Just wondering...
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First option for me, btw. 
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erm... it didn't exist when I started... well not in any formal sense. lol 
Hmm... I didn't think you could join CiA unless you were old and infirm!! 
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I have always been interested in WW2, and ever since getting into Airsoft, way back when, I have wanted a WW2 skirmish. Despite the lack of games and weapons back then, it didn't stop me putting a load-out together and ocasionally playing as a lone German among the sea of DPM, USW, and flecktarn!
This is me at an open day at Ground Zero back in June 2005, swedish conversion wools and AK47 in hand! 
“I wanted to come to the Volga at a specific location at a specific city. By chance it carries the name of Stalin himself. So don’t think I marched there for this reason – it could carry another name – but because there is a very important goal... this goal I wanted to take – and you know – we are very modest, we have it already."
Adolf Hitler, November 1942
"Comrades, Red Army men, commanders and political workers, men and women guerrillas! It is on your perseverance, staunchness, fighting skill and readiness to discharge your duty to the country that the defeat of the German-fascist army and the liberation of the Soviet land from the Hitlerite invaders depend! We can and must clear the Soviet land of Hitlerite vermin."
Joseph Stalin, November 1942
I put together some of the first WW2 skirmishes back in 2003; so I thought it was great! 
I thought...
"What a great idea Dave, Yith, Guy, Steve and I have just had..."
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
I thought...
"What a great idea Dave, Yith, Guy, Steve and I have just had..."
lmao
I got into it through Gadge. I knew him socially, and wasn't into airsoft at all, as modern gear just doesn't interest me in any way, i was into ww2 history and collecting militaria. He mentioned it to me, and it seemed like an interesting concept at the time to go a bit further and actually get a (very vague and safe!) impression of what it might have been like to be in the war.
That was two years ago, and now i've got an entire room stuffed full of kit and i'm an organiser for PBI games. Doesn't time (and money!) fly!
The isn't a category for "Discovering there were other people who were skirmishing in WW2 gear as like I was already doing"...
A Proud Member Of 'Team Spleen!' who play mainly at Gunman Airsoft, Tuddenham, Suffolk.
Yes there is... 
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Adding that has cleared out everyone else's poll entries
Adding that has cleared out everyone else's poll entries
Dag nabbit! Stupid forum. 
Well I believe it was 12 for option 1 and 5 for option (now) 3.
You have the option to vote again! 
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I was cajouled into joining the forum by Che, I don't think for one minute I'd actually have a go, let alone enjoy it 
anyways here we are in 2009 waiting to book into the next game I can attend 
I put sounds interesting.
Lipton had stumbled on this website and was going on about it, I thought it sounded interesting, I had never 'airsofed' and was not particularly interested in modern things and guns and such. WWII, however, made it interesting but I wasn't sure what it would be like. I was concerned it might be, as Angel succinctly puts it full of 'geardo-dick-measuring macho-BS.'
I went to a game, met the people, thought they both were great and was hooked.
Can we have a "group hug" emoticon please, CW?
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Is that one not good enough for you?
I'd lurked around a few re-enacting websites and decided not to get involved because the forums seemed to be full of self opinionated tw@ts. Plus it looked a little dull.
Stumbled across CiA and was struck by how friendly everyone seemed so decided to give it a go. My first game (Eagle) was so much fun that I was hooked.
I was at the point where I`d grown bored of the open day blatfests back in 2006, was looking for weekenders or something like that with a bit more "living in the field" side of things. A bit of a cross between reenactment and airsoft and and I like the historical aspect. At least when I`m not playing (which I haven`t done for a while now) I can read up on the history, battles and the kit so it keeps the interest there....just
Why did I get into it?
I've been Airsofting for over a decade and a half. I've been there, done that with the whole geardo thing. Shit, I was one of the founding members of Team Wannabe, the original 100% Molle whores - and as Angel puts it so well, it was "geardo-dick-measuring macho-BS" to the highest degree. The kit became more important than the game - not good! Thank fuck I got out of it. You know its got bad when you think nothing of dropping 300 quid on a real-deal KAC RAS2 (I must have been mental!) So I started flogging off my kit sharpish, and buying W-SS gear. For once in my life, timing was perfect, and up popped the Battle of the Bulge event at F&O. Result!
jethro - interesting to get an "outsiders" point of view on things. Even if you admit to being a bit of a commie
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..........
