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[bibby]

a great day guys the weather was pretty shit in the morning but everyone still seemed to be having a good time. what did you guys think?

[Jacob Wilde]

The game day was great as always and the bring and buy sale was fantastic i cant wait for the next one

[parasite]

another great day , cheers to both teams ,
and to all marshalls
see ya soon

[The Tank]

Really good day, minus the weather of course, enjoyed it thoroughly

[The General]

I really enjoyed marshalling the morning but had to leave early as one of my party was not feeling well and got soaking cold and wet. He was not even playing!

The rain was quite spectacular to say the least! Did not bother me though.

Real shame I missed the afternoon as I believe the weather got a lot better?

[Ravenscroft]

aside from some equipment issues in the second game, and spending most of the third game walking back and forth between the pub and regen i had an awesome day

[Ed-McCall]

The 18th was my first time at an F&O site and it was simply epic weather didnt bother me too much, cold hands made reloading difficult but thats it, one of my mates came with me and he liked it so much hes going to be getting his own kit and starting playing Airsoft! thanks for a great day

[maccyT808]

Bloody great day! Loved it!
The weather was a downside in the morning, but at least the sun came in the afternoon!
Nice play from both yellow and reds, especialy enjoyed using my newly aquired Sig P226, best bit was i got two kills while in a cupboard haha!
As said, great play from all and nice senarios.
Thanks all for showing.

[ODIN-chris]

Had an awesome day despite hiding upstairs in a d building during the first game because of the rain

Really enjoyed the game with the 3 metal boxes. Me and jack spotted harrison and another lad running past the embassy with what looked like a box. We bust out off the bunker and fought our way through about 10 reds and into the embassy running after him, only to find out it was just a plastic box they had used to trick us. Nice one haha.

And maccy, i think that was me who you got in the cubbard if it was in your base. Me and jack got into their twice. We came back and got you though, i told you we would and we also did a sneak little grab and run with an objective out of your base to win the game. Epic gameplay from the yellows with that one.

[DanH]

Really enjoyed the day, especially the modified VIP game escorting a specialist character. I think things broke down a little bit around the role of the engineer round on round but I think this is partly down to the weather making people's brains soggy

Some constructive criticism:

• When the weather is pants, is it not possible to hold the safety brief in the medblock when numbers allow? The reason I suggest this that often the safety brief takes longer than it should while we are getting progressively soaked - those of us that don't have to go back to the safe zone after the safety brief then have to wait 10+ (because no one ever takes less than the given time) minutes get soaked even more. I might be in the minority here and granted it doesn't rain that often - I just don't have an affinity for getting cold and wet before I've even done anything game related/don't have to be. I shall make sure that I pack a tactical cagool in future

• "Have you got a plan?" was the last thing I heard about 30 seconds before game on being called on the first round. I can't help thinking the start of the day was a bit rushed - on red team we were all told where to go so I was a bit perplexed to find that as part of the demo squad we literally had no support moving round the back of the pub when the pub, D2 and D1 should have been maintained as a defended area. From a strategic point of view, that game should have been a piece of cake, if we'd had 2 minutes to half organise.

Somewhat goes back to my point that due to being kept in cold/rain, everyone just wants to go off and blast each other rather than think about how to secure objectives.

I personally wasn't feeling the love for the longer games in the afternoon - longer games in general do work well at Anzio but perhaps Jamie's naming us the 'Sons of Lethargy' was somewhat prophetic. Slightly shorter, fast strike game types import a sense of urgency and should keep your brain/body working, stopping you from switching off - don't get me wrong I saw a lot of people having fun playing but I also saw a lot of stuff where people can't have been thinking properly.

Overall, did I enjoy the day? Yes, immensely. Could it have been better? Yes, but shit happens and it was just the right mix of wind/rain to put the smallest of downers on things.

Was nice to put a few faces to forum names/chat during the bring&buy too.

