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The 'How Did Your Airsoft Day Go? Thread

Local one for me too being from Hartlepool and again, It was fantastic. I actually preferred the amount of people that were there on Wednesday as it left plenty of gaps/flanks to be exploited. Creeping about on the creaky floors and suddenly walking into a room of 3/4 people was a tense but fun time. The low light really makes it though, I even managed to shrink myself into a dark corner and watch someones shadow on the wall so I know they were coming in the room, they didn't make the most dignified of noises when I shot them ?
Agreed it does make for some great gameplay when its low numbers. Allows for different tactics. I'll give you a shout next time I'm there see if your going. Yet to meet any fellow AFUKers.

 
@Egon_247 Red1 woodland is a grand little site. They do sometimes have pyro limits due to a football field next door.

Cute little trench system, two decent cqb villages with some longer play areas as well. Not large by any means but that just means you learn the site quickly. 

 
Brecon Pocket

1) The method of stowing spent mags inside the front of your smock, where the waist belt stops them falling out

or

2) The source of an infection picked up in Merthyr Tydfil.

 
My first visit to RIFT The Ridge (nr Toddington)

It rained last night. It's still the winter.

The site is also used by 4x4 off roading vehicles.  The primary soil in the area is clay.

These are key things to bear in mind...

It was a gigantic mud pit of a place, and although some fun was to be had, I left early because I was just too tired and couldn't face the overly long and frankly dangerous treks back to and from spawn.  The area is very hilly and crisscrossed with the tracks the cars and trucks take... Leading to very long slippery roads, with sumps of deep muddy water.  I spent more time worrying about sliding into waist deep puddles or talking face-first dives into deep mud than caring about incoming fire.

The marshals and staff were all very friendly, everything seemed to run smoothly (though I'm sure the Sermon On The Mount took less time than the briefing, semi-ironically made from a mound, and one of the few dry spots in the site), but the logistics of the place and all that mud just didn't let it work properly.

Might be magic in the summer, but right now it's a 'no' from me, Clive

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(The muddy path in the background gives but a taste of the problem.  Often a route would be blocked by a criss-cross of super-slippery paths with giant puddles at the intersection - and the paths were often at a steep angle.  So although there was plenty of drier grass, getting to it meant taking your life (and gear) in your hands and hoping you'd not end up lying in the muck and water.  Often the grassy areas were full of fierce brambles too)

 
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Was at RIFT in Barton today. 

I'm not going to give a verdict as the place was a quagmire so the gameplay was exhausting.  I think the open area could be great if they were able to have barricades erected, but I suppose that is not conducive with the 4x4 side of the business. 

Chrono was a bit weird as you were shooting parallel to the main road with no barriers, also no gun tagging to prove you had been through - just a name check. 

First game was defending/capturing several flags, which was good fun.  I really felt sorry for the poor bastard that went full send through a waste deep puddle jumped into a good cover spot only to be taken out by a grenade 10 seconds later. I tried to "help" by attempting to shoot the nade into the puddle, but it was in vain. 

Some player had a gun capable of insane ranges as well. Several of us thought we were safe on a ridge line only to be picked off by this dude sitting in no man's land. 

We had a couple of good pincer manoeuvres against a guy with a riot shield who was leading a line of players up a path only for us to pick them off one by one from the back of thier line. 

The newly fixed Specna was on form shooting 280 fps on 28bbs.  Honey Badger was much less fussy this time too, but binary firing mode seems to eat batteries and bbs like nobody's business. 

I also went for a tumble down a steep hill after being shot, twisting my toe and knee.  At least I held the objective by myself for a long time before that only being shot by two players flanking me from two sides. 

I've decided that the Rapax M7 is not the gun for me.  It's just too damn long. So I'll likely be putting it up for sale and looking for another Bullpup DMR to go with my SVU... Maybe an L86? 

Have to agree with @RostokMcSpoons (good to see you again chap ?) about the brief being too long, but the staff were indeed very helpful and fair in their marshaling.  

I wasn't to impressed with having to stage from the car park either, which lead to me having a flat battery in the van.  Next time though I'll take a table so the doors don't have to be opened and closed all the time.

So, my main moans were because of the wet weather making the gameplay too exhausting and genuinely dangerous at times.  A bit better planning on my part, and making sure that the weather has been dry for a week beforehand will get rid of the main issues. 

The boy had one of his class mates have his first try of airsoft and absolutely loved it.  Seemed to be a bit of a natural as well as he was very selective with his shots and threw himself into the game, jumping for cover and pushing objectives.  He's certainly left us with a job of cleaning the pews next week LOL. 

Will certainly go back to give the place a fair crack, especially as its only ten minutes from home. But its got steep competition with our other regular fields. 

To give you some idea of the mud:

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The infamous hill that I was - some 20 minutes later - going to be rolling down very unceremoniously.?

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I had intended to go to Airsoft Plantation today; however, this plan was cancelled when my eldest son rang me on Saturday morning to ask if I would look at a house that he and his flatmate were thinking of moving to, as he had to work today and did not want to make a decision solely on his flatmate's opinion.

