Cringe in Airsoft

[Austeyr]

14 minutes ago, Colin Allen said:

Hmm, which site could you be referring to? 😜

 

[Galvatron]

 

1 hour ago, CamboL said:

Lead marshal at a well known site in Suffolk (Ex RAF airfield...) Throwing a full blown tantrum at lunch time because someone had pissed on the portaloo seat was both equally funny, tragic and cringe

 

Yes feet were stomped, yes there was shouting, yes we were all called dirty c*&ts, yes the scrawny fecker promised to knock out the pee offender followed with the threat of a lifetime ban, no me and my pals haven't been back since (Also no we didn't do the peeing - we chose a far nicer tree to relieve ourselves against as opposed a dirty portaloo in the middle of summer!)

 

Don't get me wrong - peeing on the seat is a bit grim, but watching a man child have a full blown temper tantrum - was not expecting that!

 

Also side note - didn't appreciate this Marshall make comments regarding "mongs" and "mong like behaviour" during his briefing. I'm by no means a snowflake, but having previously worked with SEN kids and adults, that just wasn't funny - no matter how many times he dropped it into the briefing...

 

I was 95% sure I know the site you're talking about as its portaloos are shocking, even by festival standards. Mentioning that it's an ex-RAF airfield is redundant at that point. 

 

 

[Nick G]

21 hours ago, Lyndication said:

 

Eh, I guess it depends on how serious is serious. It's part of the LARP to engage with it as if it matters.

 

Otherwise it's a bit like turning up for a five a side and telling everyone to chill out and have a beer for the 90 minutes. 

 

Obviously it's games at the end of the day and you shouldn't go burning bridges over the results, but IMO it's more fun to take it seriously while you're playing it.

I agree up to a point , yes take the objective of the game seriously and play your best with your team in order to achieve it , with a healthy dose of 'who actually cares who wins'. But as soon as someone starts screaming 'take your hits' or behaving like they think they are an operator and yelling orders at other players and generally acting like a tit then they need a time out .

Edited yesterday at 16:28 by Nick G

[Lyndication]

I think we're agreeing with each other here, yeah.

[Colin Allen]

5 hours ago, Nick G said:

But as soon as someone starts screaming 'take your hits' or behaving like they think they are an operator and yelling orders at other players and generally acting like a tit then they need a time out .

Either that or get a life.

[mrfoxhound]

where to begin .......
people that sell second hand stuff that's broken or will break when the new person uses it ,

 

idiots that buy HPA because they have been told its the best , and they have no clue how to operate the equipment (been at chrono and the marshal asked the guy to turn down the regulator ..... he then asked the marshal '' how do i do that ?'' 

 

General shit talkers , with subjects that relate to RS firearms or gear they have watched on a YouTube video

 

dickheads that use ghillie suits ... and don't follow the principles of camo and concealment, using heaviest ammo and only getting 50m

 

shops that dont give the correct advice for new people , and just use them as a sale 

 

pallet sites 

 

player marshals 

 

any airsoft team that has the following words in there name , or associations to ancient history, Spartans, hoplite , immortals , guards , wolf , dog , dragon, phoenix , 

 

headless chicken squad 

 

names nicco

 

any youtube video that is set up like a call of duty commentary with hit markers and killfeeds and music

 

any event that uses ai images to advertise an event, that goes for shops too 

 

obnoxious geardos  

 

idiots that have go pros , on everything 

 

call signs for team members 

 

anyone that turns up in a german ss uniform un ironically or not at a ww2 event

 

people that dont know the limitations of there equipment 

 

too friendly regulars .... people that think there regular site is there personal toy box and complain when they lose  

 

walts 

 

people that played about a years airsoft , equate that to them knowing everything , and telling you the best gear  and upgrades to use 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Gunboat Diplomat]

4 hours ago, mrfoxhound said:

names nicco

😆 💯

 

4 hours ago, mrfoxhound said:

pallet sites

Is this a ‘thing’?  My local site makes use of a lot of pallets, but they’ve made a good job of turning a lot of them into proper fully fledged structures or using them as walkways to stop the ground getting churned into sludge when it’s wet.  

 

I will say it is infuriating when the pallets are just stacked on top of each other, making anyone taking cover behind them clearly visible, yet the ‘no-shooting-through-pallet-gaps’ rule reduces you to a ridiculous immersion breaking Mexican standoff.

[Impulse]

5 hours ago, mrfoxhound said:

dickheads that use ghillie suits ... and don't follow the principles of camo and concealment, using heaviest ammo and only getting 50m

 

As a dickhead who uses a ghillie suit, this one actually really resonates with me and I totally agree (though I've been using civvie loadouts recently to make sure I keep the skills sharp as if I can hide in a hawaiian shirt, I can hide in actual camo); if I had my way, I'd say that you need to use a bolt action to use a ghillie, or a DMR if you're wearing a cobra hood, not a hood with a cloak; cobra hoods are head and shoulders only and people seem to willfully misunderstand that's what those are.

