The 'How Did Your Airsoft Day Go? Thread

[Skullchewer]

Excellent! Glad you got the footage of that, and blue player was the kind of opfor you want when things go tits up. 

Your gopro mount angle is perfect too. 

 

[Tactical Pith Helmet]

This is the best idea. Never miss an opportunity to have fun because someone on the internet said something negative. Worst case you spent some time and money on learning what you like and dislike about what airsoft has to offer. Best case you meet some nice people who want to get out of airsoft the same sorts of things you do, you get home and immediately start looking to see what the next event you can do is. If you can find a local site doing a 24h(+) game* then it can't hurt to check that out even if just for the sake of your sleeping kit. But broadly I recommend going to games which are put on my organisers who focus on hosting these types of games. Logistically speaking a game at an urban venue is a gentler introduction than one in the woods, but then again don't let that hold you back either. 

*I don't think the term "milsim" is a good one but that's something for another time.

I tend to stick to Gunman filmsim or milsim type events BUT... I know who's going, and they're a chill lot.  Any amateur RSM  attempts are squished and the culprits either learn to behave or tend to drift away.  

They're great fun with the right people.

 

[Cannonfodder]

This is the best idea. Never miss an opportunity to have fun because someone on the internet said something negative

While I agree with the logic behind this, I don't get to play as often as I'd like due to other things taking priority so I'd rather spend my limited time and money going to games I know I'll enjoy rather than paying to spend a weekend wet, miserable and bored

Filmsim sounds like a good balance between the two

 

[elsietommye]

Great!

 

[DanBow]

Great!

Great is good, I'm sure that we are all glad you enjoyed it but would you care to elaborate? Lol

 

[Skullchewer]

Great!

Bender is the only great bot.

 

[DanBow]

Seriously worth trying a Nuprol one first. They're cheaper for a start!

Bloody good shout mate. Only put about 40 shots through it as a quick test but fed without fault. Ta.

 

[Lozart]

Bloody good shout mate. Only put about 40 shots through it as a quick test but fed without fault. Ta.

It's one of the few good things with their name on! I have several of the pmag style and the stanags.

 

[Colin Allen]

It's one of the few good things with their name on! I have several of the pmag style and the stanags.

I have both and they do seem to feed well in everything, particularly the stanags.

 

[Spartan09]

Excellent! Glad you got the footage of that, and blue player was the kind of opfor you want when things go tits up. 

Your gopro mount angle is perfect too. 

im glad i got it on tape too..  definately a good chuckle...  plus no one believes me when i describe what happened XD

definately good sportsmanship from the blue player.

and thanks, i was worried as it was the first time i used the camera.  normally my helmet has a visor clipped into the night vision mount (and lower face shield attached underneath) so i was winging it TBH

 

[Rogerborg]

Filmsim sounds like a good balance between the two

Agreed, and it can go heavy on the film and light on the sim. I really enjoyed a Narcos themed filmsim that I did a few years back.  You had a camo-and-ARs Federales side for Sergeant Serious, and a Hawaiian-shirts-and-AKs Cartel side for LARPing larks.  But it was a well run two-day event with defined objectives and a scoring system (for those who cared) that added a lot more depth than a regular skirmish. Well worth a try.

 

[GenuineGerman]

Went to Fireball Squadron yesterday unfortunately could only stay for the morning. 
 

I only have really positive things to say. 
 

Arrived early and was warmly welcomed by the members. The safe area is large with plenty of room to set up and they have a well stocked club house. Cash and card payments accepted which is always good and all paper work was done efficiently and easily. 
 

It’s a woodland site so with the rain it was quite boggy in places which was too be expected and the obvious comedy falls ensured. 
 

Game layout was good and really enjoyable, not the usual team on team, skirmish turns into a free for all. The Marshalls were great and let the game flow. 
 

The owners and members have clearly spent a lot of time and effort on the site, I loved the western village. Overall it’s a real credit and you can see the members are enthusiastic about Airsoft. 
 

For a morning of pewing I had a really good time, was made to feel welcome and was disappointed I had to leave early. 
 

Overall great site, honest players, good marshalling and would recommend anyone to visit. 

