The 'How Did Your Airsoft Day Go? Thread

[Mtemprell]

37 minutes ago, DanBow said:

Played at The Big One near Lincoln, run by the Lincolnshire Airsoft Club today. I'm spending more and more of my time in this part of the world and the site is only 20 odd minutes away. They have use of 4 sites, well it will be 4 soon, and The Big One is a fairly dense woodland. The part that we played on today was about 2 acres, which is fine as there were only 20 players. The first play was sort of a standard domination game. There were numerous poles, with a tube that slides on it. It was coloured with red and yellow, our team colours, and you had to have your colour pointing up. Who ever has the most poles displaying their colour wins. I've no idea who won, I was just really enjoying the game, the communication, the hit calling and the terrain. As it is in Lincolnshire, its reasonably flat, ish! I like flat, I'm too old and fat to be running up and down hills.

 

I played at Sixmill near Rugeley a few weeks ago and it was an amazing site but with 140 odd players and a large site on the side of a hill, I was soon knackered amd lost. I did manage to wander, because I was lost, behind the enemy position and got close enough to a sniper to ask him if he wanted to take the hit, or the shot. He took the hit. 😁

 

Anyway, second game was an attack and defend where we, the attacking team, had to get 2 jerry cans into a crater that the red team where defending. 10 second medic and 60 second bleed out where in play. I'd love to say that we got close but we didn't. The defenders were dug in to some proper cracking spots and we just couldn't get close. Again, really good terrain and excellent game play from both teams.

 

I did get shot in the side, a few minutes, after game end at one point as he hadn't heard the end command! I wasn't impressed but found it funny enough! Lol

 

I was using my G&G CM16 Warthog as my DD EMG MK18 is in peices on my dining table. I just can't get the power to a usable lever! I suppose I'm going to have to ask a billion questions to get it sorted. Also couldn't carry my P226 as I forgot gas and wasn't buying more just for today! Ive loads at home.

 

 

I was thinking of trying this site as it's in my end of the country will definitely give it a go. 

[DanBow]

12 hours ago, Mtemprell said:

I was thinking of trying this site as it's in my end of the country will definitely give it a go. 

 

Unfortunately, that was the last game at that site this year. They only have a limited number of days available. I'll be going to one of the others as soon as time allows.

[Nick G]

Played at my usual site yesterday , first time i've played for a couple of months with one thing and another . Group of our usual players were off at Dorchester for the day , but a team had traveled up from Plymouth so there were aprox 35 players including rentals. 

 

Absolute blast of a day , everyone played well and fair . Close games , hard faught by both teams . Lad on the other team managed to creap up on a bunch of us and took 4 or 5 of us out in one banzai run ! 

 

I played all GBB , the L85 , L119 A2 and M249 all got a run . Some great kills with them , the 119 A2 in particular was getting some very sneaky shots in . Ran the 249 with an hpa tank but using the 130 round mags . That continues to be a blast to use . 

[GiantKiwi]

I got to my local yesterday quite late, and when the Marshal's proclaimed - awesome, a player has turned up, I knew it was going to get cancelled - and it did.

[ButcherBill]

Well my pews are cased up, kit bag filled, chest rig & belt kit magged up (no bb's yet to avoid mid cap syndrome). Liquids in the car already, I might go all sensible & get some bananas for munchies.

 

Taking my TM URG-I, A&K LR300 & Umarex HK416A5

 

First gameday since January, pretty sure I'll have melted by lunchtime.

[Colin Allen]

Hurrah for an A&K LR300!

 

Have a good day!

Edited Friday at 19:01 by Colin Allen

[Tank423]

1 hour ago, ButcherBill said:

Well my pews are cased up, kit bag filled, chest rig & belt kit magged up (no bb's yet to avoid mid cap syndrome). Liquids in the car already, I might go all sensible & get some bananas for munchies.

 

Taking my TM URG-I, A&K LR300 & Umarex HK416A5

 

First gameday since January, pretty sure I'll have melted by lunchtime.

 

From one big man to another, drink plenty and don't exert yourself, play at your pace even if that's trundling behind the main group. It's a long day walking around carrying gear, you'll be absolutely shattered and aching everywhere by the end but craving another game day the week after!

