Scenario Detail, Game Itinerary, Rules, Conduct

[mongoman]

Hey guys,

Just a few more things to fill in for you on the scenario we will be running on the 23rd.

Radio Frequencies

Due to the nature of the game, each team will be assigned a radio frequency. We ask that you do not scan channels, or disrupt communications deliberately. The assignments are as follows:

OPFOR1 Channel 1
OPFOR2 Channel 2
Hatzbullah Channel 3
Mckomeni Jihad Channel 4
Referee Channel 5

There will be times when you must radio in to command to receive further instructions, as completion of objectives will cause the next set of circumstances to unfold.

I have posted a rudimentary map of the area at http:/mongopmongo.tripod.com , with names tagged to terrain features that I think we can all remember. It is a google earth shot, with descriptions and highlights of the area, along with text explaining the area. A tour of the area can be conducted 85% by vehicle, so if you come in on Friday evening, it is possible to see most of the map without getting out of the vehicle, excluding trails and such.

Mihel is making signs for the trails and such, hope he gets them done, but no problem if not, we will do our best to make sure you can get around the field. We are using several parts of the field for the first time, and is exciting to do so. In all, I think we will be using over 38 acres of the 50 or so we are allowed to play on.

Event Schedule

Just wanted to give everyone a time frame in which to expect activities to be commencing and ending. All Times CST
Friday
1pm_until: Check in and Registration for those coming in. Chrony will be open, weapons checked. Mongo Chili of Doom provided free, thanks for showing up.
Tours of field available, even well after dark. Just ask Tom, Mihel, Chris, Klook, Michael, John, Houston, or at Sign in. You will see the Duty Tent just as you pull into the parking area. I should be watching TV or playing on the Xbox.

Saturday Morning
8 am, Wake Up, Breakfast, Gratis, Thanks for coming, ending around 930 am.
8am Registration Open

1000am Safety Briefing, Field Briefing, Divide Teams, and Group Pics while we all look good.

1030 Individual Team Briefing
1115 Final Placement of Teams and Insertion
1130 Game Begins
Registration Closes (that does not mean you cannot get in the game, it just means we will have to get your waiver and register you as soon as we can)

Game will run until cycle completed, victor established

Post Game, Food and Recharge Break, 1 hour CAUTION: If you are signing up for food, Dave will feed you until you have to reenter field on stretcher.

After Break

Conventional Scenarios until Players, Guns, or Moral fails.

Note to above Scheduling: All depends on the time it takes to run the first scenario. I believe it should run around three hours, as it is pretty in depth, but I cannot predict the fog of war. If the game runs quickly, we will reset and do other preplanned games that are not as in depth, and break afterward. Fun is number one, and we will always remain flexible to the majority of the will of the players.

If players available, we will play Sunday if it is the will of the participants.



Note on General Rules and Codes of Behavior

We generally follow standard rules of engagement and weapons requirements, but we will review. Common sense plays a very important role in our game play.

AEG’s will be allowed firing less than 415 feet per sec, with the average of five shots through the chrony determining final fps

HiCap Mags are allowed

Shatterproof glasses and goggles are allowed. If questionable will be tested with point blank shot. NEVER REMOVE YOUR EYE PROTECTION ON THE FIELD OF PLAY. Find a safe area and deal with fogging and fit issues.

Magazines will not be in guns in camps or assembly areas. Weapons will be safed.

Please mark batteries and chargers with a sharpee to avoid confusion and loss. It is a good idea to mark mags also. Makes finding lost stuff so much easier.

Gun Testing area is available. Standard shooting range rules apply. Eye protection is required in testing area.

We expect you to call your shots. Refs will be on every team, please handle disputes dispassionately through the refs. If you make a complaint, be sure of yourself, try not to be angry, give the other player the benefit of the doubt. It is okay to say, “Troop, I am hitting you, is there a problem?” Try to avoid, “You rubber $@^%$#@$%%^^$$, will you call it if I come over there and bayonet you!”

