America's first airsoft game at an inactive mall
here is a walk through video so far, its very naked. most of the old stores don't have much if anything to hide behind. good thing i brought tornado grenades. some doors are locked, might be open during the game. the dark areas are gonna be sketchy and trippy. there are some places that look exactly like left 4 dead 2 hallways, right where a tank likes to appear. 2nd floor shooters will actually be doing a lot of low crawling vs 1st floor shooters. Our respawn is on the second floor so that helps a tiny bit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FVn-XiC ... e=youtu.be
Here is one of my fellow daytona gun users, with a classic army bodied FAL
also something interesting when flying in to milwaukee:
so after touring the AO, i can see a lot of cluster fuck. in which it did. was it LC's fault? well naked store fronts dont help. the ref's tended to stay where the atrium was (the middle sky light area) since it was the battle line that gave players the most light and the fastest pathroutes to a location.
the start of the game was different. usually john lu repeats the same speech, it was very short actually and did chest pump its the first mall op in america. then the generals spoke, I.E. mullen, he mentioned North Korea. instead of the whole march or die spiel. he mentioned a military fact, that NK has the worlds largest commando force at 10,000. "but we'll still whoop them, but they'll make us pay the cost"
the russian general, "bubba" moore i liked him even more this event vs the last time i met him. with camera's rolling, he bashed GMR. it was great. i should of had my contour on but i didnt expect to hear something i liked so early.
outside tho, his motivational talk was great. im gonna start using his method of getting a point across from now on.
so the first scenario started in typical fashion, not as planned for the russian side. our spawn was suppose to be where the formation was, inside the effing building. when it turns out. they"ll make us walk half way around the mall and enter from a single side door. giving US side about 25 minutes to camp. now if you ever seen the outside of a mall. its wide open. to save time we hugged the building to get to start point faster. the only goddamn mud in a square mile just happen to be up a hill full of died out pricker bush. so i start the game coverd ankle down in mud and knee pads and part of my gloves. now take mud and add on a smooth surface, like a mall floor. the results were astounding.
so we enter, have to take certain rooms. and we get to the front of our store, not every store front had emergency access. ALL these back pathways did not have light. it was lots of torches and pocket suns making nods useless. because no matter what, turn that corner and whatever you spot will shoot at you. friendly or not. so it doesnt provide huge advantage to justify me carrying it all event. the store front we expected players to be hiding right after the exit. we make it 3 stores ahead and start to take fire. there is a lot of choke points. so a "push" involves a lot of manpower to accomplish a 30 meter advancement. your just trying to get to the next store front. pure leap frogging. but on semi. each store front only allows for so many shooters. so its a ammo dump trying to in a partial target. you stand still most of the time, as is your target. i expected brutal up close fighting like you would see at RSE. this event was really a long guns heaven. why they didnt allow them. not sure. i guess they didnt want a bolt gun going around corners. there was some very tight space fighting in the back hallways by the JC penny. since it ws pitch black. i mean, electrical tape your contour lights type of dark. the paranoia was trying to confirm who owned the JC penny and which floor.
taking it was very very costly. a platoon gets sent in. you may have a fireteam survive the onslaught. there was a lot of fall back room inside the JC penny. "fog of war" at its finest. there was sure fires there yea, but no one had a torch powerful enough to cut into this darkness to FoF ID. its like looking into a cave, with bb's impacting your face. so your true facing danger running in there. the whole not seeing your enemy, your buddies dropping like flies and literally no cover for 80 feet after entering JC penny. it was always a bitch to take that place. but holding it was easy. the double escalators part though. very hard fighting. as you can shoot down covering your guys coming down it, but they end up facing away from the door way. all this in darkness. like slip and fall down the escalator darkness. that will loose the element of surprise.
what was really weird was the corner store fronts. i have some footage of me standing around with my squad. because the enemy team can see you and we can see them. we called it fish tank effect. the moment you prepare to stack up and push. they know where you are, how many you are and when its about to happen. we tried to do some fake outs, didnt work. FRS radio seemed to have handled the AO, in the main atrium area. back areas it worked since we were all near each other. the typical separation was after dying and respawn. but just following that roar sound and thats where your likely to find your buddies.
the camo issues were, they allowed both kinds of atacs to the game. green for russian , tan for US side. on top of multicam and desert digital allowed for US side. the game was announced 2 months in advance, the camo dictation was clear. multicam only for US side. well, who turns down free money?
those same players who didn't come in multicam had the audacity to bitch they were shot by friendly. likewise on the renegade side. they were overshot often, because there was incidents that were quickly sent down by command of tan atacs users fooling players they were renegade side and shot them up close. this happening like when in a store front and its half dark. there was also plenty of dicks trying to blind in the fish tank areas using their crappy red lasers. i turned on my green predator one and that quickly stopped.
would i go back:
not sure, this was my first LC game where a police presence was at the gate. the assistant CoS is local LE. so his brother cops came around and did more patrolling there for him, his team was the one chosen to handle the affairs of setting up the game (as is the norm in all LC games). we all parked in an area that had a single gate. but the area was very desolate and didn't come off as terrible. your food choices were franchise food only. the healthiest meal was at the hotel in german town.
which had a couple franchise places about 400 feet away. it being milwaukee and i went drinking each night. i met a very good team that came up from the state below. they were friends of a friend. they were the team of Tony Rizzo, owner of TNK guns.com nearly every man on the team was running an air gun. scratch that, Daytona Gun's. the polar stars were back ups, the back ups for the back ups were PTW's.
This is a kydex tornado grenade holder used by the squad leader Jim, call sign mongoose. He was extremely helpful through out the whole event.
this is daylan, he was part of that squad. but is more commonly known as "mekon airsoft" on youtube and facefuck. he does reviews and video's of his area of fields. he has heard about C&C airsoft and will be coming with me on the 28th, right after red storm east ends.
one of the guys had this awesome gear carrier that home depot sells. i plan on getting at least 2.
head cam:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ReE45Q0 ... e=youtu.be
Gun cams:
http://youtu.be/8t96Tz6GE_s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHZS6Kdw ... e=youtu.be
these gun cam footage is borrowing jim's DG m4. it was second from the bottom from the photo earlier above.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgHn9jWQ ... e=youtu.be
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVn7GBAn ... e=youtu.be
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLugdO5B ... e=youtu.be
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix7DUkvo ... e=youtu.be
http://youtu.be/2mdJuHBMBbE
One of the guys from the team. Turns out there are other heavy Russian enthusiast's in Chicago land area.
And the official ending:
russia won in milwaukee
http://www.oplionclaws.com/phpBB/viewto ... 143&t=5267
and we will win again in scranton, as well as in detroit steel mill in june...
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