 

Avoid the cameraman too, they take very unflattering photos unless it's a upper torso and headshot 😂

 

Have fun and let us know how it goes!

[Rory]

1 hour ago, ButcherBill said:

Well my pews are cased up, kit bag filled, chest rig & belt kit magged up (no bb's yet to avoid mid cap syndrome). Liquids in the car already, I might go all sensible & get some bananas for munchies.

 

Taking my TM URG-I, A&K LR300 & Umarex HK416A5

 

First gameday since January, pretty sure I'll have melted by lunchtime.

Where are you playing tomorrow BB?

[ButcherBill]

29 minutes ago, Tank423 said:

Avoid the cameraman too, they take very unflattering photos unless it's a upper torso and headshot 😂

Too late for vanity

27 minutes ago, Rory said:

Where are you playing tomorrow BB?

I'm working tomorrow so wanted to get ready early.

Going to my usual haunt of POW, Falkirk on Sunday.

[Tank423]

8 minutes ago, ButcherBill said:

Too late for vanity

I'm working tomorrow so wanted to get ready early.

Going to my usual haunt of POW, Falkirk on Sunday.

 

It's the front on shots that are to be avoided, I don't fancy posting my last one 😂

 

We can start meal team six though, won't ever go hungry with you being a butcher....

[ButcherBill]

1 minute ago, Tank423 said:

It's the front on shots that are to be avoided, I don't fancy posting my last one 😂

 

You have to now.

[Colin Allen]

1 minute ago, ButcherBill said:

You have to now.

Indeed!  It is too much of a tease.

[Tank423]

Spotting snacks not targets

[Rory]

quick stop for pie, it stings more on the tight bits

I'll need to get across to POW, I've not been past the m8 corridor in too long

Edited Friday at 21:43 by Rory

[Nick G]

Played an evening pistols and shotguns game last night . 12 players , lots of short 20 minute games . All great fun , i always enjoy pistols games. Took my WE P226 , G18 and my self built ( out of a mix of WE and Raven parts ) bling G18 . Did take a shottie but didn't use it , pistols were too much fun !

[Tackle]

2 hours ago, Nick G said:

Played an evening pistols and shotguns game last night . 12 players , lots of short 20 minute games . All great fun , i always enjoy pistols games. Took my WE P226 , G18 and my self built ( out of a mix of WE and Raven parts ) bling G18 . Did take a shottie but didn't use it , pistols were too much fun !

Love those kinda games, & they don't just suit your average cqb venue, can work equally well on some woodland sites, makes people work harder for a kill👍

What was the venue ? @Nick G

[Nick G]

1 minute ago, Tackle said:

Love those kinda games, & they don't just suit your average cqb venue, can work equally well on some woodland sites, makes people work harder for a kill👍

It's a woodland site I play at . About half the evening was on parts of the main site including cqb around the 'village' and half on their laser tag area which has some serious undergrowth. 

[Tackle]

3 minutes ago, Nick G said:

It's a woodland site I play at . About half the evening was on parts of the main site including cqb around the 'village' and half on their laser tag area which has some serious undergrowth. 

Cool, im guessing its the one in your profile.

Weren't you in north London previously ?, that's a big move.

[Nick G]

22 minutes ago, Tackle said:

Cool, im guessing its the one in your profile.

Weren't you in north London previously ?, that's a big move.

Yep , thats the one , Survival in Torrington . But no , never lived in any part of London. Somerset , Zambia , Brunei, Scotland and Devon , but never London .

[Tackle]

45 minutes ago, Nick G said:

Yep , thats the one , Survival in Torrington . But no , never lived in any part of London. Somerset , Zambia , Brunei, Scotland and Devon , but never London .

DOH, my old brain is getting mixed lol

[LMKipper]

Went to Gunman Alpha yesterday for a themed ‘90s game. It was the invented nation of Sahud occupied by Russians vs the NATO forces. Everyone made lots of effort with period kit and it worked really nicely.

 

The event really leant into the roleplay element and the whole day was tracked with a giant ‘morale-o-meter’. In short the Sahudi’s has tasks to do to make rebellion popular with the people, while the NATO forces had to win hearts and minds. For lots of tasks there were different ways of going about it, and some outcomes would have positive effects on the morale, some outcomes negative.

