FYI, the FoxHound guys just had a game there this past weekend and it totally sucked... the field was great, but the organization and the staffing was horrible.
This is a Copy/Paste from DHallak FHO:
I did a looooooooong write up over on the x7og, but i'll do the super cliff-notes version here
First off, Hi viper, awesome to see you as always. *waves*
Ok, to give you a recap.
As you know in bastogne the allies were pinned down, vastly outnumbered, and had to repel countless attacks. This was to be represented by for the first half of the day, the allies would have 40 players defending a plywood village at the far end of the 3/4 mile long field. All of the rest of the players, including the walk ons were to be part of the axis army.
The field staff consisted of ONE,.. i repeat ONE referee for the entire scenario game of over 100 people. All of which except for us were speedball teams and rec players. The allies were given 120 players for the first game, we did not know their numbers at the time. The axis forces were,... the 30 of us from foxhound. The allied army, before we had even taken to the field, had rushed forward from the plywood village which their general was yelling at them to stay at,.. and they all rushed and took up positions, bunkered down and hidden, within 200ft of our insertion point into the playing field. They were all supposed to be over a quarter of a mile down the field, instead they were already right on top of us.
We were walking up the paths to GET onto the actual field of engagement, when all hell broke loose and 120 guns opened up on us. The op force was shooting so hot, that they were actually firing THROUGH brush many many feet thick, and pegging us with full paintballs, not splatter. They were breaking branches with their shots. At 200ft, one of their guys in the tower my squad was supposed to have been inserted at was firing from 200ft away with virtually NO arc to his shots. We had a guy get his mask goggles cracked by someone 150ft away.
One of their speedballers stormed into the command post, and with the muzzle of his barrel a foot and a half from kestrels neck, opened fire. 8 hours later, kestrel still couldnt hear out of his ear, and has a ruptured somethin or other, I can't remember the name.
Any players that were walking off the field with our markers and hands up in the air,.. were lit up by every single person in range for the duration of our walks off of the field. I had someone 200ft away pegging me, and actually having it cause pain THROUGH a tac vest, when the paintball impacted a pouch, containing my map, car keys, and a pen,... and I felt it as if the guy was 30ft away. His shots also had virtually no arcs, and he and others around him unloaded a combined what had to have been few hundred shots into all of the walking dead. All firing hot. They never chronoed any of the players.
The photographer from paintballphotography.com was telling me that he saw the one single ref walking around during the game with his goggles up, and tons and tons of people playing on the op force with paint splatter on them, still lighting into everyone. We weren't even actually ON the playing field yet, we were still walking through the brush mazes, making our way to our insertion points.
In the parking lot, 80% of the players were walking around almost the entire day without barrel covers on, with air and paintballs in their markers.
There was a two hour break after that game, as the field owner and the one ref tried to make all of the op force chrono their markers, and went over the rules yet again with them, as well as the missions and storyline. For the second game,.. they took the allies back up to their village, and told us they were going to reinsert us themselves.
Well,... it didn't matter much, because more people had shown up to play, almost all were put on the allied side again,.. so now it was about 150 allies vs about 40 axis. And no,.. they didn't stay in the village. When we were still setting up, they all rushed forward to take up advance positions to immediatly engage us at the break.
I'm very proud, as I'm sure all the rest of us are, at how long we were able to hold off the entire tsunami of wiping, hot shooting, cheating op force. At one point, their general was even chewing out a player that he was out and to stop fighting,.. to which the player shot back at the general "no,.. I don't have to stop", turned and just kept firing down at us.
That is from their generals own lips. He was completely and utterly upset as well as us. Nobody on the op force would do anything he would say,.. they wouldnt listen to the field owner or the couple of voulenteer refs they had at this point (3 in all I think?),... so absolutely no rule was enforced.
They had 6 and 7 year old children running around playing, who had never played before. Alot of them were taking off their masks, randomly just walking around,.. and had no supervision, but we were told specifically during morning rules that there were going to be 6 year olds on the field,... do not shoot at them. Wtf? heh.
We held this 2nd wave off for a good 20 minutes I think it was,... I am very proud of that. We held off 150 people for 20 minutes, that all had the high ground on us. Not to shabby considering how many we actually shot out, that never left the field.
For the last game of the day,.... they actually "even'd out" the numbers, and gave us 12 guys from the LA Hitmen, who felt really sorry for us because of how vastly outnumbered the field had us. So we joined up with them. And that put us at 41 vs. 55.
With the odds that close to being even, we completely and utterly destroyed them. It was complete dominance in that last game. It's amazing how much of a difference it made when we finally ALMOST had even numbers.
The day was a complete and utter wash imho. We got to work on our small unit tactics just barely,... there was only so much we could do in that situation. We had overhead satellite photos with gridmaps and coordinates mapped out with all of the different squads objectives. Everyone had a radio, we had a 30 minute walk through of the field at the beginning of the day where all the squads were walking around to look at the best angles of approach for the different objectives,... but it was all for no purpose other than making us plan it out.
Other than getting to play alongside my teammates, and get to get in a little bit of practice,.. it was a completely and utterly craptastic day, where we had such extremely high hopes for what the event would be like.
My hats off to the clowns, and all the other speedball and recball players that showed up, that chose not to follow the rules of the game, and to play so blatantly unsafe. I doubt I'll ever choose to return to that field again.
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