 

[Impulse]

I'm going to have to be critical today, or I'd feel like a fraud, so it's a bit of a spicy one today; I will always be impartial and call it like I see it, even if I'm friends with a lot of the staff at a site. I went to Worthing Airsoft today and the weather was fantastic; very little wind and it was about 14ish celcius, so almost optimal conditions for gas gun sniping. I said I would use my mk12 MWS, set up as a DMR, until I ran out of .4s and then I'd switch over to my m700. Took a while to get the power where I wanted it, but between 1.8 - 1.83J was where I got it, so right up near the limit and pretty consistent. I wanted to play all day today as it's been a while since I have for a variety of reasons, so I gassed and filled my mags and headed up for the safety brief. First point of criticism here as I got split up from my friend again. We like pairing up and linking in with another pair and usually try and be on the other side to the rest of the regular players to make sure there's a bit of balance, but then we got split up again and I'm getting really pissed off with it. The other, large group of regulars who tend to stick together basically never get split up; it's always the four of us who get split up instead.

The morning game was a mess. They put the spawns far too close to each other and then gave different messages to each team. Our team was told that a part of the site was off limits, because if we pushed into there from spawn we'd end up on top of the enemy spawn, but the enemy team was told no such thing so they pushed through that part of the site. Then our team started doing it as well and it was a messy spawn camp that my friend said went on for ages. They did eventually break out, but by this point we had largely done all the objectives. We had found the mad scientist, (a guy dressed in like a fancy dress hazmat suit), captured him, escorted him all the way around the site and brought him to the tower where he had to "heal" one of the marshalls. By the end, the blues had just given up on trying to push out and a lot went for an early lunch. The only two deaths I had were from people going out of bounds, one sneaking through the area that the yellows were told was out of bounds, and one guy was waaaaaaaaay out of bounds when I was on the other side of the site. The marshalling in the morning game was essentially non-existent and it never should've gone the way it did. Furthermore, one of the marshalls decided to have a go at me after I set up to defend the tower area after I got shot from out of bounds on the other side of the site. On my way to respawn I saw our team bringing the scientist to the tower, so when I respawned back in I took up a defensive position that I like. The marshall had a go at me, saying I'm always there and how ghillies ruin airsoft and how he's going to run games where no ghillies are allowed because I was ruining the game. First, I had only just got there as I spent the rest of the game to that point taking an overwatch position on the area around where the mad scientist was, then sneaking around the other side of the site and shooting blues in the back. Second I had actually done very little all morning because of how the blues were being spawncamped relentlessly, and not by ghillies as we were all out trying to find stuff to do and having an uneventful morning because we didn't want to spawn camp; especially with how overcast it was today it's very easy to remain concealed even wearing regular DPM. And thirdly, with how the site is set up, combined with how much it bushes up, there are large swathes of the site that are quite simply unplayable with a 30m MED, so I'm limited on where I can go as it is.

Anyway, after the relative shitshow that was the morning, the afternoon games were a bit simpler and worked better. The spawns were put far away from each other, though the blue team spawn was very close to three of the five bases that had to be captured in the first five base domination game. Somehow we managed to capture the base that was just down the hill from their spawn, which the marshalls were surprised at and said we shouldn't have taken that, but they had 3 of the other bases, so they won the game. There were some great firefights and I managed to get some great long distance shots with the m700, as I swapped over at lunch time. The next game was an old school attack and defend on the tower area and we were attacking. I crawled on my belly behind a bunch of knee-high foliage to a spot I knew would have a good angle into the tower itself, covering both one of the main doors and also a crawl-space style half-door a bit further back. From there I got a LOT of hits and nobody had any idea I was there; I've missed using the m700 with how quiet it is! Anyway, the next game we swapped over... both sides and teams. Me and a friend got balanced onto blues, because at this point quite a few blues had gone home, so we had round #2 of attacking. I did exactly the same thing I did to the blue team to the yellow team and it worked just as well. It was a lovely, filthy little spot and I love attacking the tower area from that side because I can get to it undetected as long as I low crawl for about 80m though or behind some foliage.

