Operation Venom AAR (9/23/11-9/25/11)

I dont know about you guys, but I had some fun at Operation Venom.

Just got back from the field so i really dont have much energy to go into detail about the event, but we had a great time being on Tan team rolling with Jackwagon (I think thats right?) . Had the most fun rolling with our brothers at Team Highland because we always work pretty well together.

I personally didnt see too much of any action during the day, and when I finally did, OpFor rolled up on our six and wiped my fireteam out (-.-)

The rest of my guys and a few other teams said they saw plenty of action, so i guess i just missed out on a bunch of that.

I made up for that during the night game play with my boys and Schnoodle from Team Highland and Dusty rocking the FLIR unit. had some fun clearing up the road to the genarator. Very nice shootout at the generator AO as well. Our guys moved up so fast we had no idea they were pretty much right next to the Opfor who probably thought they were friendlies at first.

Speaking for Tan team, I think all did very well in terms of working together and communication. I can also say we did a very good job on crushing the enemies will to fight. Poop, great job on being our CO. Next time lets put that whiteboard to use, I think it'll help you out alot more. Glad to see you actually got to get a little action in yourself on day 2.

Gunner, nice field man. Huge field. Much bigger than I was expecting. pluses and minuses with. Larger field = much more playing area but ALOT more humping. I was able to get some sick video footage of Team Highland and one of my guys on top of the hill near overwatch, amazing camera shot.

Mentioned earlier i'd try to get a promotional video made for the field for ya, but I'm not entirely sure if i can do much with the video i grabbed. Didnt film much action given how far spread out the fights were. Filmed about 2.5 hours of footage in total, but maybe only about 10-15 minutes of it is usable for some action shots, and even those are a bit on the dull side. I do however have plenty of B-Roll

For the guys at Airdog, i want to recommend adding more medics and/or having alot more respawn points. From experience of running a huge field I can say that not many people like having to RTB to heal up or will respect the medic/healing rules like they should.

I really like the medic rules for SC vs GA were everyone was a medic. Adopted that to my field for most of our games and it works great. Keeps the fighting more intense and less humping back to base/respawn

I'll add that this was a milsim game and there was transportation available, so it wouldnt be to fair to ***** about that too much.

Overall though I say Airdog did a good job with the op. Admins did a great job from what i can gather running the game apart from destroying our natural night vision with those atvs lol.

Was expecting some higher numbers though so maybe we'll have to promote alot harder for the next op posted on this forum?

ps: I was looking forward to the sandbar though gunner, what was up with that being closed? lol

So, everyone else's thoughts?

for sure had a blast! The day play was awesome! the Night game was beast and I'm not just saying that because I work for Airdog.

It was a great game! The day play was great but the night play was awesome. Trying to start the generator was very hard under fire. We unfortunately couldn't stay for this morning. Poop, you did a great job as CO, it was your communication and gameplan that won the day for us. I got a little bit of helmet cam footage, when I have time I'll edit it and post it up.

this game was great! had a blast because i had range and there people to shoot. lot's of fun playing with twitch, newnan, and kevin, the designated medic. lots of sneaking around which usually ended up with everyone getting shot and me being left alone lol can't wait to see the videos of the game.

was too long of a drive for me, ill make the next OP at airdog

I think the game was pretty awesome! There was a lot of infor being passed around on the walking talkies and all that tactical thinking! it was fun, wish more people could have come on. I think Delta forces needed a little help. lol. The feild was good too, left a lot of room for sneaking around. But i'm sure everyone has got stuck with thos throns at least once or twice! and why couldn't they have a bathroom near the rebel's base T___T lol.

Over all, great game. I'm gonna post the pictures I took later (:

I left saturday night because i got sick. But I thought I didn't live up to my expectations. There weren't enough players to fill up the feild. I had fun but not ad much as I wanted to.

I had a blast even tho delta squad lost. The most fun was the night man that was so awesome. Some fire fights my team got into were intense,and this is coming from a guy that had to step off the field more than 5 times to fix his gun. Thanks to gunner and the airdog crew for hosting another great game. Can't wait for the next one. Also thanks to everybody for the great sportsmen like conduct that made this game one of the best I've been to.

i didn't do much video recording or pictures. the action was too quick to get the camera ready. but i did get some footage on sunday. after getting killed, i started recording Delta team assault on OverWatch. after i respawned, i ran behind delta team and went Rambo on them...

during the night game, i was setup for night vision but it was mounted on the wrong AEG. DMR at night was useless. should have used the high ROF p90.

here's a few raw videos for now. the sunday game will hopefully be edited by tomorrow.

