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She's already told me that she is going back on her first day off and using my gear! Lol
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This is of course fantastic news - it means twice the level of Gun Acquisition Syndrome to be satiated - the family arsenal should end up being enormous!
All the best for your recovery, and I hope you enjoy many skirmishes together in the future ?
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Wow! What an unfortunate accident to have, especially for a fellow Norgie wearer. I hope you make a more rapid recovery than predicted and get back to playing again in the new year.
It seems that your lass has the right spirit!
It seems that your lass has the right spirit!
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Holy shit, wish you a speedy recovery. Every cloud 'n' all that... XMAS OFF!
makes me think my decision was spot on as I'm a big fecker to carry out of a wood, they'd end up rolling me 80m to the safe zone.
makes me think my decision was spot on as I'm a big fecker to carry out of a wood, they'd end up rolling me 80m to the safe zone.
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You got lucky, when I broke my ankle (literally ssssssploded) the ambulance took me to the second nearest hospital where the surgeon told me I would have been operated in three days ('twas a Saturday so I was due on Monday).
Then I got moved to my town's hospital where the surgeon told me that if I didn't have lunch he would have opened me instantly -.-
So I waited until Monday anyway ffs..
Then I got moved to my town's hospital where the surgeon told me that if I didn't have lunch he would have opened me instantly -.-
So I waited until Monday anyway ffs..
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Today saw a return to Splatoon in Essex; this is a relatively small site, which is mostly used for paintball with twice monthly airsoft events, alongside occasional police firearms training sessions. It has a range of wooded areas with different types of cover in each, as well as an open area with a helicopter at each end, assorted cars and lots of container buildings. It also has a very good safe zone with endless tea and coffee for £1 and is one of the few sites that provides a vegetarian option for lunch.
I had arranged to meet up with my old airsoft buddies, the father and son team of Andy and George, who I had not played alongside since before Covid as they usually play in deepest Kent and I tend to play in Essex.
At chrono, my ARX160 was running very low but still slinging BBs a ridiculous distance, so I decided to use it for the morning anyway; the VZ58 was used after lunch.
The day started off with a long fallback game; as the attackers, we had infinite regens on a marshal, while the attackers had one life in each of two wooded areas and the two halves of the open area. Getting into the first wooded area is always difficult as it requires the attackers to run across the front of the defenders; we took a lot of hits and got quite badly held up for a while. However, after massing for a charge, we broke into the area and fought our way through it, eventually declaring it clear and being relieved to find that we had not missed any defenders as each missed player adds 30 seconds to the time. Having cleared that area, we pressed on into the next one, which fell rather rapidly. Next, we had to break into the first part of the container field, which is tricky as the entry is quite restricted and under file from the defenders. Eventually, we pushed in and reached the first helicopter, which provides the first bit of cover. From there, we slowly pushed the enemy back; the three of us were mostly pushing along the right flank, clearing defenders from behind various cars, the edge of the woods and several containers. Once that half of the field was cleared, we had to get one player to the grey helicopter at the far end of the final area. This proved tricky as the area is well set up for defence, so we wore the enemy down before charging the helicopter led by one of our largest players, who managed to get his hands on it.
After a quick break to mag up, the game was reversed; despite hard fought defences of each area, the enemy achieved their objectives somewhat more rapidly than we had managed.
This was followed by a simple domination game with regens on fixed locations; three spinners are located across the site and the teams have to turn the spinner so that their colour is facing upward. Initially, most of our team headed toward the container village, securing the spinner there. However, news came through that the enemy were in control of the other two spinners, so a group of us set out to assist our colleagues in the central area of the field. We took the spinner and pushed the enemy back; despite several counter attacks, we kept them at bay until the end of the game, while our colleagues in the container village held on to their spinner quite handily.
Next came a game where the attacking team had to get a bomb to one of the helicopters and then to the other one; they could choose the order in which they did this. In the first stage, attackers had infinite regens, while defenders had three lives; once the first helicopter had been bombed, everyone was on one life. At this point it became obvious that some of our opponents were related to Usain Bolt, as they reached their first helicopter ridiculously quickly. However, we made it much harder for them in the second half and they failed to reach the second helicopter.
