Your Skirmish Blunders!!!

McGilla

Every one come share your preverbial F*** Ups! - photos would be great!

Last Sunday, HellFire, Bray, The Village

While running for cover, i tried to switch between my MP5 and my side arm!

Dropped my pistol and ended up volleying an STI Lawman at a tree!
(Wayne Rooney could have done it better!)

As a result i fell on my back, legs in the air and open, and the RATS showed no mercy! - Inded up in the safe zone with hurt pride, sore crotch and broken pistol!

(If any one finds a 1911 slide ina bush can they PM me please? )

fayer

Ok, so my second Skrmish ever....

Had been running around HRTA like a mad man with Doc, got back to the safe zone and started filling my Mags (yea high caps ) Went to pick up my water bottle and picked up the bottle of BB's by mistake. Turned into a human 203 as I gulped a mouthful of .20 blasters!

McGilla

fayer wrote: »

Ok, so my second Skrmish ever....

Had been running around HRTA like a mad man with Doc, got back to the safe zone and started filling my Mags (yea high caps ) Went to pick up my water bottle and picked up the bottle of BB's by mistake. Turned into a human 203 as I gulped a mouthful of .20 blasters!

Nice! :eek:

Shiva

Fearlessly charged an enemy embedded position in the first HRTA with my trusty MP5.

And no magazine.

Blazer

At LAC..crawled on my belly through underbush for about 40 yards to creep up on an opponent pinning down my team-mates..
kept telling myself the whole way up there.."make sure to check safety is off"..got to the mound beside him (about 25feet) and jumped up once he stopped firing...frightened the life out of him and as I was busy congratulating myself I pulled the trigger...you can guess what I forgot to do

Leftyflip

Shiva wrote: »

Fearlessly charged an enemy embedded position in the first HRTA with my trusty MP5.

And no magazine.

Jesus, I'd have ran anyway!:eek:

McGilla

Sc@recrow wrote: »

At LAC..crawled on my belly through underbush for about 40 yards to creep up on an opponent pinning down my team-mates..
kept telling myself the whole way up there.."make sure to check safety is off"..got to the mound beside him (about 25feet) and jumped up once he stopped firing...frightened the life out of him and as I was busy congratulating myself I pulled the trigger...you can guess what I forgot to do

The dead mans click!!! - like it!

Growler!!!

First skirmish ever - indoor event.

Thinking how cool all the M4's and Mp5's and pistols look. The others are filling various hi-caps brim full of bb's.

Growler pulls out a full lenght M14 Match with 130 bb's hand fed into the mag:eek:. I could poke lads eyes out from behind cover with the excessive barrel lenght - easier than firing the thing.

Sorted that out quickly.............

Ayrtonf7

Probably my second ever skirmish at Hrta. Was running from cover to secure a bomb package, needless to say id had covering fire, slung my M15 over my back, sprinted acrossed, dived to avoide some incoming BBs and fell on my M15 causing seiouse destruction to the stock and everything else :P

Needless to say I looked like an idiot

delta-boy

Over at Sennybridge a couple of weeks ago at TA-Events latest. While standing behind building 20 (I think). It was declared hostile on the first floor, so I lit a Thermobaric, and was poised to throw it in.

When I was told that the building was infact friendly, so with a lit thermo in my hand I panicked and sent it flying off a nearby wall, which bounced back at me... and a fellow Chedaki from the 'Operators' next to me.

Damo 2k9

A bit too giddy with the pyros ehh ?

Private Snafu

Think there was a thread along these lines before, but sure....

Playing in oakridge, I was running for cover behind one of the tents.
I jumped over the first guideline, tripped on the second one and recovered, finally reach the third, tripped over it and ended up face first on my HK416... It was an interesting bruise toexplain in work

more recently having a door kicked in and hitting me square in the face whilst telling lads to be carefull of the same in the office block... Really one of the low points

Damo 2k9

lperrozzi wrote: »

more recently having a door kicked in and hitting me square in the face whilst telling lads to be carefull of the same in the office block... Really one of the low points

Ouchhh :P

Private Snafu

Tell me about it damo, that's just the tip of the iceberg unfortunatly, tbh I've a list of f*** ups a mile long.... I'm quite possibly the clumsiest git out there

evilrobotshane

This isn't even funny, but it's the one that sticks out in my head.

