how wrong is it that i havent bought one new piece of kit for Churchill's Revenge?
Very! Only because I have got it for you 
I've not been to a CiA event yet and I'm already a kit whore 
But then I've been playing ice hockey for years so have been in training for a long time... 
Very! Only because I have got it for you
credit where its due sounds like h3b had the right idea
very wrong 
should have bought at least 10 odd items
And here's me having to buy... well... pretty much all my kit for CR
And here's me having to buy... well... pretty much all my kit for CR
same here heh
And here's me having to buy... well... pretty much all my kit for CR
same here heh
and here, i haven't even done airsoft before, so i've had to buy the lot, even glasses and ammo, let alone the uniform and all the field gear!
And here's me having to buy... well... pretty much all my kit for CR
same here heh
and here, i haven't even done airsoft before, so i've had to buy the lot, even glasses and ammo, let alone the uniform and all the field gear!
Well, this'll be my first airsofting, but somehow I feel I'm going to be relying a lot on my actual army training (mainly for fieldcraft, but who knows it might be handy for the combat too. I don't see why it would be all that different)
Before I did airsoft I'd done some paintball and alot of hunting with rifles/shotguns/air rifles. I'd imagine being in the army you're even more experienced again so you're very much right in thinking that as you play instinct and fieldcraft just kicks in. the only real difference being that you dont use the sights so much in airsoft as the bb's tend not to stick to the sight line. Oh and that at range you can often dodge bb's heh
Well, this'll be my first airsofting, but somehow I feel I'm going to be relying a lot on my actual army training (mainly for fieldcraft, but who knows it might be handy for the combat too. I don't see why it would be all that different)
one better than me, i'll only be relying on having watched 'Cross of Iron' too many times.
Well, this'll be my first airsofting, but somehow I feel I'm going to be relying a lot on my actual army training (mainly for fieldcraft, but who knows it might be handy for the combat too. I don't see why it would be all that different)
one better than me, i'll only be relying on having watched 'Cross of Iron' too many times.
Correction - you can never watch Cross of Iron too many times! 
You've got nothing to ein, zwei, drei, vier
i think cross of iron lines all day long, especially the line by steiner "good kill", just as i cut someone up in my white van
"Take that you rotton helping of strawberry flan!"
Joseph Porta to "strawberrys and cream", in the sven hassel book ,ogpu prison
i think cross of iron lines all day long, especially the line by steiner "good kill", just as i cut someone up in my white van
Anthony, you crack me up mate!
You've got nothing to ein, zwei, drei, vier
And here's me having to buy... well... pretty much all my kit for CR
same here heh
and here, i haven't even done airsoft before, so i've had to buy the lot, even glasses and ammo, let alone the uniform and all the field gear!
Me too lol i have never played airsoft before and im not even going to the CR game, im not old enough only 1 year out 
oh well il go to the big november game
And here's me having to buy... well... pretty much all my kit for CR
same here heh
and here, i haven't even done airsoft before, so i've had to buy the lot, even glasses and ammo, let alone the uniform and all the field gear!
Well, this'll be my first airsofting, but somehow I feel I'm going to be relying a lot on my actual army training (mainly for fieldcraft, but who knows it might be handy for the combat too. I don't see why it would be all that different)
Fire and moment works, having the discipline to cover assigned arcs works but i reality a lot of your fieldcraft you dont get to apply.
I was disappointed to find it out myself too... 
The biggest thing you'll have as an advantage is impetus and controlled agression.
Being able to just get up and put in the assault and rally guys round you is important.
The main thing is you'll be thinking in engagement ranges in hundreds of metres where as *everything* in airsoft is below 100
Patrol skills are and movement *very* useful.
And should you ever find yourself gaming with other trained soldiers (four out of six of us in my old team Red Star Battlalion were former soldiers) then it works a lot better as you can trust each other to watch arcs, stag on without getting bored and wandering off etc.
The biggest adjustment for me was realising that i just wasn't going to hit things i thought i could with a smoothbore bb gun and that you really do need to put about three rounds down for the effect of one to counter for wind, deflective undergrowth and players simply not feeling it.
Hope you see what i mean, all good skills but mine were not quite as ninja as i'd thought they 'd be once in the field.
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
And treat the event more like a tactical board game. There are lots of things that stymie the usual things, like there's no element of surprise and dead people come back to life.
Oh, and remember that there a people from all walks of life, some like acting like soldiers, taking orders and getting shouted at, others don't.