On turning this game around, Usain Bolt's relatives again came to the fore, reaching both helicopters and locking them down before we could get there. Once they worked out that the black helicopter was our first target, we did not have a chance of reaching it and could not switch to attack the other helicopter as the team carrying the bomb had to drop it where they were hit, which was near the black helicopter. However, we had a good firefight before the game ended.
It was a good day, with some excellent play from both sides.
Weapons used:
Umarex (S&T) ARX160
Ares VZ58
Cybergun 1911 Railgun
I had arranged to meet up with my old airsoft buddies, the father and son team of Andy and George, who I had not played alongside since before Covid as they usually play in deepest Kent and I tend to play in Essex.
At chrono, my ARX160 was running very low but still slinging BBs a ridiculous distance, so I decided to use it for the morning anyway; the VZ58 was used after lunch.
The day started off with a long fallback game; as the attackers, we had infinite regens on a marshal, while the attackers had one life in each of two wooded areas and the two halves of the open area. Getting into the first wooded area is always difficult as it requires the attackers to run across the front of the defenders; we took a lot of hits and got quite badly held up for a while. However, after massing for a charge, we broke into the area and fought our way through it, eventually declaring it clear and being relieved to find that we had not missed any defenders as each missed player adds 30 seconds to the time. Having cleared that area, we pressed on into the next one, which fell rather rapidly. Next, we had to break into the first part of the container field, which is tricky as the entry is quite restricted and under file from the defenders. Eventually, we pushed in and reached the first helicopter, which provides the first bit of cover. From there, we slowly pushed the enemy back; the three of us were mostly pushing along the right flank, clearing defenders from behind various cars, the edge of the woods and several containers. Once that half of the field was cleared, we had to get one player to the grey helicopter at the far end of the final area. This proved tricky as the area is well set up for defence, so we wore the enemy down before charging the helicopter led by one of our largest players, who managed to get his hands on it.
After a quick break to mag up, the game was reversed; despite hard fought defences of each area, the enemy achieved their objectives somewhat more rapidly than we had managed.
This was followed by a simple domination game with regens on fixed locations; three spinners are located across the site and the teams have to turn the spinner so that their colour is facing upward. Initially, most of our team headed toward the container village, securing the spinner there. However, news came through that the enemy were in control of the other two spinners, so a group of us set out to assist our colleagues in the central area of the field. We took the spinner and pushed the enemy back; despite several counter attacks, we kept them at bay until the end of the game, while our colleagues in the container village held on to their spinner quite handily.
Next came a game where the attacking team had to get a bomb to one of the helicopters and then to the other one; they could choose the order in which they did this. In the first stage, attackers had infinite regens, while defenders had three lives; once the first helicopter had been bombed, everyone was on one life. At this point it became obvious that some of our opponents were related to Usain Bolt, as they reached their first helicopter ridiculously quickly. However, we made it much harder for them in the second half and they failed to reach the second helicopter.
On turning this game around, Usain Bolt's relatives again came to the fore, reaching both helicopters and locking them down before we could get there. Once they worked out that the black helicopter was our first target, we did not have a chance of reaching it and could not switch to attack the other helicopter as the team carrying the bomb had to drop it where they were hit, which was near the black helicopter. However, we had a good firefight before the game ended.
It was a good day, with some excellent play from both sides.
Weapons used:
Umarex (S&T) ARX160
Ares VZ58
Cybergun 1911 Railgun
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Had a great day at Gunman Tuddenham on Sunday, which will probably be our final outing for the year ?
Played a nice mixture of attack and defence skirmish games, through the forest village and concrete hut areas. We felt that the amount of cover available to the attackers had increased since we last played here which was nice to see. I'm not the biggest fan of CQB but forgot how much fun it is creeping about the concrete huts taking advantage of the lines of sight through multiple buildings!
We didn't experience any non hit taking, and there were lots of calls of a good nature 'nice shot' etc... , but the marshals did pull everyone in for a moan after one of the village games so maybe there was some in another area.
The only downside was having to scrape my car in the morning, and the sole battery for my MP5 dying in the last 10 minutes so not much of a point walking back and grabbing my other rifle - will by another battery before next time!