Please refrain from kill counting in an obnoxious manner. I feel it is okay to say, “I went 5 kills and two deaths”, as a personal yard stick, but is improper to rant, “I owned you sorry b@$#$s, you all suck! I killed you and you, and you, and you hiding over there in shame.” Be mature about it guys and gals.

MEDs are hard to enforce in the heavily wooded environment in which we play. Use your head, if you are charging a bunker, do so with a 350 fps pistol, not a 409 fps AEG.
Shoot for center body mass and the legs, as all hits count the same, combat ineffective result. Bunker defense, please do not shoot folks in the head point blank, use common sense and courtesy. Would you want to be shot in the face point blank? Of course not, be nice out there.

NO BLIND FIRING
Do not stick your weapon out from behind cover and blaze away. Aim at your target, target what you aim at.

Respawns will be every at every 15 minute mark of the hour. In other words, 15 after, 30 after, 15 until the top, the top of the hour. If you get to the respawn at 1027, you respawn at 1030. Please be honest.

WATCH FOR CAUTION MARKERS AND OFF LIMITS AREAS
These areas are off limits for your safety, please, respect these areas.

That is all of the rules as far as game play. Please, safety first, respect your opponents, call your shots, even if you are not sure, why not call it, go respawn, come back in.

General Caution and Common Sense

Our field is heavily wooded, and has dangers of many sorts to the unwary, so be advised.

Watch were you dive, fall, and run. Snakes, old buried rubbish, or other dangers may just be waiting for you to jump on top of them. Check your area, look where you are going to ground, and be careful. I had rather take a bb than get bit by a copperhead.

Boots, bug repellent, and long sleeve shirts are recommended, but not required. Mind the beasties, and a long sleeve shirt will help stop the impact of a hot bb, keep from breaking the skin.

[The Shootist]

Just to refresh the basics:

Respawn limits- if used will be included in the scenario briefing.

ALL HITS ARE KILLS. If you get hit on the trigger finger, or the head, it's the exact same- you are now dead. Gun hits do not count- unless you are intentionally using your gun to block shots. If you do use the gun as a sheild- to protect a vital body part- gun hits, to ANYWHERE on the gun, do count.

Dead Rags are to be used, and are not to be displayed unless you are actually dead- i.e. don't use 'em to wipe sweat off your brow because someone may assume you're dead and not shoot you. Or wait till you actually are dead, then wipe the sweat off your brow. (Mongo, the brow is that area where your eyebrow sits. ) Dead Rags are any RED rag that's roughly 8" x 8" square, or larger- preferably larger.

As always our preferred form of punishment for rules violation is a firing squad. Firing squad is everyone else gets to shoot you for a couple seconds. EVERYONE else. I really hope someone breaks all the rules, as I have yet to be able to laugh maniacly as someone is being shot by 20 fully auto AEGs for a couple seconds.

And as always, HAVE FUN. (That's like an order and stuff).
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Bug tips:
For those of you who aren't experienced outdoorspersons, ticks carry disease, and otherwise are simply annoying. The majority of ticks, contrary to popular belief, get on you from the ground. The best way of avoiding this is a two fold system: Tuck or Tie, and Spray.

The majority of player wear BDU pants, and boots. If you are one of these people, tuck your bdu pants into the top of your boots, then the ticks can't crawl up your leg(s).

If you wear BDU pants and not-boots, like me, Simply tie the blousing straps- those ribbons that hang out of the bottom of the BDU pant leg. Don't tie them so tight you halt bloodflow, but make them fairly tight, so that a bug can't crawl up them.

Then Spray around this join. Take your bug spray and spray around the areas where your pants are tucked into your boots, or between the top of your shoe and the bottom of your pant leg.

Otherwise, use your bug spray as normal, and you'll be fine.


