Some of you may have noticed that I've been promoting Operation New Dawn , a 24 hour modern day MILSIM event under the company name of Advance to Contact over on ASCUK .
Having been involved in running games both on here and at other larger events, I have now put together a company to run large MILSIM events . Having just been made redundant , the timing was right to take the plunge . For the record , there is a strong line drawn between my work here with CiA (non profit) and the commercial A2C which is entirely my concern , albeit with a lot of help from the Comrades .
Anyway , disclaimer over , my first event is the 7th and 8th June. It's modern day , it'll be large and it'll be good or i'll die trying . Booking have been going for awhile and the numbers are looking excellent . So if a bit of modern day is your thing check this out , you can book on line .
http://www.advancetocontact.co.uk/
And yes, it is the same site as Bryansk . 
I'm working that weekend but I wish you every success in your new venture mate. I know it it'll be a stormer of a game.
I recommended this game to a few airsofter friends at my "place of work" and I know they're looking forward to it.
When I want your opinion - I'll tell you what it is!
Col.Hutton-Smith reporting for US command:)
Realy looking forward to this, got loads of GMA interest too 
Heer Schmidt
Mmm, game details looks good on the link. Just a question, is there a set camping area or will players be carrying all their gear and harbouring up wherever and whenever their commanders see fit, just looking for an event with a real hardcore milsim feel to it and this does sound close. I would ask on the ascock forum but I`m banned. 
Hi Slick
Both sides will opearate from a fixed TAC HQ , however you won't be able to get your car within a mile of it and the only other transports are all ex mil . 
That said lots of opportunity for forward OPs , sniper work and general sneaky beaky stuff.
All the best with this guy 
I shall be mostly playing at a tank museum that weekend, but shall wish you well with the new venture
looks like a cracking game guy will try to make it if pos
theres nowt so Permanent as temporary
Thanks for the quick reply Old 'Un, it does sound like a cracking scenario, I`m really tempted. Sorry to hear about the redundancy..lot of that around lately
sad to hear about the bad news guy, all the best mate, hope the company works out, you cant beat working for yourself. ill check the works diary, for june, the AK 47 could do with a run out anyway
"Take that you rotton helping of strawberry flan!"
Joseph Porta to "strawberrys and cream", in the sven hassel book ,ogpu prison
Hi, thought it would be OK to pop a thank you up to Old'un, Chomley and Kermit for all their hard work at the A2C game weekend just gone. I had a brilliant time and got well shot up. It was at the same site as Bryansk, hosted by the always great IED guys.
It was nice to see a few other CIA people there so hello to Steve D and there were some guys I met for the first time (in the back of a truck with a gun mounted and firing an MP40, awsome) so hello to them!
There were a few moment when we were at war with Holland but you might need to have a look on the A2C forum for details on that.
Anyway, see you again in Sicily!
Peter Rabbit - Tank Killer
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hawk914/2159973655/
Heh, it was a bit of a hoot wasn't it! SteveD looks so wrong in Marpat
Guy used the whole of the site for this milsim event as there were vehicles all over the place including a phalanx of buggies from Holland - the name 'Crazy Dutch' was very apt for that lot! Great blokes though, well spoken and jokey which always impresses me when in a foreign tongue. A few squaddies among them and played very hard-core, just right for IED's side.
PSF were a sneaky bunch who played their game very well - Coalition got themselves together on Sunday a bagged themselves a win for that day making up for the Federation win on Saturday.
Awesome night convoy - awesome destruction of the mine (heh, great being part of a demo team!).
Porta was bonkers with his flat bed and mounted m/g (and a great help ferrying players and kit up and down site 
)
I had a mission on Saturday as a scientist carrying details of locations of uranium. Kermit and Snyper had similar roles but I chose to wear a white lab coat and I managed to avoid being caught as I traversed the site for five hours (staking out camps, standing by roadsides, crashing through undergrowth). I bang-killed one Fed who walked to three feet from me and gave me no choice but to bump him. Other close calls were being six feet from a four man Brit foot patrol who looked the part and patrolled correctly but and were checking their arcs but just weren't seeing what they were looking at and I twice got looked at straight into the eyes! Puts to rest the arguments for 'best camo' - I was wearing white carrying a silver case a should have stuck out like a some thumb! Heh, at five and a quarter hours I'd had enough so sought out a PSF patrol and gave myself up.
Top marks to Guy - loads of tired but happy players at the end, which is what it's all about.
Yes although we're not going to discuss a commercial modern milsim event at length on this forum 8) however all I can say is cheers to my Comrades for coming along, sweating their nuts off and having a good time . Great to see Tony again , he's been missing for too long ! Also hello to Peppered , Steve D , Lonewolf Gregg (also been lying low for a while) and the Gunman crew .
Did we take large props into the wood and blow them up 
er there's a theme here as all you regulars know . 
Good to see the "modern dayers" playing well though , restored my faith in the genre somewhat . Having been out of that scene for quite a while now it's easy to dismiss all non WW2 players as untermensch , which was blatantly wrong . Mind you , quite a different game , and we didn't get pissed all weekend 
Was a great game, that marpat was mainly far east stuff, I orderd a whole load out from the US which never arrived on time, its here now, 2 days 2 late, be useful for A2C2, 
The crazy dutch had so much energy, the crept out of camp about 03:00 hrs & raided the Coalition camp, it was so quiet I was woken by the sound of pyros & the words "its time to wake up" echoing across the valley, they filmed it all & escaped with the enemy flag, I had a good time riding roung on the back of the flat bed with Porta doing drive by shootings on the coalition :wink 
Steve.D
was gutted I couldnt make it. heres hoping i can make the next one!
what no beer 
i bet you were all bright eyed and bushy tailed.thats cheating sounds like a smart game just wish i could of made it 
maybe next time touch wood
theres nowt so Permanent as temporary
Tony brought down the works van c/w home made gun mount, and later chalked scores of enemy and vehicles destroyed- excellent !
Ze Dutch buggies ya !
As I can't post on asscock ill say it hear! Top weekend mate and my love for playing modern has returned! great, challenging site! loads of huge bangs and great players...Dutch...Hearding cats;)
As always Old'un all promises delivered!!! can't wait till the next one.
Josh
Heer Schmidt
ROFL!
That was a cracking weekend, and possibly one of the best modern weekenders I think I've ever been to. Hats off to Guy for getting it all organised.
Here are the pics (I'm about to post them on ASCUK too)
WOW sounds like it was a great success, damn those buggies look fantastic
Might have to dig out some non-WW2 kit for the next one
My boys came back and called at my house, how boring to hear them (they were so wound up) 
really makes me want to come to the next one Guy
Sounds like a good time was had by most
Is it coz I is Welsh
Welsh and proud
Your all fekin bonkers