Played a nice mixture of attack and defence skirmish games, through the forest village and concrete hut areas. We felt that the amount of cover available to the attackers had increased since we last played here which was nice to see. I'm not the biggest fan of CQB but forgot how much fun it is creeping about the concrete huts taking advantage of the lines of sight through multiple buildings!
We didn't experience any non hit taking, and there were lots of calls of a good nature 'nice shot' etc... , but the marshals did pull everyone in for a moan after one of the village games so maybe there was some in another area.
The only downside was having to scrape my car in the morning, and the sole battery for my MP5 dying in the last 10 minutes so not much of a point walking back and grabbing my other rifle - will by another battery before next time!
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Wet as hell and all my guns stopped working ?
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Scraped in a mornings walkon at Dogtag airsoft , wet and wild springs to mind but some great gameplay , didn’t see or hear any problems and everyone seemed to be having fun , rolled out with the cyma Mk18 which for an out of the box gun performed flawlessly on .28s , picture was pre downpour but the trusty smock kept me warm and dry 
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Only played half the day today, since my friend's grandson wasn't up for playing and my other friend's GBBR AKM wasn't too happy with just how cold and wet it was. However, it was a very, very fun day and I really really enjoyed myself.
First order of business was a switcheroo. My m14 DMR was sorted (not a "DMR" but that's what the stock is called!), so I needed to collect that and give the tech my faux wood m14 as that isn't feeding. I also needed to give him my nasty m14 gearbox for the short m14 that he already has, so that'll be fun when that's sorted! I was planning on running the m14 DMR, however... the scope I brought for it did not have good eye relief for the m14 DMR stock. Plus, the forecast today was cold and incredibly wet, so while it was an opportunity to see how it would work out with the flip up scope caps, using optics in the rain is never great. I didn't really want to zero the scope since I'd just be removing it afterwards and putting it on another gun anyway. However, I also had my new, totally stock A&K m249 that I bought as a black Friday deal. I wasn't expecting anything, since I've heard the hop units are wank, the box mags are unreliable and the gearboxes eventually die, but I wanted to see how it was shooting. Had my friend around and he has one, so he showed me how to adjust the hop, we set it up for .25s and... it was actually really good. Floated them out to about 50m and it was accurate enough; not too fussed about pinpoint accuracy as I just want to put a wall of fire up. The main issues were... it chronoed at 0.5J and the ROF was only about 15rps. However, with how it was shooting I decided to take that out instead of the m14 today and oh boy was it a good idea.
First game we had to take a flag from one base to another, with the other team allowed to be anywhere above the ridgeline that runs along the site. We were down the hill a little and had to push through to a base on the other side. We were pinned on the corner, so a lot of people went on a flank, but a handful of us stayed to make a nuisance of ourselves. Give a sniper a support gun and shenanigans ensue, as I slow crawled over the ridgeline without anyone seeing and tucked into a barricade made of branches. This gave me a view on a pair of ghillies to the left of us who were stopping people crossing over the path, so up the m249 went and I sprayed them with full auto. Hit one of them, then saw his friend moving up to medic him and I sprayed him down as well. We were then able to push past the ridgeline, but I went and held the flank. One of my other friends told me that there were some ghillies trying to flank us again, so I went and held over there. One sprayed his load (heh) too early and hit a bush, but gave me an idea where he was so I moved off to a tree when I heard he was distracted by my friend, got on his flank and sprayed him down again. Game ended without us managing to get the flag up, but now sides were flipping and I had an evil idea...
