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Category: Airsoft Basics

  • Building your first Airsoft loadout

    Building your first Airsoft loadout

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    The beginner’s guide to choosing kit. Where do you start and what do you buy? Thankfully, not as much as you might think. It looks daunting at times, seeing players online dripping in thousands of pounds/dollars/local currency of gear running around their local site, but it’s largely just cosplay. Certainly when you start Airsoft, you…

  • The First Time

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    Going to Airsoft just for a Stag do? Someone suggested it for a birthday party? Or a “team building exercise” with work because your boss hates you and wants to cause pain because you missed a deadline? Here are 5 tips for the first timer so you get bragging rights on WhatsApp for the following…

  • Do start as an Airsoft sniper

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    Being a sniper is boring. It’s difficult. It’s so expensive to get into. It’s not like YouTube. You won’t get many kills. You’d be better off starting with an M4. The Internet is full of shit these days, unfortunately, and any player asking on social media for tips to get started as an Airsoft sniper…

  • Mastering Airsoft Basics

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    Getting it right where so many players get it wrong. It’s been a while since I’ve done a guide of related articles and I figured I’ve covered sniping enough for now. It’s time to look at the rest of the field. After seeing a flood of new players at skirmish, I thought it might be…

  • Shooting and Attacking

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    Airsoft, from the outside at least, is a game about shooting. There’s a lot more to it, but ultimately to gain most victories, you’re going to have to attack people. There are hundreds of videos online from real steel shooters, but in truth Airsoft is a vastly different proposition because of four main factors; There’s…

  • Using Cover and Defence

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    Attack all you like, but if you can’t defend yourself then you’re not going to be attacking effectively as you spend half the day walking back to the respawn. So how do you go about minimising the threat to yourself? Well, there’s concealment and cover, and defensive tactics. Concealment is your camouflage. Welcome to stipsniper.com,…

  • Objectives

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    Airsoft is a game, and ultimately to win the game (or if it’s boring, to end the game), a team will have to complete the game objective. In either case, you want to be completing the objective as quickly as possible, before the enemy team does. Otherwise you lose and everyone will call you a…

  • Working as a Team

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    As much as we’d like to believe some of the absolute “weapons” on social media that think they can win games on their own, Airsoft is a team game. It might be the classic two-team game or perhaps you’re fighting in lots of small teams of 4, but you have to work together to achieve…

  • Choosing Gear

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    Good gear makes a good player. Good gear is not expensive gear. Good gear is the right gear. We are blessed in Airsoft to have vast amounts of kit available from nearly every military on the planet, plus a lot of Airsoft companies producing cheaper versions, plus their own designs, and you can even play…

  • How realistic is Airsoft?

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    Short answer – as real as you want it to be. Or, for many of the younger players coming through, not at all. It’s just a chance to cosplay and have some fun. This is a topic I can expand on into different aspects of the game and I will do some more in the…