Iron Sight Airsoft.....New on the block
This review is for Iron Sight Airsoft in Andover, links to contact pages etc are all at the bottom, but first lets kick it off.
The site itself is Urban and consists of a "T" shape of outdoor land with various water containers, barrels, a watchtower, pallet walls & barricades, greenery and concrete floors. within the site also is several small hangars built up with different properties, i.e a tube train, a pyramid, 'Dexter's kill room' as I call it. One set is 2x4 hangars with a corridor running in between them and the other set is just 1x4 connected to a few small barns and the site even has a windy house to hide in!
The site usually uses the medic rule with grenades as instant kills. They have also stated their ammo limits per life which is the standard amount for most milsim and filmsim events i.e 600 rounds for a rifleman, 2000 for a support gunner, 250 for a sniper, you get the drift.
We arrived by driving through the farm and a few country roads, but easy to find with simple instructions given. We drove into a car park just outside the safe zone, so no massive trek. We set up in the safe zone, using a hangar with loads of benches and lots of room, one of the better safe zones I've used. Walk on is £25 plus £4 for a 9" pizza lunch, but I tend to take my own food. Special events there can also be £20 walk on, so it varies throughout the year depending on the op. Tea and Coffee aren't free, but I don't tend to drink it much so it may bother others.
To the games! We started with a brisk and great warm up game of Infection, where 4 people started as infected and as they shoot others they join the infected side. Nice easy game and gets everyone warmed up.
Next game was a heavily based objective game, we had to get a key from Derek (The DPM Dummy) and take it to one lock, unlock it, get another key out, run it to a laptop which happened to be in a horrible place to defend, but riot shields helped that. Through the most of it our team stuck together and Clive, even after a 6 months absence brought his A+ game and sneaked and creeped around the eerie hangars to get good shots on many of the enemy team. We then had to run the laptop back to base and was a timed game. When switching over we planned to hide the first key in tissues and stuff all of Derek's pockets with tissues, however I was surprised when I had 4 guns pointing at me before i'd even started hiding the key. A bit of mis-communication, none of our team heard the starting whistle, but oh well. Can't remember who won, but not bothered to be honest, was excellent play and a great game.
Played a couple of small games as well, one of them being a standard Deathmatch game, which I never really like as there is no main objective except shoot the other team until they've had enough. I can't remember the rest of the games we played.....sorry again guys
The games were great, on this occasion we played against the marshals and our team was Lewis, Russ, Clive, Marcus, Connor & Woody. In the past we have had issues with dubious and frankly poor play from other players, however on this occasion they didn't turn up.
Marshals were friendly as usual, Paul and Sam who run the site are very friendly and always asks for your honest opinion of how the day went.
I lost my brand new mag for my Ruger MK1, but I know if its found it will get returned to me, luckily I got it cheap too.
Gameplay: 4/5 - Make games to please everyone, but could do with simpler objective games for the smaller games through the day
Players: 3.5/5 - on this occasion it was a full 5/5 however overall the players we've come across have been bad, but haven't seen them recently so that's a plus!
Marshals: 4/5 - If you're new to the site, marshals are friendly and value your opinion, however when a player was shooting through pallets and complained, the marshal I told shrugged and just stood there, however every other marshal i've seen is happy to help.
Site Shop: 3/5 - They have essentials and consumables such as pyro, BB's and Gas (someone correct me if i'm wrong) which is very useful.
Organisation: 4/5 - Games are straight forward and tend to be a great game to play, however there is mis-communication when starting games which give one team an advantage or disadvantage as well as confusion and frustration with players.
Overall: Great games with a good staff base. Vast, dynamic and unique site. Car park is quite large and minimal mud with no potholes which is a bonus! Have had a good crack down there, however it would be interesting to see how players would cope with 50+ people being there.
Would I go back? - Yes, when special events are on and i'm positive those bad players mentioned earlier aren't going. It's great for when our team have a huge number going.
I know the website is currently under construction, but here is the Facebook group they are using at the moment.
Iron Sight: https://www.facebook.com/groups/115852231864720/491131371003469/?notif_t=group_comment
EDIT: Paul the owner told me they have run it with 40+ and runs well
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