I just got home from a really great game day at Worthing Airsoft today. Despite the rain (forecast said it would stop by 10am. It didn't...) the gameplay was really good and the vast majority of players were great as well (some notable exceptions, but we'll get to them
). There weren't that many people today, only about 40(ish?) instead of the usual 70 - 80, because of what I assume is a combination of people tightening their belts for the (expensive) festive period and also the crap weather. Anyway, once again I intended on using the MTW and once again it was sending BBs all over the place, not hopping consistently and just generally being a twat. Off to super5ives that goes because I'm at the end of my rag with it and our local site tech recommended them for MTW work, so I'll get that posted out this week because I just want it to work properly! At least I brought the co2 VSR again, now with a new Tridos TDC installed and it was absolutely amazing. 2.2J on the money and sailing BBs out amazingly well to the 75m and 85m targets, so I went with that and the mk23 again this week.
They decided to do smaller games today due to the lower numbers. Usually we'd do one big game that would last all the way to lunch, but with the lower numbers they decided to run a few small games instead and I think it worked well. First two games were essentially a king of the hill game on one of the bases, with teams swapping ends after the first, and I stayed far away from it and covered the flank instead. I was a little late out to the first game as I was finishing up with setting up my kit after the brief as I wasn't entirely sure if I was playing today (first week back at the gym and did a leg workout on Friday so I am sore!), but I got into my usual spot, hit a few players, then the first game was over and we switched ends.
Second round I pushed up very aggressively to the point where I was told to move back by one of the marshalls, as he didn't want us to get too close to where their spawn was which was fair enough; I couldn't see or shoot their spawn from where I was, but I would've basically cut off an entire flank by myself if I stayed, so I get why he did it
. The issue for me was that this put me in a much weaker spot, but I made it work out. A wave of players pushed up without knowing I was there and so I took the two front ones out with my mk23 and then the rear one with the VSR as he was trying to come in to medic his friend; I'm really starting to like this mk23 again. They came back and I hit them again, sniping one of them out on the approach, but he got pulled behind the barricade and medic'd. This time they had a good idea where I was so I fell back a little. Got another with the mk23 and then some questionable hit calling from another as he then gave out a bit of full-auto to my face, so I called it and I headed off back to respawn. The marshall who was about was on it though and gave the player a poke about being too trigger happy with his full-auto up close, but these things happen.
Didn't manage to do much more after this as I got back up into a position, but didn't get any targets and then it was game over. Our team lost both of these games quite handily, so for the third game they swapped a few players to make the teams more even, and it led to a fantastic third game, though first I had to head to the safe zone to get something dry to try and dry off my scope, as I couldn't see through it at this stage with all the rain making it wet!
Third game was a "gold rush" game, where there was a marshall with a box of gold bars in the central Tower base, defended by a juggernaut with a rubber sword and a load of grenades, and one of the other marshalls in the top of the tower who would shoot anyone who looked a bit too aggressive. Each team had a case which we had to get into the Tower, so we could take one gold bar and take it back to our respawn (I think? I wasn't listening admittedly, because I knew I wasn't getting anywhere near that with my setup).
I set up in my favourite spot that watches down the main path leading along the side of the Tower base, with my friend set up in his spot that watches the arc to my left, while I'm covering his right; with a field to my right, where we set up we had an absolutely deadly crossfire and I was rewarded with one of those "this is why I play sniper" games. I got so many people trying to push up that side, and my friend was racking them up to the other side, including the same three from the earlier game. Multiple times. This is where I think tempers started to fray as I noticed this group of players start to not call hits even more. I even had one of them crossing the path trying to medic his friend, so I popped a single mk23 shot into his chest that he flinched from, but kept going, then started medicing his friend so I gave him 2 or 3 shots to the side of the face. He called those ones. One of them at one point tried attacking over where my friend was and started getting irate saying he was shooting my friend in the face and he wasn't taking his hits, but where my friend was he is surrounded by metal, so it's very audible if BBs are landing near him. I didn't even hear his BBs landing near me and I was closer to where he was shooting, so I think it was a classic case of "my gun can shoot 70m!" when in reality it was dropping at about 50m.
I spoke to the marshall about these players and he said he knew and he was on it, so the marshalls today were clearly on point with any iffy gameplay and I assume they had a word with the offending players. That was the last game for me and my friend though. We were both absolutely drenched, scopes were impossible to see through again so I had an early lunch and then took the afternoon trying to sort guns out (as that was what I was thinking about doing anyway with my soreness and the weather being shit).
MTW was still being a shit, so I moved onto the SRS and got that all set up nicely with the Stalker stuff, but that took a while. No hop it was 2.1J. With hop it shot up to 2.5J. Then I extended the airbrake in a bit and it was 1.5J. Then I changed the weight and it was 1.3J. The I took the airbrake in and it was 2.4J. Basically, it took aaaaaaaaaaages of me tweaking it, but I finally got it between 2.1 - 2.2J so that's where I left it. By this time, the day was basically over, so we packed up there and now I need to get all my kit to dry!
Anyway, fantastic day at Worthing. Great games, great players (mostly), great marshalls, so it was great even though the weather was awful