(Looking thru the FLIR...)"Alright, we got some people up the road coming at us" (group splits, half diving for each side of the road and taking a knee)......(from the darkness.....) "I dunno...whadda ya think....1,2,3 lightem' up?" "Yea, sure" "OK, 1-2-3" BBBRRRRRAAAAPPPPPPPP. "Aaahhhhhh HIT! HIT! HIT!" (then...)"Tan, tan, tan!" "What?!?! Tan??? Crap! You gotta Medic?" "No" "We do. Medic. Get up there and save that guy"

Good times.

Overall....great time. Well worth the $$$ and drive time. Got to see some ppl I have not seen in a while and got to meet some ppl for the first time.

The field was huge. Only played the center but often heard firefights in the distance. Got into a couple myself. MultiCam ROCKS. Did a nice 1 man running ambush (after my partner took off. He says he got killed......). Delta only came after me a few times until they learned it was a bad idea. Oh well. That kind of forward moving-attack, attack, attack, mentality it what helped them domi........oh wait, that was our Team.

Thanks for playing, those that actually did. I look forward to playing at BZ again.

Here's the video. I only filmed for a little bit, most of the firefights were in the woods, those don't turn out well because the camera can't see through all of the brush. But I did find some footage that was usable and a couple of firefights in the open.

theangryschnoodle wrote:

Here's the video. I only filmed for a little bit, most of the firefights were in the woods, those don't turn out well because the camera can't see through all of the brush. But I did find some footage that was usable and a couple of firefights in the open.

just wondering, what kind of camera do you use and what is the price? i like the helmet cam videos

Thanks, we use Tachyon XC Micros, they are some of the most inexpensive helmet cameras out there for about $100. (Actually now they're only 90, http://www.amazon.com/2011-Tachyon-XC-Micro-Helmet/dp/B0038N072W/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1316997117&sr=8-1) The one thing is they're not HD and the microphone leaves a lot to be desired. Someday we'll switch to HD cameras like GoPros or Contours (maybe VIO POV's if we can get a good deal on Ebay), but ATM that's not very high on the list of things to spend money on.

HAHAHAHAHA...that dude at the end....guess he didn't know you were there. Love the spin he did.

HAHA yeah, I feel kind of bad about that one, you can't see in the video but he lifted up his pistol, that's why I shot him. It was a little close though haha.

might take me a while to get my vids uploaded. gotta make em look pretty, plus i'll be bogged down shooting a video for Metropolis

Awesomr game, during most of the day i ran with dagger. at night i stay at base, and it was worth it, the last battle was amazing

Andy wrote:(Looking thru the FLIR...)"Alright, we got some people up the road coming at us" (group splits, half diving for each side of the road and taking a knee)......(from the darkness.....) "I dunno...whadda ya think....1,2,3 lightem' up?" "Yea, sure" "OK, 1-2-3" BBBRRRRRAAAAPPPPPPPP. "Aaahhhhhh HIT! HIT! HIT!" (then...)"Tan, tan, tan!" "What?!?! Tan??? Crap! You gotta Medic?" "No" "We do. Medic. Get up there and save that guy"

Good times.
Thanks for playing, those that actually did. I look forward to playing at BZ again.

Thanks for bringing the medic up for me. Was trying to provide rear security for our squad with FLIR. Thanks to Jaguar12 FOR LETTING US ROLL WITH YOU THIS WEEKED. Rock5L out

Rock5 wrote:

Andy wrote:(Looking thru the FLIR...)"Alright, we got some people up the road coming at us" (group splits, half diving for each side of the road and taking a knee)......(from the darkness.....) "I dunno...whadda ya think....1,2,3 lightem' up?" "Yea, sure" "OK, 1-2-3" BBBRRRRRAAAAPPPPPPPP. "Aaahhhhhh HIT! HIT! HIT!" (then...)"Tan, tan, tan!" "What?!?! Tan??? Crap! You gotta Medic?" "No" "We do. Medic. Get up there and save that guy"

Good times.
Thanks for playing, those that actually did. I look forward to playing at BZ again.

