THE CAGE WWII AIRSOFT
THE CAGE:
WHAT PRICE WWII AIRSOFT?
GETTING INTO OUR MAIN THEME FOR THIS MONTH, THAT OF WWII AIRSOFT, THE LEGION BROKE FROM THEIR CURRENT PATTERN TO LOOK AT “HISTORICALLY THEMED” GAMES AND WHAT CAN BE BIG DECIDERS FOR THOSE TAKING PART; AS USUAL BILL LEADS OFF…
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irsoft is usually an incredibly inclusive thing, and you can turn up to your average weekend skirmish in jeans, a sweatshirt, some good boots and eyepro and nobody is going to comment on that. Okay, things change a little when you get into Battlesim and especially MilSim where teams are usually differentiated in part by their loadouts, but it’s games with an historic theme where things really do change pace! As anyone who knows me will understand, I’ve been involved with airsoft for many, many years and over that time I’ve had the luxury of dabbling in many different genres and building loadouts for them all! My main passion, and one that has been with me even before I started playing airsoft, is the Vietnam war, and my collection of period and repro gear has grown surely but steadily over the years; these days I can throw together a decent loadout from “Early War Adviser” to “Late War LRRP” and everything
pretty much between, and I even had loadouts for both “VC” and PAVN… with all the AEGs and GBBs required too for both sides! Through speaking to friends interested in, and veterans of, the Vietnam War I also got involved in a WWII USMC group combining both airsofters and living history enthusiasts, and slowly but surely I accumulated the right gear for “The Pacific”. This is really my only major dabble into WWII loadouts apart from the “US Airborne” one that every airsofter I know seems to go through at some point; British and German WWII loadouts, as I’ve said before are just a little too close to home for me as my Father fought in that awful war… So, I’ve had time to bring my “impressions” together, although I totally understand why some players have no interest in the historical side; it may be, like me that they have a personal connection, good or bad, to one particular conflict, or no interest
“PUTTING IT BLUNTLY ANY AIRSOFTER I KNOW QUITE HAPPILY DUMPS HUNDREDS OF BUCKEROOS INTO THEIR RIFS AND GEAR, AND IN MOST CASES IF WE’RE HONEST THAT RISES TO THOUSANDS! SOME FOLK WILL HAPPILY DROP FOUR FIGURES ON UPGRADING THEIR “UBER-RIF”, BUT STILL WON’T TRY HISTORICAL AIRSOFT “BECAUSE IT’S EXPENSIVE”!” 44
JULY 2022