So next game we flipped around and I set up in a spot I usually use for sniping. It looks down a long path, so while I definitely did not have the range for long shots, I could stop anyone trying to cross over the path at this end. Furthermore, the only way I could get flanked is if they managed to push through or went around the entire site, which entailed going past both our respawn and the base we had to stop them getting to, so I was confident. I managed to get a LOT of hits from this spot with the m249, spraying full auto at everything that moved while two other friends (one with a VSR, one with his AKM GBBR) had another angle and we had a really nasty crossfire. We held them at this corner for almost the entire game, but with AKM friend running out of ammo they eventually managed to rush those two and take them out. However, they forgot about me and I went to ground and waited. When I heard the call for 60 seconds remaining, I got out of my spot and started following the enemy players. One sniper on the other team waited the entire game to shoot me, but when it came to it he either missed or had run out of ammo as he shot, I heard where it came from and I took him out. He said that he waited the whole game, but ran out of ammo. However, the entire enemy team had their backs to me and I just rinsed everyone with the m249 from behind. With 5 seconds left I did eventually get taken out by a respawning player, but I had just wiped out a massive chunk of their team, hampering their push so they also didn't get the flag in either. The two who had the other angle watched the whole thing and were laughing their asses off watching it all happen. What made it sweeter is I was on the other team to some people who get irate over getting shot and it was very amusing hitting them multiple times
I called it there though as the rain was picking up and the battery compartment on my m249 is super exposed. Plus I needed some deans connectors fitted so I didn't have to use my crappy tamiya to deans converter, so I got that sorted too. I learned a lot about it though, so I'll need to tape part of the box mag on because it just clips off way too easily and could let water/dirt into the mag which isn't good, plus I learned that I don't need to remove the barrel to put the battery in as the handguard clips in so I can remove that instead. Also, the barrel is absolutely filthy, so I'll give that a clean and it might actually push the power up. We'll see though, since next game day is the Christmas game, so I'll be santa hat, a tinsel scarf and an m249 also covered in tinsel. 'Tis the season, after all!
I also tested a nuprol midcap and a PTS midcap to see if those m4 mags would feed, but they didn't. Might pick up a Classic Army one to try, as I would like some midcaps for absolute last-ditch ammo if my box mag runs out and I'm still in a firefight. Still, incredibly fun, but very wet and very cold and I'm glad we called it at lunch.
Oh, my friends also showed me how my SMG shoulder holster worked and I love it. It's a bit cold for the mac11, but the mp5k will go incredibly nicely on it, so I'm going to try that next game day. Santa with an m249 and an mp5k is a lot of firepower...
And I got caught on camera for once. Then again, I wasn't exactly being subtle with an LMG!
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First order of business was a switcheroo. My m14 DMR was sorted (not a "DMR" but that's what the stock is called!), so I needed to collect that and give the tech my faux wood m14 as that isn't feeding. I also needed to give him my nasty m14 gearbox for the short m14 that he already has, so that'll be fun when that's sorted! I was planning on running the m14 DMR, however... the scope I brought for it did not have good eye relief for the m14 DMR stock. Plus, the forecast today was cold and incredibly wet, so while it was an opportunity to see how it would work out with the flip up scope caps, using optics in the rain is never great. I didn't really want to zero the scope since I'd just be removing it afterwards and putting it on another gun anyway. However, I also had my new, totally stock A&K m249 that I bought as a black Friday deal. I wasn't expecting anything, since I've heard the hop units are wank, the box mags are unreliable and the gearboxes eventually die, but I wanted to see how it was shooting. Had my friend around and he has one, so he showed me how to adjust the hop, we set it up for .25s and... it was actually really good. Floated them out to about 50m and it was accurate enough; not too fussed about pinpoint accuracy as I just want to put a wall of fire up. The main issues were... it chronoed at 0.5J and the ROF was only about 15rps. However, with how it was shooting I decided to take that out instead of the m14 today and oh boy was it a good idea.
First game we had to take a flag from one base to another, with the other team allowed to be anywhere above the ridgeline that runs along the site. We were down the hill a little and had to push through to a base on the other side. We were pinned on the corner, so a lot of people went on a flank, but a handful of us stayed to make a nuisance of ourselves. Give a sniper a support gun and shenanigans ensue, as I slow crawled over the ridgeline without anyone seeing and tucked into a barricade made of branches. This gave me a view on a pair of ghillies to the left of us who were stopping people crossing over the path, so up the m249 went and I sprayed them with full auto. Hit one of them, then saw his friend moving up to medic him and I sprayed him down as well. We were then able to push past the ridgeline, but I went and held the flank. One of my other friends told me that there were some ghillies trying to flank us again, so I went and held over there. One sprayed his load (heh) too early and hit a bush, but gave me an idea where he was so I moved off to a tree when I heard he was distracted by my friend, got on his flank and sprayed him down again. Game ended without us managing to get the flag up, but now sides were flipping and I had an evil idea...