Thanks for bringing the medic up for me. Was trying to provide rear security for our squad with FLIR. Thanks to Jaguar12 FOR LETTING US ROLL WITH YOU THIS WEEKED. Rock5L out

No problem but who is this? Lol

I loved this game. I cant say enough good things about it.

It was great seeing most of my friends again. We always have good times together.

I loved the field, and I thought the player count was pretty good for the field. I know a lot of people probably wanted to see a little more action, but to me, sneaking around in the woods while going around a lot of the green team was a lot of fun. Another good thing I liked about this field was the lack of bunkers. I hate it when fields have an overabundance of "paintball" bunkers, and with the exception of base 3 this field really didnt have that many. That made it really enjoyable for me and I loved using the terrain to my advantage.


The epic defense of GF base during the night game is one for the history books. Literally tens of thousands of rounds fired off in the last 10 minutes haha. Half the time I didnt know who i was shooting at I was just shooting indiscriminately in all directions.

I had a blast and had a great time playing with friends i haven't seen for a while.

Oh and there are 3 people in this picture

http://wwww.airdogshop.com/AIRDOG%20AIRSOFT%20INTEL/OP%20VENOM/slides/DSC01916.JPG

Tactical first aid!

Pics are up everyone.
http://wwww.airdogshop.com/AIRDOG%20AIRSOFT%20INTEL/OP%20VENOM/index.html

great game
thanks to airdog and battle zone for hosting a great op

thanks to the GF for a great win
to the teams great com and intel,that's what won this game
to dagger,ic,im,jag12,highland,legion beret,team -alex,jackwagon,all the single players who ran in make-shift units,and anyone i may have forgot(so many great players on our side)thank you for all your hard work..
to delta forces you guys played great,thank you for a great time..
as for the game i had very few reports of the classic airsoft ---call your hits
great sportsmanship on both sides---all of you earned my respect as top notch players
and i hope to play with you again very soon.
top thanks to one guy who did what most can't do
Robert thanks for helping me guard hq and keeping me safe.
Robert showed up a few minutes after the game start.
he asked,what can i do to help?
i was alone at hq,and said i needed some help guarding it.
it's a hard thing to do at a big op,stay at base and miss out on a lot of the action.
but he stayed and ran patrol around hq. thanks man
that helped more than you know.

thanks to ridgeway and legion beret
they held HQ on sunday and gave me a chance to play
those guys took up coms and ran the game for me
AWESOME job guys

best times in order
camping,great times,stories,and bs
the night base attack,newnan's flashlight fight with the delta team
all the rounds put down range(plastic stock just went up 30%)
hearing that we had 20 guys at hq and in truth only 6 or 8 of us.
thinking we had a hand full of delta out in the dark,but at the call of the game
having 20 or so of them walk up on us.great job delta,that was a great fight.
the only action i saw on saturday was a small group of delta who had been dropped of at the cabin and was making there way to attack Hq.we knew you where on your way
communication wins confrontation.
you guys showed up on the road just NE of HQ,i started creeping around the around the
wood line, i think it was jag 12 and highland coming from the SW side of HQ,they engaged delta and as the fire fight started,i was able to jump around and open fire.
4 or 5 delta hit the ground and the rest just ran.( we got a report that we had a mini gun--but it was just one of the twins) good times...
and last but not least
the fire fight above overwatch at the game close
EPIC
delta all over us
missile parts all over and pinned down
and in the last minute,more like the last seconds
we lit of the missile

in the end
all missions complete
delta re-spawn captured twice
GF had more time in delta HQ than most of the delta team
i think we had 2 base blows on sat and 1 one sunday(sunday did not count but we got it)
just a great game guys

thank you for the good times
GF
you guys rocked this one

POOP
p.s.
to the guy that won the last mission for us
i don't know his name but he called himself a recycled lawer

in the last minutes of the game we had bogged down
this was one of the old guys ( like me and andy)
he dropped his saw to one of the guys close by
ran full sprint into the briars,picked up the bomb crate and ran to base
then looked back at all of us as to say--you guys commin' or what
so with andy covering us,i ran to the base,passed the recycled lawer a twin with the box mag on it
he coverd us,the rest of the missle parts showed up
and we lit it off
sorry i did not put this in my first post
i still have com chatter in my head

another raw video on saturday's Delta victory at overwatch.

I thought GF won?