You find that a lot with "public figures" in my experience hard to judge em as individuals till you can have an extended natter. Though if he was as grey as the puppet in that restaurant I'd have given the food a miss
The 'How Did Your Airsoft Day Go? Thread
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New Year’s game with the eldest yesterday at Rift: Redcon 2. His first game too!
It was bloody freezing! Minus six when we left home but as the saying goes, there’s no such thing as bad weather, only poor clothing. So we layered up and if anything we’re too hot by lunchtime when the temps hit a dizzying plus five.
Morning was attack / defend objectives, that kept us all moving and there were some great firefights although the low winter sun made visibility tricky in places so you had to think a bit more and move to positions where you weren’t blinded by it. Red team won the morning by getting the objectives a little quicker than the blues.
Afternoon was one where attackers had infinite lives and defenders just the one, with defenders falling back to the next point they had to defend, with four areas in total. Key for this game is for the attackers to use the advantage and just push, despite much prodding from the marshals a lot of them seemed to forget this so they never captured a single objective! Blues however were more willing to push and were rewarded with capturing all four sites. There was some grumbling from the reds about hit taking which appeared justified as at one point four of them were firing at a sniper and it’ hard to believe that one of the many hundreds of rounds never got through - the marshals had a word. You had to cut people some slack though as with the amount of layers everyone had on you were relying on hearing a hit a lot of the time rather than feeling it.
Food was good and hot, we had Greggs sausage rolls and cheese turnovers. Shop was well stocked and had plenty of chargers for a battery top up at lunchtime. Didn’t win the raffle though
As always, the marshals were plentiful, knowledgeable, friendly and fair.
Overall it was a great day and mission accomplished as far as the eldest enjoying himself goes and he’s definitely wanting to go again. Of course that might just mean that we need to get him a pew as I’ve two gas rifs but only one aeg so I borrowed one from a mate as the temps weren’t exactly gas friendly. I could have got higher power gas and adjusted the NPAS but I’m pretty sure that would have meant it was a tad spicy by lunchtime.
Time to see if there’s some Jan sale deals about for that lad, he’ll need a chest rig too if he wants to give a gas pew a go in future. Might have a look at comms too
It was bloody freezing! Minus six when we left home but as the saying goes, there’s no such thing as bad weather, only poor clothing. So we layered up and if anything we’re too hot by lunchtime when the temps hit a dizzying plus five.
Morning was attack / defend objectives, that kept us all moving and there were some great firefights although the low winter sun made visibility tricky in places so you had to think a bit more and move to positions where you weren’t blinded by it. Red team won the morning by getting the objectives a little quicker than the blues.
Afternoon was one where attackers had infinite lives and defenders just the one, with defenders falling back to the next point they had to defend, with four areas in total. Key for this game is for the attackers to use the advantage and just push, despite much prodding from the marshals a lot of them seemed to forget this so they never captured a single objective! Blues however were more willing to push and were rewarded with capturing all four sites. There was some grumbling from the reds about hit taking which appeared justified as at one point four of them were firing at a sniper and it’ hard to believe that one of the many hundreds of rounds never got through - the marshals had a word. You had to cut people some slack though as with the amount of layers everyone had on you were relying on hearing a hit a lot of the time rather than feeling it.
Food was good and hot, we had Greggs sausage rolls and cheese turnovers. Shop was well stocked and had plenty of chargers for a battery top up at lunchtime. Didn’t win the raffle though
As always, the marshals were plentiful, knowledgeable, friendly and fair.
Overall it was a great day and mission accomplished as far as the eldest enjoying himself goes and he’s definitely wanting to go again. Of course that might just mean that we need to get him a pew as I’ve two gas rifs but only one aeg so I borrowed one from a mate as the temps weren’t exactly gas friendly. I could have got higher power gas and adjusted the NPAS but I’m pretty sure that would have meant it was a tad spicy by lunchtime.
Time to see if there’s some Jan sale deals about for that lad, he’ll need a chest rig too if he wants to give a gas pew a go in future. Might have a look at comms too
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