And in case people don't scroll as far as the videos thread, here is my rather sweary mary video from the day:

[ImmortalsGasman]

Excellent day, very well marshalled and excellent attitude from all players. I had very little experience of bad form from anyone, and 99% of which was clearly from the heat of the moment and nothing was deliberate. The whole weekend was probably the best airsoft experience I've seen in terms of player attitude and for that I thank everyone involved.

The game play was nicely varied, with plenty of intense fire fights and lots of fun moments. A great day and it's nice to be truly back at Anzio after a bit of exploring of other skirmish sites.

Nice video Dan, very cool. In the last section with you guys grabbing the engineer I remember arriving down to that area via the bunker, and setting up with my LSW in the window overlooking that side entrance you used and just hosing the yellows as they came back en mass from their regen. You lot must have been keeping them very busy as not a single one returned fire at me despite the shower of bbs coming their way.

EDIT - just for clarity I wasn't firing into their regen as that's just not cool (not that I'd even have the range even if I did), but just into the mini car park at the side of D5.

Edited by DanBeresford, 20 February 2012 - 04:11 PM.

[Dunk (Shivatastic)]

What an epic day!

Jamie asked me at the end of the night missions what I thought of the whole day and I said it was crap!! Let me tell you why: As I had to go home and take my wench out on Sunday and try and act normal again.... I wanted to stay over at play on Sunday and make a full weekend of it...bugger you real life!!

In all seriousness what a great day Saturday was, yes the weather was crap but you can only get so wet before you forget how wet you are, then when the games start you completely forget you are on the edge of hypothermia

[Immortal Moses]

i did only Gas and Spring weapons that day and i tell you its a hell of a lot different from using Aeg's, throughly enjoyed the day and the spec ops night game

[Jacob Wilde]

there were alot of people with cameras but i can only find one video of the day

[maccyT808]

ODIN-chris, on 19 February 2012 - 11:45 PM, said:

And maccy, i think that was me who you got in the cubbard if it was in your base. Me and jack got into their twice

Yeah haha, was me. I spent that 10 mins franticly telling everyone you were coming back! great run and grab though, too bad you got ditched by your mate haha!

[Mr.Frispy]

Was an amazing day, finallyy got to use my M4 which is awsome, bit of a bad morning with the rain but made up for it in the afternoon 100%. cant wait for next game. (:

[CUE BALL]

Another fantastic day dispite getting piss wet through in the first game and freezing my bollocks off for most of the morning!

Great play from pretty much everyone there. The only incident of foul play was when a yellow team member started to shout abuse at a guy next to me after he shot him once he'd shouted hit! To be fair to my team mate, the guy was in the building opposite us ( d4, we were in d3 ) and was walking around with his hand in the air. But if the obscenities weren't bad enough, the fact that he then decided to then start firing back out of anger after said team mate told him to watch his mouth and calm, just shows that unfortunately some PRATS! Do get through the net. However, said prat soon bled out when said team mate ( dazza ) took out his marshals vest , slipped it on and ran down the stairs after him pmsl.

Nice video dan, was trying to explain to my mate how about 20 reds were squashed up on the stair well, to afraid to move untill someone came in screaming for everyone to f***ing move lol. Still cant put a face to the name,however, the voice is now logged in. Stilll feel sorry for the first guy through the opening at the top of the srairs, took about 4 hits to the side and back of the head........So glad i didnt turn left lol.

Edited by ollywallybingbong, 21 February 2012 - 01:31 PM.

[Thomas Moore]

yet again another fantastic day at anzio weather didn't bother me until i fell arse over tit running down the back of the pub near the fence line on the video above..lol.. (thanks for editing it out DanH) ...lol
all in all a brilliant day never had any problems with other players out today, all in all a brilliant day again,

thanks to all marshals and players for a great game today, and thanks to the marshals for some great scenario's

Edited by Thomas Moore, 21 February 2012 - 01:38 PM.

[Sarge]

what a good day it was had some good kills with the new toy i got from the bring and by and it was fun trying to shoot bongo threw the window with it . thanks to all the marshals and a big thank's to bibby and Jamie for the day . got a bit wet standing at the top of the stairs waiting for the yellows to come up but that didn't stop me . what a good day it was thank you all
kyle