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Post by RUST on Jan 13, 2014 8:47:43 GMT -5
If anyone who has attended either of these events in the past can give me some insight on how they work that would be awesome. I've never attended a milsim event, and seeing as how these two are the closest and most upcoming events, they seem like a good choice. I am unsure of how they work though, specifically how registration works, and I also wonder if I could even get in without having been at the other events. Also as of right now I have no squad to play on because my only other friends that play airsoft left and one is enlisted and in basic right now. That being said, would I be able to attend still even if I didn't necessarily have a squad to be on? (although 3 months should be enough time to be able to find people to go on a squad with). Any input is appreciated, thanks.
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Post by Gunny87 on Jan 13, 2014 9:26:50 GMT -5
1. You don't have to be a LC vet to attend Lightning Strike, or Northern Light. That only applies to IRENE, and even there you can get in without having attended a previous LC OP, but it's harder to get a spot. Now you will pay more for your first LC OP, and then you get a discounted rate thereafter. The first time fee for the last two Northern Lights when it was hosted at the Trenton Steel mill was $160 for non LC Vets.
2. John Lu will announce the date when registration opens in his newsletter that you can subscribe to on the main website. You have to go to the LC Ops event page and a button will appear at the bottom of the page when registration is open that will allow you to register online. Typically at least half of the event fee is due upon registration so you'll have to make a paypal payment when registering. But you may have to pay the full event fee at the time of registration this time around. I think we had to last year.
3. You don't have to register with a squad. They will assign you to a squad so make sure to visit the event forum frequently and know what's going on. There you'll also be able to read the WARNORD when that gets released, if it's not already provided to you from your squad leader which is why it's important to communicate with your squad leader. Generally the WARNORD gets posted on the forum but is also passed down the chain of command.
I'm sure quite a few of us will be attending one or both of these events this year. If enough of us attend, then we'll register together as a team. So then whoever submits the team registration form, you just provide them with your registration information. Then you just send your payment directly to John Lu's paypal account after the team registration form has been submitted to him and you won't have to do it online at the event page.
EDIT: If you look on the Home page, under the team forum section, you'll notice that we have two dedicated private forums for Northern Light and Irene, so when more information gets posted on the events for Northern Light, Lightning Strike, and IRENE all of our communication will take place in those specific forums (we don't have one yet for Lightning Strike). When the time comes we'll direct communication towards those forums and the password will be given by request generally from Knief or whoever is coordinating registration for a specific event.
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Post by RUST on Jan 13, 2014 12:37:16 GMT -5
Hey thanks gunny that really helped. I have looked at the forums before but I was confused as to why everything was old, but now I know not to worry. And it would be nice to be on a squad with others from michigan because at least then I would be meeting people that I could go to events with in the future. I do have a question about the uniforms though-
1. My first question is about the squad uniform. I know it would be better to all have siilar looking uniforms, but is it required?
2. Do either of the forces have acu as a wearable uniform? Because I have invested a decent amount in a full acu kit, but i prefer to put my money towards upgrading my guns. So my point is that if neither side allows acu it would help to know that before hand so I would have time to buy a new loadout.
Thanks again for all your input this info has really helped me out.
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Post by Sandbur on Jan 13, 2014 12:44:14 GMT -5
There was no ACU at Northern light last year. The uniforms were multicam vs, basically, green ( half woodland bdu, half OD is what most of MiA was wearing). I believe all the uniform details get sent out in the WARNORD and on LC's website.
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Post by Gunny87 on Jan 13, 2014 13:16:13 GMT -5
Hey thanks gunny that really helped. I have looked at the forums before but I was confused as to why everything was old, but now I know not to worry. And it would be nice to be on a squad with others from michigan because at least then I would be meeting people that I could go to events with in the future. I do have a question about the uniforms though- 1. My first question is about the squad uniform. I know it would be better to all have siilar looking uniforms, but is it required? 2. Do either of the forces have acu as a wearable uniform? Because I have invested a decent amount in a full acu kit, but i prefer to put my money towards upgrading my guns. So my point is that if neither side allows acu it would help to know that before hand so I would have time to buy a new loadout. The accepted uniforms vary by both event and by year. Woodland and 3 color desert camo are generally accepted, but not always in the case of last year's Northern Light. But other camo patterns it depends. That information usually gets released before the WARNORD, but we've seen it change by the time the WARNORD was released which also wasn't fun. So we won't know until that information gets released which may not be until 1-3 months before the event. 1. Having similar looking uniforms isn't required. However the last two years we as a community have all come to an agreement by wearing at least the same base camo. Which the last two Northern Lights we went green and all wore woodland BDU pants and most of us wore OD combat shirts or tops. But that's because we weren't allowed to use matching BDU pants and shirts. Again it varies by year and event. Also the VIP CO's could change and we often base which team we go on by who the VIP CO is. So it varies. 2. Answer 1 answers this question. Simply put, we won't know until those details get released. But as Sandbur pointed out ACU wasn't an acceptable camo at last year's Northern Light. it may change, it may not. My advice to you is to expect to purchase a base set of BDUs that are allowed if ACU is the only pattern that you own and it is not an allowed pattern like last year. Generally the camo pattern of the gear only matters if it's the same camo pattern as the opposing team. So for last year's Northern Light was green vs Multicam, and we weren't allowed to wear any gear with Multicam which was a big inconvenience to many here since many own some sort of Multicam plate carrier. But those are the rules. Also we weren't supposed to wear "tan" head gear so I only own an FDE Emerson Base Jump helmet and I didn't want to paint my helmet, so I took off the rails and NVG mount and wrapped it with woodland camo netting so that it didn't look tan. Ironically it ended up looking really close to multicam which ended up being the opposing team's camo but was still allowed.
