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EVENT: MOCK UP 3 PORTUGAL
WITH A WHOLE NEW YEAR OF AIRSOFT ADVENTURES AHEAD AA LEGIONNAIRE MIGUEL BRINGS IN HIS FIRST REPORT OF 2022 ON A VERY SPECIAL EVENT PLAYED ON A UNIQUE AO IN PORTUGAL FOR A VERY GOOD REASON, AND SHOWS AGAIN THAT AIRSOFT CAN BENEFIT NOT JUST THE PLAYERS THEMSELVES BUT ALSO THEIR COMMUNITIES!
Doyou know that feeling of going to a game and coming back with a sensation of fulfilment? Well, that’s what happened to us after our last game. Why? It’s quite simple in fact!
Last year, on November 28th, my team got a chance of taking part in an event called “Mock Up 3”, an event that takes place in the Portuguese Army School of Arms, the location where many Portuguese units train CQB and Urban warfare before taking part in NATO missions in Africa. Here military units preparing to ship out will practice using a multitude of different buildings with different designs and even recreating the famous “favelas”, where buildings have irregular shapes and are really close to each other. It also serves for infantry basic training of new recruits joining the Portuguese Army.
Now onto Airsoft! Firstly, it was great to see a lot of older airsoft players, with whom we have been sharing games and airsoft fields for many years now. The team organizing the event is one of the oldest in Portugal, so their games are really famous and many players want to attend them.
After checking each vehicle at the entrance of the base we were escorted to the parking spot, where we started gearing up, registered at the checkin, and chrono’d our replicas. It was our second time at the field but the experience is unique, so expectations were high. We knew that this was a one-of-a-kind field, with a layout and infrastructures that we would not find anywhere else, some of our guys played in the first series of this event and everyone had great memories of it. After gearing up, we got to the briefing area where the organizers explained the game module, the rules, and the safety points.
The game module itself was simple, as some of the best scenarios are; one-third of the players defended the complex, while two-thirds attacked it and tried to capture several small plastic cones hidden in all the buildings. Each game had a duration of one hour and a total of three games were played, that way everyone defended once and attacked twice. During the first game, my team was in the defence group, and we were charged with defending two of the buildings in the west flank. We were the first group that the attackers found and as we already had experience of the field we knew a few sweet spots to make the life of the attackers really complicated! Then during the second and third games, we were on the attack group and the games occurred as you expect, a lot
of confrontation, BBs flying around, teams pushing and trying to conquer one building at a time, grenades being used, and so on. Every game was packed with adrenaline and everyone had a blast.
The games finished with no issue and we all had a superb airsoft experience; it will certainly be a game to remember and in the future, if the chance presents, we will come back. I would also like to mention that in this game the organization, the Hostile Operations Team (aka HOT), raised over 800€ to help the institution “Ajuda de Berço”, which aims to help children in need. It was a great honour to help this institution once more.
To keep up to speed with all the events and games that Miguel and the GhostOps team attend be sure to follow then on their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/GhostOpsPortugal. AA
