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[Newman]

The three M's that describe me (Newman) best...

Anyhoo, I had the best Airsoft games of my life today.  Seriously, I did the best that I've ever done, and it was pretty hilarious too.

FLAG had a game today in the woods by my house and I was the host (like normal).  The woods are really huge (double the size of Viking's place I'd say, but it's all grown in, so maybe that makes it seem bigger). We all (a grand total of 5 at the beginning, I have nothing else to say) met at around noon and got down to the field around 12:30 with all of our gear.  Our first game, I decided that my former paintball (team) teammate, Alex (using my MP5SD6), and I (custom M4) would be facing off against the three friends from Ann Arbor-Brian (AK), Jeff(MP5PDW), and Alan(MP5A4).

Alex hadn't played paintball since last year, I think March or so, and had never played Airsoft with more than 2 people before.  Like I said, it was him and me versus the other three guys.  Great odds, huh? ;D

Back to the story-Alex and I made our way to the right side of the woods and moved cautiously forward, scanning every possible place for enemy movement.  After a good ten minutes of searching, we literally blundered into the advancing opponents and, fortunately, escape detection.  I signal Alex to get down, while I slowly move forward to get a better position on the other team.  Jeff and Brian were walking in a single file line (bad idea) directly in front of me, but were going in the opposite direction.  I full-auto burst (around 10 shots) them, but it turns out that the hop-up wasn't adjusted correctly!  The bb's go really high, and they avoid any possible problems.  Alex crawled up to a tree and was scanning the area, while I adjusted the hop-up and then moved forward.

After about twenty steps into the woods, I encounter Brian walking directly towards me.  He glances at me, shrugs it off, then keeps moving.  Rattattatatatat.  "I'm out!"  One less guy to worry about (he later told me that he thought I was his teammate Alan).

Alex, meanwhile, is in quite a predicament with the real Alan firing directly at him.  I move quickly but quietly over to the sound of the firefight, and meet a full-auto burst that goes right above me.  'Don't get up, Newmie, don't get up' ;D  I was pretty much just stuck behind a tree with nowhere to go, and the opposition knew my position, so I just yelled out, "ALEX!  HELP ME OUT!  ONE LEFT, GROUND, IT'S ALAN!"  Seeing as Alex was on the left, I thought he'd just help me out and take out Alan, but...Alex has selective hearing.  If you've ever met somebody with the more 'advanced' condition, then you know what I'm talking about-he doesn't listen to anything at all if he's doing a task that he's committed to (sounds like a wife-husband thing, heh).  Anyway, Alex was still crawling when I yelled that, and doesn't even notice that I said it.  I just hunker down and wait it out.

Seconds later, I hear "brrrrrrrrrr" and "whap!" as Alan is eliminated.  Unbeknownst to me, it was Jeff, Alan's own teammate, that killed him!  ROFL!

That left just Jeff on the other team alive, and Alex was still crawling through the woods, taking his sweet pretty time.  "Alex!  Only Jeff is left!  Move over here!"  Just then, Jeff decides to tell me how stupid I am for yelling that and shoots directly at my position.  I narrowly escape the plastic death.  "Alex! He's at your 12 o' clock!"  He finally hears me and basically whispers back, "OK".  After ten humiliating minutes of Alex and Jeff exchanging fire (humiliating because it was just like paintball in how much ammo was shot), I finally duck out of my position behind a tree and eliminate Jeff with a single shot to the neck.  He said that it hurt, and I tend to believe people who say that.

[Newman]

The next game, well, it wasn't as fun as the first.  The gist of it is that my battery connectors don't want to stay in my battery bag (on the stock) and popped out right as we were going into a "clearing" of sorts, and right when my teammate motions me to duck down, I try to fix the connectors and get a nice ol' shot right in the chest while looking down.  Funny Newman, always trying to fix something that isn't broken, it just looks funny.  *whistles innocently while looking at old pictures of custom M4*