Poison Ivy:

Poison Ivy is a contact allergen. When the plant is disturbed, like when it sees Mongo naked, or when you jump on it, it releases very fine hairs that cause a minor rash and sever itching. If you don't have it now, you can get it. The more you come into contact with Poison Ivy the more likely you are to become allergic to it. Some people are born allergic, others- like me- gain exposure allergies from rolling in the crap as kids.

The US Forest Service reccommends using spray deoderant on exposed skin prior to exposure. The Deoderant coats the skin and keeps the fibers, released by the plant, from penetrating into the skin and causing the rash. There have been no scientific studies to verify this, but it's what they reccommend. The worse part about Poison Ivy is that contaminated clothing will continue to harbor the fibers until it's washed- even after years. The good thing is that calamine lotion is generally all you need to soothe the itching, and there is some evidence that if you rinse an exposed area with warm soapy water- within the first few minutes- you may not develope the rash and itch.

[mongoman]

This crazy, as with most of my post, but this seems to be true. One time, when I was about 20, my young dumb ass set the weedeater to a whole shitload of poison Ivy. I mean I slung it all over my legs, my chest, my face, all over. I got eat up but good. Since then, I may get a little spot here and there, but for the most part I am immune. It will pop up and go away in about three days. Anyone read anything about building tolerence to the poison?

Mongo

[mongoman]

BTW Thanks for having my back Tom, and posting the info I all I forgot. The info on beating the beasties is nice also.

M

[The Shootist]

No problem.

More Poison Ivy Info:

"Approximately 80-90 percent of adult Americans will get a rash if they are exposed to 50 micrograms of purified urushiol (Epstein et al, 1974). This is indeed a minute amount when you consider that one grain of table salt weighs about 60 micrograms. An urushiol residue on the skin is difficult to wash off and may be spread by scratching. Contrary to popular belief, it is not spread through blister fluids. It is a relatively stable compound and can retain its potency for years in the absence of oxidation. Herbarium specimens 100 years old have been known to cause dermatitis. It is readily transferred from contaminated clothing, objects and fur of animals. To make matters worse it readily penetrates the epidermal layer of the skin where it binds to proteins of deeper skin cell membranes."

There's a great article, including the quoted paragraph above at Wayne's Word. It's about Poison Oak, but the same resin is in Poison Ivy, so effectively the article applies. There's lots of great information in there for anyone who is curious.
waynesword.palomar.edu/ww0802.htm

Also, there is a Forrestry Reccommended product called Ivy Block, which is discussed in the above article:

"Another product developed for the U.S. Forest Service is called Ivy Block®. It is an aerosol spray or lotion containing activated bentonite clay used in antiperspirants. Ivy Block® forms a barrier that both prevents urushiol from touching the skin and chemically binds with it so it becomes inactive. Ivy Block® is very effective, but is not a panacea for extremely sensitive people. Another effective blocking agent called StokoGard Outdoor Cream®, a fatty acid ester, is available through industrial supply houses and by asking your pharmacist to order it from Stockhausen, Inc. of Greensboro, North Carolina."

As far as I can tell, Mongo, it sounds like you're just not very reactive to the Urushiol resin, and the weedeating incident exposed you to enough of it that you got the rash.

What happens, basicly, is the urushiol resin gets on your skin, and penetrates the outer layer. It bonds to cell membranes below the top layer of epidermis and causes the cell to, basicly, hang out a flag for your immune system. Your immune system responds to the foreign bodies by killing the afflicted cells, and cells in the surrounding area, which causes the rash. People who are highly sensitive, have a two-fold problem. One, their immune system responds quickly to the foreign presence of urushiol; and Two, their immune system overreacts to the urushiol.

One way of quickly taking care of the problem is to wash with an astringent soap, in cold water, quickly after contact. So far, there aren't any good/reliable treatments for the urushiol after it has penetrated the skin. Though, there are some things that can be done to help ease the rash and quicken your healing time.

