[Sat] Jun 28 - Game Day

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[jsae]

Tally ho!

Please forgive my late sign in, I have had a busy week. I pretty much just finishe one of my VECTOR Volunteer tasks and tomorrow I'm skipping out on VECTOR's (http://vectorradio.ca) Field Day at Queen Elizabeth Park.

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[Claymore]

Saturdays game was another fun day at the field.

I can't stress the importance of having good communications(Radio and headset that works) on any airsoft field.

If you do not have a proper radio or with somebody that is in contact with your team and other squads you are missing the boat.

You don't have to be on the radio talking about what you see, the position that you're at, what bug you just stepped on, that kind of stuff. Just listen, you don't need to be special radio communication operator. But you need to be able to respond to a situation if you are in the right spot to move forward or backwards outflank a changing, fluid situation. And that is just in the area that you can see what's going on. You can't assist our team that's on the other side of the hill or across the creek or out of sight to cut off an enemy that is trying to bug out.

If you're in the middle of the field and thinking of going forward to help out the attack and all of a sudden your team has been outmaneuvered and your home base is now under attack and needing you urgently to return and help defend your base from a different angle maybe able to sneak up on the attackers from behind, OOPS, you can't you can't hear their call on the radio., you cannot be a proactive asset to your team.

A good example this past Saturday game I led the bomb team once they found the flag and bomb to the objective I got shot so I had to go back to the spawn (but because I could not use my Rado to tell them where they were or where the objective was because I was dead and cannot use my radio I could not let them know until I got back to the respawn) once I got back to the respawn I could use my radio and let them know that they were just about on top of the objectives to the left and ahead 50 feet.

Shortly after RADIOING that information I spit a mouth full of water onto the headpiece mic of my radio and De commissioned the mouthpiece for the rest of the day (I'm a butt head).

I was shot at twice by my own teammate because I could not radio my position. I could not radio to a teammate to help him advance so we could not attack the same point at the same time so only one of us made it if we had radio communicating we would of both lived.

Just some observations.

I agree totally, if you don't have comms and use them, your just following others around the field looking for targets to shoot at. you wont know where you are, how your team is doing, call for help, help others or if the game has started or ended!

a radio and head set should be the next piece of kit you buy right after your AEG. it will cost you the price of 3 bags of BBs but be worth more out on the field.