Where are all the Commonwealth troops? In fact, where..

Yes, Airsoft isn't cheap, never has been. Athough kit lending/renting considerably reduces the entry cost for WW2.

Cheers
Martin

i know its been said but if any one wants to try it there are ways, folks are always happy to lend kit out , look how much stuff josh lends out to players and also lends out to organizers, last game we ran we kitted 4 players out to try it out, three of them are now looking at there own and the other it was not for them .

yes some folks don't like to borrow but that's a choice made , if you really want to try it then you either borrow or buy , yes it can be pricey but like josh just said , airsoft like a lot of hobbies is pricey and if you go to any of the specific mil sim modern games , it can cost just as much if not more , and they don't even look as cool

but i feel ww2 airsoft is steadily growing , i know the sites we play more and more folks are getting into it , after gothic there was 9 of us who decided to be a uniform group and chose the 34th , we are now 24 players all midlands based and know each other. We had a ww2 group come to our last game and had there own zug it was there first ww2 airsoft and by all accounts they are hooked and they can muster up up about 15. we just need to keep all these players and group happy and keep them a round for years to come

Also there seems to be more games now that are going ahead to suit every taste which can only be good for the entire group as a whole.

New folks do tend to want to get their kit to a certain level before they play and certainly there is nothing wrong with that, I was certainly guilty of buying more than I needed before I attended my first WW2 event. But aside from something to shoot with (always the biggest outlay), all any new player should focus on should be battledress, trousers, belt + mag pouches to carry bits and something to put on your head – all the other bits can be acquired over time – but how many of us I did it this way...I certainly didn’t!

but i feel ww2 airsoft is steadily growing , i know the sites we play more and more folks are getting into it , after gothic there was 9 of us who decided to be a uniform group and chose the 34th , we are now 24 players all midlands based and know each other. We had a ww2 group come to our last game and had there own zug it was there first ww2 airsoft and by all accounts they are hooked and they can muster up up about 15. we just need to keep all these players and group happy and keep them a round for years to come

Can I just explicitly state that we've been here before. Many organisers on this forum have run games that have included many vehicles and reenacting groups. We've run events with 80..100+ players.

It's great that there seems to be a resurgence, and that people have the means to attend (a signal that some have a little more faith in the economy perhaps) CiA, Webby, Wladek, Gunman, Doughboys, AGS...and others...we've all run very big games, on big sites with lots of props and vehicles. The scene will naturally grow and decline, as we're witnessing again now.

If anyone is interested in what this community can do, look at the Past Game section of the forum. What we achieved was truly awesome, and I hope we can build the scene back to what it was 4-5 years ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQme4EByHOQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvFJVfihzuI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_glXemNxrw
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I'd never heard of WW2 airsoft until about three months ago.

Since then I've attended two events, loved both to bits, and spent about a grand on kit for two impressions (G.I and Fallschirmjager). Yeah, it's a money sucking vampire squid of a hobby, but that said, so is pretty much everything nowadays (Christ, that made me sound old). Football costs a fortune, often resulting in feelings of abject frustration, desperation and a wish that I'd been born a few miles down the road from Manchester City than Charlton Athletic. Wargaming is another money drain; Games Workshop are the worst culprits for this, their prices are outrageous, but even historical, my poison, has creeped up and up over the years to borderline bat-shit mental proportions. On a side note though, a few of my mates play golf, and the money they spend on that makes the average cost of WW2 airsoft look like chump change.

I suppose the thing is, if it's something you love and feel an affinity towards, you're going to get in to it come what may. I was raised by my grandparents, both WW2 veterans; I was brought up with stories of El Alamein, etc etc.

WW2 Airsoft allows me to indulge in my love of history (which, I'm also lucky enough to say is my career), whilst blatting people. I get some exercise, meet nice people, have a laugh, learn things I didn't know before. From my point of view, it's win all round.

Note: I decided to move the wargaming diversion to it's own section [link]http://www.ww2airsoft.org.uk/php/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=177&t=17691&p=241848#p241848[/link] - but the point was, to sum up, "wargaming is expensive too"

carry on.

carry on.

Okay, one commonwealth soldier reporting for duty....
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I'm not convinced, you'd never pass for a real sikh...

I'm not convinced, you'd never pass for a real sikh...

Or a real soldier for that matter.

I'm not convinced, you'd never pass for a real sikh...

How about Brindian?

Or a real soldier for that matter.

How dare y... oh no, you're right.

How about Brindian?

I have actually never encountered that term before.