Interestingly, there are reports of 100 year old plant samples, of urushiol producing plant species, causing the rash in people handling them. That's how stable urushiol is, it does not denature very quickly, even after the plant is dead. However, there were Indian tribes who cooked with poison oak leaves- especially when baking.


Unsubstantiated theory:
After reading so much about urushoil I have a theory as to why some Indian tribes could eat the stuff without harm. Indians had a problem coping with disease. Their immunological reaction were not as vigorous as those of the Europeans- probably due mostly to diet. Since their immune system wasn't as developed, it allowed them to handle and eat poison oak without suffering the rash. However, the world rarely works on just one level, so in addition to this, there may also be a slight genetic factor.

That's all just idle speculation though.

Not sure if this is what anyone wanted, really; but it's here nonetheless.

[mongoman]

That would explain alot, as my family pretty much is heavily indian influenced. My grandmother on my moms side was pure blackfoot(which explains my horrible feet:) and my great Gmother on my Dads side was Creek. I feel that is why I have no real hair on me. I could never be a proper troll, no hair dammit.

M

[prometheus]

I have creek from both sides and my 2x great mother was princes Cornblossom of the Cherokee's Thunderbolt Nation. she was one of a few survivors of the "massacre at yahoo falls". I am very hairy and am not very allergic to the weed in question. I have found, that im my age I have been getting it some. but nothing compared to as a child when I would whaler around in it for hours without getting any rash.

also, has it been a problem with players, while in the heat of battle, using their dead rag to wipe their brow? I do this very frequently, and also use it to wipe down my eye protection. yes, I do remove my glasses during games, all the time. this is not recomendedd but, I accept the risk I take. I allways crouch away from the front line, holding my head down. this way my brim offers protection as well. I pull my rag and wipe away, fix my gear back, and continue with the fight. I am sure you are thinking, "well carry another rag" well, this seems like a very simple thing, and I hope you can relate to my fealings of not wanting any more gear than I need out there. now if I do find myself at wally world this week I will pick up a darker rag for sweet removal, but please don't crusify me if you see me using my red bandana as a sweet rag as well as a dead rag.

[Tripps]

My father was full blood Indian of the local Creek/Blackfoot reservation down here. I attribute this mystical bloodline to insects not bothering me, a lack of allergies and a general dislike of vodka. I don't know were the genreal good health came from. But, anyways....I had a point.

Couple questions...I know I'm not going but I'm curious, so please humor me. ;D
Say it's for future referance.

Is the 415fps a new thing? I thought the norm was 400.

And, the use of smoke bombs. No open flame or use common sense about playing in the woods and using fireworks?

[mongoman]

After much debate, we went to 415 as the absolute limit because of a couple of things, but mostly because we are basing the limit on the m120 spring, which brings most guns up to the 400+- fps. The 15 fps diff is just to allow the player that is coming in at 403, 406 to be able to play. Just trying to avoid ambiguity as in "406 but I know him, so he can play". It has to be at a limit, and that limit is IT for everyone. Not written in stone, still open for debate.

Matt, we are not the cruicifying type, except maybe for Tom. I do the same thing. I am going to endeavor to get a new rag, maybe something od, for the game. Just to avoid confusion, and head off potential arguments.
I also agree, that as long as you are SAFE, you can defog your glasses on the field. Get behind a tree, have a buddy stand in front of you, look down, all of these things help lessen the risk. My mantra, use your head, be safe, don't put yourself in a bad situation. Again, just use common sense.

For smoke we use what is called, of all things, "a plumbers smoke candle". They are made to use in houses and such. We actually tested the first one in a bed of dry CEDAR needles and twigs, I mean we covered it up. Didn't catch on fire. Have thrown them in a pile of dry leaves, no fire. They are really cool, put out 40,000cubic feet of smoke in three minutes. To be on the even safer side, the smoke and firecrackers will go into a smudge pot.

M


Can't wait for the weekend, I am stoked!! Got some good stuff planned, and it should work well