Berget 7 - 2009

gerrowadat

Game over, everyones fine. Oz fell over for a few hours and was then fine ( I did the same the following day).

Epicness. Just packing up now. See folks on Monday

Stone.cold

gerrowadat wrote: »

Game over, everyones fine. Oz fell over for a few hours and was then fine ( I did the same the following day).

Epicness. Just packing up now. See folks on Monday

cant wait to hear all about it

fayer

gerrowadat wrote: »

Game over, everyones fine. Oz fell over for a few hours and was then fine ( I did the same the following day).

Epicness. Just packing up now. See folks on Monday

What time is arrival back in Dublin Monday ??

gerrowadat

fayer wrote: »

What time is arrival back in Dublin Monday ??

Most of us are on the SAS flight that leaves Stockholm at 0900 Monday.

kdouglas

On train back to Stockholm now, was doubting the value of first class ticket until now

Firekitten

The warriors return!

I hope you took the penis totem off doc before he embarrasses you all in customs.

TheDoc

There is going to be serious legendary lol videos from this. Way too much vodka with my polish comrades has brought some immensly embarrasing footage and me in a jocker.

Ill have a whopper summary when i get home

kdouglas

MFV tbh.

TheDoc

MFV

Lemming

MFV ftw

Masada

what the hell is MFV?

How was the game lads? who won? was their a rescue mission to get mark back? Hows Ozzie?

lol., lots of questions.,

Puding

ozzie recovered over night and as far as i know was able to carry on playing the rest of the week

pics have started going up on the berget forums
http://www.berget-events.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5374

gerrowadat

Vast majority of the Irish lads are back in the hotel on Stockholm now. What an epic game. 12 hour missions, 6 hour stints of hiking over mountains loaded with kit, strange polish vodka, and liberal measures of MAXIMUM ****ING VIOLENCE.

More to com tomorrow. I have about 200 pics and a handful of vids. To anyone who bailed on this: you need to disown your families, quit your jobs and rob a bank to get to the next one if it's anything like this one. In the meantime, take a quiet moment to think about what you've done.

Now for the first civilized food and beers since Tuesday. Epic win.

senordingdong

Don't worry everybody, I am ok.
The only bad part about being taken hostage was that they never called back the next morning.

The game was amazing.
Still a little ****ed up from the 24hours of daylight but I think we'll be ok.

BOYZ NOYZ!

TheDoc

Just down myself now, best shower I have ever had, well deserved.

Unfortunately the mosquitos had a feast on me and i look pretty much a mess.

Had some time to reflect on the event as a whole and it was awesome. I pushed myself to the limit, then went passed it and played on pure adrenaline to the point past exhaustion.

There is some vibe there where you just dont want to let anyone down and you push yourself to a point you never thought you could.

I'm more then likely going to come back next year.

I had to bail on one or two ops due to my feet bleeding, but I was there for most of the ****.

The most fun and intense play I had was at our bases main checkpoint, every night enemy forces would try to smash our base defences. The last night, myself and Gerrout came back from an hour walk from a heavy firefight, to hear Ozcam screaming for a medic.

WE dumped our backpacks, grabbed our rifles and some mags and forgetting the deadly exhaustion and pain, sprinted like demons to his aid, whilst grabbing the attention of the camp who soon followed. Dramatically got to oz who was pretty much in the middle of a road and got him healed, then sprinted straight into the enemy lines with a huge force forming alongside me and we litterally executed

MAXIMUM ****ING VIOLENCE!!!!

The firefights are unreal, one night we walked into "the meat grinder" where our whole platoon got ploughed by enemy shooters, on an OP that contained three companies from the battalion ( over 150 men) dropped off by convoy on a massive assault.

Communications from the top seemed a bit limp, with operations not have a valuable goal and any after thought,. but then again we cant comment much because i dont know the whole scenario.

All I know is that it was an absolute pleasure and honour to fight alongside a serious platoon of airsofters. Ian and Mike had complete faith in our ability as Company commanders and had no fear putting us in against the odds to which we prevailed.

Alan and his plt sgt were a joy to work for. I received constant briefings and knew exactly what I had to do. And in battle they quickly adapted to the situation .

At one point we walked into an enemy ambush and Alan quickly identified a push on their left flank was viable, so I took section on a MVF flanking manouvre that smashes the enemys left flank, wish i had a picture of the faces of the two guys i basically jumped on top of in a sandpit and shot from inches away, you just loose the plot sometimes and get so into it, amazing.

