The 'How Did Your Airsoft Day Go? Thread

[Dan Robinson]

My only criticism, and this seems common to all sites I've been to, is the fannying around in the morning. IMHO gameday always seems to be 45 minutes later starting than it should. 

[Cannonfodder]

I haven't been to AWA for years but I'm also tempted to go up there on a non game day for a nosey at what's left of the old airfield. As I understand it the base was home to Lysanders and was the final departure point for many SOE agents dropped into occupied Europe

[hunter511]

31 minutes ago, Dan Robinson said:

My only criticism, and this seems common to all sites I've been to, is the fannying around in the morning. IMHO gameday always seems to be 45 minutes later starting than it should. 

To be fair to site operators thats kinda linked to the "herding cats/inability of airsofters to understand safety briefing in 5 game on in 15".

 

Don't get we wrong I remember trying a new site locally (run by company whose name rhymes with "burst and lonely") who thought naming and giving origin stories for each of the marshalls followed by a round of applause was an integral part of the safety brief to paying customers (see also taking the players out of the safe zone into a literally sub-zero temperature area to give a 45min brief).

Edited March 5, 2023 by hunter511

[Shamal]

Great day at ucap green ops.

Marshalls and staff were on top form.

I, especially,had a good day because I have adopted a dmr role and the gun that I used,purchased from this very forum,(thanks @cyanide14k),performed faultlessly. I was surprised at how much more range I could get with .30. The scope made so much difference to target finding. Total of ten good hits although I have to admit to two home kills🥴

 

Not a large turnout,about 45,but good, honest play all round with no player fallouts and lots of complimentary calls.

 

I think I have found a style of play that suits me now that I am getting older.More relaxed and laying in wait from good cover.

 

I will still switch to assault play on good days when the bones aren't shouting STOP! You maniac lol.

 

Tired but happy🙂🙂

 

Regards 

[Cannonfodder]

I know what you mean about waiting for games to start. I don't get many weekends off so I play mid week evening games quite often and when you're only on site for 3 hours I don't fancy spending half of that time waiting for the next game to start. I found the tunnels at Epsom were particularly bad for this

[EDcase]

Had a good day at Skirmish Wycombe again.

Same games as usual but the varied terrain and good size means that you can try different tactics and approaches.

Good food.

The fugly (GSG G14) I got from @Shamal performed really well so thanks again mate 👍

 

My only annoyance is their charge of £30 to renew UKARA 😒

 

 

 

Edited March 6, 2023 by EDcase

[Jaylordofwaargh]

6 hours ago, EDcase said:

The fugly (GSG G14) I got from @Shamal performed really well so thanks again mate 👍

So this is a fun toy to use? For all its Brutalist and sci-fi vibes it is on the 'list' Thanks 

I am one of those really annoying players that sticks to the times given, I'll load up and bomb up at appropriate times, I'll loudly look at my watch (Airsoft days are the only time I wear one) and 'we good for game brief'

After lunch is another fun instance, 

 

The hearding cats thing, well, I think some of that is the site staff not want to be seen as riding the players HOWEVER, we pay good money to shoot people and I would like more site managers to focus on that.

[Egon_247]

Saturday.....My game has changed somewhat and i seem to have ended up as a marshal...

Saturday is the under 18's game day and is a good laugh. The kids are great. They have that "sod it, lets get stuck in" mentality and other than a few technical issues with RIF's all went well.

Took my sons friend from Ukraine who's family are over here avoiding the war (trust me here, i had a real mental debate with myself on the morality of taking him!) but he had an absolute scream and was teaching us ukrainian swearwords in the car on the way home. Boys will be boys...  

Test hits were all taken and called. I've been shot less on actual game days though...LOL. Wearing a hi viz is great but i had to check mine didnt have a target painted on it...

 

[Lozart]

Sunday game day at F&O the Base.

 

Jolly good fun was had, but there are some caveats. Two of the guys I went with are relatively new to airsoft and they both said that they thought the safe zone and the policing of things like mags out was a bit slack plus the "we provide a chrono but it's up to you to make sure your RIFs meet our limits" was odd. Personally, my M14 was hot by about 30FPS despite my own chrono having said that it was OK. Not sure how mine was so far out so that's going to be a fun one. Of course, the lack of chrono tags does mean I could have just run it all day without bothering to chrono but that's just not me.

 

Running my M4 instead did mean I got a bit more stuck in and to be honest, it was the first day in AAAAAGES that I've played right to the end of the day (my advancing decrepitude usually cuts play short). I was on the red team and we seem to have been more aggressive in general than the opposition, the blue team shrunk a bit at lunchtime so the teams were rebalanced but I think a certain lack of morale had crept in.

