Recreational wargaming with your buddies - do you bust out
Paintball? Make 'em pay with a stinger for getting hit, and load up on laundry afterwards!
Laser tag? Buggy handsets be damned - I want n-range beams and sci-fi effects!
Take aim and fire in the comments below :)
By: Brant
Simunitions :).
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I hardly have enough time for sustainment training with real guns, never mind toys, but I do play a bit of Laser-Tag with my son and random strangers at the local arena.
Lately, Airsoft has had a lot of appeal to me. I love the aesthetics of certain guns, but it's prohibitively expensive to collect the real ones and some are difficult to obtain. So I'm thinking of building a collection of high-quality AirSoft replicas of guns that my heart loves but my mind dismisses as impractical for my applications: the Bushmaster ACR, the HK MP5 (several variants) and MP7, the FN P90, the FN F2000, the HK G36, etc.
What can I say, I'm a strange bird.
My brother got one of the old laser tag home games for Christmas and it worked like crap. Hated it. But the most fun I ever had with Laser Tag was a giant warehouse in Baltimore that had been converted to a huge laser tag place that could hold 15-man teams and it was awesome.
ReplyDeleteI currently run training and gaming packages with Small Arms Transmitter Receiver SATR gaming guns (infra red guns).
ReplyDeleteI find that these are better than paintball or airsoft because of the team events you can run (no eye or face protection required).
We even teach a watered down orders process so the gamer can plan his own mission.
I am based in the UK and have 25 years military experience (i retired 2 weeks ago) so use this to create realistic gaming sessions.
Check out his video of what we do.
http://youtu.be/1qoySx1iAnU