 

I was on the Sahudi ‘side’ but myself and another were actually CIA operatives under cover. We kept well hidden within the Sahudi team, until we were eventually assassinated by our own NATO forces, who opted to put spent Russian cartridges around our bodies to sow seeds of discord into the Sahudi/Russian alliance. 

 

It was interesting focusing more on the roleplay rather than the shooty shooty and the first time I’ve done this sort of game. I wouldn’t want to do it every weekend but it was cool to try. If you fancy it but don’t have the kit, Gunman has a huge stockpile of stuff, with lots of people borrowing period kit for the weekend. Not sure when the next one is, but I’ll go again. 

[ButcherBill]

Only stayed for the first couple of games, but long enought to realise I need to attend more often.

 

The weather was mixed, light showers pre-game then heavier during the brief to nice and sunny by our first game.

 

We were attacking in the first game, I used the LR300 which performed pretty well but the mags I used didn't perform as well, still managed a couple of kills (pretty sure 1 was a teammate  ), our team won but tbh I was mostly laying down trigger spamming covering fire, respawned a couple of times and got back into it.

The second game we were defending, I used the TM URG-I but the only 'enemy' I really saw were out of range until the last 5 mins or so, they got close enough to have me respawning a couple of times but I'd be surprised if I got any kills.

 

The most possitive part of my day was getting my combat jacket zipped up*, WOOHOO..!

 

*tight fit tho.

Edited 8 hours ago by ButcherBill

[Impulse]

Today was just one of those days for me. Played half the day at Worthing and then me and my friend left at lunch due to gun issues. The day itself was mostly good, with good hit taking, though the marshalls did have to collect everyone together to go over a few issues that happened (full auto up close and people removing eye-pro in the gameplay area) and the only real issue outside of these that were dealt with was some pretty rampant spawn-camping in the long game before lunch. Temperature was perfect too, a bit colder than it has been, but still probably between 18 - 20 celcius.

 

We were dropped off today, as the guy we usually go with has had his car break down and I'm still a few months off from my test, so I packed light. Went with the hawaiian shirt today as the flannel was too invisible last game day and I needed to up the ante, so a bright hawaiian shirt was the pick, with my usual not-jeans and Aliexpress belt kit and chest rig. Only brought the one gun and one pistol, as I didn't want to leave any of my rare stuff lying about the safe zone; I have never heard of anyone having stuff nicked at Worthing as the community is pretty great there, but I don't want to take the chance with pre-ban Tanakas and other not-so-common gas rifles, so pretty much everything I had with me could come out into the gameplay area. The one gun was one of my MWSs, the mk12 mod1 that I ran last game day and was flawless all day, alongside my TM p226 as a sidearm. Since then, I haven't done anything to it, so it should be fine, right?

 

Well, it was not fine. My MWS for whatever reason wasn't pushing the bolt all the way forward. I tested it on all 7 short mags I had with me and when I put the mag in, pulled the charging handle back and released it, it went almost all the way forward, but stopped short, not feeding a BB into the hop unit and therefore venting the whole mag when I pulled the trigger. A very kind bloke offered me his regular length MWS mags and while I could get a shot or two off with those, by the 2nd or 3rd shot it did the same thing, bolt not going all the way forward and then venting all the gas. So that was that, my MWS wasn't working at all. This meant that me and my very obvious hawaiian shirt had to go out in the morning with just my pistol; on the plus side, I definitely looked the part of "some CIA guy about to go shoot up a drug den in Cuba" as one of my mates put it, and I do love looking the part as a filmsim enjoyer, even at skirmish games. Fortunately, my p226 was functioning flawlessly, but I wasn't looking forward to how I was going to have to play. Especially when I saw that there were about 10 ghillies on site today.

 

Anyway, first game was a king of the hill style game around the tower base. Rather than post up where I normally do with my sniper rifles and DMRs, I went full-send. First game I managed to get all the way up the side, taking cover in a spot where I could pick people off on a flank. Spent most of the game bouncing around there until I was finally taken out, but got some great kills with the pistol. Then we swapped ends and I went full-send again, running up to the same spot to stop the enemy team from doing what I did in the last one. One of the enemy ghillies went all the way around the other side of the site to come in behind us, shooting my friend and one other of our team until I burst out, running across and shooting at him. I don't think I hit him, but I caused him to have to move enough and caused enough commotion to where some of the rentals turned and hosed the area with full auto and someone got him. I then medic'd my friend back in, so I'll call that a win.