So next game we flipped around and I set up in a spot I usually use for sniping. It looks down a long path, so while I definitely did not have the range for long shots, I could stop anyone trying to cross over the path at this end. Furthermore, the only way I could get flanked is if they managed to push through or went around the entire site, which entailed going past both our respawn and the base we had to stop them getting to, so I was confident. I managed to get a LOT of hits from this spot with the m249, spraying full auto at everything that moved while two other friends (one with a VSR, one with his AKM GBBR) had another angle and we had a really nasty crossfire. We held them at this corner for almost the entire game, but with AKM friend running out of ammo they eventually managed to rush those two and take them out. However, they forgot about me and I went to ground and waited. When I heard the call for 60 seconds remaining, I got out of my spot and started following the enemy players. One sniper on the other team waited the entire game to shoot me, but when it came to it he either missed or had run out of ammo as he shot, I heard where it came from and I took him out. He said that he waited the whole game, but ran out of ammo. However, the entire enemy team had their backs to me and I just rinsed everyone with the m249 from behind. With 5 seconds left I did eventually get taken out by a respawning player, but I had just wiped out a massive chunk of their team, hampering their push so they also didn't get the flag in either. The two who had the other angle watched the whole thing and were laughing their asses off watching it all happen. What made it sweeter is I was on the other team to some people who get irate over getting shot and it was very amusing hitting them multiple times
I called it there though as the rain was picking up and the battery compartment on my m249 is super exposed. Plus I needed some deans connectors fitted so I didn't have to use my crappy tamiya to deans converter, so I got that sorted too. I learned a lot about it though, so I'll need to tape part of the box mag on because it just clips off way too easily and could let water/dirt into the mag which isn't good, plus I learned that I don't need to remove the barrel to put the battery in as the handguard clips in so I can remove that instead. Also, the barrel is absolutely filthy, so I'll give that a clean and it might actually push the power up. We'll see though, since next game day is the Christmas game, so I'll be santa hat, a tinsel scarf and an m249 also covered in tinsel. 'Tis the season, after all!
I also tested a nuprol midcap and a PTS midcap to see if those m4 mags would feed, but they didn't. Might pick up a Classic Army one to try, as I would like some midcaps for absolute last-ditch ammo if my box mag runs out and I'm still in a firefight. Still, incredibly fun, but very wet and very cold and I'm glad we called it at lunch.
Oh, my friends also showed me how my SMG shoulder holster worked and I love it. It's a bit cold for the mac11, but the mp5k will go incredibly nicely on it, so I'm going to try that next game day. Santa with an m249 and an mp5k is a lot of firepower...
And I got caught on camera for once. Then again, I wasn't exactly being subtle with an LMG!
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A good day at Special Ops on Saturday... last of the year - probably last woodland skirmish there until the middle of February or even March because Carlos is going to concentrate on getting the second site (CQB) up-and-running for the start of February.
Maybe @Dan Robinson will fill in about the gameplay (props to him for a game-winning smoke grenade in the VIP round) , but personally I enjoyed this one quite a bit more than the previous visit. This time I did bag some really nice kills, made some memorable pushes, and generally had a nice chat with lots of people between rounds.
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Had a few problems with my kit though:
The DE M906C was noticeably screechy - my fault as I'd attempted a motor swap the previous day. Tweaking the motor height and even removing and re-inserting the motor didn't help. And it stopped working altogether in the late afternoon (duff battery due to the cold?) It's all working fine now, and doesn't sound toooo bad, so I think the weather really might have to shoulder some of the blame. Dunno, guv.
The TM AUG HC showed a low velocity at chrono - just the 220 fps with 0.28's, but when the DE decided to stop playing ball, the AUG stepped up and proved that TM really do spread some magic dust in their internals - I still managed to get kills at respectable range with it. And the noise of it spitting out BB's at ~20rps turns heads in the right way. It's a cracking gun, thanks @Asomodai for selling it to me
The Tippmann didn't get a run out after showing some promise when I was prepping my kit... that's documented here
And my goggles spent a lot of the day fogged up, in spite of two applications of No Fog. The extreme cold, plus my mesh face mask deflecting my breath into them overwhelmed their usual fog resistance. Perhaps I'll get a pair of mesh goggles as backup. Is @heroshark still making them?
Roll on next year!
