What did you think when you heard about WW2 airsoft?

Steve and I were already doing it at Close Action on a small scale.

i have an inbuilt big red button when it comes to right wing politics

Me too and last week I did what I swore I'd never do and went to a game as Waffen SS. The great thing with this scene is that everyone has their own preferences about sides and everyone's opinions are respected. I wouldn't play American for probably the same raft of reasons that you wouldn't play German but one day I may change my mind...

Bit of a leftie here too...

I swore i wouldnt do german and especially not SS but four years down the line i do most nations and arms of service.

i have an inbuilt big red button when it comes to right wing politics(did my time in the 80,s fighting the bnp and NF)

Same here, we probably went to a lot of the same rallies if you're a local lad, i was in Nottingham AFA.

I'm yet to meet anyone from here who's extreme right wing, or at least stupid enough to voice their opinions.

Voted option 1.

I got into it 'cause Ernie (9mmsleepin' pill) who used to help run my 'local' site said he was maybe gonna do a ww2 game day. A week later I had my full 101st kit. Well, almost complete anyway. Unfortunately that game never happened, as he got sick of dealing with the dude running the site. I knocked around in my ww2 kit at normal game days for a while, then bless the gods!!!! He got his own site (POW) and I now get to regularly skirmish with a growing band of WW2 skirmishers. Happy days.

i thought, "oh fuck, this is going to cost"...............................and i was right

I still consider myself a regular airsofter, still got my ICS M4 and DPM and wouldnt part with it, it all has it's uses and not all walk on days are bad, well not the ones I run anyway. At my site we'd always run themed "SISK" games, and when we did "Force ten from Navarone" it was mentioned on here and written off as a SISK. Quite rightly so as that's what it was, it was the element of the game that I was trying to recreate. Thats when I found these forums and having read a lot of posts before I opened my big gob, ( rare, I know ) I found the whole ethos brilliant.
My first game was Haggard which I attended using look alike rules and became an addict, the gameplay was fantastic, the site is first class and I'm going to badger the host into running another
Since then I've hosted my own game Op Jubilee and I'm working on hosting another in the late autumn. I enjoy the kamraderie on these forums, the intelligent debate cut across with some of the best humour in the country, and the ability to rapidly degenerate all things into smut

I thought wow this is amazing I can dress up like im from BOB/BIA but then the first ever airsoft game I played was the D-Day one and I decided id rather storm the beach than naff about behind it which prompted my infantry choice (BR1 From the film) but then well you know the rest.

I wanted to move to England, There is next to no ww2 airsofters in norhtern Ireland

Love it but bad news as well!

I wanted to do ww2 from the very first time i played airsoft ....... it wasnt long before the east german loadout gave way to oak a then i came across the USA ww2 forum and was just about to spank out on a trip to the states to play when i got a pm from headshot pointing me to CIA. I still really enjoy open days for practising my skils but ww2 is where my heart is my first ww2 game was arnhem.

I knew I was going to do it, it was what I had been waiting for.

I had not long started Airsoft and had no interest in Modern kit having started in 'nam kit because it was a)different, b) immensley practical and c) you could buy an M14, an XM177 and an M16.

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.

Hopefully at least you don't think we're all two hats and dull now cos gawd help you if your brit at the next game we're at

Good to see you and the family today

I got straight into ww2 airsoft almost from the get-go, which was about 5 years ago! I was the only 1 of a small handful that I knew that did it at the time, Headshot, Chomley, Stormtrooper Ade, (Didnt know Yith, Gadge or Old'un at the time)

I got back into modern stuff, but ended up selling it all and getting my ww2 kit back the moment I bought a 6mm M1 Carbine... I never looked back! As soon as I heard about the forums I rang the 1st person I could think of, and in a blaze of excitement I said "hey orky, have you seen this 'Comrades in arms ww2 forum, you have to tell your dad!!" to which he said 'yeah, he's sorta running it' lol (Chomley)

Lol there should be a button for 'I helped invent it' !

Also as I recall Andy you were just a lil bit sceptical at first about having to spend a lot of money on kit ......but thankfully we converted you back on pre CiA ASCUK forum days .

WW2 Airsoft , take good sound milsim game principals with a healthy understanding of WW2 combat and culture , bit of fun and socialising thrown in, and a large pinch of salt .... & hey ho , seems to work .

and a large pinch of salt .... & hey ho , seems to work .

Salt!? I think you mean alcohol.

and a large pinch of salt .... & hey ho , seems to work .

Salt!? I think you mean alcohol.

Same difference surely, both can cause dehydration

Also as I recall Andy you were just a lil bit sceptical at first about having to spend a lot of money on kit ......but thankfully we converted you back on pre CiA ASC UK forum days .

Indeed I was - but I think that was because I had discovered the Bulge game was happening, but I didn't have any kit - so I was railing against the very lenient kit standard! However, within about a month I was fully committed.

Hopefully at least you don't think we're all two hats and dull now cos gawd help you if your brit at the next game we're at

Good to see you and the family today

Sorry Helga, but I could never join a group with Farby underwear on their washing line

I thought I looked rather dashing in Brit gear - until my 8 year old niece told me I looked like "a fat old army man"

see she already knows re-enactors that was a compliment

Mmmhhh, I was wondering, because I play Softair since I am 16 or 15 years old, I am reeancting WW2, Civil War and middle age for more then 17 years now, so when I have heard about it, was my question, why does I not get this great idea.... mix both things you like and you will have double fun... and I found a lot of new beautyfull and nice friends and comrades in all kind of uniforms in all over europe....

Peter