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Post by RUST on Jan 13, 2014 13:38:10 GMT -5
Buying new bdus won't be too big of a deal, but is the uniform requirements only applicable to the top and pants? For example if I were to wear an od shirt and some other color pants would I still be able to use my acu plate carrier? Because if not ill just buy a cheap molle chest rig to accomadate my gear, but any purchase I can avoid is a good purchase
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Post by Gunny87 on Jan 13, 2014 13:54:26 GMT -5
Buying new bdus won't be too big of a deal, but is the uniform requirements only applicable to the top and pants? For example if I were to wear an od shirt and some other color pants would I still be able to use my acu plate carrier? Because if not ill just buy a cheap molle chest rig to accomadate my gear, but any purchase I can avoid is a good purchase Again that will depend on the camo requirements of the event. I can't give you a definite answer either way. Generally your chances of being able to still wear an ACU pattern vest even if you're wearing woodland or three color desert uniforms are pretty good, since I've seen it before at events in the past. But I can't say for sure. You'll have to wait until that information gets released before the event. EDIT: Just curious but why are you going with an ACU load out specifically? I understand it was a popular choice back in the mid to late 2000s when UCP was being largely adopted by the U.S. Army but now that they're transitioning away from UCP, it's probably going to be a less popular camo choice and at larger MILSIM events like at an LC event, and will probably have a lower chance of being an accepted camo moving in the future. For all other events with less camo restrictions you won't have as much of an issue. Again just curious, as I'm not saying it's wrong or anything.
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Post by RUST on Jan 13, 2014 14:32:32 GMT -5
Hey thanks for your help ill definitely keep an eye out, and closer to the event depending on what the event requirements are and who is going ill have to make a descision as to what camo and or gear I will have to buy. I look forward to possibly meeting and fighting alongside anyone from michigan that attends. Most likely I will attend Lightning strike, but if I'm able to attend Northern Light also that would be ideal. Thanks for all your help
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Post by RUST on Jan 13, 2014 14:42:45 GMT -5
I went with the acu look because when I first started airsofting I already had acu bdu's, so I just stuck with it as a starting point. I do really like the way it looks, but now that I want to get into larger scale milsim events I'm starting to realize that I might just have to invest in gear that is a different color, but plate carriers are expensive and I'm unsure of what color to go with when I do buy new gear. That's why I want to see what other people generally use so that I can make a choice based on what is going to be best accepted for milsim events
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Post by Gunny87 on Jan 13, 2014 15:17:10 GMT -5
Hey thanks for your help ill definitely keep an eye out, and closer to the event depending on what the event requirements are and who is going ill have to make a descision as to what camo and or gear I will have to buy. I look forward to possibly meeting and fighting alongside anyone from michigan that attends. Most likely I will attend Lightning strike, but if I'm able to attend Northern Light also that would be ideal. Thanks for all your help Right on! Yeah when we get together as a community and play together we kick ass and have a lot of fun doing it so it would be great to fight alongside you as well! From talking with some other guys on here it sounds like Lightning Strike is going to be an event a lot plan on attending especially since it's going to be in Ohio this year. Like I said though we usually don't make an official decision until we know all of our options (i.e camo, VIPs, location, etc) We're still waiting to find out where Nothern Light is being held since we heard the AO fell through over in Indy so we'll see where LC holds that event.
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Post by RUST on Jan 13, 2014 15:34:54 GMT -5
Yeah no I really can't wait for Lightning Strike! It'll be my first milsim event and what better way to run it than with people from the same community. And I am for sure going to be looking out for the uniform requirements and input from other mia users about what the best camo choice would be. I am wondering about ATACS-AU for bdus and a tan plate carrier. That is a setup I could live with. Either that or woodland with an OD plate carrier. Either way ill choose something depending on what the event regulations are.
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Post by Gunny87 on Jan 13, 2014 15:47:59 GMT -5
It's all good. We're all in a holding pattern right now on deciding which LC events we'll be attending this year until more details get released. My team is discussing it right now because the AO in PA for Red Storm East looks really cool as well this year.
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Post by RUST on Jan 13, 2014 16:04:58 GMT -5
PA would be pretty sweet, I know blacksheep milsim has an AO there, but they seem to either never have events, or they cancel them when the do schedule events. And american milsim seems pretty nice, especially their DAMs, but they are so far away. That's why Lightning Strike seems like the perfect opportunity for my first milsim event, and Lion Claws just seems better organized over all of them so I'm really looking forward to it
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Post by Gunny87 on Jan 13, 2014 21:15:11 GMT -5
This was just posted on LC's FB page today.
"MID-WEST...WHAT IF we get to return to the Mall in Milwaukee for LS in 2014?"
Maybe they will be having LS again at the shopping mall in Milwaukee this year?
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Post by RUST on Jan 13, 2014 22:46:36 GMT -5
That mall AO looks epic, but I would definately have to plan for a trip like that, and i'd for sure want to go with others. But for now I've worked all the woodland camo gear I would need into my order (I'm buying a scar L and upgrades and what not), the only thing I would have to go get elsewhere would be woodland pants and an od shirt from joes army navy. But I'm gonna wait to purchase everything until I know for sure that I can attend the event and that the uniform I buying would be the right one
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