So that was me for the day. Played all day for once, so that was nice, and very much enjoyed the afternoon. Didn't enjoy the morning game like I usually do and didn't enjoy getting moaned at by a marshall for literally no reason, but at least the afternoon was good fun. I think I'll be using the m700 for a while as I don't want to get .43s for the MWS yet because I recently upgraded my PC's video card and that wasn't cheap; I've still got a bag of .45s and then an unopened 1kg bag of .48s, so sniping is going to be the way I play for a while, especially since the warmer weather makes the m700 so much better. Hoping next game day is a bit better than today and hoping the weather holds up now that we are in May, but I think the site is really getting difficult now to play with an MED as it's bushing up a lot with how wet it has been and now how sunny it has been the past few weeks at least. I will keep using guns with an MED because I like the challenge, I like excuses to use my pistol more and I like the long distance shots, but it's going to get very challenging for the next few months.

 

[Colin Allen]

Having recovered from the band's 25th Birthday gig last weekend, I set off to Airsoft Plantation for a day of airsoft.

Around 140 players were present.

We started with a rarity for AP, a capture the flag game.  In the first iteration, the defenders (blue) were protecting a flag that they had positioned in the mortar pits, while we (red) had to get a hand onto it.  The defenders had two lives while we had infinite regens by moving 30m back.  This was a fast paced game with us working as a team to break down the defence, which we did very efficiently and effectively.  The SR47, despite being a little low on power, was reaching out and touching heads that appeared over the berms.

After we had achieved the objective, the game was turned around; again, our teamwork and communication paid off and we put up a coordinated defence, which the attackers struggled to break down, taking 50% longer to achieve the objective.

After a return to the safe zone to mag up, we set off for a two stage game in which we were the defenders.  The blue team, who started at the border, had to get into the village, find a case containing a smoke grenade and then transport it to the DEA base, where they had to get it inside the plane and set the smoke grenade off.  They had infinite regens on a buddy 30m behind them, while we had two lives in the village and two anywhere the other side of the firebreak.  The fight in the village was epic; I started near the pond and, again, was part of a coordinated and communicative team that held the enemy up for a long time until we were eventually overrun.  Pulling back to the other side of the village, I engaged in another fight against the attackers before being hit again, whereupon I headed for the DEA base and concealed myself in a favourite bush from where I got a lot of hits, including a fabulous one on a chap who was just about to throw a grenade and promptly dropped it at his own feet, taking out a couple of his colleagues .  However, after shooting one lad, I heard him telling those near him where I was as he walked back to find someone to regen on; I was then quite quickly taken out after a short firefight with a couple of attackers, although one of them also had to go back and regen.  I fell back to join my few remaining colleagues who, having been pushed back from the plane, were trying to prevent the enemy reaching it.  Despite rapidly diminishing numbers, we held them off for a considerable time until they managed to achieve their objective in a time of 52 minutes.

After lunch, the two stage game was reversed.  Working well as a team, we stormed into the village, taking out the defenders fairly rapidly despite them putting up a hard fight.  After locating the smoke grenade in its case, we launched what developed into a three pronged attack on the DEA base, with the strongest group, of which I was part, taking the case and its smoke grenade by the longest route via Swaziland.  Pushing rapidly towards the DEA base, whose defenders had already been whittled down by those who had taken more direct routes, a small group made a sprint for the plane and set off the smoke grenade inside it.  Our time was considerably shorter than that of the blue team.

After another return to the safe zone to mag up, we set off for another flag based game.  We started at the border and had to both defend a flag located in the casino and get a hand on another in the DEA base. The blue team, who started at Swaziland, had to defend the flag in the DEA base and get a hand on the one in the casino.  Each side had five medics, who were the only people who could regen casualties.  We decided to split the team into two groups; approximately two thirds of the team, including three medics, would set off for the DEA base, while the rest of us defended the casino.  A group of us positioned ourselves in the village so that the enemy could not move through it.  However, they never came anywhere near it so, eventually becoming aware of some fighting to our left rear, we moved towards that, intercepting some of the blue team as they attacked the casino.  Just as we fought them off, our attacking group penetrated the DEA base and a player got a hand on the flag.

It was a really good day of well organised and well played airsoft.  Despite losing every game, the blue team players played really well; however, we played as a team, which made the difference.