 

Second game was... difficult. Because we had won the first game on both sides, we had the challenge of taking a stretcher to 6 different areas of the site, having to hold the areas for 10 mins with the stretcher before moving onto the next. We started at the bottom of the site and got to our first objective quite quickly. Had some of the ghillies try and harass us, but we just pushed through quickly and got to the base, then moved off before they could really do anything. Second objective was difficult, at the top of the hill that we were at the bottom of. This was challenging, as their spawn wasn't too far away and wasn't down a hill like ours was, so when they identified where we were with the stretcher, it became very difficult to push it. However, we managed it with some great aggressive play by half of our team; a group of regulars and a family of rentals. Dad, mum, and either both their kids or their kid and his friend, but there were 4 of them and they absolutely got stuck in, helped us with the stretcher and played their absolute hearts out, so massive respect to them. Once we had that objective, the next base we had to get to was... right outside the enemy spawn and this is where the gameplay completely broke apart. We were still having to respawn at the bottom of the hill and the enemy team had a very, very short walk from their respawn to the objective so it just became impossible to push. After I got hit carrying the stretcher, I pushed up aggressively after I respawned in, running around and making the dug in people have to worry about multiple angles which helped get them taken out. We almost got the objective, despite it being right next to the enemy respawn... until we got shot in the back. What we found after this was that the enemy team were sending a lot of people into the very dense part of the site and using that to basically spawn camp us on the hill. I saw at this point a lot of people had given up, because they were going down the hill, spawning, going up a tiny bit and just getting shot. I don't know if anyone reported it to the marshalls, but with only a few minutes left I made one last hurrah along one of the flanks, taking out two people with my pistol before the game ended.

 

It was a real shame for me today, as I really needed a good day of airsoft after work has been a pain in the ass the past few weeks (on a project that is like pulling teeth at the moment...), but with the MWS not working and having to run around a very dense woodland site, against an enemy team with at least 6 ghillies, in a bright hawaiian shirt with just a pistol was... not ideal and got very frustrating. Even with just a regular 1J rifle things would've been a lot easier, but accurate pistol shooting out to 40m+ is very difficult, even with real ones that have way better ballistics than our toy guns, so I was struggling today. On the plus side, my Earmor m31s were really good. Haven't worn them in a while, but figured I'd give them a run as I always use a headset in games like Tarkov or Gray Zone Warfare, so I figured I should use them in airsoft, and the difference was noticeable. Not so much with footsteps (a little bit, but not *that* much), but what it was amazing for was helping me pinpoint where people were shooting from which was a massive benefit.

 

Oh well. Two weeks to wait until the next one, and depending on how it goes with my friend's car will dictate whether I need to start running my Vietnam kit, as I want to make sure that works before the September 'Nam game if we even make it there. I know he'll be gutted if he has to miss the September 'Nam game as he's an older gentleman and doesn't know how many more years he has to play, but with his car acting up and that only being a month away, we might not make that either. I won't have a car until about October (test is in December), so I can't even lend him mine as it'll be a month too late

Edited 7 hours ago by Impulse

[Colin Allen]

Today was an invitation only event at Airsoft Plantation; 32 players were present along with a player marshal on each side.

The first game of the day had two stages; in the first, we had to defend a stretcher that we had hidden in the bunker in the mortar pits area; once the red team captured it, we switched to stage 2 where they had to get it, with a player on it, to the plane at the DEA base.  We had one life in each location, while the attackers had infinite buddy regens after a 30 m fallback.  I took up a position on the far side of the mortar pits, where I would be able to help defend against any enemy who tried to swing round and attack from that side.  Some of them did and they were sent back to find a colleague to regen on.  After doing this a few times, an attacker and I traded kills and I wandered off to the DEA base, where I set up in a favourite bush.  We held up their advance on the DEA base for quite a while, despite being attacked from 180 degrees.  Eventually a wafty shot came wandering into the bush, touching me very gently on the leg.