The next game, I came back with a vengeance, and decided...they're going down.  Bad.  Chuck (with a basically new SR-16) finally got down to the game after taking the ACTs and we had even teams.  Brian, Alex, and I were on one; Jeff, Alan, and Chuck on the other.  Alex and I shared the point going down the same path as the first game, and Brian had rear and side security.  After around 20 minutes of searching the path, we came up dry and approached the wooded area at the end of the path.  I took the point and had Alex cover my left as Brian had the front-right.  We stopped to listen and observe, and found out that Alan was literally right in front of us about 20 yards.  We lied down, taking it all in (heh), and I had Alex try to get a good shot on Alan.  *enter selective hearing music*  Unfortunately, Alex wasn't listening to me at all, and kept crawling forward, not even noticing that Alan was very close to him.  'Oh crap' I thought.  I listened to the crunching leaves and finally got a clear shot inbetween some twigs and double-tapped him in the mask.  Once again, I try to get Alex to listen to me, but he's still crawling away, slowly, steadily.

D'oh!

Meanwhile, Brian, the ever trusty teammate he is, is quietly waiting any further instructions behind me.  I motion for him to sprint right into some brush and that I'd cover him while he did it.  He jumps up on "3" and I jump up to cover him, but Jeff (hidden) and his PDW full-auto burst at Brian.  Fortunately, the bb's fall short and Brian makes it.  I finally got Alex's attention and motion for him to crawl in the direction of Jeff, but Alex doesn't understand and turns left.

D'oh!

Chuck finally decides to show his face while I'm motioning, and bursts right at me.  I, again, narrowly escape.  Now knowing where Jeff and Chuck are, I start shooting at Chuck and eliminate him with a lucky shot to the hand (it could have possibly been a ricochet he says, or it could have been Brian shooting at him).  Alan gets his one respawn, comes back in, swings to our left side, and with a one-two hit, I take him out again. ;D  Ah, the joys of owning an M4.  Buy one today! ;D

Proboards just ate this last part (I've been saving my work fortunately), so this is just paraphrased.  This post is long enough, I have nothing else to say:

Chuck respawns and I shoot him again because he got in the same position as before, and Jeff is still hiding in his little foxhole.  Brian moves up behind me to cover me while I shoot at Jeff, but low and behold, Alex finally decides to rear up and take out Jeff!  It turns out the Alex had crawled the entire way over to Jeff and eliminated him with an MP5 burst.  Go Airsoft newbies. 8)  Jeff decided that respawning would be pointless, and my team wins.

*on to a new part that wasn't eaten up by Proboards*

[Newman]

There might have been a game or two that I missed, but for the sake of time (I have nothing else to say...time...what time?), it won't really matter...

...Everyone was pissed that I kept killing the entire other team (every time, I have nothing else to say) and I decided that I needed to use the MP5 that Alex was using to show them that it's the man who makes the gun, not the gun who makes the man.  Alex and Chuck would be facing just me, the lone "schniper" with the MP5.  Brian had to leave (Alan drove him), so that left just Jeff to sit this one out.  I decided that a good place would be right near their entrance point but far enough away that they wouldn't complain about it.  I hunkered down behind some nice twigs and leaves and waited it out, just seeing what would happen.  Alex and Chuck actually move by swiftly, trying to avoid or negate any ambush that might occur in the place that I was hiding, and I couldn't get a good shot off without starting a firefight (which I would probably lose).  So I just let them pass by, ehehe.  I sat there contemplating whether or not I should follow them, seeing as I was a "sniper" of sorts, but I figured, 'heck, why not? tis only a game'


With "ol' reliable" at my side, I headed off behind the opposition, stalking them silently.  I figured I must have been quite a bit behind them, since I didn't hear a thing for a while, but I finally found them walking down the main path in the forested area (erm...not woods...not open fields...just trees and bushes and flowers and crap, hehe).  I moved when they moved, and stopped when they stopped.  Quite funny, actually, because most of the time, if they had just turned a tiny bit more, they could have seen me and eliminated me quite easily.  Unfortunately for them I snuck up behind them while they were off in a venture to the right of the path, and once they both got on the path, I whipped out the trusty MP5 and eliminated them both.  Guess it's not the gun that makes the man, huh?  Betcha all wish you hadn't spent that last $1000 dollars on the "superdeedooper 400+ FPS gun" when I eliminate you with a $200 ICS (Integrated Crap Shooter for the uneducated among us) MP5SD6 that has broken internally many times, has no selector switch, is stuck on full-auto, still has the whole orange on the silencer, has a broken piece on the retractable stock, and has a hop-up that is really twitchy.  LMAO!

