Laser Skirmish Extreme Ezine

** NEWS FLASH: Snow Snipers Start Up**

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Falls Creek Ski Resort
launch their new Adventure Park on Snow

The half way mark of 2002 sees us with eight battlefields up and running in two Countries.

In this edition of our extreme ezine we welcome our latest group, Falls Creek in Victoria. Falls Creek Ski Resort have just launched their Adventure Park on Snow and as well as featuring "Snow Snipers", they have Night Skiing/Boarding, guided steerable tube trips down the Summit to the Village Bowl, heated Kat tours. Check out, click here.

The first boats armed with advanced laser skirmish equipment from Battlefield Sports are now in action at Pindarri Dam. To see an excellent picture of the boats in action, click here.

See you on the battlefield,

Peter Lander

Brisbane & Gold Coast, QLD
Peter & Nicole

Cairns, QLD
Andrew

Canberra, ACT
Emma

New Hampshire, USA
Nadine & Charles

Wisconsin, USA
Brad

Pindarri Dam, NSW
Barry

Falls Creek, VIC
Adventure Park

August Bush Tournament - Gold Coast
A clan war tournament is tentatively scheduled for the morning of August 25th at Thunderbird Park. The tournament will use heavily extended boundaries so that much of the terrain will be more rugged than usual and less known to the regulars. Squad sizes will be between 7 and 10 soldiers. The mission will almost see a tough hill assault, designed to test the players endurance, character, leadership and skill. A detailed description of the mission and boundaries will be released in the August ezine and also will be posted on the web site. Interested Clans should email peter@battlefieldsports.com to reserve your place.

New Session just for Newbies
Every Saturday at 1.30pm to 4.00pm we now run a beginners only session. This session has proved popular and is an excellent way for new people to learn the tactics and effective use of the weaponry before being exposed to the elite players. The beginners session is held at Whites Hill College, Camp Hill.

Whites Hill Timetable 1.30pm to 4.00pm Beginners 3.30pm to 6.00pm Open Session 7.00pm to 9.00pm Elite Session - especially advanced LARP's

New Vietnam & Sniper Battlefields @ Thunderbird Park
The open session is now running from 1.00pm every Sunday at the wonderful Thunderbird Park, Gold Coast. The basic special price is $20 per person for 2 hours. Thunderbird Park provides 2 separate bushland battlefields: "Vietnam" and "Sniper".

News on Vietnam LARP and Paranoia LARP
In the Elite Session Saturday nights, Laser Skirmish has been throwing some incredible difficult and realistic Vietnam Live Action Roleplays at the players to really test their courage, stealth, intelligence and team work. A good example is 34 Alpha, background at http://www.lasertag.com.au/missions/NamRecon/34alpha.htm These LARPs typically take about 90 minutes to play and require the players to make no mistakes in order to survive. In the 34 Alpha mission, out of our best squad, only the ex-legionnaire played by the Phantom survived, although they did managed to destroy the switch house.

Saturday 20th July in the Elite Session we are running "Bring on the Clones", a live Paranoia LARP. Every player gets 6 clones, meaning they can die 6 times before their whole clone family is eliminated. Paranoia is based in Alpha Complex where are paranoid and really quite insane central computer runs the place and the clones are agents (called trouble shooters) of the computer. Every one is happy in Alpha Complex, the computer says so...Players interested in playing either an actor role (NPC) or taking on a Clone (player character), please email Peter ASAP at peter@battlefieldsports.com. This is required because the character backgrounds are indepth (and secret) and need to be read beforehand.

New Hampshire Battlefield Opens by Nadine Lewis
We had our Opening Day on July 4th, complete with cookout and fireworks. A large group played in temperatures hovering around 114 degrees Fahrenheit (45 degrees Celsius), it was quite an experience. All the players that attended on opening day have returned to play again, bringing friends along. A few of the people are avid paintball players and were extremely excitedabout the technology of the laser guns. The distance and accuracy were noted as the top features. One player that deserves mention is a 16 year old male who played for 6 hours with a cast on his broken right hand and would only use the Morita. Our mission areas are coming along. We currently have 2 forested playing areas, one open area, and a dense pine tree field (max height of trees is 9 ft) that is being cut as a maze. The favorite playing area seems to be one of the large forested ones. It is divided into zones, complete with an enemy encampment, satellite dish and a ridge overlooking the entry roads (an excellent sniper vantage point). Opening soon will be another field with a bridge spanning a ravine, allowing for some interesting missions. For additional pictures, check out our website at www.thestrategyzone.com

New Etreme Supair Field in Canberra by Emma Darby
Canberra have just purchased the first in Australia xtreme supair field. This is a field that has blow up barricades which is the same material as a jumping castle.
This field was originally used for paintball games. Laser Skirmish is being promoted around the ACT schools / expos/ fetes. Laser Skirmish in the ACT is picking up more interest & we are have a new package structure change to lower the minimum time for a group to be 30min to cater to let people try it out and then of course they are hooked. We have 18 fields now to complement the game & are working on upgrading the facility as well.

New Battlefield in FNQ by Andrew Wort
Cairns is now fully equipment with 30 guns of the latest designs and are doing both day and night missions. The current venue is at Kambara St, White Rock.

Exciting Addition to the Laser Skirmish Arsenal
The latest addition to the laser skirmish Armoury is the new "Claymore" mine. This unit operates from a 20 metre cable connected to a black box and has 3 forwarded powerful emitters and one less powerful rear emitter. The unit continuously for 4 seconds and therefore is quite capable of making 2 hits on a viper unit. The Claymore is designed to be used in ambush and base defence situations. The 3 forward emitters provide an incredibly wide short range effect that can easily strike many enemy soldiers at once.


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