Also have to give a huge thanks to the Hawks,Casper and Tadgh. I really wanted to larp the week as much as I could, and any order was followed without question to the excellence of execution, no matter how ridic it was. Its great for self confidence when guys do what you say because you just feel like youve got their trust.

Also obviously a huge thanks also to Section 1-3 ( Cork Massive) who were absolute badass' in battle, and section 1 who were a great help with just general knowledge throughout the trip helping us berget noobs out. And my ****ing god those guys move fast through the battlefield.

Right its off to TGI fridays to get some lovely grub.

Also you will all be proud to know that we definitely did the countrys flag proud in our play, conduct and general banter. And me personally beating a polish guy in a vodka drinking contest, to which he fell arse ways of the bench. Thinking I was swiss cheese i continued to drink to a point of near obliteration. Yes I barfed like a dirty bitch.....but it was totally worth it hahaha

India 1 is defo not going to be forgotten anytime soon.

moggser

senordingdong wrote: »

Don't worry everybody, I am ok.
The only bad part about being taken hostage was that Doc never called back the next morning!

Fixed that for ya Mark

any way how'd ya get away??

Puding

sounds great look forward to hearing the war story's and seeing the pictures

senordingdong

moggser wrote: »

Fixed that for ya Mark

any way how'd ya get away??

They took me because they saw I was a medic and escorted me to their outpost. They searched me, asked our objectives etc....teh usual stuff.

They were all Russian and were actually quite nice. We had great banter untill their section 2IC knife killed me and told me basically to **** off and regen. But after this, 1IC asked me if I would mind going back to their base with them as a prisoner, when I told them I had been stabbed, he started having a go at his mate, so I kept my head down and walked away.

There really is so much to say, I can't possibly remember it all, perhaps when I get back to Dublin and get a good nights sleep.

Off to bed now...

TheDoc

Puding wrote: »

sounds great look forward to hearing the war story's and seeing the pictures

our hike over a mountain was absolutely grooling, but when you think about it was milsim to the bone, having to have the lads get kip, get watered and stay fresh.

Then having a whopper hike back down the mountain to fight against 2 platoons was insane.

It opened up to how other factors can affect things. At home youd never have fatigue or tiredness or even dehyrdration come into the equation.

However the massive fire fight we got into the first night, we were not combat effective due to the like 6 hour mountain hike that proceeded it.

I was literally panting over my rifle as I brapped a whole section of enemy with Tigger covering my rear.

O and one major point, I was never at a point where i felt annoyed that i didnt upgrade my rifle to ridic limits. There was interesting chat about this throughout the week with most people saying how it was essential to upgrade your rifle.

But my tightbore barell and guarder hop got me through the game more then happy with my rifles performance, and I didnt tell some of the high fps lads but I was outranging them on alot of occasions.

One funny incident was during the first nights assault. I was hiding in a small hole covered in vegetation as 6 russians moved through a trenchment, I killed all 6. They obviously had a mash set back with orders to drag dead men to the point, so another 6 came to grab those 6, who obviously got brapped, bringing the tally to 12 within 5 minutes.

One guy snuck up on my left flank and i let a semi round hit him in the face, and he just looked around, felt he got away with it and continued sneaking. I hit him again and the same thing happend. He got within 10 feet of me and i flicked to full auto and dropped half a mag into him whilst no doubt shouting obscenities ( maximum ****ing boyzs noyz violence). The guy just came over to me and started ranting about engagement ranges

" What the **** man, you cant shoot within 10metres!!!!"
" **** you I'm only firing at a joule try taking your hits"
" You still have 10 metres.....wait your at 1 joule?"
" Yeah 300 fps"
" Are you ****ing crazy man, no one uses 1 joule, ****....im hit"

It was unfortunate to see alot of cheating and during that firefight there was 4 guys who were scoping out to see if they could get away with it before a full auto blast made them take it. Even funnier how it seems to be the same nationalities all over the world.

Then ironically one of his teammates blats me in the mush with his 400 plus fps rifle from about 5 feet in the tree line.

But defo the checkpoint duty was the best parts of the trip, getting completely surrounded with only a few guys giving it socks to take the enemy out, then getting such an adrenaline rush that you just storm them head on screaming and they freak out haha

Hivemind will not be happy to see me at hrta with the absolute killing streak that Ian punched into us.

