Advice on military tatics books.

I'm nearly sure I once read about a tactics book specifically for airsoft. Basically all the real world tactics that work, applied to airsoft. But for the life of me, I can't remember what it was called, who wrote it, or where I seen it.

Using the advance search pages on Amazon or Arnies or ASCUK might yield a result.

Paintball & Airsoft Battle Tactics perhaps?



It's an interesting read - I picked one up after reading Jinko's copy last year in Sweden.

There's also:

Force-On-Force Police Training Using Airsoft: A Manual for the Law Enforcement Trainer on the Use of Airsoft Non-lethal Technology - Luis E Martinez MEd

An interesting read, they actually explain which airsoft models they use for training purposes & why.

Both available at: Play.com

Read a book about Alexander the Great on holidays and its amazing how the things done back in those ancient times still ring true today, and some of the things that even ring true in airsoft.

The most important thing I took from it was that of a leader or commander...Alexander of Macadonia always led from the front, he was the first man in the lines, and would be the first to die, and could sport his wounds along with his men after battles.

He felt that to lead anyman, you should show your desire to not be a superior, but be an equal, and instead of keeping yourself out of harms way, get your self in it more to inspire your men. For the grunt will follow without question the man who has bled beside him, and who charges alongside him.

Rings very true for me, and its a style I've done from the get go, I've got respect for commanders who are in the **** with me, not much for those who stand abck and ive never seen fire a rifle.

Larsen's

Lemming wrote: »

Paintball & Airsoft Battle Tactics perhaps?

is basically a re-write of his first book, "Light Infantry Tactics For Small Teams" 2005. It's ok for beginners to small unit movements. The customer reviews on Amazon will give you a very good idea of what to expect.

Unfortunately, for me anyway, the proofreading and editing is shockingly bad - it's littered with bad (even by American standards) grammar, misspellings and homophones. It's so bad in fact that I could only read it a few pages at a time. Your mileage may vary. You may also have to refer constantly to the glossary, as I did, due to the number of TLAs scattered around like confetti. Mercifully, it's only 250 pages.

I did learn a few things from it, but not much more than we learned from Ian at Berget. Any Sergeant in the PDF could teach you the same stuff - better - in a long weekend, if that were legal here. Most of the tactics in it are suited to patrols and long (overnight or longer) games, and we have very few sites in Ireland big enough, and no games long enough for them. Also, the tactics are suitable for woodland/rural games, there's nothing in it for urban games or CQB. There are things you could use in Berget, but nothing you could use in Celieni Village or Copehill Down.

Would I buy it again? No.
Have I found anything better for beginners yet? No.
Want something serious to read? Petraeus (yes, that one) & Amos: "Counterinsurgency Field Manual". Awesome.

Firekitten wrote: »

As to my knowlage and interactions with the man... Ian isnt ex forces...

As far as I know he was in the British reserves? I think he said something along those lines at Berget.

Any my original impressions of the man was he was some sort of Sgt Mjr, just think it shows how few bad ass characters we have in irish airsoft.

Still I learned a **** of a lot of him in Berget, I had never even heard of the concept of peeling before I went there.

On reflection, all the stuff I've learned in airsoft, from airsofters, wasn't from anyone really with any military experience.

I think Rogue-Trooper puts it best, Hawk training is a few crates of gargyle and a season of the Unit, I literally learned stuff from that show...

He's a nice guy, we had a coffee on the admin building steps... Though he does like to go off too fast though eh?

Random... As i said... if you read my posts... hes a nice guy... I was just having a quip about his going off prematurely on two occasions... once being game on and the second later... Not his fault, but a joke we shared later... you know... friendly humour Richie? Anyway, havent you only met Ian once? and as an organiser not airsofter huh?

TheDoc wrote: »

Ian hasnt earned the pleasure to meet god yet

Nice to know in a world of change, Doc is constant in his lack of sense.... :rolleyes:

No hon... people going 'oh god' when they find out who you are at a skirmish isn't QUITE how they mean it...;)

Seriously, watch the unit

It is very hard to get an exact compilation of a team setup, randomly. If its the same guys week in week out, then maybe they will become more efficent, gel and become an effective fighting force, but it takes time.

To grow awareness and each individual having an adaptive nature nutured through experienced in the field. In a skirmish, I I'm always worried about being flanked, cause in a skirmish, I know the flanks are just people who are " there at that particular moment" and will run off or get shot.

In a milsim game, I can focus on mowing down whats in front, realising my team are on my flanks, they will do a good job.

Thats only one small portion.

Some tactics are viable in milsim and not in skirmish, some in real life and not in airsoft. In skirmishes you usually run up against hicaps and boxmags, where an opportunity doesnt present itself to purposefully waste the enemy ammo with decoys, to then bumrush whilst they reload.

Theres actually about 60 examples after shooting through my head and im not writing them.

In short I'd say, there is NO book to help airsoft tactics, and there is very few people that employ tactics at ALL in a skirmish.

You only see tactics in milsim really...