The 'How Did Your Airsoft Day Go? Thread

[Spartan09]

2 hours ago, Tackle said:

Nah, Rockstar blueberry, it's the only energy drink that doesn't taste like every other energy drink, irrespective of their flavour 🤮

 

1 hour ago, Cannonfodder said:

The one I usually go for is Rubicon raw raspberry and blueberry flavour but if you really want to see noises and feel colours then down a can of Reign 

My go to for energy drinks is Monster Bad Apple.

[pyromancer6]

13 hours ago, Spartan09 said:

 

My go to for energy drinks is Monster Bad Apple.

That new rio punch one is class but the aspiring airsofter drinks dragon soop on the gameday

Edited Tuesday at 12:47 by pyromancer6

[Rogerborg]

Are you all tarded?  Only one drink has what airsofters crave.

 

[Tommikka]

 

 

[Impulse]

Didn't play at all today at Worthing. I planned on playing, but we got there late due to an issue with the car, then by the time I had set up my Kar98k after the safety brief and passed it through chrono with one of the staff, the gameplay was a rolling assault down at the bottom of the site which is basically impossible to play with an MED because it's waaaaaaaaaay too overgrown down there; the entire bottom of the site really needs some help, as it's been neglected for years and has been retaken by Mother Nature. Heard that the game after lunch was going to be around the lower part of the site too, so I didn't go out, though I do think they instead decided to play at the top of the site after lunch. However I wasn't too bothered at this point and wanted to just make sure I set up my mk12 MWS as well as the last time I used it with a different NPAS, it simply wouldn't get up to power. At some point I will get the new maxx hop unit for it, but for now it's shooting fine with the 60d Flamingo rubber and the JP titan nub.

 

So while I didn't play, I did make sure my DMR of choice was shooting well, as well as making sure the Kar98k was still shooting really well, so that's nice. For now I think I'm going to stick with those two because the MWS is a lot of fun and the Kar98k is a real head-turner and both are shooting really well at the moment. Will probably take these two to the next game day I go to (or swap the Kar98k for the Tanaka AICS as that's a bit of a head-turner too), which probably won't be for a month as I'll be missing the next one.

 

Still loving the £20 AliExpress low profile belt kit as well. Such a great investment

Edited 6 hours ago by Impulse

[Colin Allen]

Rather predictably, this morning saw me at Airsoft Plantation, where I met up with around 180 other players for a day of slinging plastic at each other.

After setting up and chronoing my recently overhauled and upgraded QBZ 97, which was shooting slightly hot, comparing guns, discussing the pros and cons of gas and gearboxes, and listening to the safety brief and the first game brief, our team set off for the mortar pits, while the red team went to the village.  

We had two lives, while the attackers had 10 medics, upon whom they had infinite regens.  Their objective was to get three smoke grenades, which were carried in an ammo box, to their respective targets in the mortar pits.  They could not open the box to find out where the objectives were until they were in the mortar pits and, if the player carrying the box was hit, they had to hand it to the medic who saved their life, who would give it to the next player who regened on them.  I initially took up a position behind a berm towards the left side of the mortar pits.  The enemy took a while to appear but, when they did, the recently upgraded SR47 showed that the work that I had done on it had been worthwhile; it was popping BBs out to a great distance and had a much improved trigger response.  I got lots of good hits before being hit, whereupon I fell back to the bunker, from where the SR47 carried on as it had started until I was hit again, this time by an enemy player who had sneaked around the boundary berm on the left.  I joined my other deceased team mates along the back of the site to watch the fun, which included a brilliant piece of work from a rental, who took out several of the enemy before being hit.  Eventually, of course, the attackers achieved their objectives and, after a short visit to the safe zone to reload, the game was reversed.

In this iteration, I was one of the medics; our attack was pretty direct and we pushed into the mortar pits, taking a lot of hits along the way, which kept us medics busy when we were not shooting the enemy.  Our smoke grenades were set off at their targets in a time that was four minutes faster than that of our enemies. Hip hooray and tally ho, as Blackadder's Lt George would probably have said.

The next game was a fallback using most of the site.  The red team had to transport a casualty on a stretcher, which was a four person lift, from the far end of the woods to the border bridge, then to the town hall and finally to the plane in the DEA base; at each location, they had to set off a smoke bomb that was located there.  They had infinite regens on a marshal who was 30m behind their rearmost player, while we had one life in the woods, another in the border/village, and a final one on the far side of the firebreak.  We set up a two layer defence in the woods and I found myself being part of the second layer.  The enemy's attack was quite slow, taking a long time to break down our front line, who were well supported by those of us in the second line.  Eventually they did so and, after a bitter fight, we were overwhelmed and I made my way back across the border bridge.  I decided to make use of the boundary ditch, which is largely sheltered by bushes and small trees, as a good location from where I could easily move back and forth and pot enemy players as they advanced past me.  As some of you may remember, I have previously written about the different types of mud at AP and this location offered me a completely new variety to admire; it was reddish brown, clearly indicating that a different soil stratum exists along the far boundary, very smelly and extremely glutinous; I was as happy as the hippopotamus in the song by Flanders and Swann.  This plan worked rather well as I was able to shoot passing players from the ditch and then scuttle along it to another position without being seen.  Eventually, I heard a shout of "Game Over"; the enemy had timed out without reaching the town hall.

Lunch followed and the somewhat filthy appearance of my boots and trousers was in contrast to everyone else in the safe zone.

After lunch, the game was reversed, with our objectives now being limited to getting the stretcher and its casualty to the border bridge and the town hall, setting off their smoke bombs.  The group that I was with formed the right flank of our attack in the woods, moving along the boundary and getting into lots of engagements with the defenders; although we took casualties, we worked well as a team and overran them reasonably handily.  We then got somewhat bogged down at the border ditch and bridge due to a stalwart defence by the red team, which we we eventually overcame, but not before I twice had to go in search of the regen marshal.  As the enemy had taken heavy casualties fighting at the border, we were able to push into the village reasonably rapidly, getting the casualty to the town hall and setting off the smoke bomb there.

At this point, I had to leave as I needed to get home, sort out my kit, have a shower, and then get to Desertfest in Camden in time for Slift and the truly awesome, overwhelming and weirdly uplifting Earth.

It was a typical AP day of airsoft, with well designed games, great play and lots of fun; it was played in a good spirit.

I am not sure if I will be playing next Sunday; I am going to see Soft White Underbelly (aka Blue Oyster Cult) at the Islington Assembly Hall on Saturday evening and the thought of getting up early the next morning is not particularly attractive.

Weapons used:
Hurricane Kit SR47
MP5A2 (most of the externals are SRC, except for a CA SEF trigger group, and it has a mix of internal parts)
ASG XP18 Commander (CO2)