 

But the number of ghillies that I see who basically just walk around with either some sort of HPA m4, or their bolt action rifle slung and never used with a mk23 loaded with .48s that they shoot people up close with...

[Rickwales]

Loving this topic as I'm new to airsoft. I had to look up impulses profile to check as I repeatedly got shot by a guy in a Hawaiian shirt last weekend at Outpost Chester, but don't think it was him. 😆 

 

 

[Impulse]

24 minutes ago, Rickwales said:

Loving this topic as I'm new to airsoft. I had to look up impulses profile to check as I repeatedly got shot by a guy in a Hawaiian shirt last weekend at Outpost Chester, but don't think it was him. 😆 

 

 

 

Nah, not me. I'm down south in Sussex, and wasn't airsofting last weekend  

[Rickwales]

That guy was bloody good I have to say, and very sneaky. Kept shooting me in the arse... 

In my defense, the mask was steaming up and I couldn't see a thing. That's my excuse anyway. 

 

[EvilMonkee]

8 hours ago, mrfoxhound said:

where to begin .......
people that sell second hand stuff that's broken or will break when the new person uses it ,

 

idiots that buy HPA because they have been told its the best , and they have no clue how to operate the equipment (been at chrono and the marshal asked the guy to turn down the regulator ..... he then asked the marshal '' how do i do that ?'' 

 

General shit talkers , with subjects that relate to RS firearms or gear they have watched on a YouTube video

 

dickheads that use ghillie suits ... and don't follow the principles of camo and concealment, using heaviest ammo and only getting 50m

 

shops that dont give the correct advice for new people , and just use them as a sale 

 

pallet sites 

 

player marshals 

 

any airsoft team that has the following words in there name , or associations to ancient history, Spartans, hoplite , immortals , guards , wolf , dog , dragon, phoenix , 

 

headless chicken squad 

 

names nicco

 

any youtube video that is set up like a call of duty commentary with hit markers and killfeeds and music

 

any event that uses ai images to advertise an event, that goes for shops too 

 

obnoxious geardos  

 

idiots that have go pros , on everything 

 

call signs for team members 

 

anyone that turns up in a german ss uniform un ironically or not at a ww2 event

 

people that dont know the limitations of there equipment 

 

too friendly regulars .... people that think there regular site is there personal toy box and complain when they lose  

 

walts 

 

people that played about a years airsoft , equate that to them knowing everything , and telling you the best gear  and upgrades to use 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think I love you

[Tackle]

8 hours ago, mrfoxhound said:

where to begin .......
people that sell second hand stuff that's broken or will break when the new person uses it ,

 

idiots that buy HPA because they have been told its the best , and they have no clue how to operate the equipment (been at chrono and the marshal asked the guy to turn down the regulator ..... he then asked the marshal '' how do i do that ?'' 

 

General shit talkers , with subjects that relate to RS firearms or gear they have watched on a YouTube video

 

dickheads that use ghillie suits ... and don't follow the principles of camo and concealment, using heaviest ammo and only getting 50m

 

shops that dont give the correct advice for new people , and just use them as a sale 

 

pallet sites 

 

player marshals 

 

any airsoft team that has the following words in there name , or associations to ancient history, Spartans, hoplite , immortals , guards , wolf , dog , dragon, phoenix , 

 

headless chicken squad 

 

names nicco

 

any youtube video that is set up like a call of duty commentary with hit markers and killfeeds and music

 

any event that uses ai images to advertise an event, that goes for shops too 

 

obnoxious geardos  

 

idiots that have go pros , on everything 

 

call signs for team members 

 

anyone that turns up in a german ss uniform un ironically or not at a ww2 event

 

people that dont know the limitations of there equipment 

 

too friendly regulars .... people that think there regular site is there personal toy box and complain when they lose  

 

walts 

 

people that played about a years airsoft , equate that to them knowing everything , and telling you the best gear  and upgrades to use 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4 minutes ago, EvilMonkee said:

I think I love you

 

[Colin Allen]

4 hours ago, Gunboat Diplomat said:

😆 💯

 

Is this a ‘thing’?  My local site makes use of a lot of pallets, but they’ve made a good job of turning a lot of them into proper fully fledged structures or using them as walkways to stop the ground getting churned into sludge when it’s wet.  

 

I will say it is infuriating when the pallets are just stacked on top of each other, making anyone taking cover behind them clearly visible, yet the ‘no-shooting-through-pallet-gaps’ rule reduces you to a ridiculous immersion breaking Mexican standoff.