At Operation: Zulu in England last year, my platoon was assaulting a fortified building with a machine-gun nest on the roof. One section was going in the front door, and my section's job was to provide covering fire from one side to suppress any defenders. We hid behind a big berm for some time, awaiting the go signal.

When it came, the plan was to rush forward to a low wall or something where we could set up a nice on-line base of fire, hopefully before the defenders had a chance to put too much fire in our direction. So off we go, across some broken rubble and then across a raised pathway thing about a metre high. I clambered up on that and had a look down the other side, where there was a messy expanse of dead ferns. I figured I could climb down slowly and carefully well within range of the machine-gun nest, or take the tiny chance there's something other than ground under those ferns and just jump. I'm pretty nimble, so I just jumped.

Of course, it was a pile of broken concrete rubble under the ferns; I lost my footing and went forward, where my right knee slammed into a pointy concrete corner. Wham!

To cut a long story slightly shorter, it was a couple of months before it was fully-functional again, I have a dimpled scar I expect to last the rest of my life, and I've been wearing kneepads for airsoft ever since.

Stercus Accidit

Blasting about 5 friendlies at long range in GTAC at the second gathering, I was so delighted with my new madbull hop, and rpk with drum mag, that I was wafting clouds of bb's into groups of lads at stupid range.

This cloud of maybe 20 bb's was in the air by the time I copped they were friendlies, it was a lot of apologies as I moved forward and they trudged back to spawn... I tend to rack up a lot of friendlies still, but can you blame me? Everyone has an m4 and a set of multicam, they all look like baddies to me :P


Also at the same event, I jumped down into a trench, which wasn't a trench, it was a cut in the bog filled with bog water and quicksand type stuff, I went in up to my waist, had to scream for help as I sank and was dragged out. My legs were cut to ribbons from briars and nettles, and the bog water made them sting like crazy.

At the same event my boots flew apart as I was sprinting to a flag, I had to hop on one foot at full speed into a bush to stop and get out of everyones way, and I screwed them back together in the safe zone.

Then in the final game I was the only guy who found the pilot and his protection team, because I got lost on my own. We nearly got him to the extract when we were attacked, que running away, and my boot fell apart again.

I hopped into a bush and shot back until I was hit, and had to hop half a mile back from the game zone, in the mud, in a sock and one boot.

lol fest

gerrowadat

Rathbeggan, first Take AIM cup, I ran down from the fort on the hill, tried to hop a small sandbag wall, clipped my foot and went over.

Managed to avoid landing on my toptech 416, but did manage to basically do a running jump down a hill and land straight on my chest. Was winded for a good 30 seconds, and couldn't talk to tell people around me I was okay for a little while. Ow.

TheDoc

Sennybridge 2, big game, huge numbers and we are on the advance.

Trying to break from cover across an opening split by a barbed wire fence, I made the dash, tried to jump the fence, got snagged, fell and pyro went everywhere.

Gave the lads a good old lol

J.D.R

I was playing at MAZ at my second skirmish ever. I was at the Rural part on top of the hill, defending. If any of you are familiar with it, it has a bas on top of a steepish hill about 20 metres above the attacker (ish). There are also a few drop offs where, if you put your foot in the wrong place, you ened up sliding dwon to the bottom.

Anyway, I was defending, and there was a member of the attacking team on the ridge of one of the drop offs. I shoot at him, and then he disapears. I think he's only faking, so I flank round the side till I get a lear shot. When I finally get him in my sights, I fore a burst at him. He does nothing. I fire again, he does nothing, so I shout call you hits. I hear him shout somthing (can't really retype it on a public forum) and then I notice he is grabbing his leg.

Aparently, when he slid down to get away from my shot, he had popped his knee out of place. And then had me shoot at him with 2 burst shots.

If that wasn;t bad enough, the same thing happed in the forest leter in the day. I shot, and then I saw him role from behind cover. I thought it was a crap tacticak role, and so shot him again. Then I find He's popped his knee out again.