I agreed, although I was rather disappointed about missing a day's playing.

However, just after I had gone to bed last night, I got a message from him at 23:25 to say that they had changed their minds about it.  I quickly got my gear together, put batteries on charge and then got some sleep, before heading off to Airsoft Plantation this morning.

Numbers were lower than usual, maybe because many people were being nice to their, or their children's, mothers, with only about 70 players on site.  In addition, the woodland part of the field was out of use as several trees had committed suicide over the last week, rendering it unsafe.

However, the rest of the site was more than big enough for 70 people (in fact, it is big enough for double that number) and there was room to probe for gaps, move around flanks and generally be sneaky.  Games were quickly improvised to suit the number of players, which they did, and it was a grand day despite the mud and general sogginess, although this was nowhere near as bad as mentioned in the two posts above!

Guns used:
Ares L1A1 (morning)
Umarex (S&T) ARX 160 (this may be my favourite gun to shoot) (afternoon)
Milbro M1911 Classic (CO2) - I really must get a better pistol.

 
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Played at a private game yesterday (Saturday) at UCAP bunker in Portsmouth. I'm pretty sure the guys organised the first game with me in mind, since everyone knows me as a sniper and my collection is pretty much all long guns since it's what I enjoy and they decided the first game would be small teams of four and you had to keep moving around. Lots of speedy CQB action to try and avoid getting shot in the back and clearly doing that with an SR-25 was going to be a challenge, especially since a bunch of the guys do CQB on a regular basis at SHOTS (there's a killhouse there and they do CQB games every other Friday evening).

However, it's amazing how muscle memory works. Didn't take long for the muscle memory to kick back in from when I used to play at urban sites in Spain. Yes, I still played sniper in Spain, but clearing my way to positions meant I got my reps in for room clearing and I ended up taking point a lot during these games, even with the SR-25; it's a lot more awkward, but I still managed to work the angles and take some names. Was a fun game mode, apart from getting shot in the back shortly after leaving respawn by the next team of four to come out. Played another fun game where we all carried a playing card and when you were hit you held up your card for 30 seconds for the enemy to get. The objective of the game was to collect up cards until you had a hand of poker that you then played against the banker, who was roaming the tunnels with his bodyguard and won poker chips depending on how much you won the hand by. Team with the most poker chips wins. I did what everyone assumed I'd do in this one, found a nice darkened area by a door, poking my rifle around the corner and just... denying an entire corridor to the other team. Not exactly speedy CQB, but it made the other team's lives hard and it was what I was good at. Minimised my silhouette so they had no idea where I was, though lots of shots slammed into the metal doorframe above me that I was tucked behind.

All in all it was a fun day and I really, really needed it with all my sleeping issues recently and distinct lack of playing because of health/gun issues over the last few game days. Looking forward to when they run the game with the playing cards and the 4 man teams game at Worthing, as I think those will be really interesting in a woodland (and hopefully less getting shot in the back after respawning in!)

 
So Camelot was certainly ‘a thing’. The first hour or so of Saturday was great, the rest of the day was… pretty shite. The age old story of too many players and a grinding stalemate that resulted in nothing much happening… for a further 2 hours.

And the reward for that in the afternoon? A reverse of the same game. Woo.

Sunday (today) saw many players leaving due the general not so great experience from the day prior which led to far better flow. The games being a defenders hold and fall back versus attackers. Again, the afternoon saw this reversed which given how enjoyable the morning was I was happy to see. I’d defended in the morning, I generally prefer attacking.

My newly jazzed up MCX was a monster all weekend, so thanks very much Dave if you happen to read this. With how well that was performing the weekend could have been a total wash and I’d likely still come away with a smile on my face. As ever, the folks I played had a huge amount to do with everything good that came from the weekend.

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For those that care, I’m third in from the left. Playing surrounded by giants, I’m bang on 6’ for reference.

 
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To give you some idea of the mud:

The infamous hill that I was - some 20 minutes later - going to be rolling down very unceremoniously.?


Your pics don't show - I suspect direct links are blocked, unfortunately...?

Honestly I have no idea how you got so far up that hill, top effort.  I got to the base of it and held there (until I got shot from behind by a very clever flanker)
Seeing you fall down was one of the reasons I decided I'd had enough and bailed out early.   It was too easy to imagine knackering knees and ankles in that boot-sucking mud.

 
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Your pics don't show - I suspect direct links are blocked, unfortunately...?

Honestly I have no idea how you got so far up that hill, top effort.  I got to the base of it and held there (until I got shot from behind by a very clever flanker)
Seeing you fall down was one of the reasons I decided I'd had enough and bailed out early.   It was too easy to imagine knackering knees and ankles in that boot-sucking mud.


I'll try adding them directly.... It was a copy paste from my Google photos album.  Might see if making it public helps? 

 
I'll try adding them directly.... It was a copy paste from my Google photos album.  Might see if making it public helps? 


