TKOverKill

Hello!

I met Sean the other day at Willy Peet, and he invited me to join your team. So, I'll begin with saying thank you!

I'm 25 years old, moved here from Sweden in 2005 (don't ask me why I haven't gotten started up again until now...), and currently study Japanese full time (I speak japanese fluently so please feel free to use what language you like best) along with my interior and graphics design work. Getting into the Japanese airsoft scene is exciting and I hope to share a lot of fun with you guys.

When it comes to gear, I sold everything off before I came here, so the last weeks I've been running around getting new gear and I finally got a set I'm satisfied with. I'll put in a picture (although it's taken in my currently messy apartment);

The weapons I use are TM MP7A1 for close quarter combat, TM/G&P G36 for the rest, and KSC mk23 socom for sidearm. The camo is DPM (Edit: and ACU), although I'm a pair of pants short of a Flecktarn set as well. Also, I saw the amazingly great Multicam offer here, so I'll get that too. There are a couple of things missing in the picture, including a pair of Bolle tactical googles arriving from WGC shop soon, my G36 (TM with G&P parts) which is currently being built, and Hatch kneepads which I'll pick up along with the AEG. Then, as I wrote in another post, I'm getting com radio and throat mic after knowing what is the team standard. Please feel free to ask if you have any questions about my gear or anything else.

I hope to be able to meet all you guys soon, why not a gettogether with a few drinks on top!

That's all for now, look forward to seeing you soon!


Ariel

Edit: New picture with a bit of ACU and my almost finished G36

P.S. I'm sorry to disturb the Gear forum with an introduction, but I didn't know where to post it...

Hey Seraphein,

Welcome to TKOVERKILL and airsofting in Japan. Always good to have new pple, and from the looks of it you've got quite some experience playing in Sweden? Mind sharing that with us?

As for radios, we haven't really started using the radios for tactical purposes and mainly admin stuff but will be working on that. The reason being that because our games are so dynamic; pple joining as they like and not everyone having radios makes it a rare opportunity to use radios in the game to coordinate tactics. We're looking to change this and this is a great opportunity to get more pple with radios. We use motorolas and midlands so far.

We look forward to having you at the games ^_^

-Lionel

lionel Wrote:Welcome to TKOVERKILL and airsofting in Japan. Always good to have new pple, and from the looks of it you've got quite some experience playing in Sweden? Mind sharing that with us?

I only played in Sweden for about 6 months, but I have real steel experience having trained practical shooting before that. Also I did a fair share of games during the time I played, including the (world-famous I hear :o) "Berget" yearly campaign game (last year brought about 1200 participants and lasted 24 hours a day for a weekend). I'm used to a pretty "hardcore" style and I don't think I have ever used high cap mags (simply because I hate pellet spraying since it is just ruins the element of tactics and the suspense of having to watch your ammo, use it scarcely and plan your attack in a strategic manner (in addition to making an otherwise very real experience more unreal). Sadly, hearing that high caps are close to standard here in Japan, I reluctantly bought some since it is hard to escape the fact that the highcappers in most cases eventually tear the trusty lowcapper down with their waves of plastic... I did try paintball as well before, but the unreality of the game scared me off and I turned to airsoft, which got me hooked

That said, i also believe in a firm organizing with good leader(s) (call it officers if you like) who know what to do, when to do it and why (and who can prove it in action) so that their orders go unquestioned and ensures maximum team discipline and coordination. I have used com radio frequently and my experience is that it is naught but essential to any team that strives for tactical group cooperation, especially in larger areas where flanking (and similar) manouvers can be carried out successfully.

When it comes to terrain, my games up until this point have been mainly woodland with a few exceptions.

lionel Wrote:As for radios, we haven't really started using the radios for tactical purposes and mainly admin stuff but will be working on that. The reason being that because our games are so dynamic; pple joining as they like and not everyone having radios makes it a rare opportunity to use radios in the game to coordinate tactics. We're looking to change this and this is a great opportunity to get more pple with radios. We use motorolas and midlands so far.

All right, seems I might be going for a motorola then... Any tips of a place to get a decent one for a decent price? Also, anyone know of a good place to get a decent throat mic?

lionel Wrote:We look forward to having you at the games ^_^

I look forward to join you!

/Ariel

Quote:Sadly, hearing that high caps are close to standard here in Japan, I reluctantly bought some since it is hard to escape the fact that the highcappers in most cases eventually tear the trusty lowcapper down with their waves of plastic...

Not to worry, even though we also use highcaps, we have a 700bb limit per round and are incorporating lowcap-only games in some of our scenario based games. We're working towards balancing somewhere in btw mil-sim and paint-ball style of playing, to keep things interesting yet tactical.

Quote:That said, i also believe in a firm organizing with good leader(s) (call it officers if you like) who know what to do, when to do it and why (and who can prove it in action) so that their orders go unquestioned and ensures maximum team discipline and coordination.

I do believe some level of coordination is needed, however we are not running a boot camp and in the end of the day we want people to have fun at our games. The reason being that we get all sorts of levels of players from the newbies to the real-steel experienced folks. Being dynamic is the key to TKOverkill's gaming style. That said, there are plenty of chances for people within the red/yellow teams to form multiple units and working very closely/tactically to meet an objective.

Quote: I have used com radio frequently and my experience is that it is naught but essential to any team that strives for tactical group cooperation, especially in larger areas where flanking (and similar) manouvers can be carried out successfully.

Due to not everyone having radios (and we've no such budget to provide everyone with one ^_^) we'll have to make do with what we have right now and hope the trend for using comms catches on.

Quote:All right, seems I might be going for a motorola then... Any tips of a place to get a decent one for a decent price? Also, anyone know of a good place to get a decent throat mic?

Here's the site where we picked up some of our stuff <!-- m -->http://generalstore.ocnk.net/<!-- m --> As for throatmics, I would do some research before making a purchase as they're not cheap and people have very different results using them. A good one to read up on that I have found is the Devgru TM-02.

Happy hunting ^_^

As for Radios this is what i am using:



I can highly recomend the Noise terminator throat mics, I use these for Airsoft, climbing, Mountain biking and snowboarding and have taken around 3 years of abuse and still going strong. Although I am thinking of changing to the 'Cavalvy' New style Elite II tactical headset in green for Airsoft and keeping the throat mic for my other hobbies.