One of the worst days ever as far as feeling sorry for him goes. Felt like such a n00b

Silent Death

In Ambush, went off the beaten track, went up my waist in bog, one of my team came in got stuck and we started to get ourselves out bit by bit, we were in the middle of no-mans land as BB's flew over head. Got out and started flanking

gungun

biggest blunders.... playing with a sportline:p
nah, one of mine was at G-tac last year, I chose to go around a different way to an objective (rescuing a manequin) and when I got into a position, i saw a couple of lads legging it with "Bob", and well, I get 'em:o needless to say they gave me fairly angry looks:p

SparkyDNut

I was in the Office recently, and we were clearing the down stairs offices. I had the bright idea to use my tornado grenade so let my team mate know what I was up to, pulled the pin and killed both of us instantly.. I had forgot to plug in the stopper to enable the timer, so nade went off in my hand... All we could do was laugh...

lissacahaluke

Shot myself in the leg when running

whydave

Walkin along in Predator when Dice (fellow Contractor) calls out '' Dave your smokin !'' ,I shout out ''thanks man'' ,then two thermo and one smoke Grenades cook-off in my pocket !:o
picture attached !;)

So rememeber kids always play safe with pyro !

tonyj_mc

up in red barn a little while ago i was hung over to hell and got hit twice in the face within about 30 secs of seeing the other team. go back respawn and then decide to fire off a 203 in the general direction to give some cover, pulled the trigger nothing happened so went to move forwards, pointed the aeg downwards and the 20 goes off into my foot:mad:

hoplite

SparkyDNut wrote: »

I was in the Office recently, and we were clearing the down stairs offices. I had the bright idea to use my tornado grenade so let my team mate know what I was up to, pulled the pin and killed both of us instantly.. I had forgot to plug in the stopper to enable the timer, so nade went off in my hand... All we could do was laugh...

LOL well it was a good laugh and we both took our hits :-)

Take solace in the fact that in the same game I backed into an 'empty' room and got shot in the ass.

I don't have to go back to my early days airsofting I do dumb **** all the time. Still all part of the entertainment.

Tommyboy71

Red Hammer in Pred. I am in a fort defending. Lemming is out in front with the PIG taking incoming fire. I decide I'm gonna use a frag. I pull it from the vest, call "frag out", strike it and lob it in the direction of the fire on Lemming.

Only the throw wasn't as good as I hoped. It landed ON Lemmings vest.

All I could see was him jumping up, uttering a couple of choice expletives and running. I felt like a tool.

weeder

second skirmish ever, think it was the hrta birthday, anyway im in one of the portacabins and i see a lad walking along outside and i start to lay down on him and hes not taking the hit and runs behind a pallet so i am assaulting the pallet until someone finally shouts over and puts me out of my misery by saying HES A MARSHALL

fisherclark

First time playing airsoft in the new tallaght office block, pinned down on the first floor with my spawn point right behind me (would have gotten riddled making a run for it) so decided to pop my head/gun out to take a few shots and my clip flys across the corridor. it was a rental so i had no side arm.

Gatling

from a game in Gtac in febuary

The lad from limerick who bang killed me in the woods near the cqb a true gentleman ,
sat 25 mins stalking 3/4 lads with armbands, lying prone on the damp ground go to make my move a lad comes behind me are you armbands no ,but the lads 10 meters in front of me is ,you sure yes the arm band is on his right arm ,filck p90 to auto lad behind me leans down BANG KILL pointing to his arm band classic could have easily empted a mag into my exposed regions:o:o
a true gent

whats the blunder you say

when behind enemy lines in bandit country
Take the US MARINES stance shoot everything you see

Ayrtonf7

Shooting eveything in sight is often a good strat, and can lead to some funny times if your playing with the right players

MagicIRL

Playing out at Fingal Airsoft a few weeks ago. Went to take the flag at A1. Reached over and knocked the entire sandbag base wall down. I knocked the flag down too though, I guess its a semi-blunder

Lordhogo

My first ever game was in the Warehouse and there were only 6 players there altogether so my team and I were sticking together taking a stealthy approach. Sadly I was not used to having my holster on and while I darted from wall to wall it whacked off one making a loud clunk. The enemy in about 5 seconds found us and killed all 3 of us.

