Played the Apocalypse Eclipse vs Pantheon battlesim on Saturday, game started at 10am and finished at 10pm for a full 12 hours of airsoft fun. This was my first force on force Battlesim having only joined the role-play style games before.
The sim followed on from the last DEA vs Cartel role-play sim where the DEA had won and now the cartel had employed a PMC contractor to go into the jungle and kick the DEA out. I played on the PMC team as I was cartel in the last game and couldn't bring myself to join the DEA.
There were 35/40 players per team and each team was divided into 6/7 squads, each squad had 1 sniper, 1 LMG and the rest were riflemen, there were ammo limits around 50 for a sniper, 350 for a rifleman and 1 box mag for the LMG. each player could also carry a pistol with 2 mags and a concealed carry weapon along with as many melee weapons and pyro as you could carry.
I carried my trusty LCT PRK16, WE Sig 226, my recently acquired TM curve tucked into my plate carrier, painted machete from the last battle sim along side a couple of knifes and pockets full of bangs and smokes. A heavy load out which I will be feeling in the shoulders for a few days.
Game play was good with lots of small missions, mostly finding objects hidden on the map (bags of flour or cash), intercepting NPC's with intel building to a final objective of using the intel gathered to find a bomb maker, give him the code to activate the bomb and get him to the other teams base and blow it up. Bonus points were awarded if you captured the enemy's flag from their FOB or captured their leader.
Apocalypse is a great site for this kind of event, its big and has plenty of spots to play objectives around village, no mans and stockade. It also lots of space to hide a FOB or plan ambushes. I play here most weeks and found a couple of new areas I hadn't been to before.
Really enjoyed the game play and 99% of players were above board and played fairly, there was 1 DMR player on the DEA team who just spammed his trigger at anything that moved and ignored the ammo limits and MED, he was asked to leave and not return to site again. As darkness fell a young lad got the jump on me and kindly asked if I wanted to surrender or be shot in the back of the head, I took him up on his very kind offer and surrendered.
As dusk came the numbers started to dwindle and I think we were down to around 10/15 on each side by 9pm. I called it and left at around 9:30 as it was winding down.
Waiting for the after action report but the PMC team won, we captured the DEA flag, we collected most of the hidden objects and had the bomb maker but couldn't get into the enemy base at the end.
As usual I packed way to much kit and came home with most of my bangs and smokes and couple of KG of unspent ammo, as there are less players on field and game play is more sneaky I need to remember you don't burn through as much as a skirmish day.
I really enjoyed myself, great day had by most if not all.
The sim followed on from the last DEA vs Cartel role-play sim where the DEA had won and now the cartel had employed a PMC contractor to go into the jungle and kick the DEA out. I played on the PMC team as I was cartel in the last game and couldn't bring myself to join the DEA.
There were 35/40 players per team and each team was divided into 6/7 squads, each squad had 1 sniper, 1 LMG and the rest were riflemen, there were ammo limits around 50 for a sniper, 350 for a rifleman and 1 box mag for the LMG. each player could also carry a pistol with 2 mags and a concealed carry weapon along with as many melee weapons and pyro as you could carry.
I carried my trusty LCT PRK16, WE Sig 226, my recently acquired TM curve tucked into my plate carrier, painted machete from the last battle sim along side a couple of knifes and pockets full of bangs and smokes. A heavy load out which I will be feeling in the shoulders for a few days.
Game play was good with lots of small missions, mostly finding objects hidden on the map (bags of flour or cash), intercepting NPC's with intel building to a final objective of using the intel gathered to find a bomb maker, give him the code to activate the bomb and get him to the other teams base and blow it up. Bonus points were awarded if you captured the enemy's flag from their FOB or captured their leader.
Apocalypse is a great site for this kind of event, its big and has plenty of spots to play objectives around village, no mans and stockade. It also lots of space to hide a FOB or plan ambushes. I play here most weeks and found a couple of new areas I hadn't been to before.
Really enjoyed the game play and 99% of players were above board and played fairly, there was 1 DMR player on the DEA team who just spammed his trigger at anything that moved and ignored the ammo limits and MED, he was asked to leave and not return to site again. As darkness fell a young lad got the jump on me and kindly asked if I wanted to surrender or be shot in the back of the head, I took him up on his very kind offer and surrendered.
As dusk came the numbers started to dwindle and I think we were down to around 10/15 on each side by 9pm. I called it and left at around 9:30 as it was winding down.
Waiting for the after action report but the PMC team won, we captured the DEA flag, we collected most of the hidden objects and had the bomb maker but couldn't get into the enemy base at the end.
As usual I packed way to much kit and came home with most of my bangs and smokes and couple of KG of unspent ammo, as there are less players on field and game play is more sneaky I need to remember you don't burn through as much as a skirmish day.
I really enjoyed myself, great day had by most if not all.
, today was spent at Airsoft Plantation, where I was hoping for a better day's play, this time alongside my friend Gary, who was bringing along his new M14 and UTR to set up.
I'm not sure whether it's repairable or if the cost of fixing it would make it more sensible to buy another one, or perhaps an SSX23 or maybe a P99 instead.
