All in All, Had a fantastic day out with a bunch of cool people. WALL OF TEXT IN BOUND ON THIS POSITION!
Started out, My buddy and I came in late, and the minute I got out of my SUV, Felix came over to tell me I was going to be a hostage objective.
That was probably the most serene, peaceful, quiet experience I have ever had during a game of airsoft. For the first 30 minutes of the game, Bravo left me completely unguarded at my re-spawn/waiting point. After that, Star_Folder, being the good best friend he is, came up to chat and hang out. After that, Raptor's came up to hang out as well. After awhile(1:15 into the game), bored with the lack of shooting, and seeing that the SQA Photographer(My Dad) had shown up, Star_Folder and about half of Raptors decided to go out into the field to get some action. 3 of Team Raptors top guys decided to stay and guard me. We had a brief firefight with several trees, who unsuccessfully snuck up on us. But it was quiet. FOR TWO HOURS. So yea, Note to self, Alpha is not who you want to rely on to rescue you
Second game we had to attack Radar Station. After retrieving my wonderful DMR(Being a hostage for the first game, I chose my nice light SCAR) I went to the Rocky Top re-spawn with Gambler, Hatch, and Watchman. we then split up, I planned on going the long way around, and then coming up behind the base. After moving "stealthily" through the woods in my tactical blue jeans, I got popped in the shoulder from CTaylor. I didn't even see him, so I figured I wouldn't give away his position by yelling hit, so I just put my dead-rag on and waited for my bleed-out. After that Star_folder had come to rocky top, so He and I met up with Jeremy and Butnugget and proceeded to go hunt alpha. We had a few firefights with CTaylor and Skywalker, which was a lot of fun. We all heard felix yell that we had just a few minutes left, so we went to rush Radar Station to win the game. I had 3 rounds left in my sidearm, so naturally the best possible decision was to run full tilt towards the base screaming at the top of my lungs. I got up, shooting, dry-firing and screaming safety kill, only to be lit up at about 5 feet from an alpha player. He unfortunately was firing at a rather... sensitive spot for Males of the Human Species, and that was the end of my suicide run, and up came jeremy for his attempt. With many Laughs in response to our pain, I think Felix gave us the win for that one.
After that came the awaited Trenches battles. Star_Folder, Watchman and Myself all arrived a bit late, so we went to our respawn to get into the game. We got into some pretty nice firing positions behind a berm of some cutdown trees, and just popped heads. I think I got to around 15 or so people calling hits in the various trenches, which was great from my end. After awhile I noticed Felix walking rather nonchalantly towards our base, and figuring he was up to some shenanigans of some sort, I shot him. He was indeed up to some shenanigans, and did not appreciate my rather vociferous rejection of his unwanted advances. AFter that, the three members of Gold Team decided to move up to hit some more targets, not realizing we were supposed to defend our base. While we were off playing explorers of the amazon in the woods, Alpha managed to roll up on bravo's base and take it.
The second battle at trenches was just a side reversal, and led to a bunch of fun, culminating in a pistol rush on a trench that had Haze and his friend in it. I proceeded to empty my mag of my pistol into the trench, and got one of them, but somehow missed the other completely, as he was shooting and missing me with his pistol. After some insistence on safety kills( which we both refused on the count of each of us being out of ammo/working guns) we decided to settle our fates with the ultimate decider. 2/3 Rock Paper Scissors. I got lucky and triumphed in this epic skirmish, and celebrating my hard won victory, was promptly shot by another alpha player. I guess that victory was rather short lived. After that, more DMR Shenanigans were had, with much celebrating of 300 foot shots and etc until Gerbilizer managed to win the game.
The only negative thing I found was that people seem to be very confused about range issues. I understand that we have a lot of new players, so it needs explaining, but just because you see your bb's soaring out towards someone does not mean they hit them. I had several people complain that I wasn't calling my hits, simply because they had a gun pointed at me, when I was over 200ft away from them, watching the bbs hit the ground. Just because you are having to dodge bbs from another person does not mean they are in your effective range. DMR users tend to have a nice 100ft or more cushion over most guns in terms of effective range, so try not to assume we aren't calling our hits as the first thing you say.
Other than that one tiny thing, I had a great time.