Fascinating Wladek, thanks. "Ah the 'person living in one corner of the country discovers the rest of the country is far away' complex." I...

There is a full tabel of Soviet medals here along with numbers awarded which might give you some ideas:

It partly depends where you think 'the south' starts. When I lived in London, 'the north' started somewhere around Luton, if not Watford Cheers Mar...

Hi, Permission has been obtained to attend. just paypalled the money for a Soviet place. Cheers Martin

Well yesterday.... Had a major dubbining session on all my leather equipment including rifle slings and some minor equipment straps which hadn't been...

Nice job! Cheers Martin

Sure, but presumably SMGs won't have less ammo than rifles? Real steel? I was more thinking of SVT-40 vs 'Moisin' in any case. Cheers Martin

Thanks Johnny, that is great. So, I know it is a way off yet, but any idea what the ammo limits are likely to be, roughly? Really just so I can have ...

Anyway, UCAP tunnels is an awesome site, Thanks Dave. Cheers Martin

I must confess I was originally a bit dubious as I am not the worlds greatest fan of CQB however the site looks more like the Drakelowe, so I am up f...

I'm wondering if 'using the sights' means different things to diferent people. All I mean is I actually aim the rifle at what I'm try to shoot at, I ...

I'll see if I can rustle up some more Gemans from my side of the Pennines. Cheers Martin

To echo the comments above, I am not bothered by the use of semi-autos, particularly with lo cap magazines. They run out of ammo spectacularly quickly...

Some pics. Flickr seems to have changed the way you grab the image links and I really can't be arsed to do it for every single picture, so here is a u...

if he doesn't behave himself he will get his bayonet taken off him. If he doesn't lose it first He showed me how it was held on with a rubber band....

Sure, as I said, they work fine. Hey, I've just realised that was my twentieth WW2 game (if you include Grafton Park). I'll never catch the old lags,...

Well apart from the French/Americans assaulting POWs of course. I'm afraid I have to report Polish war crimes too, well, mainly Charlie who was a bit...

Thank you, I shall wear mine with pride. Those links work but they look different to the other medals (which are in the 'ribbons' subdirectory). Che...

Well, I've got that post game 'high as a kite' feeling so it was a good weeked out and just a shame more people couldn't come. We had just enough to m...

Sorry you couldn't come Tim, a medal would be great. They are the only reason I do WW2 airsoft you know... Cheers Martin