Weapons used:
Hurricane/G&P SR47
DBoys AKMS
ASG Commander XP18 (CO2)

 

 

[Colin Allen]

I'm going to have to be critical today, or I'd feel like a fraud, so it's a bit of a spicy one today; I will always be impartial and call it like I see it, even if I'm friends with a lot of the staff at a site. I went to Worthing Airsoft today and the weather was fantastic; very little wind and it was about 14ish celcius, so almost optimal conditions for gas gun sniping. I said I would use my mk12 MWS, set up as a DMR, until I ran out of .4s and then I'd switch over to my m700. Took a while to get the power where I wanted it, but between 1.8 - 1.83J was where I got it, so right up near the limit and pretty consistent. I wanted to play all day today as it's been a while since I have for a variety of reasons, so I gassed and filled my mags and headed up for the safety brief. First point of criticism here as I got split up from my friend again. We like pairing up and linking in with another pair and usually try and be on the other side to the rest of the regular players to make sure there's a bit of balance, but then we got split up again and I'm getting really pissed off with it. The other, large group of regulars who tend to stick together basically never get split up; it's always the four of us who get split up instead.

The morning game was a mess. They put the spawns far too close to each other and then gave different messages to each team. Our team was told that a part of the site was off limits, because if we pushed into there from spawn we'd end up on top of the enemy spawn, but the enemy team was told no such thing so they pushed through that part of the site. Then our team started doing it as well and it was a messy spawn camp that my friend said went on for ages. They did eventually break out, but by this point we had largely done all the objectives. We had found the mad scientist, (a guy dressed in like a fancy dress hazmat suit), captured him, escorted him all the way around the site and brought him to the tower where he had to "heal" one of the marshalls. By the end, the blues had just given up on trying to push out and a lot went for an early lunch. The only two deaths I had were from people going out of bounds, one sneaking through the area that the yellows were told was out of bounds, and one guy was waaaaaaaaay out of bounds when I was on the other side of the site. The marshalling in the morning game was essentially non-existent and it never should've gone the way it did. Furthermore, one of the marshalls decided to have a go at me after I set up to defend the tower area after I got shot from out of bounds on the other side of the site. On my way to respawn I saw our team bringing the scientist to the tower, so when I respawned back in I took up a defensive position that I like. The marshall had a go at me, saying I'm always there and how ghillies ruin airsoft and how he's going to run games where no ghillies are allowed because I was ruining the game. First, I had only just got there as I spent the rest of the game to that point taking an overwatch position on the area around where the mad scientist was, then sneaking around the other side of the site and shooting blues in the back. Second I had actually done very little all morning because of how the blues were being spawncamped relentlessly, and not by ghillies as we were all out trying to find stuff to do and having an uneventful morning because we didn't want to spawn camp; especially with how overcast it was today it's very easy to remain concealed even wearing regular DPM. And thirdly, with how the site is set up, combined with how much it bushes up, there are large swathes of the site that are quite simply unplayable with a 30m MED, so I'm limited on where I can go as it is.

Anyway, after the relative shitshow that was the morning, the afternoon games were a bit simpler and worked better. The spawns were put far away from each other, though the blue team spawn was very close to three of the five bases that had to be captured in the first five base domination game. Somehow we managed to capture the base that was just down the hill from their spawn, which the marshalls were surprised at and said we shouldn't have taken that, but they had 3 of the other bases, so they won the game. There were some great firefights and I managed to get some great long distance shots with the m700, as I swapped over at lunch time. The next game was an old school attack and defend on the tower area and we were attacking. I crawled on my belly behind a bunch of knee-high foliage to a spot I knew would have a good angle into the tower itself, covering both one of the main doors and also a crawl-space style half-door a bit further back. From there I got a LOT of hits and nobody had any idea I was there; I've missed using the m700 with how quiet it is! Anyway, the next game we swapped over... both sides and teams. Me and a friend got balanced onto blues, because at this point quite a few blues had gone home, so we had round #2 of attacking. I did exactly the same thing I did to the blue team to the yellow team and it worked just as well. It was a lovely, filthy little spot and I love attacking the tower area from that side because I can get to it undetected as long as I low crawl for about 80m though or behind some foliage.