In the reverse of this, a group of us swung around the mortar pits and attacked from the far side, which we seemed to clear out rather quickly, as other colleagues moved in from other directions.  A brilliant grenade attack on the top deck of the bus cleared out the last defenders and we located the stretcher in the horse box.  After a slightly reluctant player had taken up position on the stretcher, we set off for the DEA base, with the stretcher team being held back until the area was cleared.  Our little group pushed around to the right, slowly helping to clear out the very determined defenders so that the stretcher could be rushed to the plane in a time that was a mere 45 seconds faster than the red team had managed.

After the usual short break to reload etc, we set out to defend two crates of beer that we could locate anywhere we chose in the village; I  hid one in the fuel dump.  We had two lives in the village, while the attackers again had infinite regens, this time at the silver birch, which was also their start point.  The enemy attack opened with a barrage of grenades, which had very little effect as they mostly fell short.  Fighting on our left, I was with a group who held up the enemy on that side for a considerable time, although we were slowly being ground down.  Eventually, I was hit and fell back to the fuel dump, where I was finally hit from a slightly unexpected direction.

When this was reversed, I went into the village through the suburbs, taking out a few enemy players as we slowly cleared out the defenders.  However, we could not locate the crates of beer; eventually, I found one secreted in a large wooden crate, which the marshals decided was an ungentlemanly place to hide it and imposed a time penalty on the defenders.  The other one was finally found hidden under the barrel barricade.

Lucheon was then taken, which meant cold pizza for me; yum!

After we had dined, we went out for a free for all in the woods.  Once you were hit, you joined the player who shot you if they could put their hand on you within 10 seconds.  If they couldn't, you were on your own again until someone managed to hit you and claim you.  Another player and I traded shots, forming a two person team; we quickly acquired a couple of colleagues and set up a perimeter about 25m behind the kill house, backed up against the earth bank, which we held throughout the game, preventing the enemy getting a hand on our shot colleagues and reclaiming them ourselves. By the end of the game, we had been reduced to a team of three, as one of us got a bit too far away and was shot and claimed by the group that had occupied the kill house.  It was a chaotic and rather fun game.

The next game required us to prevent the attackers, who started at the border, obtaining an ammo box from the ridge fort and transporting it to the wobbly bridge.  We had two lives in front of the wobbly bridge and one beyond it; the attackers had infinite buddy regens after a 30m fall back.  I took up a position on the far right, hoping to ambush any attackers who came that way.  After taking out a couple, I was delighted to see the opposing team's player marshal carefully picking his way along the site boundary; he then had to climb over a large fallen tree, after which I double tapped him.  He took his cowboy hat off, threw it to the floor and sank down while proclaiming "I give up!" before getting up again and trudging off.  I then set off to shoot the attackers in the back, which I did several times before they finally got the ammo box to the bridge that wobbles.

Several players had to leave at this point; those of us who remained went to the village.  After the teams had been rebalanced, we played a quick game of last team standing.  The teams started at opposite ends of the village with everyone having one life; the winners would be the team that the last surviving player belonged to.  I moved up along our right, taking out a couple of enemy players before I was hit and sent back to the safe zone, ending my day.

It was a good, old fashioned day of airsoft.  AP is a huge site that easily absorbs 200+ players; playing with a fraction of that number really changes the dynamics, resulting in a very different experience.

Weapons Used:
Ares VZ58
Umarex/S&T ARX160
ASG XP18 Commander (CO2)

 

[tside]

Another day at my regular field (dirty dog, Shildon). Bit of a test day for new kit for all the usual team. Ran my cm.045c all day and for a totally stock gun I have never been more impressed from a price to performance stand point. Hoyed .28s at a great range and accuracy and had absolutely no issues with it. Swapped some attachments and furniture after the game purely to get it to a point where the ergonomics are most comfortable for me.

Our squad support gunner brought his a&k pkm out for its first run and it thankfully had none of the issues the platform is known for and was able to get enough plastic down range consistently that we had no issues with effective fire and manoeuvre.

All the other players were absolutely great sports, (big shout out to the two players who acted as medics that joined our little squad for the day), except the grown adult who chose not to wear mouth pro and had a full on toddler meltdown when he got shot in the teeth poking his head around a corner.

Definitely some updates to my load bearing gear needed but a top notch day topped off with a birra moretti and a good bit of slow cooked ham when back at home.