Next game had Jeff and I facing off against Chuck and Alex, and I still had the MP5.  We were playing a standard elimination game, but we all pretty much agreed to stay on the main path and right around it.  Alex and Chuck had sprinted forward towards us, while we carefully moved and checked every nook any cranny.  Right as we went over a tree stump in the middle of the path, Chuck or Alex opened up and eliminated Jeff, while I was left to fend for myself.  Chuck and Alex covered the left and right, and at one time Chuck looked directly at me through the brush!  Right as I was about to pop up and try to eliminate them, Chuck decides to start moving and crouch-runs right past me (I was in dense brush on the side of the path).  I jump up, yell "SURRENDER!" to Chuck and catch Alex totally offguard with a full-auto burst to the chest and head.  Chalk up two more for Newman and the MP5. 8)

The day ended with a long, drawn out game where Chuck and I were on a team versus Alan and Jeff.  I got Jeff out even while Alan was covering him, and then Alan took off.  After about 10 minutes of searching, we found him but he ran out of ammo.  Oh well, it was a loong...looong...7 hour day.  7 hours of Airsofting excitement as I like to say it. ;D

CONGRATS to ANYONE who has read the entire three posts! ;D

[SickPointe]

Heh, I only read the first one.

[Knief]

In defense for myself, Alan shot at me, and i couldn't tell who he was.  Sadly however, that was my only kill of the day, which kinda sucked, but it was still a fun day.  And Newman, I beleive i shot Alan before you shot Brian, but i could be wrong.  And that was the luckiest shot of your life to hit me in the neck like that.  I was completely blocked on that side by 3 fallen and overlaped trees, except for a tiny little opening on the ground, and an opening in the top two trees (the only place i could really see out of).  Newman happened to put it along the ground, under the whole stack of trees, and right in to the back of my neck.  And yes, it stung pretty bad, but not a whole lot, you know, it's only an airsoft bb.

Sick, don't worry about only reading the first one, so did I, and I was there.  ;D

[Bigmack]

all Newman's kills are luck.    ;D

[Knief]

As Alan said today, "I don't know if he's good, or just the luckiest SOB playing airsoft."

[Celeborn]

The one thing emitted from Neal's description...my biggest victory and his biggest defeat...

Three on three single elimination...

Me, Alan and Jeff walk to the far side of the woods...the game starts and I lead Alan at a run to the center of the woods...Neal is cautiously emerging from the forest, and I see him easily.  I raise my gun and launch 3 four round bursts.  I start running back and Alan moves up and shoots some too, but Neal was already dead (by my hand).  Neal resurects himself and comes back with his G17 on his own team.   My team hears him, and we open up on him through some bushes.  Although we don't hit him, he calls himself out.  Later, after some slow manuvering, Alan is hit, and me and Jeff advance...

I am in front, about  to cap Brian, when Jeff says he needs to take a massive crap and we end the game.  I shoot three semi-auto shots right over brians head to proove my point.   Then, as I climb out of the brush, I see alex laying on the ground in the middle of the path and think nothing of it.  Unfortunatly, he decided he didn't want to hear us call the game over and the though didn't cross his mind when I steped out of the brush ten feet in front of him without caring that he was there.  He also forgot about the surrender option, so he decided to spray me in the back from 10-12 feet away after the game was over...


Yup, thats my story, also, I was the one who killed Jeff in the first 2v2 game.

Chuck

[Knief]

thanks for adding in thqt part about me having to take a massive crap, i appreciate it.  You forgot the part about where bot teams set ambushes for each other, but nobody moves, so there is no action for about 15 minutes.

[Newman]

I have nothing else to say, Chuck (Stoner Dude), you just perfectly described the first paragraph of the second post.

I like the effort put into it, though.

EDIT: Jeff, yes, that's the reason I "resurrected myself" as Chuck says it.  Both teams stayed at their starting points for a good 15-20 minutes and didn't move (after Chuck and Alan sprinted forward and killed me while I was adjusting the battery connectors, they ran back to their base).

Good times, good times.