General Notes on IR Combat Compatibility

[Mithras]

lots of Americans elsewhere seem to think so! Safety makes sense

Well this here is your fundamental problem. Just as nobody in the UK (other than me) has ever been involved in a US club that did IR battling, but many seem to think they are qualified to talk utter rubbish about it, people in the US should probably not be listened to when they try to tell you why things are the way they are over here in the UK...

I’m assuming we’re in agreement here, because I concur that it’s utter rubbish.

[Tiger6]

[Herr Dr. Professor]

Well there is the erroneous allegation of "BIG manly Babies." That's an inslut. Almost everything I buy clearly states: "For ages 3 and over."

[Mithras]

It does seem that RC tank IR battling is a small niche even in a hobby that is a tiny niche in the RC world. We are extremely lucky that our club has a great permanent battlefield and an active core of members who enjoy the battles. Seems like there are very few clubs in North America that do. Maybe 10 or less that are really active? I have to admit battling on a featureless grass field or in a hall with a few buildings or boxes set up would get very old very quickly. But battling is far from the only thing that the club does

Id be content to find a club that does both battles and other activities.

When we settle, the intent is to build a setup for outdoor war gaming, and a battlefield. If I can’t find a club, and I seem to be about 50/50, I’ll at least have the miniatures thing. It’s very hard to gauge openness in the hobby just now. On the other hand, I was also assured that, ahem, “historical miniatures gaming does not exist in California,” which proved to be as nonsensical as I thought; as such, perhaps those I seem to have genuinely offended or whom have a large negativity toward the idea are in the extreme minority.

Either way, the point of the thread is to begin collating the data that was not really available to me as a rookie, which is hopefully the intent showing here.

[Mithras]

Well there is the erroneous allegation of "BIG manly Babies." That's an inslut. Almost everything I buy clearly states: "For ages 3 and over."

Harrumph, amateur. It’s at least six or older for me, small fry. Put away the Duplo!

[Panzermechaniker]

It does seem that RC tank IR battling is a small niche even in a hobby that is a tiny niche in the RC world. We are extremely lucky that our club has a great permanent battlefield and an active core of members who enjoy the battles. Seems like there are very few clubs in North America that do. Maybe 10 or less that are really active? I have to admit battling on a featureless grass field or in a hall with a few buildings or boxes set up would get very old very quickly. But battling is far from the only thing that the club does

Id be content to find a club that does both battles and other activities.

When we settle, the intent is to build a setup for outdoor war gaming, and a battlefield. If I can’t find a club, and I seem to be about 50/50, I’ll at least have the miniatures thing. It’s very hard to gauge openness in the hobby just now. On the other hand, I was also assured that, ahem, “historical miniatures gaming does not exist in California,” which proved to be as nonsensical as I thought; as such, perhaps those I seem to have genuinely offended or whom have a large negativity toward the idea are in the extreme minority.

Either way, the point of the thread is to begin collating the data that was not really available to me as a rookie, which is hopefully the intent showing here.

I think your post to start this thread was pretty bang on and I wish I had the same knowledge when I started. I always loved tanks and my buddy in the UK who goes down to Bovington every year with his wife for Tiger Day sent me a YT link to it one day. As you do I just left YT going on the tv and I came down and there was one of those RC World vids from a big model show in Germany with a nice dirt tank ground set up with tons of bridges, buildings, figures and just amazing tanks. I found this forum first and it has always been my go to for builds since but being locked down here for months on end for Covid I ordered a Taigen Tiger. I loved it from the get go and even enjoyed shooting BBs in the house for awhile but then I stumbled on a video of the club I'm in now having a battleday and it looked like total fun. I joined their forum, introduced myself took my 2 Taigen airsofts down for a workday and no problem running them around on the field which was awesome. But until I actually went I had no idea about aftermarket boards,radios etc. You just aren't going to get the right info off of a forum unless you go and meet the members and find out what system the club uses and why. I don't know why people put battling down so much. While we use Tamiya like the unfortunately closed Danville our battles are different. Because of the way our field is set up there isn't as much of the jackrabbiting back and forth from behind a hiding place. I'm sure the HL protocol clubs in California and Arizona have unique battles that are a result of the fields they use as well. It's a lot of fun. We show off our tanks and other builds and there is always a BBQ and there has never been any attitude on display so I wish you luck on trying to get something started when you settle down into a place.

[tankme]

If all my club did was run our tanks around a highly detailed, groomed city scape like I've seen here I would be content with that. Since we do battle here and that's what the club does, I'm content with that. I just like tanks. I just like building tanks. I have been surprised and not so surprised that a lot of folks don't battle. I try not to make assumptions, but sometimes I do.

[Mithras]

If all my club did was run our tanks around a highly detailed, groomed city scape like I've seen here I would be content with that. Since we do battle here and that's what the club does, I'm content with that. I just like tanks. I just like building tanks. I have been surprised and not so surprised that a lot of folks don't battle. I try not to make assumptions, but sometimes I do.

I think we’re all guilty of that at one time or another! Would love to see that cityscape.

[Kaczor]

Yes, building dioramas is also part of the fun. We don't have a permanent diorama in our club, so we have "mobile" elements that we set up during events. On the other hand, all our meetings are public (usually in museums or on the occasion of military events). We don't have anywhere to ride "privately".

[Panzermechaniker]

Here is a picture of our club field from early last season. Lots of improvements/vegetation and proper permanent structures have been added since but it shows how you can still have fun just driving the models around as well as battling. The Tamiya system works great here as although the picture didn't manage to get the whole field in on cloudy days there have been hits scored from one corner to the other which is quite a distance

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