TheDoc

Off to bed now...

we are hitting that ****ing casino buddy....

gerrowadat

Right, we all appear to be on the train to the airport, apart from doc and mark, who insist that they can hit the hotel breakfast buffet before heading at a leisurely pace to the airport later.

Of course given form we'll get a phone call in an hour from the hotel saying someone answering to the name James griffin has stolen a dozen bathrobes, and nutted a chef. And also wondering who or what BOYZ NOYZ is.

senordingdong

Here pal, we made the plane, with plenty of effin time to spare.

Update:
When we check in at the airport in Stockholm, the bint at the desk insisted on putting a 'firearms' label on the gun cases.
Needless to say this caused quite the stir in Dublin airport.

But thanks to some keeping a cool head and reasoning with customs, we were allowed to take them in no time.

Thanks lads.

kdouglas

Just home a few minutes myself, straight in for a nice cuppa tea

Yea, those nice green Firearms label that SAS put on in stockholm were bound to cause a bit of hassle, but once everything was explained to customs in Dublin Airport it was sorted swiftly.


Agree with Doc too, no need to upgrade, I brought a m125 spring to put in my Masada which with the tighbore and everything would push it to about 385fps, ended up not using the masada because of a broken stock and used my m4 instead, had no problems with range at any point, even borrowed Dar's mp7 at one point and had no problems with range there either.

For a sniper, yea it would be probably better to be running 500fps or so (limited to semi and 30m engagement range), but for a normal rifleman, not a problem.

TheDoc

Boyz noyz were in plenty of time for the plane

Lads...best trip ever...amazing...

Time for a shower and to unleash a demon or two, then pass out for the next 24 hours...

senordingdong

And not to forget, brushing a few off...


P.S. BOYZ NOYZ!

wormbyte

I want to say thank you to each and everyone of you.

India 1 was one of the two platoons in India Company that I knew I could count on when it really mattered (the other being India 3 - the French). And the one thing I needed as a company commander was guys I could count on.

I know I worked you all hard and I know some of the missions can involve kilometres of walking with minimal or no contact at all. But my philosophy in Airsoft is this: it’s not what you do; it’s how you go about doing it.

A classic example is the contact at the Travellers Lodge where India 2 got a bit carried away with the flanking attack and starting chasing the enemy all the way back to the city.

Whilst waiting for them to come back, you guys waited patiently in all around defence laying prone in the cover like a trained a disciplined fighting machine. That made me f***ing proud, especially because we had Foxtrot company on our left fighting an enemy down the ridge and they conducted themselves like a true bunch of skirmishers......no wait....nob jockey skirmishes. If I was their company commander then I would have sacked the lot of them and gone home.

We (India 1 and I) fought a battle of attrition to get to our objective and we knew we were not seeing a sleeping bag until we achieved our mission, and we certainly did just that and finally returned to base after 6am.

I had a blast at B7. Company command was bloody stressful and placed great pressure on me, but I knew I could count on you guys to make me laugh when everything else around me was sh*t.

It was a pleasure to have you there and if I ever return to Berget then it will be at platoon strength and will be reserved for one bunch of lads and only one; the Irish!

On a finally note; I hope I have given you all plenty of things to take away from this game and for you to take back to the airsoft fields of Ireland, but the most important of which is:

MAXIMUM F***ING VOILENCE.... and when your enemy run in fear of your onslaught then simply sit back and say...”Just smile and wave boys. Smile and wave!”

INDIA-ZERO OUT

Tov

I just had the most enjoyable shower of my life!:D

MAXIMUM ****ING VIOLENCE!

senordingdong

wormbyte wrote: »

I want to say thank you to each and everyone of you.

Thanks for the kind words sir!

When things got dis-hearting, with exhaustion, unbearable heat, local wildlife and strange decisions made by the top brass, you were always able to raise our spirits and motivate us to push on.

Definitely felt like I was in good hands.

Tov

senordingdong wrote: »

When things got dis-hearting, with exhaustion, unbearable heat, local wildlife and strange decisions made by the top brass, you were always able to raise our spirits and motivate us to push on.

+1;)

There's no way I would have been able to do half of what we did without Ian's terrifying motivational abilities.:P

Whatever about the screw-ups from the higher command, we at least you knew you were there to unleash the MFV when it was needed.

gerrowadat

Photos uploading now.

Just saw this on berget forums. Funniest thing I've seen in ages.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Pf0y93EFaQ