The dates I have from the website is April 9-10th. We'll be getting a group together from StrategicPaintball going, make sure to say hi if you're going or join up with us, we love the allies.

Engler, we need to double our efforts like the fall game, if you're in, let us know so we can do some coordinating.

Well, the difference from the spring to the fall game was night and day. Spring they were pulled thin by an overabundance of players and last minute school changes. At the fall game the refs were everywhere. Everything that people complained about they fixed, or made a valient attempt to. They only had to contend with the fact that homecoming weekend was the same weekend as the game, so they had to be a little creative in the way they distributed players and personnel. They never did have permission to hold that game really, I was told by one of the cadets that they didn't secure the game field until the morning of arrivals.

They got they're stuff together and they should be able to put on yet another great game.

Regrettably, I won't be making it this year. Money and time are tight, so me and my boys are gonna skip this one.

We may be at EMR though.

Oh, Whitney, I'm looking forward to any spring games that pbmissions hosts...we had a blast out there and can't wait to get back.

awesome reb! they have 5 games scheduled right now with a few more in development. we've got some of the dates on our forum, let me know what games you'll be at.

and if you want to get in on defending at castle, let me know, we can get you and your guys hooked up.

pbmissions is in Duanesville, NY just outside of Albany. (and they are byop for all their games!)

here's the site: http://www.pbmissions.com - www.pbmissions.com

where are you located? if you're going to skirmish and you're close to west point, then EMR isn't too far from you. it's only about a half hour south of binghampton. skirmish is still about 2 hours from that area.

We've got a total of about 20-30 it looks like from StrategicPaintball right now. Thompson has asked us to join him on the allied side and we will follow him again.

And if you need us to bury ourselves in the dirt like the fall game, so be it! We're ready to serve.

the game is run by the cadets. they use it the games as fundraisers for their speedball team.

but i understand they also have a tactical competition squad now too to compete in swat style competitions.

i'm all sorts of geared up for this, is it friday yet? i want to get there and get going!

I'm with you whitney1 can't wait to get this party started.

like always i'll be sporting my tippmann patches so if you see any patches just stop and say hi would like to put faces to the name, have a good and safe game guys see you all there.

The game was good, too bad we lost due to those transportation problems. Those same people who called Blue's Crew wipers were wiping themselves. They even bragged about it on the humvees.

I do think it was odd that every time the blue side ran out of paint or air, the red team had 3 truck loads of fresh reinforcements while we couldn't even get the paint truck to come back to us. They didn't win, the game was handed to them on a silver platter.

But for all my gripes, I still had a great time. If they get a handle on the transport problems, they will be doing great. (and they also need to stop using hot-burning smoke. they kept setting fires in the game field.)

There were a lot of referees, but since there were so many players, and the field was so huge, there were firefights going on everywhere.  The refs stay near the main action. 

Who knows where the enemy will pop up?  We had a bad infestation of reds near the airfield and we swept the hill, but we missed a pocket of reds.  They hit one of our squads, and our guys accused them of flanking out of bounds.  They didn't.  we missed them in our sweep.  How do I know?  Well, one of my team was on the red side, and he was in that pocket.  This stuff just happens.  

I don't know about cheating.  When I started on Red at about 1130, I heard almost everyone saying that the blues were cheating.  I went over to the US side, and was with the blues.  When we got to the river, I was the guy in brown that led them around the corner and toward the Red sam site.  In all that time, I didn't see the blues cheating.

With the same generosity, I suspect that the Skulls were dealt a bad hand.  The skulls were "rumored" to be cheating, but that may be the product of an active imagination.  One thing that may have given the appearance of cheating is that a general can stop you and send you back into battle.  I met the Red general on the road and he said that I could go right back into battle.  That was cool.  I have a knee that is a little bad, and I really didn't want to walk back to the reinsertion point.  I'd walked that long walk from the airfield to the reinsert point seven times, and I ddin't want to do it again.  That general stayed near the front lines and was putting our guys back in.  That, if I may say so, was awesome. 

But, as I said, this made some people think that we Chinese were cheating. It was PERFECTLY legal.  I checked with one of the West Point guys, so I know. 

The skulls are a bunch of younger players.  If they did cheat, (and I doubt that they did) then I don't think they will next time.  I talked with a few of them, and they seemed like really good kids.   My man Tazz was watching them and said that they were aggresive and flanked well.  Tazz is hard corp old school, and he doesn't say nice things about anyone unless they earn it.  Also, their leader was the red general, and he was absolutely awesome.  A really nice person and frustrated with being stuck in the rear with the gear.  On Sunday, he got carried away, and (I could tell he wouldn't be able to stay in the rear) got too close to the front and was killed.  That cost Red 250 points. 

Rumors suck.  Did you ever notice that when a team is getting pounded, the rumors start to fly about the enemy.  Maybe no one was cheating on a team level.  It may just be rumors combined with thick brush and active imagination.

The referees were great.  They heard "rumors' that Blues crew was cheating and they sent a few refs to watch over them.  No one (as far as I know) saw any cheating.  I played both sides, so I don't look at it through red or blue colored glasses. 

Incidentally, despite the wide spread rumors about the blues, I saw Blues crew people helping a few people out.  They seemed ok to me. 

Oh, my knee kept me from walking sometime, and I would stop and talk to the referees.  One, whose name was Scott, was in my AO and I asked him what he did for "fun." His idea of fun is to play paintball.  Now, I ran a field for more than ten years, and  I think that the refs handled some pretty tough situations in a sterling manner. 

For instance, at around 2, the US team hopped on transport and went to lunch.  What do you do when a whole side disappears?   Well, you even up teams, but the reds didn't want to go blue. 

They had been fighting really hard and were extremely loyal to their team mates.  They didn't want to go Blue.  My friend Taz, a retired Army Sergeant, argued with me a few weeks ago. He said that he  didn't want to be Red (chinese.)  He has this whole US loyalty thing. But, because the reds were in need of people, he enlisted.  After he played with Force Recon, Pain, and the Raiders, but when he had the chance to jump ship, he didn't want to.  He was loyal to his communist team-mates.  I enjoyed that.  It shows that comradeship amongst "Komrades" is important.

Hey, I really felt bad that I didn't recognise you guys.  I like the fact that Big Ed had his name on the front of his harness.   I suggest we all get our forum names printed on tags, and put them on our uniforms. AT the fall West Point event, I will have mine.

Incidentally, does anyone know what the next theme will be?  C'mon cadets.  It's never too early to post the next event.  If you can't give us an exact date, then at least give us a theme.  We need to know!!  We want to collect our coolie hats, turbans, camels and ak 47 mods, so we will look the part.  Finding a decent camel takes months.  Riding him there may take a few more months.

Doesnt sound a whole lot different than the game I made last year.

That sucks about Blues Crew though, When I ran into them, they were a decent bunch of guys, and invited me and my boys to EMR for their big game.

Sounds rather chaotic on the whole....I think until I hear some good reports I may just follow Dredly's route and save my money...its too bad, because I got to meet a good bunch of guys last year.

I'll keep my ear to the ground for improvements, and I've got no doubt that under Thompsons tutelage it couldnt help but get better. Good luck with it in the future, and maybe you'll see me there when its all hammered out.