Best airsoft places, #2

Since there's no airsoft game in Żyrardów tomorrow, I'll feed my airsoft hunger with photo-memories.

Today the second place in the contest for the best airsoft place in Poland - the Miami.

This place has nothing to do with Miami and, to be honest, I have no idea why somebody named it this way. It is a place used some time ago for railroad stuff, located in Warsaw.

Here's a photo from Google Maps.



The most important building is the one with the weird shape. It's an old roundhouse. For a better description let's assume it has it's beginning and end. The beginning would be at the left hand side of the building on the satellite photo.

Here's the roundhouse as seen from south.



Here's the inside of the roundhouse. Photo taken while standing at the beginnin of the building. As you can see it is divided in half by a large wall.



Most of the games we played there were very simple. We fought in the roundhouse, one team started at it's end, the other at the beginning. The beginning had couple of rooms on the first floor that would give this team large advantage. In most cases they just started to defend that place, so we changed starting places after each round.

On the following photo you can see the wall. The people are from opposite teams. You can imagine the fun we had. A small note: we have a rule that one cannot put his arm behind any obstacle (wall, door, whatever) and shoot if - he can fire only if he puts his arm, replica and head to see what's inside. :)



The same wall seen from the other end. It was often that two or more people stood at it's end and sprayed BB's to hit or simply scare the other team. Unfortunatelly I don't have a proper photo...



The following photo shows the roundhouse's beginning. The camera was located somewhere near the wall. You can see why the people defending that floor had such an advantage -- they had a perfect place to hide. It looks like it's an end of one of rounds, the defenders get their butts kicked. ;)



Oh, that's me. Marked with red cloth to show that I got killed.



The camper-defender. Note that we don't condemn camping - we set the game rules that campers don't have their advantage. Even if the round rules are that the attacking team must get into one room in a building in a specific time and there's a camper inside that room, it's not difficult to hit him. Three or four people rush inside at the same time - he wouldn't kill them all, would he? ;)



This is the campsite from within.



No explanation necessary...



They made it, the last defender got shot.



Enough photos from the roundhouse.

The Miami had couple other interesting places. For example - an old pool for water in case of fire.





There was one quite large building. Two stories high (ground floor and a basement), one long corridor and many rooms on each floor.





Unfortunatelly, the place got demolished. I am very sad, because it was VERY playable, something like the Q2DM1 map in Quake ][...

Photos were made by me, Mamut, Squarek and probably someone else...

Long time, no game

The last time I attended airsoft game was may this year. I moved from Warsaw to Żyrardów, a town 40 km (25 miles) away. Most of my friends that I play airsoft with live in Warsaw. For some time I had no car to drive (my Volkswagen T3 isn't in working condition, I broke it's engine shortly after moving to Żyrardów), and was too lazy to go to Warsaw by train. So I only attended one game, that took place on weekday, after work. I took my MP5K with me to work, so didn't get tired after the game.

Tommorow I am going to a local airsoft game in Żyrardów. I am looking forward to this game, because I lack airsoft action. ;) I plan to take there my MP5K and AK47, because those are the only replicas I moved here. I borrowed the AUG to a friend of mine and the mG36 is still in Warsaw.

I had to discharge four 600mAh batteries. Two sticks and two smalls. The only proper tools to discharge them I found here were two computer fans. Using old computer power supply and small sockets I made a wiring that allows two batteries to be connected parallel to the replica / charger / discharger. If all my sticks get discharged I'll use this wiring to coonect those two smalls to the AK47. ;) The photo below shows the wiring and the discharger I made yesterday.

From Airsoft from ...

Edited @ 21:30 - There's no game tomorrow, those locals aren't eager enough.

Best airsoft places

This is the first post in new series: best places for airsoft games. I would like to show you my favorite 10 spots for airsoft games in Poland. Since I live near Warsaw, they're aren't far away from our capitol city.

Each one of them will have at least couple of photos and a brief description.

1. Halinka - Old Hall in Ursus Tractor Factory.

This is the place I started my airsoft games at. No wonder I like it very much. I played there first time 5 years ago and last time somewhere in the beginning of this year. We were thrown out of there by security guarding the hall so we had to find ourselves another place to play.

The most important advantage of this place is that it is a hall and we play inside. You don't have to worry about rain, snow. There are two two-story building "inside" the hall so we can also play some office hostage rescue / bomb defuse scenarios. This is one of those buildings, shown from the only non-roofed spot in the place.











This is the most fun part of the hall. We call it Filary (Columns). You can see them at the left hand side of the photo. One group starts from one, second from the other end of the columns. There is also a long room next to that spot, shown on the following photo.



This is my favorite place, because:

• we could play many different scenarios, including very short skirmishes,
  
• the whole hall is protected from rain, weather didn't stop us from playing.

Added on nov. 2nd, 2007
Take a look at an old Shamo movie that was shot inside the Halinka. It'll show you how nice the place was in more details than I can describe with my poor english.

From backpack to briefcase

There's a moment in boy's life when he becomes a man. I think it is the time when he leaves his backpack and buys a briefcase. Like the one on the photo:



For Google: MP5K PDW in briefcase.