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Knight
 
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London you say?
I'll see if I can get over there for it.
Sadly my knowledge of tag systems is ... limited to say the least, as is my abilty with a soldering iron. PM coming.
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Shelford (4/8/2008)
The main advantage of Airsoft would be if you used an established club. Look up South Yorks Airsoft. I seem to remember that they had access to a couple of great looking sites. Especially if you went for a near future post apoc game feel. If you managed , for instance to run something in association with a group like them then you'd have access to their sites, kit hire and a certain buy in from their established player base. Anyway thats the way I would go.Yeah, parts of South Yorkshire are a bit post-apocalyptic. 
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Shelford (4/8/2008)
The main advantage of Airsoft would be if you used an established club. Look up South Yorks Airsoft. I seem to remember that they had access to a couple of great looking sites. Especially if you went for a near future post apoc game feel. If you managed , for instance to run something in association with a group like them then you'd have access to their sites, kit hire and a certain buy in from their established player base. Anyway thats the way I would go.While some of the airsoft sites i've seen have been lovely, when we've approached them about running larp events there the prices they have quoted us have been prohibitive. While the settings have been lovely the outlay on the site itself (rental alone was quoted as 2-3 times the price of the scout sites we use) with the addition of the cost to bring facilities up to scratch (such as expanding toilet and washing facilities via rental) it put the price out of our reach. Which is a great pity, as there are some sites i'd jump at the chance to use. EDIT: It should be noted that we were looking to run a converntion "by call" sci-fi larp, not an airsoft one.
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Heroic Knight
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Well, we're VERY larp freindly and Run both pure and Filsim airsoft, Filmsim is as close to larp with out having to make characters! Also springers with there lower power are spot on for larp!! and bloody cheap. If I have a date free Tuddenham is always avialable to my role-play cousins I do make a living but that don't mean I'll rip you off on price either.Josh
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Knight
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Posted here so as not to detract from the nexus thread.
Oh, and the results of a test I ran last night:
Airsoft vs LD45
I took my airsoft rifle and shot at a LRP sword (don't panic, it was already unsafe when I started).
at 6 paces BB pellets penetrate the weapon and get lodged in the foam.
at 12 paces the same happens.
at 18 paces the latex / isoflex is broken but the pellet bounced off
at 24 paces significant dents are made in the weapon.
at 30 paces significant dents are made in the weapon.
I ran out of garden length to test any greater distance.
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| interesting results noc, but can we quantify them at all? what gun were you using aeg or gas? what was the fps, has it been chronoed? what ammunition were you using? 8mm, 6mm? what weight ammo? edit: on second thoughts, all we realy need to know is how hot your piece is firing fps will be fine
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Knight
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JG HK416 dialled down to 350fps, firing 0.2g biodegradable 6mm pellets on the stock 1500mh battery, all shots were taken at single shot, not full auto
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| Thanks for posting this here Nocturne We would never allow an ‘automatic’ airsoft replica firing at 350FPS at our events, our upper limit is 300FPS with at most 10% variation over the chronograph. My personal favourite; a G&G GR300 fires reliably at 315FPS on 0.2g Excell BB, and I thought that was powerful enough! At this power I can shoot my own LARP weapons at point-blank, on single shot, leaving a slight mark that retracts overnight. At that power there is certainly no penetration of the hand weapon in any of the tests I have done. Of course, a major factor here is not only the airsoft gun, but the quality of the hand weapon being targeted, its shape and construction! There are many considerations on this issue; most of them we have ‘in-mind’ at Nexus. The probability of a shot striking a LARP weapon at point-blank is very small. While firing any airsoft weapon at someone point-blank should be viewed dimly in my opinion. What we aim to do at Nexus, is expand on the setting and activities during the events, to provide players with options to choose ranged combat or close combat specific encounters, in purposefully generated environments. All in all, conclusions from my experience suggest that airsoft constitutes no additional risk to LARP weapons, anything more then they normally face in the woods and environments usually played. Most of us at some time or another accidentally catch our LARP weapons on armour, trees, walls, etc, and run the risk of damage…it happens! For me developing Nexus, and an important consideration for anyone running airsoft LARP; eye safety. Considering the impact of a LARP weapon knocking off someone’s protective glasses. Again this is a low-probability situation, further reduced by the fact that they might then be shot in the eye. Lots of people choose to play with shooting glasses, so we insist everyone must use a sports glasses strap securing them to their head. If you don’t got one, you don’t play!
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