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Post by Dracul on Oct 21, 2014 13:48:27 GMT -5
For those down in Maryland, PA, NJ regions, or anyone else who is willing to make the trip down. Its in North Eastern Maryland. Outdoor Extreme Chesapeake City (OXCC), is going to be hosting a Battle of the Bulge Scenario game. I looked into and asked a few questions. This will not be a pure, WWII reenactment game. I was told that a lot of players will try to be serious about playing in WWII impressions, but they won't stop other types of players from joining in. Never been to this event before, or even this field, but the FPS and Eye Pro rules are rather generous (compared to the other fields around here, still don't allow me to wear my Oakley ballistics though...). Day: December 13, 2014 Time: 0900-1600 (9am-4pm) Location: OXCC 2941 Old Telegraph Rd Chesapeake City, MD 21915 Here is the link on the Chesapeake Airsoft Association website/forums. And yes, that is me asking the questions there. www.chesapeakeairsoftassociation.com/events/battle-of-the-bulge-airsoftYou should be able to register at the OXCC link the description. Despite it not being a pure WWII game, my team is going to try and make it.
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Post by insterburger on Oct 21, 2014 15:13:58 GMT -5
Thanks for the heads up on this. It's good to see anything at all in airsoft relating to WWII. Will see what that weekend looks like.
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Post by Dracul on Oct 21, 2014 16:03:15 GMT -5
No problem. I hope the turn out of WWII impressions will be good, but at least those who do show up in WWII stuff will probably be praised and promote the specific part of the hobby.
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Post by seven62 on Oct 22, 2014 17:59:50 GMT -5
I've attended several of these. It, like all the MD "WWII Games", are in name alone. I know one guy who goes in a para kit and a few dudes run US airborne uniforms and plate carriers. I usually just run modern kit.
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Post by Dracul on Oct 23, 2014 10:32:38 GMT -5
Even if thats the case, I know that my team is going to come in full WWII Kit. We have to show all the other guys that WWII airsoft is growing in popularity, and is completely feasible.
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Post by 2nd Bat on Oct 23, 2014 12:01:08 GMT -5
Its like going to a costume party. The folks who show up with no costumes feel like tools when others have awesome outfits that are well done. I hope enough of you go in great form and thus inspire others.
WW2 "Themed" events of course are not our ultimate goal but they provide great awareness and interest in others.
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Post by insterburger on Oct 23, 2014 15:55:06 GMT -5
2nd Bat put it perfectly. Just like every good preacher knows you can't fill a church by waiting for people to fill the pews, you have to go out and evangelize, so goes it with WWII Airsoft. Even if-- I would even say especially if-- these events are WWII "in name only," seeing a crew of guys show up in full rig may be their only exposure to real WWII Airsoft. Being there, and being friendly off field and fierce on field, it gives these guys food for thought, and maybe bring them to a game.
Many modern airsoft guys are frustrated with the childishness that can often pervade that game, and by being mature, fair, and intensive players, we are being ambassadors to our hobby.
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Post by Dracul on Oct 23, 2014 18:31:37 GMT -5
Yup. Also, I'd totally be willing to jump ship and come in my German kit if its likely that not a lot Germans will show up.
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Post by Dracul on Nov 29, 2014 2:56:39 GMT -5
I know its not a big event, at least by our terms, but if anyone is going to make a long trip out, we have room and can make room in our apartment for 2-3 guys if anyone wants a place to crash. We are opening that up to the friday night and saturday night. Even though we are hour and a half away, if driving long distance it will be good to sleep and rest after a long drive and after a day of gaming. Also gives the potential for carpooling. We will offer showers and all that jazz, you'll need to bring sleeping bags and sheets. A lot of full sized air mattresses won't fit, haha. Not sure how much food we can offer, but I don't see a problem if everyone chips in for pizzas and stopping off at a diner or something on the way to and from the game.
And if passing through Jersey, let me know! I know the best routes to take and how to avoid tolls and what tolls you actually want to pay for (trust me, you want to pay for one toll at least so you don't scenic tour through all of Baltimore...).
To be honest, I'm not too worried about getting tallies for all the impressions and weapons for everyone coming and try to even out Germans and Allies for something like this. I think it would be great to try to get as much WWII impressions at the game, just to promote it, even if they weren't technically in the Battle of the Bulge.
With that said though, I really don't have a lot of loaner gear. I'm stretched pretty thin as is. So, everyone is going to need their own impressions and supply their own guns, ammo, rations, and anything else on the tactical side. Like we say in the Corps: Beans, Bullets, Bandages and Batteries!
