Airsoft Action - October 2023

AA LEGION
PORTUGAL
So at the established time we left our positions and
headed to the HQ tent where we got briefed about
our next mission.
Before we got our first mission, we had a chance of
hitting the BifANAs trailer, where we could get some
bifanas (pork slices in bread) to eat and something to
drink as well. And since it was located close to the HQ
tent, it was perfect. Nothing like going on a mission
with some grub in!
Our first mission was to raid two settlements (a bit
further apart) looking for a radioactive canister, and
for this scenario anyone who had thermal sights had
an advantage, because the canister that we wanted
was warm, while the inactive ones were cold, so with
a thermal you could see which one we had to focus
the given time, since these locations were constantly
getting new sections doing their own missions.
There was not much time between the first and
second mission, so we rearmed and refilled what was
needed in the safe zone before hitting the HQ tent
again for another briefing. This time, the mission was
about an ambushed jeep that was INOP but had to be
destroyed, so our objective was to place an explosive
device inside the trunk of said vehicle. We made our
approach plan and moved in from the West and took
advantage that the enemy section was still taking
defensive positions. But even with a good start, due
to a couple of friendly-fire accidents close to the jeep,
the enemy was able to remove the explosive device
that we were had successfully planted. We headed
our forces on that location. Luckily, we had a member
of the Golf section with a thermal sight on his replica,
so we were able to locate the objective quite quickly,
in an old warehouse on the western part of the AO,
but of course we had an enemy section defending
the location, so we had to fight our way through to
the objective. And we all know how night combat
goes in airsoft, flashlights here and there, the guys
with the NVG or thermals calling out contacts, tracers
flying around, the whole show. Unfortunately, we
were unable to reach and capture the objective within
back to the respawn and safe zone to plan our next
move, since there was still some time until our next
two mission (there were 4 missions total for each
section).
REAL TIME INTEL!
In the respawn tents, we had access to a table that
would show in real time the map on the Ares Alpha
app along with the score of the game. At the time,
our faction was a bit behind in points and the enemy
“BOTH FACTIONS WERE COMPETING FOR POINTS THAT WERE CONTROLLED BY ARES ALPHA,
AND THERE WERE SEVERAL WAYS OF GETTING POINTS FOR YOUR FACTION, FIRST YOU HAD
TWO SECTORS, EACH WITH AN ARES ALPHA ATS, AND BY CONTROLLING THOSE ATS YOU
WOULD GET POINTS FOR EACH MINUTE THE AREA WAS UNDER YOUR CONTROL”
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OCTOBER 2023