Operation Skylight - Hertfordshire Location - Okto Eight Milsim

[Baz JJ]

A photograph posted to the internet 2 days ago by an anonymous source traced to South Africa who claimed it was taken recently inside the Gorazh National Mine - doesn't look like the Mine is just being used to extract Titanium does it ?

 

What is the Moldistan government playing at and why are they so keen to keep the rebels out of the mine ?

[Baz JJ]

 

A surveillance photo showing the secondary entrance to the mine. Are those tracks just being used for ore trucks ?

[Baz JJ]

 

 

A plea from Colonel Lukashenka of the Moldistan Peoples Front.

 

"The citizens of Moldistan need your help.

The dictator government of President Gretsky is suppressing the will of the men, women and children of our country. The government was never fairly elected and took control by force. We in Moldistan are not allowed a democratic election to choose a leader on merit alone.

 

Not only are the government using the natural resources of our country to bolster their personal offshore bank accounts, they are murdering anybody who opposes them.

 

We have proof of whole families being murdered just for providing my men with food and shelter.

 

The Peoples Front of Moldistan are the only thing that stops Gretsky from destroying our beloved country. Without us, he will have the ordinary people starving in unheated hovels while he surrounds himself with girls, drugs and unparalleled luxury.

 

Comrades, this is not socialism. It is capitalism hiding behind a veneer of socialism. Gretsky and his dogs live like kings, while the real kings, the people of Moldistan live like dogs.

 

My comrades and I urgently need your help. Come to Moldistan to take arms alongside us - Let us fight Gretsky together, shoulder to shoulder.

 

Join the MPF NOW !!!

[Zak Da Mack]

Maybe if he smiled a bit more, he'd get more supporters?

[clumpyedge]

just waiting to hear back on some details and i should be on SOF

[Baz JJ]

News Clipping 30th May

 

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[bornleverpuller]

Just a few questions

 

is this a milsim event that is good for someone who hasn't been to one before?

Is a radio a necessity I don't have one and couldn't really be shelling out for one if I needed to but some midcaps.

 

Do any patches on clothing need to be removed like most I have started off buying UK army surplus so would each of those badges need covering?

 

I'm sure more questions will come to me. I really fancy coming for the full weekend but I have fot to wait till the 18th to see what next years fixture list is like.

[Baz JJ]

Its a mix of milsim and filmsim with a healthy dose of role-play. 8 hours max, relatively relaxed pace, no route marches.

 

A high power radio is provided per squad for Coalition and MDF forces. MPF will use their own PMR446 radios or mobiles if they want to - not compulsory.

 

The onus is to get into character and dress the part. For example, If you are playing as a Moldistan rebel, it wouldn't make sense to be wearing US patches. Thats why there is a rebel freestyle team, MDF government team and a Coalition US/UK SOF team.

 

 

Just a few questions

 

is this a milsim event that is good for someone who hasn't been to one before?

Is a radio a necessity I don't have one and couldn't really be shelling out for one if I needed to but some midcaps.

 

Do any patches on clothing need to be removed like most I have started off buying UK army surplus so would each of those badges need covering?

 

I'm sure more questions will come to me. I really fancy coming for the full weekend but I have fot to wait till the 18th to see what next years fixture list is like.

[Baz JJ]

Also one of the great things about these type of games is if you come on your own, you are assigned to a fireteam of four or five players and they try to put solo players in with other single players, so everybody is in the same boat, so to speak. By the time the weekend is over, you and your team will have quite a bond.

[Curly68]

I'm going on my own and have never done a milsim before but love doing filmsim. I have a spare 446 radio as well that can be used by another member of my team if need be. Doing the weekend as it is a drive to the site, so might as well make the most of it!

[Baz JJ]

Hi Curly

 

Have you booked yet ?

[Curly68]

Of course Baz. Ian "Curly" Porter on FB

[Baz JJ]

Ah OK mate. No problem. Didnt recognise you with your clothes on.

[Zak Da Mack]

Hi Curly, what team have you signed up for?

 

"Please don't be MPF scum, please don't be MPF scum..."

[clumpyedge]

booked.... SOF

[Baz JJ]

Are you camping over ?

 

Doing the weekend as it is a drive to the site, so might as well make the most of it!

[Baz JJ]

Welcome.

 

Things are shaping up.

 

booked.... SOF

[Curly68]

Yep, this scum is camping over! Lol

[Baz JJ]

Camp

 

[Zak Da Mack]

Is that the actual camp, or just a picture?

[Baz JJ]

Its not the actual camp and is representative of the kind of thing which will be built.

A decent organiser wouldn't put a grave next to a tent.

 

If you look back on the Okto Eight page on Facebook, you will see a photo of a tent and hand cart. That was the picture of a previous milsim from the same organiser.

 

Is that the actual camp, or just a picture?

[Baz JJ]

COPIED FROM THE OKTO EIGHT MILSIM FB PAGE

 

People have requested a SITREP on the situation, so here's a quick timeline briefing to bring you people up to speed.

 

22nd March - MOLDISTAN TEETERS ON THE EDGE

The Moldistani Minister of Trade is killed when soldiers of the government Moldistan Defence Force (MDF) try to rescue him from his rebel captors. It is alleged that the MDF are being helped by special forces from the west.

 

4th April - A foreign intruder breaks into the government owned Gorazh Titanium mine and escapes into the night.

 

22nd April - TERRORIST OR PEOPLES HERO

Colonel Lukashenka, the head of the rebel force, known as the Peoples Front of Moldistan (MPF) is interviewed by a British defence journalist. He claims that the government officials are corrupt and are selling Titanium to the highest bidder and lining their own pockets whilst the people of Moldistan are kept in poverty and abused if they protest.

 

30th May - MOLDISTAN IS NOT STOCKPILING WEAPONS

Accusations on social media that Moldistan is stockpiling weapons inside the Gorazh Titanium mine are disproved by a media investigation.

 

30th May - Colonel Lukashenka of the MPF makes a public appeal for rebel fighters from all countries to come to Moldistan to help his group to stop the corrupt government. He makes allegations directed at the country president, of both corruption and atrocities against the ordinary people of Moldistan.

[Baz JJ]

Two weeks left at the initial price of £35.

Going up on 20th June.

[bornleverpuller]

Hoping for an away match that weekend so that I can attend. More I hear more I think that this is the sort of thing that I want to be doing.

[Baz JJ]

Having tried conventional skirmishes, it was the type of game that I decided I wanted to move into.

 

Something a bit more immersive than skirmishing but a bit less than a full on 48 hour marathon like the big players do. Talking to some of the heavy duty simmers, they spend a small fortune on real steel authentic loadouts and take it all deadly seriously. Not really my scene as a weekend hobby.

 

It took me a couple of false attempts to find an organiser that was on the same wavelength. I made the mistake of talking to skirmish sites who needed to churn the handle to keep their income coming in and their idea of a milsim was not quite what I had in mind.

 

Also, I didn't want to run it as an organiser as I think I know my limitations. The Okto guys know how to build props, scenes and have access to sites etc.

 

The only problem is that Im now busy writing the plots, sub plots and helping run the behind the scenes, I wont get a chance to play on one of the teams. Might be able to get involved i.e. a bit part as an extra etc over the course of the weekend though !