Had a chat with Ed at IED yesterday . They have a 1200 acre mixed woodland scrubland site in Shropshire near Bishops Castle .
Roads, dense forest, open forest , quarries , never been skirmished but ready to rock . We have offer of the use of it if we so desire, I was thinking of the first 24 hr Ostfront Game perhaps.
We need to make a site visit after Xmas with them , and then book up a date suggest May /June .
Being Shopshire its only 40 miles due West from Dudley, a lot more accessable to the midlands and not the same site as CR.
Also in discussions about become a partner in some sites up North , Halifax way , although these are a way of being complete , so keep it to ourselves ofr the time being . Would give us access to more new sites though.
Wow! It's great terrain around there, pretty hilly.
I takes about an hour to drive from the Birmingham area because the roads are quite poor.
I'd be very up for a visit there with you Guy, if you could make it a weekend.
I've no holiday to use until April!!
Yep it's pretty close to you and David, it'll be about 3 hours for me and Kermit , but hey ho . I found the IED guys easy ot work with and would hapilly do so again . Do the site visit over a weekend , could even make it a camping trip with some walking
It's site 2 on their webby
http://www.iedairsoft.co.uk/SiteInfo.html
Yes, no problem with a site visit and Ostfront is a great idea... and along the same lines as CR, gameplay-wise (not an amble in the woods I mean).
You bring the V2 then 
380 mile round trip for me. As a weekend, id do it. But for one day - its iffy at best.
Site looks feckin' good though!
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You're all welcome to head up to mine the night before then leapfrog from there.
A nice night out in a civilised bar in Central Birmingham might be quit pleasant.
Sounds good to me , can we go to your local in kit
240 miles round trip for me so not quite so bad. .
I wouldn't go anywhere near my local.
Maybe would could combine the idea with a CiA social dinner somewhere nice in Birmingham.
"nice" and "Birmingham". Didn't manage to find anywhere decent in the 3 years I lived there! lol
Sounds like an excellent idea to me.
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There are plenty of very nice restaurants in Birmingham. Bank, Felini's, Simpsons, etc. You just need to know where to look.
Spoke to Ben today , he's up for a joint promo in May/June. I think we'll do the bulk of the work , however good to have a Russki on board.
Good, I asked him to give you a ring. He is keen to do it and it will also deflect him from wasting time organising (or thinking about) his own game. I don't want another 'committee' member but if he is going to get the Russian thing going then it helps that he is directly involved and takes a lead in the game. Whether he is in charge of the Russian forces as organiser or 1IC is a debate for another day...
For the record I'm not the slightest bit interested in gearing up for the Russian side.
& thats why i had to call him . We can discuss at DDay , happy to involve him if he actually does something.
He suffers from depression , can't drive, and can be a bit flakey ....um reminds me too much of someone else , but prepared to give benefit of doubt at this stage .
Pers could consider doing Partisan , not so assed with Russian . although I considered Yank TBH , I can't be assed with that or Brit .
Rich, happy to be a Yank with you in a Ruskie game.
I'd go partisan, but not the whole hog with a Ruskie loadout. Been pricing up Black Watch and 82nd loadouts, aint gonna be able to afford a Ruskie one as well lol
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