OP:WOLVERINE FURY - JUN 13,14th 2003

[Hadoken]

If you have access to a scanner you could scan the pics and send them via email to me and I can put them up on the forums for you.

that goes for anyone else with pics.

[SilentSEAL]

Thats definitly a way to do it, but sometimes scanned pictures have pretty bad quality and look either too dark or too bright. One other way you would do it is when u develop the pictures ask them to digitize them and put them on the CD for you, then u can save them to I'm too lazy to spell a full word out. Please mock me. comp and send them to hado (im assuming thats ok . However, i dont know if all the photo companies have started to do that or not .

[Jacko]

I think Meijer's will do the PhotoCD's, actually. And there should be one of those near everybody.

[MWC Retail]

Sounds like you all had a great event! great job WTS staff! i wish i could have made it but i had already made plans to go Up North to Hubbard Lake with 2 Russian girls (now US Citizens) and a couple other ppl we go up the lake with...anyway, glad u people had fun!

[Brandon]

hey had a great time and hope to go to another event sooner than later, nice job to everyone who put this thing together and I'm about as sharp as a baseball. That's why I used stupid text speak. for letting me participate in this event

[Ice man]

I would have to say that was worth my 3 hour (Slow Traffic) drive from Traverse City. I would definately drive down again for another event like this.

[Atlas]

Can the guys of NFA Delta Squad please contact me? We were talking about playing this summer, i'm sure you remember.

And for anyone else out there two, i'm putting together a new team for playing this summer, Myself, my best friend, and two Noobs to airsoft, one of which just returned from service in Iraq. If you're interested in playing a few games bout an hour's drive or less from Grand Rapids, PM me, we'll see if we can work some stuff out.

[I3 1 L L]

Ya, Atlas i remeber talking to you just let me know if there is any games and Team: FIAT might be able to make it out there

[bobalis]

i would love to play with your Atlas but Grand Rapids is far away. I live in West Bloomfield and Birmingham which are both around 45 mins North of Detroit (I live next to 15 mile). Otherwise i would love to play with you guys, cuz i'm a noob as well.

[DonAco]

Time for me to post. Great event people had a blast. I think number of people was just right. Clayton and Gabe pat yourself on the back exellent job. Got to talk with people from the forums. Nice to put faces with names. I'll try and talk Mike in having another event. a lot of people asked so i'll try. Another thanks to everyone that showed up the ones that missed it . Also big thanks again to everyone for their was really no mess to clean up pat yourselves on the back. No complaints from neboirs either. Well thanks for showing up and playing.

[Dawg Bait]

Hey does anyone have the picture of the guyz raidning the porta john??i wanna c that one

[IREclipse]

Hi, these are my thoughts about how Wolverine Fury went.
I was on the USA team with Delta Squad

DAY 1
Honestly, this day was super boring, for me and several others anyway. I had more fun in my backyard, or anyother place to be honest. In fact everyone in delta squad said the same thing that day. Basically we held waypoint 3 for 3 hours and the commanders would not let us do anything else. In fact the whole time we were thier, NOTHING happened. We even sent guys to HQ to request a different assignment. But no such luck. If I had known day 1 was like this I would have simply only goe too day 2, and saved myself some money. Until the last 20-45 min when we assaulted the white shed, that was fun.

NIGHT GAME
(we (me and my brother) swicthed to NFA for the night so a guy could be on USA with his firend)
Me and one other guy sat by the oil can things for the whole game. precisely 1 hour and 10 minutes. Now, this wouldent have been bad but some.. guys thought that all the amercicans were all dead so basically screwed around and said the game ended. And as I got up to leave 8 americans got up about 30 ft away from where me and one other guy was. I sat their for nothing and got 21 mosquito bites on one hand and 15 on the other. So basically, the night game sucked, atleast for me.

DAY 2
Back on USA

Now, this day was incredible. The whole day was just super fun. Best airsoft day i have ever been to in my life. In fact this one day redeemed the whole event for me. The games were great and their was lots of squad based action. I got atleast 4 kills and healed 4 people (i wasent medic the whole day). However due to the extreme amount of cover I would recomend scrapping the defend and attack missions on this kind of terrain again. Also, with the rocket things, our commander apparently failed to inform us what you guys (or us) were supposed to be doing. So that kinded of ended in confusion for much of the US team (however, i dont speak for the whole team, this is just what I heard and observed). ANd the teams were balanced unfairly, most of the snipers were on the NFA as well as all (not ALL, but most) of the upgraded rifles. And no, im not just saying this because we lost, in fact I could care less, except it just hurt a lot more! ;D
PS. The last game on the large field was a great victory for the americans!!!!

Conclusion

Thier were no airdrops or pyrotechnics, which dissapointed me. ANd the 1st day was a dissapointment (atleast for delta squad, Jon, David, Brandon, Derek, and Shane)The night mission was dissapointing for me and several other people. But the 2nd day more than made up for all the short comings.
So, basically (Mike, Clayton, WTS planning commitee you listenin to this?) Just PLEASE plan another event like this sometime (maybe make something like this annual?) and make clearer objectives, and well.. basically do what you guys did for day 2!

Im not trying to mean in any of the above stuff, just abit of constructive critism. So yes, I will go to more of these 2 day planned events, as long as they are created by WTS!!!!!
THank you for taking the time to read my ranting!

[luke213]

Well I wasn't there so take what I say with a grain of salt but it seems to me it's pretty hard to get constant action in a game on a large field while still making it realistic. For instance we played a game on my field a week or so ago, tactical sim where they had to secure a truck. A good part of the time it was 1 vs. 3 because it didn't go as I had planned. Not that the plan wouldn't work just wasn't easy to do on a large area. So I don't think it was the organiser at fault there. Though as I said I wasn't there. None the less I did have a question and thats how many people ended up showing up?


Luke

P.S. Not trying to start any flame wars just pointing out my experiences.

[IREclipse]

Yes, I see what your saying how thats not really WTS fault, which its not but it seemed like the US commander was just waiting for the NFA to walk in to the ambush points. Basically, he wasent being aggressive enough, thats what I thought atleast. But nontheless, it was a great time!

[Jacko]

I think there was about 50 people total. The field was probably a good half mile long by a couple hundred yards across, it seemed to me.

I have to agree with IREclipse on most points. Day 1 seemed to be a 'slow' day. We were all getting used to the field, learning our surroundings, but NFA-Alpha squad went from WP 7 to WP 10 in about 3 hours and only engaged a few USA fighters the entire time (At WP 10). There were sightings of US fighters across the clearing but nothing I would define as combat. We only really started fighting it out around 5:30 or 6 PM, I'd say.

The night game was a bust for me, as I've stated in the other thread.

Day 2 more than made up for both though. It was tense, exciting, and completely what I would want a scenario event to be like. The attack and defend games, and the big melee at the every end were all a blast. Winning a pistol holster in the raffle was nice too.