no added weight whatsoever.

Though after seeing Geoff's WE L85, I'm totally getting one at some point.



Edit:

Considering I took this with my iPhone 3GS camera, it looks epic. I'm an artistic photography boss.

I was going to get that AK but then found a G&G TT with 5 mids and 2 highs for £175 so couldnt say no - its a brilliant rifle and fires lovely. The body looks the same as me, so I am assuming you could probably by the 103 Evo ris kit front end and it should hopefully fit fine. Again, assumptions are the start of most fuck ups but hopefully not this one

 

[Airsoft-Ed]

I was going to get that AK but then found a G&G TT with 5 mids and 2 highs for £175 so couldnt say no - its a brilliant rifle and fires lovely. The body looks the same as me, so I am assuming you could probably by the 103 Evo ris kit front end and it should hopefully fit fine. Again, assumptions are the start of most fuck ups but hopefully not this one

I went on the G&G website looking for add ons, because I know what G&G are like when it comes down to compatibility for external parts like stocks and stuff... They don't seem to sell anything RIS related for their AK series, I'm fairly sure if they do any stocks I'm going to have to mod them to fit myself, especially since the battery is housed in there and the blowback mech fills the upper receiver and I couldn't find any pistol grips either.

Though I've found a few G&G "RK series" RIS kits on Landwarrior, I'm assuming they're for a 74, but with any luck they'll fit on mine. So that's the RIS sorted, the stock I'm probably going to have to leave, and I'll be picking up an AKM muzzle break thingy for it soon enough.

 

[M_P]

How new is your version? The new g&g aks have LCT externals.

Though I'm not sure why I'm saying that, if your going to ruin it with an RIS set

 

[Stormhall]

I got to say Saturday was pretty epic. Since I went to the event alone and don't have a team I usually just met up with a few random teams and helped them with their objective. We did fight Bravo on Saturday but that was on our way up to the Compound. Without saying too much we absolutely DESTROYED them and we held the perimeter around the Compound quite well. I also got a few sneak kills on Delta by popping out of some foliage near Heartbreak Ridge.

 

[Airsoft-Ed]

How new is your version? The new g&g aks have LCT externals.

Though I'm not sure why I'm saying that, if your going to ruin it with an RIS set

I've no idea how new it is, Z1 could've had it in storage for years for all I know. I've never handled an LCT so I can't really compare them, but I was amazed it was less than £150, put it that way.

 

[Unrustle_Thine_Jimmies]

It's the older RK47,With a Magnesium receiver and TM based design. The full steel & wood LCT bodied ones run for around 320£ I think.

LCT AKs feel bloody amazing(The factory assembled ones,not like the retailer assembled one like Ian got) Not as good as a real sword but heavy,solid with no rattles. Only thing I don't like about them is the super tight mags which disallows you to do the tacticool AK reload and the Weak motor.

 

[M_P]

I've no idea how new it is, Z1 could've had it in storage for years for all I know. I've never handled an LCT so I can't really compare them, but I was amazed it was less than £150, put it that way.

My point was that if it was new one it'd take LCT parts, as you were unsure what would fit.

 

[Unrustle_Thine_Jimmies]

I think some LCT parts can fit on Marui style AKs,LCTs are evolutions of the old metal Guarder kits for TM AKs.

I'll check on some other forums to be sure.

 

[Airsoft-Ed]

My point was that if it was new one it'd take LCT parts, as you were unsure what would fit.

OOooooohhhhhhhh

Now that's not a bad call.

But I have no idea...

 

[M_P]

Actually being an ak even if what you end up getting doesnt fit straight, you could also get some gaffer tape and it'd still look at home