Post by 2nd Bat on Sept 30, 2020 20:11:22 GMT -5
With covid holding big operations is challenging and perhaps unwise. Still there are many of us who need our "Airsoft game fix". Here is a fun game for small groups maybe even just two players. In my backyard I prepared two small fighting positions. To the front (40 feet away) I had 24 eight inch plastic soldiers. 12 GIs and 12 Germans. Both players take their positions in the fighting positions. At the "commence fire" they have one minute and up to 36 shots whichever comes first. Following each firing phase you move any surviving plastic soldiers 3 feet closer to the fighting positions return to the firing line and have 3 shots for each of your surviving forces. (if none of your troops are hit you again have up to 36 shots.). Following the firing phase you move them up 3 more feet. Each player targets their opponents forces. Hitting your own forces still counts. Hitting your target but not knocking them down is a wounded target they can only advance 1 1/2 feet and you lose 2 shots for that soldier (not the usual reduction of 3 shots.). As the soldier targets advance you score more hits per phase but have fewer and fewer shots. As your opponents scores kills and wounds you have fewer and fewer shots. With fewer shots and ever closing range accuracy becomes increasingly more critical
Wounds are common at the longer ranges so quickly the advancing soldiers become more and more spread out. Lucky shots and ricochettes are part of the game. As in real life aiming low has its advantages. My neighbor (a retired Air force Major and son of a WW2 Army General and I had a ball. We played full auto, semi auto (most effective) and bolt action rifles. Because of my familiarity with air soft rifles I dominated so we tried a few rounds where I had a bolt action (S &T Kar 98) and he had a Garand It was close but he won both sessions. By this time he was getting more skilled with air soft. We weren't in costume which I doubt he would have gone along with but personally for me that would have been icing on the cake. and perhaps after dark with flares and tracers would have really made it fun. My fighting positions were just prone positions on a shelter half ringed in a two row horseshoe of sandbags. Foxhole would have been cooler but my wife would have had issues with it. Some soldier poses were easier to knock down than others. Tin cans would have been more uniform but we both enjoyed the dynamic of toy soldiers.
Wounds are common at the longer ranges so quickly the advancing soldiers become more and more spread out. Lucky shots and ricochettes are part of the game. As in real life aiming low has its advantages. My neighbor (a retired Air force Major and son of a WW2 Army General and I had a ball. We played full auto, semi auto (most effective) and bolt action rifles. Because of my familiarity with air soft rifles I dominated so we tried a few rounds where I had a bolt action (S &T Kar 98) and he had a Garand It was close but he won both sessions. By this time he was getting more skilled with air soft. We weren't in costume which I doubt he would have gone along with but personally for me that would have been icing on the cake. and perhaps after dark with flares and tracers would have really made it fun. My fighting positions were just prone positions on a shelter half ringed in a two row horseshoe of sandbags. Foxhole would have been cooler but my wife would have had issues with it. Some soldier poses were easier to knock down than others. Tin cans would have been more uniform but we both enjoyed the dynamic of toy soldiers.