News From The Front: "The Sword", Milsim Night at Carnage Paintball

July 27th saw the Ottawa Milsim Coalition's first Milsim event, "The Sword", hosted at Carnage Paintball in Embrun, Ontario. Despite a relatively late announcement and promotion of the event, and an expectation of a low turnout of less than 20 attendees, a whopping 38 players turned out to take part in an exciting night of Milsim Paintball that evening! For those who couldn't make it, rest assured that there will be more events like it in the very near future for you to enjoy. In the meantime, here's a report on what took place that night. (Note that as I was too busy running around with the high turnout, I wasn't able to take any photos at the event).

GI Milsim Quietly Admits Defeat

...but not quietly enough to escape Grey Ops' Minority Reportish surveillance network.

The "Milsim" aspect of the GI endeavour was always held in doubt by purists and aficionados, but now (as can be evidenced in the image above) the brand confusion has lead to a full blown milsimectomy (or speedballplasty). By closing the social media outlet for their brand, the company sends a definite message, which is just the result of their complete abandonment of their prior name and platform (in a sense). If you go on the GI Milsim website, you'll have to dig for pages and pages before you stumble across anything other than paint sponsorships and similar news. Seeing as how pretty much all the Grey Ops reporting on GI Milsim from the beginning of our coverage till now has been about how they weren't putting their money or products where their mouth was, and now they're flat out quitting leads to me declaring the (rather disappointingly contentless) Grey Ops GI Milsim Case...

This Just In: Unofficial Fulda Results

Unofficial results point to Warsaw Forces suffering a major loss. Stay strong comrades. No one from Grey Ops made it out this year, maybe next year!

News From the Front: PRZ Facilities

Any amount of images will only belie the grandeur that is the Prince-Edward Recreation Zone (PRZ). I had the opportunity to explore the myriad assortment of buildings during Return to Craig 2.0 before people started roping paint on walls, and found myself wanting to spend a whole day exploring every nook and cranny of the facility.

Beyond sheer size, and believe me PRZ is huge, the now abandoned military hospital is at times maze like and there is a large amount of variety from one building to the other. Staircases vary from one building to another, and multiple points of entry are normally present in every building or large section.

News From The Front: Return to Craig 2.0 Video

News From The Front: D-Day 2010 at Voodoo Paintball

September 5th, 2010 saw Voodoo Paintball hosting their annual D-Day event at their thematic field in St-Etienne-Des-Gres, Quebec. Nearly 300 players showed up at the event to re-enact the battle of Normandy, and the 101st Airborne Regiment's assault on the French town of Carentan.

Voodoo is close to the city of Trois-Rivieres (Three Rivers), which is about 1.5 hours East of Montreal by car. Trois-Rivieres is a noteworthy heritage site, featuring many monuments with a lot of history behind them. As the intersecting point of 3 major waterways in Eastern Canada (as its name suggests), it was strategically important outpost with a strong military connection.


With this area being of such historical and military significance, it's the ideal place to re-enact a battle recognized as a turning point in military history!

Throughout this review I'll be using stock photos from the Voodoo Paintball web site to illustrate, as I was too busy keeping my head down under heavy fire to snap any pics of my own! Although Voodoo Paintball normally posts photos of every event on their site, for 2010 they posted only one short but intense clip (above), and offer a DVD featuring photos and video footage for $10.