 

Good day all in all, still think the safe zone leaves a lot to be desired but I've been spoilt by sites like Red Alert, Gunman Bravo and Ironsight.

[Tackle]

11 hours ago, EDcase said:

Had a good day at Skirmish Wycombe again.

Same games as usual but the varied terrain and good size means that you can try different tactics and approaches.

Good food.

The fugly (GSG G14) I got from @Shamal performed really well so thanks again mate 👍

 

My only annoyance is their charge of £30 to renew UKARA 😒

 

 

 

Robbing B'stards🤬

[EDcase]

4 hours ago, Jaylordofwaargh said:

So this is a fun toy to use? For all its Brutalist and sci-fi vibes it is on the 'list' Thanks 

Yep, can certainly recommend (assuming this one represents the standard)

I think its stock right @Shamal?

The blowback effect is minimal but better than not having it.

Nice and snappy on 7.4v LiPo.  1300mAh almost lasted the full day.  (It died in the last game.  Next time I'll change at lunch)

The MOSFET (proprietary I think) works really well so lockups experienced.  (Only used semi)

The selector can be a bit fiddly.  With 4 modes its easy to get knocked into a different one.  (I did fire a few on burst when I thought it was semi)

[Rogerborg]

3 hours ago, Egon_247 said:

Saturday.....My game has changed somewhat and i seem to have ended up as a marshal...

 

Everything is now your fault, forever.  When are you going to sort my leaking bathroom tap, you slacker?

[EDcase]

7 minutes ago, Tackle said:

Robbing B'stards🤬

Yeah, I was surprised as it was only £10 the last time.

They haven't increased the day rate so I guess they're trying to compensate

[Tackle]

23 minutes ago, EDcase said:

Yeah, I was surprised as it was only £10 the last time.

They haven't increased the day rate so I guess they're trying to compensate

Essentially punishing players for their loyalty, that's pretty fucked up. 

It probably takes less than 10 minutes to renew, even at £10 that's a nice little earner for someone, but £30 ffs🤬

[Shamal]

1 hour ago, EDcase said:

Yep, can certainly recommend (assuming this one represents the standard)

I think its stock right @Shamal?

The blowback effect is minimal but better than not having it.

Nice and snappy on 7.4v LiPo.  1300mAh almost lasted the full day.  (It died in the last game.  Next time I'll change at lunch)

The MOSFET (proprietary I think) works really well so lockups experienced.  (Only used semi)

The selector can be a bit fiddly.  With 4 modes its easy to get knocked into a different one.  (I did fire a few on burst when I thought it was semi)

Yeah stock as far as I know.it was chronoing a wee bit hot but that may well be my cheap chrono. 

[Rogerborg]

13 hours ago, EDcase said:

My only annoyance is their charge of £30 to renew UKARA 😒

 

Isn't that £30 for membership (which is all UKARA really records), which gives you a £5 a day discount and access to night games and other stuff?

 

https://skirmishwycombeairsoft.com/prices/

[Speedbird_666]

14 hours ago, EDcase said:

My only annoyance is their charge of £30 to renew UKARA 😒

 

And there was me, less than happy giving GZ £13 to do mine. Sounds like I got a steal compared to you. 

[Captain Darling]

On 13/02/2023 at 14:41, Emergencychimps said:

Did the Gunman Airsoft Night game at Tuddenham.......it was great, easily some of the most interesting events that are happening in airsoft in my opinion at the moment. 

 

It's their second attempt at running a night game (3 hours long) as one single game, it wasn't perfect but my god it's got potential and the site is very open to feedback. Previously their night games have been like skirmishes in a small, but interesting part of their site (the village if you know the site). These events take advantage of the whole site, extra buildings, dense woodland, open areas, tracks, ridgelines trench network etc.

 

Single shot only unless you have a genuine LMG/support weapon, relevant medic rules, mix of objectives, regen hikes weren't silly.  There was also really good use of additional lightning, a few big floodlights and lots of dark areas, the site is big enough to cope with what they are doing!

 

Objectives were provided, with a map and grid references with times that the objectives were open for. Marshalls were present when needed (generally around objectives) but didn't ruin the night team sneakiness when not. Hit taking was good (night games are tricky to enforce). It seemed like a lot of objectives were near each other at similar times, or in a way that you'd have to cross the route from their respawn to their objectives (which we didn't know) to get to your objectives. Much confusion around who is on your team etc. There was a command net and command element that gave out a couple of extra objectives throughout the evening.