I did used to use the windows screen capture and then paste the pics straight into the posts, but having been bitten by running out of my personal storage space on the forum, I now use the screen caps, paste them into Paint.Net, then save them as jpegs at reduced size and quality to cut the pic size down to as little as 100k, I then 'insert media' from my local folder.  Job is then very much a good 'un ?

 
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Good day on Saturday at Special Ops

Allegedly around 60 people in the morning, I think it was a little less than that, but better fewer than too many...

I took my DE and my sniper rifle, and also my old TM AK47S and my TM AUG HC for a change.  
I soon realised I didn't have enough sniper ammo and Carlos didn't sell any, so ditched that idea.   

In the morning I took the AUG out to play.   With the new hop rubber it was shooting nicely on 0.25s, but it was windy day.   Luckily the high-ish rate of fire can make up for a bit of wind drift :)     The only problem I found with it was it's such good fun I was burning through the ammo too fast.  I swapped over to the DE once I'd used up most of 0.25s, as I'd only got 0.32s with me and I didn't think the TM would have enough oomph to lift those.

The DE as usual was great, though it was windy enough that even the 0.28s were moving around a bit

A few complaints about bullet-proof players ... it seems there were a bunch of Spanish who turned up and didn't seem to understand what 'one BB' means.  Maybe they were thinking about 'Juan Beeby'   (baddum-tish)   Oh well, I didn't have any problem with them personally, and they left at lunchtime. 
 

Carlos fed us cheeseburgers AND hot dogs for lunch.  A special mention as to how appreciated the 'free' (i.e. built-in to the upfront fee) tea / coffee, lunchtime food, and unlimited bottles of water (which are out on the game area for easy access) are.   Compare that to my previous trip to RIFT where all that stuff was extra.

In the afternoon the AK got a run out.   I've only got a couple of old TM hi caps for that, and they may be showing their age - a lot of winding to get not many pews.  Maybe I'm just too used to flash mags now.  The gun shot well but on a 7.4v Lipo pushing the old motor it's a little chuggy.    So after a while (and once I'd exhausted the 0.25s in the two mags, and the few left over from the AUG), back to the DE.    Burned through the remaining 0.28s in that, and then tried the fresh bottle of 0.32s - wow, they hit nice and hard, and fly straight ?   

The player count was much lower (I think down to 12-a-side at the end), and this led to some great opportunities to do some 'hero runs'.   I ran out of battery in my DE at one point (Dan - it seems my 4 round burst fire is as draining as binary), switched to pistol-only and managed a couple of good kills with that.  Great fun.

Decent weather (it had rained the night before but the mud was laughably minimal compared to RIFT), good people, looking forward to the next one!

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Compare that to my previous trip to RIFT where all that stuff was extra.
That's my one gripe about RIFT - other places do free tea/coffee and tap water, but it's all extra there. I normally bring snacks, then wait for them to occasionally do the hot food half price to get rid of it.

The long briefs - meh - they're long but they are what they are

 
That's my one gripe about RIFT - other places do free tea/coffee and tap water, but it's all extra there. I normally bring snacks, then wait for them to occasionally do the hot food half price to get rid of it.

The long briefs - meh - they're long but they are what they are
The brief was anything but, but on the other hand he had a lot of stuff to cover, he spoke fast, and he didn't waste words... so that was more an observation than a criticism :)
The staff were good at Rift.   

As Dan mentioned, when it's dry it'll be great.  But in the mud - Well, I'm just not fit and light enough on my feet to get around the site.    The short and easy walk (or even jog!) from the front-line to spawn and back at Spec Ops felt like a huge relief compared to the awful slogs at RIFT.   

 
So I played what may have been the best game mode I have ever played yesterday. The basic premise is a scientist (a marshal, Sam) that needs to be escorted across the site perpendicular to both team's spawns. He could be shot in the legs to stop him for 10 seconds, and was armed with multiple grenades. 

So it starts off with yellow having a slight advantage in terrain, so they managed to nab him first. But the best part of the game was Sam playing the part of the most squirrely, annoying, uncooperative scientist of all time, and it was goddamn hilarious. He managed to get away from yellow and ran back to his starting area, so our team (Blue) grabbed him. I let off some red smokes to stop them pushing us, and we still spent spent maybe 10 minutes, at some point literally, dragging him up the hill. We were basically playing a game of gun roulette as we switched out who was dragging him up the hill. At one point we got ambushed and he got away, where the yellow team grabbed him again. And again his being difficult helped us, in that he got away from the yellow, and a couple of my friends ended up lifting him up and carrying him towards the objective. 

It didn't stop here though, after we got him over the ridgeline he managed to take out his multi-use grenade and we spent another good 10 minutes holding his hands closed, dragging him towards the drop off point, with him occasionally dropping a grenade, killing the escorts, and being pelted in the legs to stop him getting away. All while we had to hold of the yellow team from grabbing him. I was completely out of ammo by the end. I had two pistol rounds and a grenade to help defend, getting ready to just run in with said grenade when we managed to secure the win. 

And it wouldn't be right to tell you all this without linking to our resident youtuber who uploaded all this action in record time! It was an absolute blast, everything airsoft should be. 



 
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