Maybe @Dan Robinson will fill in about the gameplay (props to him for a game-winning smoke grenade in the VIP round) , but personally I enjoyed this one quite a bit more than the previous visit. This time I did bag some really nice kills, made some memorable pushes, and generally had a nice chat with lots of people between rounds.
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Had a few problems with my kit though:
The DE M906C was noticeably screechy - my fault as I'd attempted a motor swap the previous day. Tweaking the motor height and even removing and re-inserting the motor didn't help. And it stopped working altogether in the late afternoon (duff battery due to the cold?) It's all working fine now, and doesn't sound toooo bad, so I think the weather really might have to shoulder some of the blame. Dunno, guv.
The TM AUG HC showed a low velocity at chrono - just the 220 fps with 0.28's, but when the DE decided to stop playing ball, the AUG stepped up and proved that TM really do spread some magic dust in their internals - I still managed to get kills at respectable range with it. And the noise of it spitting out BB's at ~20rps turns heads in the right way. It's a cracking gun, thanks @Asomodai for selling it to me
The Tippmann didn't get a run out after showing some promise when I was prepping my kit... that's documented here
And my goggles spent a lot of the day fogged up, in spite of two applications of No Fog. The extreme cold, plus my mesh face mask deflecting my breath into them overwhelmed their usual fog resistance. Perhaps I'll get a pair of mesh goggles as backup. Is @heroshark still making them?
Roll on next year!
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My tac41 I think got water in the hop so it just stopped hopping. My mk23 was shooting at .3j and I vented my mag crawling, and in that same crawl I managed to snap the cable tie holding my aap holster in place.
It was just a cacophony of failures right before lunch, so I packed it in.
I got a lift from a friend so I was limited on room, hence no backups. I just know to not bring the tac out in the rain again. I have other guns that handle it much better.
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Likely the final game of the year for us. Skirmish time has been a bit curtailed recently, but happily we made it out for a morning session at Spec Ops MK.
The boy was most excited to try out his recently acquired Golden Eagle HiCapa. This is our first experience of anything gas powered, but I pre-warned him that with sub-zero temperatures and green gas he should set his expectations pretty low. That said, his pistol chrono'd at 280ish on 0.2s reasonably consistently. He got a couple of kills with it during the day so was pretty happy. Slight issue with the mag venting unexpectedly from time to time so I'll have to look into that (assuming it wasn't just the cold).
My Double Eagle 906C continues to be ever reliable, though it's only doing about 0.77 joules on 0.28s so I think a spring change is due.
My memory of the games is already fading, but highlights for me were getting my first 'knife-kill' whilst clearing the central compound and some optimistic but poorly executed attempts to rush objectives (until I was too knackered to run back from respawn anymore). Getting right in with close engagements and sweeping through villages and compounds has become my favourite way to play (on the rare occasions I can get that close and I'm not too knackered to move fast enough) so I'm very much looking forward to the new indoor CQB site. And also being sheltered from shit weather.
Had my Apple watch on this game, so a picture probably tells a thousand words about my day in this case:
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The boy was most excited to try out his recently acquired Golden Eagle HiCapa. This is our first experience of anything gas powered, but I pre-warned him that with sub-zero temperatures and green gas he should set his expectations pretty low. That said, his pistol chrono'd at 280ish on 0.2s reasonably consistently. He got a couple of kills with it during the day so was pretty happy. Slight issue with the mag venting unexpectedly from time to time so I'll have to look into that (assuming it wasn't just the cold).
My Double Eagle 906C continues to be ever reliable, though it's only doing about 0.77 joules on 0.28s so I think a spring change is due.
My memory of the games is already fading, but highlights for me were getting my first 'knife-kill' whilst clearing the central compound and some optimistic but poorly executed attempts to rush objectives (until I was too knackered to run back from respawn anymore). Getting right in with close engagements and sweeping through villages and compounds has become my favourite way to play (on the rare occasions I can get that close and I'm not too knackered to move fast enough) so I'm very much looking forward to the new indoor CQB site. And also being sheltered from shit weather.