So that was me for the day. Played all day for once, so that was nice, and very much enjoyed the afternoon. Didn't enjoy the morning game like I usually do and didn't enjoy getting moaned at by a marshall for literally no reason, but at least the afternoon was good fun. I think I'll be using the m700 for a while as I don't want to get .43s for the MWS yet because I recently upgraded my PC's video card and that wasn't cheap; I've still got a bag of .45s and then an unopened 1kg bag of .48s, so sniping is going to be the way I play for a while, especially since the warmer weather makes the m700 so much better. Hoping next game day is a bit better than today and hoping the weather holds up now that we are in May, but I think the site is really getting difficult now to play with an MED as it's bushing up a lot with how wet it has been and now how sunny it has been the past few weeks at least. I will keep using guns with an MED because I like the challenge, I like excuses to use my pistol more and I like the long distance shots, but it's going to get very challenging for the next few months.

It sounds like that chap should not be a marshal.  However much I might agree with him, he is there to do a job; berating a player for acting in a way that the site allows is completely out of order.

 

[Impulse]

It sounds like that chap should not be a marshal.  However much I might agree with him, he is there to do a job; berating a player for acting in a way that the site allows is completely out of order.

I would've understood it more if I was like... singlehandedly ruining the enemy team, but the reality was I had spent the entire morning doing bugger-all because other people on my team decided to spawn camp, which then wasn't dealt with. Also combine the fact that me and my friends have been singled out and split up for months now I'm just starting to feel like they actively don't want me there. And of course, as you said, it's a woodland site that allows people to use ghillies with bolt actions or DMRs, which is what I was using so I'm not breaking any rules nor going against the spirit of the game.

 

[Colin Allen]

I would've understood it more if I was like... singlehandedly ruining the enemy team, but the reality was I had spent the entire morning doing bugger-all because other people on my team decided to spawn camp, which then wasn't dealt with. Also combine the fact that me and my friends have been singled out and split up for months now I'm just starting to feel like they actively don't want me there. And of course, as you said, it's a woodland site that allows people to use ghillies with bolt actions or DMRs, which is what I was using so I'm not breaking any rules nor going against the spirit of the game.

Even if you had been single-handedly ruining the enemy team, there would no excuse for him to behave that way.  Far too many sites are run or marshalled by people who should never be doing so.

Maybe it is time to find another site?

 

[Impulse]

Maybe it is time to find another site?

Yeah, it's hard because I first went to Worthing Airsoft in about 2005ish and have known some of the guys for almost 20 years, but the past few months have been pretty rough and have got me thinking about alternatives. I've tried all the sites near me and the only one I don't think I'd go back to is Dogtag, so I have options once I have my own car.

 

[Skullchewer]

I'd talk to whomever is in charge. Site owner or manager, whatever.

A couple of bad marshals can really ruin a whole site and if a long term customer isn't happy playing there any more I'd want to know why.

 

[Skullchewer]

Saturday we had a full day private party booking, a video gaming community that has grown up around a youtube review channel, and get together to play airsoft once a year. 

They are online acquaintances, some of whom had never met in real life before. 

Some had their own kit some rented. 

I have to say, they were brilliant to marshal for. 

The mood all day was fantastic, there was not one single complaint about hit calling, in fact quite the opposite:

In the last minute of one game a player grabbed the objective and made an heroic sprint. 

Afterwards i overheard an opfor player say: 

"I'm pretty sure I saw my shots bouncing off you"

And I thought, uh oh, here we go. But he followed up with:

"But sometimes when you're running like that you just don't feel it".

Why aren't all airsofters like him these days?

Sunday I managed to play, instead of marshaling for a change.

One of my closest friends has been out of the game for months, and came back yesterday, so I was glad to be out there with him, and we had a great time. 

Ran my TM MWS for a few games, and my Secutor (well, the exterior is) DMR for a few. 

We got absolutely SPANKED by the red team, but had fun in the process.

A couple of the MWS mags were gassing out on the first round, so I'll need to sort that out, but overall a great day. 

Photo title: "Oooh, shoots you sir!"

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