Well I didn’t really decide straight away I wanted a new loadout, this one just kind of started. I mentioned it before but now I’m fairly much done with it, I’m part way through at least with just some final bits and bobs to draw in.

I fancied toying with a completely different loadout. I enjoy being the odd one out on the battlefield really for some reason. Wearing Russian camo was part of that. I was different to all the DPM, Flecktarn and American camo wearing players. However, I wanted something else. Just because. Something not Russian related (for a change! I’m not stopping my Russian gear! I in fact have a few plans on how to add to that as well )

However whilst browsing the forums I stumbled across an idea that seemed fantastic to me so I got in touch with the guys and got started with my loadout. So now I’m currently an unofficial member of the 9th Scarovian Rifles, a Warhammer 40,000 themed Imperial Guard airsoft team…

Warhammer 40,000

Right, if you’ve not heard of Warhammer 40K, then you cant really call yourself a sci fi fan. It’s a massive tabletop game set in the 41st Millenium made by Games Workshop. However it has such a following that there are a large series of novels and background to the game, it’s a big a universe as something like Stargate, Star Wars or Star Trek. To me, the backstory appeals. I am a sci fi fan at heart and the stories, espcially the Gaunts Ghosts series of novels is excellent. So when I recently dug out my old warhammer figures in my recent house move, I got hooked on the gaming again and decided I’d start my Imperial Guard army I’d always wanted to do. And a the idea of an Imperial Guard loadout in airsoft reared it’s head…

9th Scarovian Rifles

So being a lurker on ASCUK forums, I knew that I wasn’t the first person to have this idea and I got in touch with a few members of the 9th Scarovian Rifles, a team dedicated to replicating an Imperial Guard regiment from the tabletop, onto the Airsoft universe. Because of the massive amount of work they’ve already done, I pretty much only had to buy the kit and equipment! And they’ve got it all setup very akin to a regiment with a kitlist etc. That might put some people off a team, having a set kitlist etc but I think in this case it deffinetly suits the team espcially with the look they’re trying to put across. I wiuldn’t call myself a real member yet because we’ve not played together but I have the majority of the kit altogether for it.

I’ve not managed to get most of the item together for a picture, because they are currently either in shipping or aren’t in a state to be photographed as yet.

However, I do have a photo of the standard issue uniform for the 9th Scarovian Rifles.

The standard uniform is based on the ACU pattern. I bought my ACU from Flecktarn for the very resonable price of £20 for the entire set! This is the Bulle copy of ACU but having bought Bulle kit before, I know it’s decent kit and will last a good while.

So from the horrible horrible ACU camoflague, I then dyed it using Dylon #34 (olive green) to get the finished result.

I currently have the webbing on it’s way from Flecktarn (it’s sat in the post office due to the bank holiday ;( ) and I have parts for my new (well second hand) G36C to turn it into a standard issue imperial lasgun.

When I have more pictures, I’ll post some more on the new loadout.

In the mean time, if you fancy visiting the 9th Scarovian, just visit the forums at Grim Darkness or visit the Yahoo group.

The Emperor protects

Managed to get to Airsoft Commando at the weekend which I’ve not been to for a while. It was once agbain a good day out with few people there and as also, everyone contributed to make it a fantastic day out airsoft.

My RPK was out in force and performed admirably. I do think I may need a new hop rubber and hop bucking because at the minute I only have a piece of biro inside the hop! I think this showed at the game. However I did manage to get a good amount of kills with it that day. I did find some problems with my cheap airsoft mags and I’ve now decieded I’ve had enough of the cheaper mags and I’ll stick to the more expensive magazines. With hindsight, they seem like false economy.

I wore my Berzerka pattern camoand it bleneded in nicely. It allowed me to do some sneaky flanking manovures which is how I really enjoy playing airsoft games. I also used my 6SH92 rig and found it to be the comfiest rig to use with the RPK (considering it’s a support gun, I lie down a fair amount).

Games were good as always. The afternoon flag game was great fun with the spin on it. The flag game is where two teams have to put there flag on 4 points and keep them there for the game. However as a twist this game, we had a game with a third team whose job was to basically mess everyone else up by either attacking points or mremoving flags etc. Added a really nice spin to the game and made it that much more interesting for me (not sure how the other teams took it though!)

Also, the airsoft commando team have improved admirably and managed to crush us quite well whilst we were playing the “Defend the village” game so congrats to them!

Overall it was a good day and gave me some food for thought regarding the RPK. It’s now nice I have a loadout fairly much sorted for it.

However, I’ve recently spent some money on another loadout (not Russian related!!) and I’ll be giving details of that as and when I feel ready