 

It genuinely felt like the best bits of a mini milsim. Mix of players with and without night vision, thermal, some with torches and tracer units etc. Made it a really interesting evening. Some of the players had travelled from Derby and Watford for it. 

 

Every other night game they are doing is one of the more immersive types covered above, the others are basically skirmishes in the village. If you're looking to just shoot people in the dark, do the night skirmishes skirmishes, if you want that bit extra, do the more immersive ones. 

 

Very impressed with the management at Tuddenham, massive improvements to the site and the type of events they are running. Really upping the experience of what can be done and achieved, the sort of thing I am sure we all want from our sites. 

 

Re reading this, it sounds like an advert for the site but I am just a customer, albeit a very happy one. 

I’ve just come across your post and agree entirely.  It did feel like a ‘mini milsim’ and the standard of player effort was very good. 
 

Are you going to the one this weekend at Tuddenham?  I was the player that travelled from Derby, and all being well will do the four hour round trip again this weekend, it was that good last time.

[EDcase]

2 hours ago, Rogerborg said:

 

Isn't that £30 for membership (which is all UKARA really records), which gives you a £5 a day discount and access to night games and other stuff?

 

https://skirmishwycombeairsoft.com/prices/

I already paid £30 for the day. (Non member walk-on)  and it was another £30 for UKARA renewal.  (Took less than 2 mins while I was there)   I will question the UKARA price with the owner next time I'm there.

 

 

2 hours ago, Shamal said:

Yeah stock as far as I know.it was chronoing a wee bit hot but that may well be my cheap chrono. 

I did clip the spring (QC is so great 😁) and it chrono'd at 342 👍

 

 

Edited March 6, 2023 by EDcase

[Rogerborg]

11 minutes ago, EDcase said:

(Non member walk-on)  and it was another £30 for UKARA renewal

 

Urgh, airsoft. UKARA is meant to record site membership, as per the 2007 defence memorandum, and it's a site number that's assigned.  But there's nothing stopping sites from having multiple types of "membership".  It's entirely up to the boss geezer.  Best of luck.

[Shamal]

1 hour ago, EDcase said:

I already paid £30 for the day. (Non member walk-on)  and it was another £30 for UKARA renewal.  (Took less than 2 mins while I was there)   I will question the UKARA price with the owner next time I'm there.

 

 

I did clip the spring (QC is so great 😁) and it chrono'd at 342 👍

 

 

Niiice. 👍

[Shamal]

11 hours ago, Jaylordofwaargh said:

So this is a fun toy to use? For all its Brutalist and sci-fi vibes it is on the 'list' Thanks 

I am one of those really annoying players that sticks to the times given, I'll load up and bomb up at appropriate times, I'll loudly look at my watch (Airsoft days are the only time I wear one) and 'we good for game brief'

After lunch is another fun instance, 

 

The hearding cats thing, well, I think some of that is the site staff not want to be seen as riding the players HOWEVER, we pay good money to shoot people and I would like more site managers to focus on that.

Agree strongly.

 

I bomb up,charge up,and dress up the night before so that when I get to the site I'm ready to roll. I hate it when the "okay guys ten mins" turns into twenty five and the two mins shout is at least ten.

[Tackle]

18 minutes ago, Shamal said:

Agree strongly.

 

I bomb up,charge up,and dress up the night before so that when I get to the site I'm ready to roll. I hate it when the "okay guys ten mins" turns into twenty five and the two mins shout is at least ten.

Me too, game time is for playing, if I want to socialise or talk bollocks ill go to the pub (or come on here😜). 

Think I've mentioned it before but one site I played, end of lunch started getting ready to head back out, next thing music starts playing & a "lady" starts taking her clothes off, stick I got for turning my back on here to get loaded up. 

Then when I got home & the missus says "how was the day", I get more stick as if it's somehow my fault some slapper was stripping off🤯

[Shamal]

1 minute ago, Tackle said:

Me too, game time is for playing, if I want to socialise or talk bollocks ill go to the pub. 

Think I've mentioned it before but one site I played, end of lunch started getting ready to head back out, next thing music starts playing & a "lady" starts taking her clothes off, stick I got for turning my back on here to get loaded up. 

Then when I got home & the missus says "how was the day", I get more stick as if it's somehow my fault some slapper was stripping off🤯

Err which site was that?

😉

[C-Diddy]

4 hours ago, Speedbird_666 said:

 

And there was me, less than happy giving GZ £13 to do mine. Sounds like I got a steal compared to you. 

Relatable. Feel chuffed now!