SMOKE GRENADES
WIREPULL SMOKE GRENADE
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FAVOURITE
Manufacturer: Enola Gaye
Duration: Varies
Ignition: Wire pull
Generation: 3
Price: £3
I prefer this grenade’s wirepull ignition
method to the standard strike-fuse, and
in a day’s testing we had just one fail on
us (out of about 15 used). Not perfect,
but certainly not bad.
The various colours have differing
runtimes, which we judged to be about
150 SECOND SMOKE
Manufacturer: TLSFx
Duration: about 150 seconds
Ignition: Strike
Generation: 1
Price: £9.35
This is an absolute beast of a grenade,
delivering clouds of reddish smoke for
almost three minutes before fizzling out.
At more than 7in tall, its proportions make
me wonder as to its practicality on the
field though – it’s not the kind of thing
you’d want to carry ‘just in case’, but
something you’d take with you to achieve
a specific objective. Either way though,
if you need industrial amounts of smoke,
this is your friend.
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70 to 100 seconds, which is good for
the physical size of the grenade. Some
colours of smoke lack density, but we
TWIN VENT
SMOKESCREEN
Manufacturer: TLSFx
Duration: about 60 seconds
Ignition: Strike
Generation: 2
Price: £3.96
This Gen2 smokescreen is a compact
little strike-fuse grenade, but it sure packs
a punch. In terms of output and density
I found it better than TLSFx’s Gen3
smokescreen, and probably easier to
use. I’ll definitely have a couple of these
strapped to me next time I head to the
skirmish site.
found the blue and purple grenades to
be most obscuring. Well worth the price
– I’ll be using these again!
60 SECOND SMOKE
Manufacturer: Dangerzone
Duration: about 80 seconds
Ignition: Strike
Generation: 1
Price: £3.50
This grenade was the only one I tested
that I had difficulty igniting – the
method just isn’t as foolproof as other
manufacturers’. But once you’ve got the
thing lit it spews good thick smoke for
about 80 seconds – better than it says on
the tin. Output speed and smoke density
is nothing groundbreaking here, but for
the price you can do a hell of a lot worse.
The strike method needs revised, but
other than that this is a solid offering.