This post was published over 700 days ago and therefore may not represent current Outside Context thinking or opinion. Please, do not let that detract from your enjoyment of it! Game on!
There is a lot of talk on the forums about playing with the beautiful WA range of pistols. Opinions are seriously divided between those who, not to put too fine a point on it, hate WA’s:
QUOTE(Ghost_Rider @ May 11 2005, 06:20 PM)
Yes. Don’t buy overpriced unskirmishworthy pistols.This has been a public service announcement from the “W.A.P.S” consortium.
…and those who like them. Personally, I think it is time to put this one to bed! I have therefore taken up the challenge of skirmishing with WA’s and writing about my experiences here.
Well another week rolls around and the pistols are taken out for a beating!
This week Electrowerkz was nice and quiet. There was only 24 people playing and this led to tactics and skills coming into play and not simply relying on rushing and flooding the place with BB’s. The guys running the site are trying hard to sort out the problems they have had in the past, like hot guns and people using nothing but box mags and hundreds of moscarts being shot per night and overall I think the place is getting slowly to where it needs to be.
The pistols tested were the WA Colt Detla Élite and my Tokyo Marui Desert Eagle Hardkick.
Both represent the best their respective manufacturers can come up with. I ran them both on normal gas and got game on!
I noted the following.
1. At one point the DE locked back the slide and somehow (user error) the saftey clicked on. This meant that the slide would not slide home and it took me a good few minutes to realise why. This got me killed!
2. The mags for the Colt seem to have a few niggles. Namely, because they are the ones with the mag bumpers, you have to use the fill adapter to get your gas bottle to reach the valve or you cant gas up. This often doest sit perfectly and I end up with gas all over my hand. This also leads to the loss of power before the mag has fired all its BB’s and that is bad.
In one game we had to attack a base and take out the defenders. We had held the base for 11 minutes when we were defending and this was the time to beat in attack. With the defenders having only one life we decided to pistol rush them and take them out, get hit and regen. Some may think this is against the spirit of the game but I would remind you that it is a game and any game requires you to recognise the rules and work tactically to win. Anyway, the opposition were not ready for this tactic and so whilst one member laced through the door we ran full speed though and got the two pistol John Woo effect out to play. Its worth pointing out that I don’t know the Gun Kata…
…so I did get seriously laced up once I had stopped moving but for those brief seconds (about 6) I was the fastest thing in the room and able to get over 40 BB’s through the pistols into my targets. I pleased to say both pistols worked a charm. One thing that I noticed was that the Desert Eagle, despite its size, cycled faster than the colt and I ran dry on it first even though it had more rounds and I was firing what i thought was simultaneously. I have a couple of close team mates at Electrowerkz and we play well together and don’t need to confer before we cover and trust each other. This is the trick to organising tactical maneuvers that work!
2 opponents went down.
As you can see the room is very very dark:
My team fighting in from the other end of the floor took the opportunity to push forward at their flank and we soon won the game in under 6 minutes.
Next week I will be taking out the Wilson Supergrade Compact and the Desert Eagle. I will report the performance here!
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