Silent Death

Playing in Ambush and was the VIP, went for the full thing and was in my Tux, the team had to take my 'home' and capture me, so to make it difficult i snuck round with one of my team behind them where they wouldnt search for me. Later i hear game over, so i went up and out and as soon as they saw me they yelled, both my team and theres. They opened fire and chased me, i run, jump into a ditch, crawl through bog and water and eventually escaped crossing around 5 acres. Turned out they searched for 5 minutes and went for lunch

The blunder; I trusted my team

Here is the vid anyways http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLCBcU8cznQ&feature=channel

deco nate

Silent Death wrote: »

Playing in Ambush and was the VIP, went for the full thing and was in my Tux, the team had to take my 'home' and capture me, so to make it difficult i snuck round with one of my team behind them where they wouldnt search for me. Later i hear game over, so i went up and out and as soon as they saw me they yelled, both my team and theres. They opened fire and chased me, i run, jump into a ditch, crawl through bog and water and eventually escaped crossing around 5 acres. Turned out they searched for 5 minutes and went for lunch

The blunder; I trusted my team

Here is the vid anyways http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLCBcU8cznQ&feature=channel

i was your back up,game over was called,you said follow me deco,i got stuck in the mud..next thing i hear is deco RUN..cue you running by me(in your james pond suit:p) on the driveway followed by 10-12 guys after you,shot two of them thru the tears of laughter and sinkin thru the mud,thank to marko for helping pull
me outta the mud,funniest day of airsoft so far,it was like a clip outta
the benny hill show,cue music....

paddycam

playing in drogheda airsoft one weak,while in the quary my battery runs out off juice,so thinking tacticalily i ran back to my base where i left my pistol,swap the m4 for the pistol,flank all the way round,approuching the enemy tower went the shoot the only enemy guarding it,gssssssssss, mag sh*ts itself,i get coverd in gas,the enemy laughs hos head off and riddles me,:mad:

lux-et-veritas

long straight corridor no cover on either side,enemy (in best blain accent) dug in deeper than an alabamma tic. me and my mate decide to do our death or glory run, he heads off first, i head a couple of yards behind, he gets tagged right in the doorway, so i (in my infinate wisdom) go to jump over him into the room. WHAM head first straight into the top of the door frame. i come too a minute or so later wondering why everyone was rolling around on the ground.

same game 5 minutes later behind the same person, who decides to drop to the ground to "give me covering fire" at the top of an exposed stair case, as he hit the ground i tripped over him and went face first down said stairs, still got some scars from that one..

Silent Death

deco nate wrote: »

i was your back up,game over was called,you said follow me deco,i got stuck in the mud..next thing i hear is deco RUN..cue you running by me(in your james pond suit:p) on the driveway followed by 10-12 guys after you,shot two of them thru the tears of laughter and sinkin thru the mud,thank to marko for helping pull
me outta the mud,funniest day of airsoft so far,it was like a clip outta
the benny hill show,cue music....

That was a good day Best blunder ever

touge_drift

first skirmish, was playing down the valley in oakridge i was trying to ambush from one of the valley sides and slide all the way down into the mud in the little stream got stuck, got my new aeg and cloths covered in mud and to top it off, got shown no mercy and got shot.

Markom5a

Was playin in maz cqb for the first time when i found myself seperated from the team. Sitting beside a building in eery silence when i suddenly heard crunch,crunch coming from behind me. i quickly turned and fired one round catching the just visible glasses of the person peeking around the corner. Now this wasnt just on the lense it was right between the eyes an amazing snap shot...........................................................shame he was on my team though :P:P:P

J.D.R

Ha, priceless. I don't know how many times me you and sam shot him (if he's the one your talking about). We just opened up on anyone that wasn't us.

Markom5a

J.D.R wrote: »

Ha, priceless. I don't know how many times me you and sam shot him (if he's the one your talking about). We just opened up on anyone that wasn't us.

Poor chap but he always managed to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. He had the situation awareness of a blind monkey! Quite loud too!

