milsim

gerrowadat wrote: »

Sadly it's thin on the ground these days. Most 'milsim' in Ireland is just limited ammo, there aren't enough serious players to warrant it, and sites have to make their money.

Dave we do a kind of metal gear solid event. If you kill someone you have to move thier body so the patrols don't find them e.t.c.

Just out of curiosity does a milsim have to be large numbers or in your opinion can a 3 v 40 game work? It worked great for us, everyone loved the night and more than ammo limits you had to break into the armoury and rob any extra ammo you required.

Where would I go for info on these things? I ask because we're very interested in starting them on a large scale.

gerrowadat wrote: »

There's special events with special rules which is what you're describing, and there's what the OP describes.

The 'military simulation' lies in the chain of command, the requirement to use actual tactics (which is usually sorted partially by ammo limits), and the immersive style of the game. From what I've heard, the Rionegro mandate earlier in the year is the only high-turnout milsim game that happened in Ireland this year. Anything else I've heard about or played at has been a limited ammo skirmish, or hasn't really worked out.

Ah, so it's all about the absolute realism which is enforced by the command structure. Got it, thanks dude. I wouldn't worry about numbers, our regulars and a few others that join us for events would put a lot to it.

In our events each team has a colonel who gives commands and sets patrols or alert levels to add a bit more realism but I may expand a bit more on it next time.

That's a bit to think about, thanks Dave.

c-90 wrote: »

Metal gear slod game sounds awesome must give it a try where do u run them?
Milsim to me is unit stucture, proper orders, realistic objectives eg search and destroy arms caches ied factories. a mission where you need to actually recce and fimd the enemy then rwport back and organise an actual assault with real life ttps phase lines ect, and real hardship by ammo limits harsh medic rules and route marches
It does seem to be too niche a game style but there has to be atleast 20 people and im sure some of the larger sites would be willing to help out.

Yeah in the events we do the missions would be to infiltrate the building, find evidence of weapon manufactoring (folder with info) and get it out. In the mean time if you get captured you get placed in a cell where you can be broken out but there would be a lot of gaurds watching that area.

Along with the primary objectives there was secondary objectives like capture an enemy commander and retrieve intel e.t.c. The folder mentioned would contain info and if you read it there would be other mission you could do if your able, the more you get done the better you do.

If your medics run out of bandages you have to break into the infirmiry, find the doctor to get more. You can take a civilian hostage and use thier coats to enter the building

Puding wrote: »

And that is the problem, milsim is more the hobby side of airsoft rather than the commercial, yes it is possible to make some money in milsim events but not much, one event you can get 200 the next 100 even in the uk.

It isn't about money, I enjoyed the **** out of the last event and I shot exactly 7 times. Great stuff, yes we are a commercial entity but I play airsoft atleast 5 days a week dude, I'm an airsofter through and through.

Puding wrote: »

You have to do an event you and your regulars are interested in, no point asking for example what milsim i'm interested in as my last two 24 hour events I spent on the radio, that was some of the best airsoft experiences I've had but i can guarantee your regulars are not going to be interested in an event whre you may only fire one or two mags in a 24 hours period.

In the event we held all of our regulars had one mag for the entire night, they all loved it and have been asking us to do it non stop since. We have been slightly to busy with other things to do it and we have been wondering where to go with it.

Our regulars are hard core airsofters Puding, they are skillfull, honorable players who enjoy the game and are great fun to be around. They would try any sort of event and basically all of them fire on single fire only. I can guarantee all of our regulars would love to see a proper full on milsim being ran in our place.

Puding wrote: »

for me milsim is an experience, it can be anything from 200 plays with a platoon structure to 5v5 small squad action, as long as the mindset of the players is right it is milsim

That's exactly what we went for and accomplished with our previous events.