Had my Apple watch on this game, so a picture probably tells a thousand words about my day in this case:
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A cold and dry day at Spec Ops, had a few tech issues in the morning that put a bit of the dampeners on things as well some people complaining about the play style of regulars (removing plate carriers and running at objectives unarmed). Solution from the marshalls was to require a weapon to be carried at all times. Said complainers could have just got the younger fitter members of their team to do the same as ours if it mattered that much - or just run yourself you lazy HPA Wankers LOL. I seemed to spend more time walking back to respawn than I did in the game zone too which got a little tedious.
Hey ho.
Afternoon picked up though with some fun games based largely on attacking and defending. One painful highlight was when we were attacking the tented village and there were 3 or 4 younglings hiding in a tent being covered by a HPA DMR in another tent. Muggings here did a charge down the flank of the tent where there were windows - managing to take out 2 or 3 of the little 'uns on the way through. Scuppering the DMR by accidentally on purpose tripping over a log which sent me flying through the air and crashing to the ground by the entrance of said tent. Where there happened to be one more youngling - not expecting someone my size to go from window height to ground level that quickly ?. I like to think I went down with some style, as I managed to get a few shots into the lad trading the kill just as the DMR guy resighted me.
VIP game was a fun one which was won in the last 60 seconds by yeeting a smoke into the target area and then making a sacrificial run in the opposite direction. Which surprisingly, didn't end up with me being shot; but did allow our final sprinter to get into the destination. It was the culmination of a long push through killhouses driving the blues back towards their respawn. They were rather cheeky in the box domination game; by tying their bands to the handles of the boxes instead of just wrapping them round1, but there were some good gun battles to be had trying to get to each box that was being covered.
It seemed my day was spent largely battling two of the HPA guys - getting the DMR in the neck by sneaking up on him and catching him by surprise as he was concentrating on taking out our guys attacking Ping Ping City. His mate on the other hand was very good at doing the same thing to me - he and I have form over the last few years plinking each other across the site more often than not just out of range of each other.
Nice to see the regulars too. I'm volunteering to help with the new site next weekend; then that's it - I'm fecking off for three or four weeks. Hopefully ill have time to fettle the pews a bit before resuming service in the New Year. @Gunboat Diplomat according to my Samsung Watch I managed to run/jog 9 and a bit miles ? A lot of those were walking back to the Canadian flag though.
Not the coldest day I've played - that was last year at AWA which was -6; btu we started at -3 and I don't think it got above 1 for the whole day. Was good fun shooting the hoar frost from the trees though.
Hey ho.
Afternoon picked up though with some fun games based largely on attacking and defending. One painful highlight was when we were attacking the tented village and there were 3 or 4 younglings hiding in a tent being covered by a HPA DMR in another tent. Muggings here did a charge down the flank of the tent where there were windows - managing to take out 2 or 3 of the little 'uns on the way through. Scuppering the DMR by accidentally on purpose tripping over a log which sent me flying through the air and crashing to the ground by the entrance of said tent. Where there happened to be one more youngling - not expecting someone my size to go from window height to ground level that quickly ?. I like to think I went down with some style, as I managed to get a few shots into the lad trading the kill just as the DMR guy resighted me.
VIP game was a fun one which was won in the last 60 seconds by yeeting a smoke into the target area and then making a sacrificial run in the opposite direction. Which surprisingly, didn't end up with me being shot; but did allow our final sprinter to get into the destination. It was the culmination of a long push through killhouses driving the blues back towards their respawn. They were rather cheeky in the box domination game; by tying their bands to the handles of the boxes instead of just wrapping them round1, but there were some good gun battles to be had trying to get to each box that was being covered.
It seemed my day was spent largely battling two of the HPA guys - getting the DMR in the neck by sneaking up on him and catching him by surprise as he was concentrating on taking out our guys attacking Ping Ping City. His mate on the other hand was very good at doing the same thing to me - he and I have form over the last few years plinking each other across the site more often than not just out of range of each other.
Nice to see the regulars too. I'm volunteering to help with the new site next weekend; then that's it - I'm fecking off for three or four weeks. Hopefully ill have time to fettle the pews a bit before resuming service in the New Year. @Gunboat Diplomat according to my Samsung Watch I managed to run/jog 9 and a bit miles ? A lot of those were walking back to the Canadian flag though.
Not the coldest day I've played - that was last year at AWA which was -6; btu we started at -3 and I don't think it got above 1 for the whole day. Was good fun shooting the hoar frost from the trees though.
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