So over the weekend the guys, Jorai, Mike and I played Chris’ Operation Rhino mil sim held at the Craig Complex in Picton Ontario. There were three teams Insurgents, Russian & US forces and I was part of the Airborne group on the US side. The game started at ~10AM however the US team was not allowed in till about 1PM so it was just the insurgents and Russians slugging it out for a few hours. US Airborne was inserted by helicopter to recce the situation and well we got slaughtered as both teams were thoroughly entrenched in defensive positions. During our next and subsequent insertions we chose rooftop landings because well it’s cool. 😉 To be honest we were not very combat effective and I kept getting my squad killed so we could reinsert over and over again, I’m simply at a loss for words how much fun it was to ride in a helicopter with my full airsoft kit on.

After the helicopter left at around 7:30PM we were integrated into the US ground forces and then the mil simmer in me came out. I particularly enjoyed screwing around with the Russians, at 10PM Temir, Oleg and Alister came to our camp to see what was going on because we were suppose to launch a coordinated attack on the insurgent team but instead we took them into custody. My orders were then to go into the Russian controlled building and wreak havoc and that’s exactly what was done. 😉 I bluffed my team’s way into their strong hold by faking radio transmissions from command telling me to go into their building and onto the upper floors. By the time the Russian players found out, we were on the 3rd floor and for some reason instead of taking us out in the hallways, they stuck us in an easily defensible position.

We held the Russian forces off for about an hour and a half, during that time when the fighting died down I told my enemies about Brandon and actually sang them the ABCs (Brandon likes it so I figured I’d sing it for them too haha). The third floor has almost no light but with my PVS-14 seeing was not a problem, lol I particularly enjoyed shooting the Russians as they tried to sneak around in the hall. I also killed Temir twice, both times I let him know who did it too. 😀 Anyway with my team whittled down from ~12 shooters to 3, they stormed the position with about 15 players and finished us off. That’s alright though, my mission was to give them a hard time and I did.

Airborne took part in the snatch and grab of a HVT and Jeremy played the part of an uncooperative hostile well. In fact he gave us so much resistance that I told the guys we’ll have to carry him to our CP so two guys grabbed his arms, I grabbed his left leg and someone grabbed his right and we ran him the last 100 or so meters, god damn that was really difficult!

After that I told Airborne to stand down and get some rest, Jorai and I went back to the car to sleep as there were just too many damn mosquitoes… When we restarted after the pause (there was an injury on the field), our job was to take and hold the middle building keeping the insurgent and Russian teams apart. By that time the mission came down though we were down to approximately 15-20 players and in the last hour I was told that my team had no more respawns. Ahh well that’s how it goes but all things considered I was surprised with how long we held out.

Here are a few pictures from the game that people posted up, I didn’t have time to take any as I was busy playing. 😉

Got to love how the new team patch stands out. 😉 The last two pictures were action shots, geez I didn’t even notice the camera man I wonder where he was hiding… And here’s some footage from my helmet camera.

Yeah the helicopter was absolutely awesome, I’m going to do it again next year for sure! Jorai kept up very well for his first real mil sim, I’m surprised he played so well. Sigh my last big game of the year but that’s ok, I played a lot of airsoft and am looking forward to spending some time with the family. 🙂