What influenced your choice of sides

Fine with me i love USMC camo aswell unfortunately then we will end up with loads of marines and no japs, or people wearing USMC stuff at regular games lol

i must admit tho,,, i do like my brit airborne, even more so now i have a helmet.it just reminds me of being a kid at the cinema watching anthony hopkins being so cool and stiff upper lipped in arnhem.

"you do realise were wearing entirely the wrong camouflage - its all very well in the country but I dont think its going to fool anybody in a town!"

The only good way of doing a PTO game would be to have all the 'japs' as dug in MG bunkers... that way nobody has to see them!

And as was in real life, shot at by people mistaking it for SS.

Good times for the Axis ahead...

Popular myth that one. Many threads on it on this forum.....somewhere!

i must admit tho,,, i do like my brit airborne, even more so now i have a helmet.it just reminds me of being a kid at the cinema watching anthony hopkins being so cool and stiff upper lipped in arnhem.

"Tell him to go to hell"

Because we simply haven t got the facilities to take you all prisoner...

Plus they lost and I'm soooooooo tired of the 'we were just soldiers' codswallop in every German WW2 memoir I've ever read!

You could say the same of allied soldiers! Oops, I forgot, they WON the war, so got to write the history books. I'm no revisionist and the Nazi regime did some terrible things but you can't blame the common soldier for any of it.

Anyhoo, I chose German simply because of the diversity of kit, the innovative weapons and tactics and, as a young lad, I grew up on a making Tamiya and Airfix models and the German stuff was really cool. Plus, I've BEEN in the British army (as have many of my ancestors), so have no desire to do it from an airsoft point of view. U.S forces don't interest me because, frankly, they were a bit rubbish (over reliant on artillery, airpower and numbers).

at last we agree on something

It took a while. Glad to be on the same wavelength! We Waffen SS types really should stick together (and kick ass in December!).

Because we simply haven t got the facilities to take you all prisoner...

"would like to but cant",,,,,," was there anything else?"

Five years ago after being gob-smacked at my first skirmish I went straight to Airsoft Armoury to buy my first gun. I knew nothing about guns except for the hire Spetz I'd had the week before. Scanned the shelves and saw endless guns that all looked the same. Except one. The Thompson beckoned.

At the next skirmish I turned up with this rather off-beat gun and the marshal (our very good friend The Major)asked me why not get the rest of the kit. I looked at him blankly. I had no idea you could get WW2 clobber easily. Andy told me about what you could get but it all seemed rather expensive (I had never spent money on myself or had a hobby - hard to believe, but family, house and future security came first!). In the meantime Webby (who started 'softing around the same time) had gawn and bought some US kit but, as was his wont, decided to swap loadouts (which he did every two weeks ) so I bought his M43 jacket. Bugger, that was it. From there on a constant quest to get more and more complete kit, from SoF and militaria fairs using both repro and original bits. So there I was with a pukka 94th Inf loadout with a Signals/Combat photographer twist.

However , the dearth of anywhere to wear it (in any meaning full way - Headshot's WW2 Fireball game was a turning point) and the quest for something new meant another loadout, going for a modern RM loadout, more appropriate to usual open days. After all, there was only me, Webby (yes, he went Airborne!) and Ade who played in WW2 kit - two US and one German hardly made a viable WW2 game!

Two years ago when we were getting the CiA concept together it was clear we could muster a US side from players around the country but the Germans was going to be tricky. So I swapped sides and bought German kit so Guy and me could run the Axis while Headshot and Yith could run the Allies. A year on and a comprehensive collection of German kit was filling the garage.

Then, having always had a hankering for British kit (weird, but I always felt 'right' in Brit kit, whether WW2 or modern) the birth of PBI saw a reason to start getting kitted up - yet again a year of kit building.

So, there you are - complete late war US infantry kit, summer and winter SS kit, temperate and desert Brit kit. And no more! I never sell kit (I only buy stuff I want therefore will never 'not' want it) but I won't be buying more loadouts, tweak and improve maybe.

Oh, and my favourite gun out of a whole garage full of modern and period guns is still the Thompson. It was my first love and my only true love.

What influenced my choice of a US loadout

Holywood!
I'm a slave to trends.

I have a similar family history to Kermit - relations fighting on both sides, so I feel "entitled" to go either way. I'm happy to explain a bit of history to some people who are just itching to take offence but at the end of the day we're all just pretending to be 1940s soldiers. Airsoft is just a game. Kit and weapon collecting is just a hobby. Real war is horrible, and no-one here is going to forget or object to that fact.

(searches in vain for "flower" smilie).

(searches in vain for "flower" smilie).

Sex really ,

I can use the German gear as a double up for my stripagram business , British kit was too itchy and American too complicated to take off on stage . Big hit at last years Victory show ....

I thought it'd be easier to do the full Monty in british gear?

I'm soooooo tempted to post up the CiA team calendar pic at this point.....

Nah reckon it's time for another ...this time in the snow !

I'll bring a hand warmer for special placement pre-photo.

I chose US ranger because I think the uniform looked ahead of its time back then. Also reading the D day game in AI mag got me into WW2 airsoft. My poor M4 hasnt been used in months.

The system works have to admit the ranger kits on show at the D-Day game were spectacular I love the way they look.

I'm soooooo tempted to post up the CiA team calendar pic at this point.....

charity semi nude comrades in arms calender..............................( shivers )