Damo 2k9

It wasnt me but it was a mate and it was funny so im gonna post it up
At a night game in fingal airsoft and i was walking back to respawn on my own, it was a long oul walk and the way it was if you seen an enemy walking back to spawn you could tell them to get down and you would have to search them to see if they had a glowstick and see if they were a commander (secondary objective) so there i am walking along and i hear my mate saying get down, so i get down on a knee and could hear him start running because he had bbs in the back of his vest then all i hear is a loud thud, and him sayin "ahhh", he climbed over a ridge and started to run and fell flat on his face and then got friendly fired so he couldnt even search me in the end
It may not be that funny but at the time it was :P

flashinbluelite

Redbarn courtyard 14.00 ZULU 01/06/2025: approach from the car park, past the first door on the left and just around the corner is a nice little room with hay in it...... 3 maybe 4 lads hiding in it, but i knew they were there. took out the zoxna grenade, pulled the pin ...went to roll it into the room......but ..BANG bloody thing goes off in my hand.............what hurt more the pain of the nade or the slagging of the marshals????

moral of the story dont give contractors grenades!!!!!

Witcher

My one involves "Flashinbluelite" ^^

We were about to assault the killhouse in HRTA, all going good, we flanked it and got to the door, Keith notices a tripwire...gives me the sign...all while I'm looking away so he steps over it, I plough in...catch the wire...goodnight Irene:pac::pac:

The blast of the Spas he hit me in the leg after woke me up:p

Private_Ryan

tryin to be cool with my m9 hangun i swing it round my finger trying to blow the smoke off forgetting to put on the safety shooting myself pointblank in the privates >.<

[--SC(+)PE--]

pulling out and trying to snap shot someone with half a beretta in the middle of a fast paced assault only to desperately flee back into cover in a fit of panic and confussion

Id given it to someone to oil up in the safezone while i went to reload but they never locked the slide in place lol :eek:

Hivemind ''scope what are you looking for?''
me ''a pistol slide''
''haha only you could find someway to lose half a pistol''

Killinator

AT G-TAC, a Gathering I think,
Was a downed pilot/crew game,
Got seperated from my team who were still in sporadic firefights all over the place with small groups of enemy,
Got into the tree line on the edge of the forest and move along it out of view becasue of a ditch and good tree cover, plan was to assault a group of 3 to 4 enemies when they got about 10 feet in front of me( that is if they passed by).
Trouble was because of the cover, I couldnt see anyone until they passed by, I could only hear them, so I waited and then heard the sound of a teamate(birdman/Liam),,
I knew he was in one of the downed crew and thought if I join him and his crew and can give them more support on the push to the rescue point,
I waited until they passed, i.d'ed the lot of them and got out of the ditch,

I happened to jump out in a small gap between them and half the enemy force that was force marching them to their own base, I didn't bother firing and just put up my hand:rolleyes:

Freak

First time out in Red Barn, new kit, all shiny, new TAR21 that I hadn't fixed the mag release on, Marshal is about to lead us out for first game, I'm all gung-ho. I step forward and the mag drops out of the gun and lands at my feet in front of whole team.

Felt such a tool.

swiftblade

Had a similar experience last weekend. :rolleyes:

Was out playing in "The Quarry" . We were in a small group walking through the heavy goarse.
I look around and notice my pistol mag droped out of my drop-leg. I turn around to pick it up (luckily i found it ) . Then notice everybody is gone. Took me the whole game to find them again. Didn't fire a single bb

EPIC FAIL

Chefburns

First skirmish in hrta, playing escort the bomb, I had lost a life on the far left flank of the bus when I ran with one of my mates to the wooden crates. He made it there but I got hit. I go back and respawn then pelt it full speed straight back to the boxes, where two lads are behind a mound I can see their flank they r distracted shooting at my mate, who I did my first run with, I take out the two of them and try to run to cover on the opposite side of the mound they were on to flank the rest of the team, only I didn't see a tractor trail, tripped in it twisted my ankle and burried my brand new M4 in the mud!! After I recover from the pain in my ankle I look at my M4 to see the entire muzzle flash is full of mud! I spend the next half hour using a stick to try and clean in out! Not a fun experience!! What made it worse was when I returned home and went to clean my gun I remembered that I could have simply un screwed it and kept playing, felt like such a plank!!