SITE REVIEW
cross the riverbed or use the one and only
stone bridge directly in front of the cottage.
Needless to say playing here is intense!
Getting to S8 can be a bit tricky but there
are excellent directions on the website
and forums. It is located inside the actual
forest itself so there is a bit of a rough
road to traverse as you’d expect (but it’s no
worse than most urban roads these days
anyway!). Once you reach the site there is
ample parking – and on the day I attended
to write this review it was dearly needed as
well over 100 players had turned up.
All sites have their favoured warm-up
game and S8 rotates between a few,
including ‘Bomb the base’ and ‘Capture
the bases’. There’s another loosely-dubbed
the ‘Predator’ game, which sees two allied
teams in two separate bases defending
against a light force. Defending teams must
stay within the confines of their bases; if
they are hit by the enemy then they leave
the base and join the enemy ranks. Fight to
the last man standing, or kneeling, or lying
in the foetal position! I love this game, it is
a cracker of a warm up and really does get
the blood flowing.
Before lunch we played a fall-back
game with a twist. The fall-back consisted
of retreating to full-blown bases with all
sorts of defences. The objective is quite
simple: once all the defenders are cleared
from one base that base is declared taken
by the enemy, who moves onto the next
one and so on. Once the defenders are
hit at the first base they make their way
to the second and on to the final third.
This is another excellently-designed game
involving brutal, sneaky tactics and amazing
teamwork, maki