Mid Wales Airsoft – The Division

Mid wales airsoft hosted a weekend game based on the ps4 tom Clancy computer game “the division” and Iggy Roberts was there.

THE DIVISION WEEKENDER WAS ATTENDED by over 40 players from South Wales, North Wales, Shropshire and Birmingham, as well as the local regular players loyal to Mid Wales Airsoft. The game was written by “Legacy Luke” and run by himself and his team, “Legacy Airsoft”.

The game ran over the course of Saturday and Sunday (with a social evening in between) and was loosely based on the computer game theme, however, rather than the variety of gangs and enemies there were just two sides. The “Agents” who are part of the Strategic Homeland Division, simply referred to as “The Division” and the “Rikers”, the gang that broke out from the Riker prison.

The most obvious difference between the computer game and the airsoft game is the location and environment. Mid Wales Airsoft is a woodland site that, on this particular weekend was very wet. The game, as most of you will know, is based in New York - which is very different from the fields and forests of Wales! So there was some adaption to make it suit the site but still follow the core plot of the computer game.

The base of the game is driven by the “dollar flu virus”; a large number of infected dollar ($) bills that are littered across the site, some placed in positions where the teams have to risk exposure for reasons of tactical advantage, others in some of the yellow biohazard bags placed in locations where players can find them. If they are touched by any player then that player is infected. Both sides only have one “flu” medic per team.