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Post by Dracul on Dec 13, 2014 21:33:59 GMT -5
Just arrived home from the OXCC Battle of the Bulge. Here is some good after action reporting. I was wearing my in progress Black Watch Impression this time around, and my team was in their normal US impressions. It was a lot bigger than I thought. I really enjoyed somethings and didn't like somethings.... What I liked. It was big. Over 250 players on a really huge map. All our weapons worked for the most part. Medic and respawn rules were good and fair. They had this weird point based system about captured points that they didn't explain well, but at the end of the day, between two, three hour games, Germans had 220 points while Allied had 780. Holy applesauce we dominated the Germans. While I didn't like being separated from my specific team, I found myself taking field commander roles. Passing down orders, sending guys where they needed to be, and passing down lines of communication. And my binoculars were a substantial necessity during the second game. I was in tower, with them, shouting out locations, sizes, and movement direction of enemies coming our way, to the guys below, and the guys took care of the enemies easily because of that intel. I didn't get many kills, but I sure has hell made a lot of deaths happen. We found a near by WWII reenactment group as well! Here, in Maryland!!! We told them about these forums, so expect some new members soon, haha. Also, some people really praised the kilt. What I didn't like. Mainly, my main complaint was that there wasn't any good German impressions there, and just the complete lack of effort in it. Now, I'm not going to say that everyone should have been in era appropriate attire, but they could have easily kept the theme going in some extent. For example there was a guy in complete East German impression and a Cold War Soviet impression. Were they WWII? Of course not, but at least they tried. What bugs me about the standard players was that they could have kept the WWII style of OD bdu and tan/khaki gear and American weapon for the Allied side, and black or gray bdu with European weapons for the German side. Is that the best and most ideal? No, of course not, but it would have been a whoooooolllllleeee lot better than each side people wearing the same modern day camo patterns and what not. Same thing for any event, jerks not calling their hits. Also, some people thought I was bat applesauce insane because of the kilt (maybe a good thing?). Only other complaint I have was that the main command radio set up was only for the fancy, LE grade radios. I only have the standard Midland and Motorola Talk A Bouts level of radio. So, I was completely disconnected from the command radio tree. This is only really a slight complaint, since its my fault I don't have those radios, and that I managed to make things work with out them. Voice is dead to say at least..... All in all, I got a good few kills, but it felt good doing commander thing at a larger scale. It definitely added on field structure to plenty of players not knowing each other and running and gunning willy nilly like a video game. Which, I know for a fact it helped us win. My really awesome kill was when an enemy, sneaking on the other side of a berm, and popped over it on my side and lit him up on full auto with my Stg from like 5 feet away, and then he just dropped the F Bomb like 20 times in a few seconds. I didn't know he was that close, but he wasn't mad at me, since he probably expected that would happen to him, since there was like 20 of us on my side of the berm. So, excellent day! Glad to have attended, and glad my teammates enjoyed it as well. Time to rest, REALLY work on my Scottish impression, and general prep for the next WWII game. Pics will come soon, and hopefully all over the OXCC site and FB page since they had photographers all over!
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Post by BCFuzz on Dec 14, 2014 8:24:18 GMT -5
This was my first World War II airsoft expierience and I had a blast made even better by you guys in your gear love knowing there are other people out there with the same interests!!!
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Post by patrickl29th on Dec 14, 2014 11:27:14 GMT -5
Wasn't black watch mostly in north Africa and the pacific?
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Post by seven62 on Dec 14, 2014 13:42:23 GMT -5
I was there running with my FSB group, not WW2. If you are looking for a better radio, I highly recommend one of the lower level baofengs.
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Post by Dracul on Dec 14, 2014 15:20:16 GMT -5
Patrick: That was in the early stages of the war. But in 43-45, they had Battalions in D-Day, Italy, and Reichswald Forest (Dutch-German border). And if the Battle of the Bulge Wikipedia article has any truth behind it, they were also technically in the Battle of the Bulge.
BCFuzz: Glad I can bring people together here, and definitely good to see a more WWII people down here in Maryland!
seven62: I didn't seen any FSB guys on the Allies side, were you on the German side? Thanks for the suggestion on the Baofengs, I know about them, but that stuff is faaaaaaar out of the budget right now, haha.
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Post by seven62 on Dec 15, 2014 1:04:50 GMT -5
Yeah we switched to German (big smurfing mistake) the day of to link up with another Russian group from MD. The low level baofengs aren't all that expensive. I just picked up an extra UVB-5 for ~$30.
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Post by Dracul on Dec 15, 2014 3:09:47 GMT -5
Ah, okay, cool. If I may ask, what did you see that was so wrong happening on the German side that caused them to lose?
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Post by seven62 on Dec 15, 2014 10:53:55 GMT -5
No coordination, an utterly useless commo net and a certain group on Allied who exhibited some of the worst sportsmanship I've ever seen in 7 years of airsoft in 10 states.
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Post by sealsniper11 on Dec 15, 2014 11:33:48 GMT -5
The event was great glad to meet the group from Laurel. Hopefully we can be advocates for WW2 airsoft as well as history in general. Definitely need to plan/ organize more events wether it be locall or a distance away. Thanks again and great to meet more WW2 airsofters
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Post by Dracul on Dec 15, 2014 12:46:33 GMT -5
Seven62: I must ask. What group is this?
Sealsniper11: You're welcome! Don't really know what other WWII events are happening in the area, pure WWII or just WWII themed. I can't imagine much, since I thought we were the only WWII team down here in MD, haha. HOWEVER! If you check the NE Event section here, the one that this thread is a part of, you'll find a pure Battle of the Bulge game happening in Jan, in up state NY! Not sure how many of my team can make it, with military life and all that.
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Post by seven62 on Dec 15, 2014 12:56:02 GMT -5
Not sure who they were. They were running slate grey PCU jackets, MC pants and PTWs. I watched a guy with bbs bouncing off his face telling me he wasn't hit. He then told me that I must know his nervous system better than he does before asking my name, flipping me off and telling me to go smurf myself.
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Post by sealsniper11 on Dec 15, 2014 13:34:21 GMT -5
Sounds good I will show up at other events in my paratrooper gear for sure the more events the better
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Post by Dracul on Dec 16, 2014 0:14:51 GMT -5
Seven62: I don't think I saw them, but at least that didn't describe this one other Milsim team I found myself working with (one of them had a PTW as well). The one I worked with was being led by an enlisted Soldier. I would have lost faith if that was the description matched up.
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Post by Dracul on Dec 17, 2014 16:16:05 GMT -5
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