Indeed; there is nothing wrong with pallets per se.   One of the best sites that I have ever played at, the much lamented Doomsday, was constructed almost entirely of pallets and was utterly magnificent.

 

it is also provided me with one of my biggest surprises ever at an airsoft site; I was crawling through the undergrowth when I suddenly found myself literally face to face with with a rather large billy goat.  I think he was as surprised as I was; we both exited the scene.

[Gunboat Diplomat]

You didn’t spot him due to his Billy-suit. 

[Colin Allen]

4 minutes ago, Gunboat Diplomat said:

You didn’t spot him due to his Billy-suit. 

Indeed; he didn’t have a bolt action rifle though.

[rj1986]

41 minutes ago, Gunboat Diplomat said:

You didn’t spot him due to his Billy-suit. 

 

 

Anyway, this thread has made me realise the least enjoyable thing about playing airsoft is... actually playing airsoft.

[EDcase]

5 minutes ago, rj1986 said:

Anyway, this thread has made me realise the least enjoyable thing about playing airsoft is... actually playing airsoft.

Its the usual, dealing with arseholes

[mrfoxhound]

10 hours ago, mrfoxhound said:

where to begin .......
people that sell second hand stuff that's broken or will break when the new person uses it ,

 

idiots that buy HPA because they have been told its the best , and they have no clue how to operate the equipment (been at chrono and the marshal asked the guy to turn down the regulator ..... he then asked the marshal '' how do i do that ?'' 

 

General shit talkers , with subjects that relate to RS firearms or gear they have watched on a YouTube video

 

dickheads that use ghillie suits ... and don't follow the principles of camo and concealment, using heaviest ammo and only getting 50m

 

shops that dont give the correct advice for new people , and just use them as a sale 

 

pallet sites 

 

player marshals 

 

any airsoft team that has the following words in there name , or associations to ancient history, Spartans, hoplite , immortals , guards , wolf , dog , dragon, phoenix , 

 

headless chicken squad 

 

names nicco

 

any youtube video that is set up like a call of duty commentary with hit markers and killfeeds and music

 

any event that uses ai images to advertise an event, that goes for shops too 

 

obnoxious geardos  

 

idiots that have go pros , on everything 

 

call signs for team members 

 

anyone that turns up in a german ss uniform un ironically or not at a ww2 event

 

people that dont know the limitations of there equipment 

 

too friendly regulars .... people that think there regular site is there personal toy box and complain when they lose  

 

walts 

 

people that played about a years airsoft , equate that to them knowing everything , and telling you the best gear  and upgrades to use 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i want to add airsoft grifters 

 

[Cooperman26]

On 17/09/2025 at 12:20, Cannonfodder said:

Even worse when they expect others to call them by said rank. Yes I've seen this happen. Said bellend wasn't happy when we obliged but added a few colourful words to the end 

“Yes corporal C*nt!” 🤣🤟🏻

[ButcherBill]

12 hours ago, mrfoxhound said:

where to begin .......
people that sell second hand stuff that's broken or will break when the new person uses it ,

 

idiots that buy HPA because they have been told its the best , and they have no clue how to operate the equipment (been at chrono and the marshal asked the guy to turn down the regulator ..... he then asked the marshal '' how do i do that ?'' 

 

General shit talkers , with subjects that relate to RS firearms or gear they have watched on a YouTube video

 

dickheads that use ghillie suits ... and don't follow the principles of camo and concealment, using heaviest ammo and only getting 50m

 

shops that dont give the correct advice for new people , and just use them as a sale 

 

pallet sites 

 

player marshals 

 

any airsoft team that has the following words in there name , or associations to ancient history, Spartans, hoplite , immortals , guards , wolf , dog , dragon, phoenix , 

 

headless chicken squad 

 

names nicco

 

any youtube video that is set up like a call of duty commentary with hit markers and killfeeds and music

 

any event that uses ai images to advertise an event, that goes for shops too 

 

obnoxious geardos  

 

idiots that have go pros , on everything 

 

call signs for team members 

 

anyone that turns up in a german ss uniform un ironically or not at a ww2 event

 

people that dont know the limitations of there equipment 

 

too friendly regulars .... people that think there regular site is there personal toy box and complain when they lose  

 

walts 

 

people that played about a years airsoft , equate that to them knowing everything , and telling you the best gear  and upgrades to use 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Does someone need a hug?

[Cannonfodder]

53 minutes ago, Cooperman26 said:

“Yes corporal C*nt!” 🤣🤟🏻

From what I remember several variations of that 

[Colin Allen]

Player marshals may or may not be effective, but they are not cringe, which is also the case for many of the items in that long list.

I have acted as a player marshal from time to time, but always in collaboration with non-player marshals.  The role is useful for keeping an eye on behaviour within teams.