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Site Name: RAF Longmoor - Legion Airsoft Event.
Contact details:
Website Address: www.legionairsoftevents.com
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/LegionAirsoftEvents/
Site Address: Longmoor Urban Training Centre - Longmoor, Liphook.
My battle buddy and I popped along to the Dusk til Dawn Battlesim run by Legion Airsoft. This was to be our first outdoor Skirmish running from 8PM til 8AM. This was held at Longmoor, which is a small to medium sized realistic urban setting. Mostly short engagement distances due to the darkness.This had some fairly dense woodland and fields surrounding the residential area. It is a mockup of a typical English suburb, complete with brick houses, gardens, garages and alley ways. There was a large sandbag style fort, some safety lights in place of lamp posts and roads running throughout. Mostly flat with no obvious water features.
This is more of a review on the site rather then Legion who organised it for reasons that will be described below.
Good :
Site Variety: As described in the intro, the site was incredibly varied. This was the first time we had played in a suburban mockup and we really enjoyed it. Felt to me like I was playing in an estate back in the wilds of North East Bristol. Half expecting a family to pop up pushing a pram! The woodland was dense with lots of low lying vegetation to hide in. The fort was very large with lookout posts and razorwire surrounding it.
Parking: Lots of parking within the safe zone, rough gravel, no chance of getting bogged down in the mud.
Marshaling: Marshalling during the night was top notch. There were lots of marshalls walking around asking how everyone was getting on, probably getting shot a lot as well. Welfare was a priority.
Clientele (Who remained to the end): For the people who stayed til the end, felt like one big party, watching eachothers backs and giving good intel. When heading into especially dark areas our hands were being held by people operating NVG. Good tactical play.
Shop: The shop was pretty decent, no rifles but had some pistols and lots of gear including sights, tracers pouches and a very large patch collection. The only food available was sweets and pop, but this is standard for a Battlesim not based at a standard Airsoft site.
Hit taking: For a night game the hit taking was excellent. Only heard one instance of non hit taking.
Organisation: The organisation of the night was pretty good, mission brief was well written and handed out ahead of time.
Average:
Safe Zone: Part of the safe zone was an actual proper building where the briefing and shop were placed. Unfortunately due to no tables we had to set up out of cars, but as this is a training base first and Airsoft skirmish area second that was likely to be the case.
Bad:
Clientele (Who didn't remain til the end, who didn't prepare). 65ish people had booked and paid for the Battlesim, 25 didn't bother to show up which meant only 40 played. When we were setting up, I exclaimed about the number of people who had rocked up in what appeared to be summer gear, no thermal stuff, lack of decent torches, tracers units etc. Come 3AM, sure enough there were only just over 20 players remaining. Most left due to the cold or not being able to see. Unfortunately due to this we decided that there were too few players to carry on and to pack up and go home. As we stayed til the end we have a discount to a future Legion Battlesim.
Chrono: As in our last Legion game, due to latecomers, the game started quite late and there was not enough time to run a mandatory Chrono. Some people were to be tested as and when though I didn't see it.
Conclusion:
Longmoor is a fantastic site, the darkness was not our friend, tense and exciting. My Battlebuddy had a great time and we wished it could have been seen to the conclusion. However, the people who didn't prepare spoiled the night and we had to pack up and go home early. NVG was a huge advantage in this scenario.
Legion to their credit ran a decent Battlesim and have given all who stayed to the end a discount for the next sim. We were particularly impressed with the in-game Marshalling.
It would be very interesting to play this same site in the day time as some of the engagement distances looked very long if you could see people! We cant wait for the next Legion Battlesim! Urban settings like this are very few and far between in the SE and this was as realistic as it comes!
Bullpup Watch: Terrible, just my own PDR-C and Faux Bullpup P90.
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Contact details:
Website Address: www.legionairsoftevents.com
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/LegionAirsoftEvents/
Site Address: Longmoor Urban Training Centre - Longmoor, Liphook.
My battle buddy and I popped along to the Dusk til Dawn Battlesim run by Legion Airsoft. This was to be our first outdoor Skirmish running from 8PM til 8AM. This was held at Longmoor, which is a small to medium sized realistic urban setting. Mostly short engagement distances due to the darkness.This had some fairly dense woodland and fields surrounding the residential area. It is a mockup of a typical English suburb, complete with brick houses, gardens, garages and alley ways. There was a large sandbag style fort, some safety lights in place of lamp posts and roads running throughout. Mostly flat with no obvious water features.
This is more of a review on the site rather then Legion who organised it for reasons that will be described below.
Good :
Site Variety: As described in the intro, the site was incredibly varied. This was the first time we had played in a suburban mockup and we really enjoyed it. Felt to me like I was playing in an estate back in the wilds of North East Bristol. Half expecting a family to pop up pushing a pram! The woodland was dense with lots of low lying vegetation to hide in. The fort was very large with lookout posts and razorwire surrounding it.
Parking: Lots of parking within the safe zone, rough gravel, no chance of getting bogged down in the mud.
Marshaling: Marshalling during the night was top notch. There were lots of marshalls walking around asking how everyone was getting on, probably getting shot a lot as well. Welfare was a priority.
Clientele (Who remained to the end): For the people who stayed til the end, felt like one big party, watching eachothers backs and giving good intel. When heading into especially dark areas our hands were being held by people operating NVG. Good tactical play.
Shop: The shop was pretty decent, no rifles but had some pistols and lots of gear including sights, tracers pouches and a very large patch collection. The only food available was sweets and pop, but this is standard for a Battlesim not based at a standard Airsoft site.
Hit taking: For a night game the hit taking was excellent. Only heard one instance of non hit taking.
Organisation: The organisation of the night was pretty good, mission brief was well written and handed out ahead of time.
Average:
Safe Zone: Part of the safe zone was an actual proper building where the briefing and shop were placed. Unfortunately due to no tables we had to set up out of cars, but as this is a training base first and Airsoft skirmish area second that was likely to be the case.
Bad:
Clientele (Who didn't remain til the end, who didn't prepare). 65ish people had booked and paid for the Battlesim, 25 didn't bother to show up which meant only 40 played. When we were setting up, I exclaimed about the number of people who had rocked up in what appeared to be summer gear, no thermal stuff, lack of decent torches, tracers units etc. Come 3AM, sure enough there were only just over 20 players remaining. Most left due to the cold or not being able to see. Unfortunately due to this we decided that there were too few players to carry on and to pack up and go home. As we stayed til the end we have a discount to a future Legion Battlesim.
Chrono: As in our last Legion game, due to latecomers, the game started quite late and there was not enough time to run a mandatory Chrono. Some people were to be tested as and when though I didn't see it.
Conclusion:
Longmoor is a fantastic site, the darkness was not our friend, tense and exciting. My Battlebuddy had a great time and we wished it could have been seen to the conclusion. However, the people who didn't prepare spoiled the night and we had to pack up and go home early. NVG was a huge advantage in this scenario.
Legion to their credit ran a decent Battlesim and have given all who stayed to the end a discount for the next sim. We were particularly impressed with the in-game Marshalling.
It would be very interesting to play this same site in the day time as some of the engagement distances looked very long if you could see people! We cant wait for the next Legion Battlesim! Urban settings like this are very few and far between in the SE and this was as realistic as it comes!
Bullpup Watch: Terrible, just my own PDR-C and Faux Bullpup P90.
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