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Chomley-Warner · 2009-02-08T13:47:57Z

OK, well re-establishment of the brand then! Following discussions with AFRA and our own despair of the SISK mentality I have been pondering on how exactly we can describe what we do. I'm just doing a reciprocal link with the Allied forum so that's why I have brought it up now. At the moment the header of the forum and head of the web site is shared and I am proposing to differentiate the two. The forum is OK as 'The UK home of WW2 airsoft' since the forum is a broad church and does specifically cover airsoft guns and games. It might be an idea to stick the word 'community' in there as some people are unable to differentiate what people say on the forum and what CiA does in it's games. maybe 'The UK WW2 Airsoft Community forum' would be perfectly adequate. Now then, US - and that's the CiA web site and CiA section of the public forum. Historically the slogan has been 'The Home of WW2 Themed Airsoft in the UK' and more latterly 'The UK Home of WW2 airsoft'. Neither are true for CiA as game organisers and I would like to drop the 'airsoft' altogether. Our vinyl banners just says 'WW2 battles' which is a simplification but fine just to show where the entrance is. So, what keywords are there? Re-enactment - we can't use that (unless the word can be qualified) as it is legitimately used by others and has specific meaning for some. Airsoft - we are much more than that and it has a specific meaning in relation to VCRA and implications thereof Battles - that's what we do Filmsim - used by Josh. Again, I think we are more than that - it's not a bad analogy but it does imply no basis in fact, which isn't true. Games - I think this is to be avoided, sounds very much like playing Themed - well, that's very SISK Live battles - much more 'live' than a re-enactors blank-fire battle but has connotations of 'live rounds' Real battles - they are real, much more real than re-enactors battles Role play - hmmm, there is an great deal of role play but it sounds like rubber swords and viking helmets Simulation - sounds like a computer strategy game Battle-sim - again, computer game Live - as in Clothes Show Live Live-action - well, that's LARP isn't it Now then , I've been looking at thesauruses and web definitions of reenactment and stumbled on the word 'combat' which pretty much describes what we do - we don't stand behind a rope showing a MOP what an MP40 looks like (education) or have public battles (entertainment/education) or sit in fox holes for two days eating spam (living history) BUT we do fight - the prime element in an airsoft game. My proposal for discussion - 'Comrades in Arms - WW2 live-combat battles' or 'Comrades in Arms - WW2 live combat events'

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Talking of that ..some interesting stuff you've got up for sale Jay ...been cleaning the closet recently ?

Posted : 09/02/2009 6:33 pm

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Comrades in Arms - WW2 Front-line Combat

Comrades in Arms - WW2 Front-line Encounters (Chommers is on a promise)

Comrades in Arms - Intense, In Tents :rofl:

Comrades in Arms - WW2 Goings-on

Comrades in Arms - WW2 Combat Enactment (heh, clever!)

Posted : 09/02/2009 7:31 pm

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I'm feckin' crap at this kind of thing, but i'll throw a few things in:

Comrades in Arms - WW2 Combat
Comrades in Arms - WW2 Battles
Comrades in Arms - The WW2 Combat experience
Comrades in Arms - Here for the Beer

meh, i'm shite at this stuff....

Guy - I'm having an uber clearout. Got a fuckload of modern kit to get shot of as well - sick and tired of it clogging up the house!

When we were a Kingdom it was run by a King
When we were an Empire it was run by an Empress
Now we're a country we're run by a..........

Posted : 09/02/2009 9:16 pm

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I'm feckin' crap at this kind of thing, but i'll throw a few things in:

Comrades in Arms - WW2 Combat
Comrades in Arms - WW2 Battles
Comrades in Arms - The WW2 Combat experience
Comrades in Arms - Here for the Beer

meh, i'm shite at this stuff....

Guy - I'm having an uber clearout. Got a fuckload of modern kit to get shot of as well - sick and tired of it clogging up the house!

:rofl: yes you are ...! Creative Civil Servants ....an oxymoron surely ...

Comrades in Arms - Beer, Blut und Blanco
Comrades in Arms - Making Gunman's events look crap since 2006
Comrades in Arms - Dogging Company - oh can I ammend BigUKs posts with that ?

Comrades in Arms - Fighting the 1940s
Comrades in Arms - WW2 Combat ........................................... do we need "event" why not just combat ?
Comrades in Arms - Experience combat as it was 60 years ago
Comrades in Arms - Living , fighting, in WW2

Comrades in Arms - NRR ................................................ Not reenacting really
Comrades in Arms - The Next Generation
Comrades in Arms - the Search for Spock
Comrades in Arms - Goes forth
Comrades in Arms - Ah bollox to it
Comrades in Arms - Men in Wool

aw fuck I'm as bad a Jay at this ....all I can say is I came up with Comrades in Arms ...er ..not much of a defence I know .

Posted : 10/02/2009 8:15 am

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Comrades in Arms - As authentic as you want it ?

Comrades in Arms - Conflicting World War II

Comrades in Arms - Assaulting WWII

Comrades in Arms - WW2 Combat Society

Comrades in Arms - Front and Forum

Posted : 10/02/2009 8:39 am

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