So over the weekend I attended Operation Rhino 2012 and it was well an interesting game. We were playing at a new facility, basically an industrial warehouse and again there were three teams. Myself I was on the US side and in charge of Alpha platoon which consisted of the GHOSTS (about 8 of us), Xcaliber and the DMZ crew from Niagara Ontario.

I had a heck of a time controlling the DMZ crew as they “wanted to get some” and kept doing their own thing at least at first. There were some tense words exchanged with them, I understand that we’re playing a game but a mil sim is a bit of a different animal and I think they showed up expecting a skirmish. In the 7 or 8 years I’ve been playing, I’ve done my fair share of shit jobs from mind numbing guard duty to moving/building barricades but if it was asked of me, I do it because it’s part of the game. It may be boring but someone has to do it and if you complete your tasks without complaining, you’re a dependable asset. Undependable assets don’t get jack because you can’t depend on them to follow through with orders… Yes it may suck but I mean that’s what one signs up for when playing a mil sim… Totally ridiculous at first but a bit better later after a blow up between me and them.

The game itself was ok, I didn’t enjoy it as much as last year’s game but then again I was literally fighting with my own platoon for control so that took a lot of pleasure out of things (and no helo lol). The missions were well thought out and the other two sides definitely gave us a good run for our money.

Jason got to play with his PVS-14 for the first time, we didn’t get as much dark action as I would have liked, the Russian team set up spotlights which to be fair was an excellent way to negate the use of NV but we didn’t have any way of disabling them till much later in the game and even then had to physically touch or unplug the lights… Oh well whatever, ain’t going to complain about it now and it was a good idea!

I’m a bit disappointed by the response on Airsoft Canada and it’s obvious the people who are complaining simply are mindless trigger pullers who could not grasp the concept of a mil sim. No matter, we’ll retool and refocus our efforts to bring an even better game next year. I have a large mil sim idea that I’d like to see through next year if possible. 🙂

Here are some pictures from the game, sorry about the large size as I’m too lazy to edit them down.

The RC car that Eddy made was absolutely awesome and the mini gun was a lot of fun to play with, darn now I want one… 😉 I really like the in game photo of Mario and Jason, that’s pretty darn cool and the one of Eric is good as well. I am in a three of the pictures but you wouldn’t be able to recognize me with all the gear on. 😉 Yeah Fabio didn’t bother to change into his camo after camping, lol playing airsoft with your PJs on is awesome!

Not the perfect game but I had fun and would do it again… Hopefully with more than 45 minutes worth of sleep haha.