I was querying your use of the word game and how you consider one approach to be quite radical and all other to be quite traditional. To me *personal...
Not at all we're discussing what is a game and and what isnt. I merely made the point that you state one type of play is more of a game than another a...
Not at all Pete, I wish you'd stop jumping in defensivley all the time too. As Dave said its a debate.
However, a PBI Airsoft skirmish battle is a collection of short games - CiA events are one continuous action flowing across a day/weekend. No stopping...
It may be a game but the terms in which you couch the game make it historically relevant. You adopt the uniforms and to a degree tactics of the period...
I think no matter how we try to perceive it we all make somewhat freudian slips in our terminology. It may be as CW points out a lack of suitable ter...
As per our chat earlier this week, I'll be there!
Gunner Who? by Spike Milligan, not only a cracking read but pleasing to know that PBIs 're-enactment display life' has been spookily accurate down to...
I'd say it's more than an "element" gadge. It's just people indulging their fantasies, no matter how you dress it up. I couldn't care less...
Gunner Who? by Spike Milligan, not only a cracking read but pleasing to know that PBIs 're-enactment display life' has been spookily accurate down to...
Could be a call of how the law will come to see the validity of owning a RIF? While its hard to justify needing one to play 'a game' (or at least one...
Really? So it wasn't the Americans arriving in the nick of time and wiping out jerry from their rear from the other side of the hill? Historically acc...
...and you yourslef were part of the authentic ten man section attack at huskey that rolled up the germans rapidly.... LOL, I co-organised Husky and a...
It was quite common for the brits to re-organise the platoon to weight one or more sections as well. The hallams used to have two sections of eight m...
I'm doing nothing of the sort Dave.... I know exactly what Barrie is saying and you yourslef were part of the authentic ten man section attack at hus...
If we abandon period tactics to be more effective or to fit the style of the 'game' why not just play paintball? Surely authentic structures, tactics...
When the 8-9 man squad of two fireteams developed I'm not sure, but as mentioned below the fireteam goes back to WW2. I'd hazard a guess its to proba...
One question that has just occurred to me is to do with mechanisation. Eight man squads split into two fireteams came into use as you could only fit 8...
I'd personally disagree Op Huskey was a classic example of hwo a good section attack rapidly rolled up a defended position, its looses cohesion after...
PBI have plenty of spare kit to loan to new members for events. Funds permitting I may be at Anzio myself to cover it for WWII Reenactors magazine an...