Review
Paintball and Airsoft Battle tactics is Chrsitopher Larsen’s latest book that helps translate small unit battle tactics to paintball and airsoft, derived mainly from his previous book ‘Light Infantry Tactics: Small Teams’ The latter is already a must-read book for many airsoft players worldwide. This book covers many areas neede by the serious milsim ( military simulation ) player…Overall, the main sections of this book are developing individual skills, team battle drills, and team tactics. For 128 pages this book already covers more than enough topics for an airsoft team to follow in terms of participation in milsim events. Lrson writes that the individual skills that need to be developed are warrior skills and leadership ones. These should be taken seperatley and together as a leader withou warrior skills cannot motivate his team into action even with a sound battle plan. For most team members, warrior skills are important as these contain basic skills needed to survive and win in combat or in real life. Warrior skills cover camouflauge, hand signals, individual movment techniques, fighting positions, tactical communication, whilst leadership skills cover troop leading positions, pre-battle inspections, and after-cation review (AAR). My take on this is that the average airsofter developes the first four skills as he/she skirmishes along, with tactical communication being an afterthought.While the leadership skills in actual airsoft situations are on an impromptu basis.Only a tightly-integrated team with a chain of command can actually fully impliment these required warrior and leadership skills. In reality, many airsoft teams are informal orgonisations, gathering to play at weekends or days off and no practise is done to enhance battle tactics or skills….I will stress this again. This book is for the serious milism player and not for the casual airsoft player who just cares about doing the basic techniques of airsoft and not full blown field training exercises (FTE) where scenarios cover all the field trainig and battle plans the book covers. I totally agree with most of waht is written as these are validated tactics honed over thousnads of years of human conflict. But before one implements the elements of this book there are preconditions to be met: a cohesive and disciplined team; a clear chain of command and team responsibilities; a very regular team schedule;a commitment to practise all drills;a set of standarad operating procedures(SOP)….Any airsoftner who has had military experience will know having preconditions met leads towards a good team. However, with airsoft being mainly a recreational hobby for many players, this books searches for that niche of airsoft player who are heavily into milsim, a small but growing within the airsof community…this book shows that conflict, real or simulated, is won or lost by small units or larger groups in the form of platoons, companies,battalions,divisions, and armies…Easily understood by any reader who is intimidated by military doctrine or jargon, Larsen deals on the common-sense side of military battle tactics as applied to paintball and airsoft….read throguh the book, you will have flash backs of skirmishes in which you have developed tactcs and troop movements without realising that they are sound small team battle tactics such as flanking, hasty ambushes, movment to contact and group overwatches. But there is more to small team battle tactics and drills beside those.This book stresses the importance of security, tactical communications(not soley radio, but also verbal within and in between units)and one thing that is always ignored – reconnisance….I would recommend this book to all airsoft players since it contains almost everything you need to know to develope the skills to be an effective team or unit. –Popular Airsoft Magazine

I received this book 1 months ago. When I knew this book is written by Christopher Larsen, I know that this indeed would be the definitive guide to any airsoft or paintball player. If you don’t understand what I mean, Chris Larsen is also the author of the book “Light Infantry Tactics: Small Teams”, which already is a reference book for many airsoft players (..and quite possible, for real soldiers too). Many materials in “Paintball and Airsoft Battle Tactics” are derived from “Light Infantry Tactics…”, but adjusted with airsoft & paintball players in mind. Nevertheless, the tactics and the battle-drills are the same regardless of whether you are fighting a real battle or just a wargame. The only difference are: the range of the weapons (and “weapons”) and the lethality (and “lethality”) involved are of course incomparable. Some of the materials in the book include: why and how to camouflage, handsignals techniques, leadership skills, infantry movement techniques, and battledrills for offensive, defensive and special operations. The methods explained typically apply to unit size from fireteam to platoon level. What this book differs from “Light Infantry Tactics” is on the emphasis to airsoft & paintball, taking into account the characteristics of both games. It also has a lot more schemes and color photographs which is very helpful in understanding the concepts. One of the many things I like very much from this book, is that it’s written in an easily understood language to explain technical military concepts (if you ever read military references such as US Army Field Manuals etc, they usually tends to be heavily conceptual or technical AND voluminious- which can be quite intimidating to some). However there is some areas in this book that needs an improvement: a discussion about “human factor”. I wish it had another chapter which discusses the human factor such as: morale, overcoming hesitation and fear, how to motivate teammates – a very critical element to mission success. Nonetheless, this book surely enhances our understanding on how to fight and how to fight as a team. Discuss and practice the materials with your teammates, and your team will benefit in battle. –Nanung Indonesia

It can be as playful as party game, part of a business training course, or as dead serious as military training for a coming deployment. But whatever your approach to paintball or Airsoft, there is rules to learn, tactics to be considered, variations to learn, equipment, terrain, clothing to consider. In every instance, this book has the answers. The ultimate resource for this popular sport for weekend warriors and military simulators, this book helps novice players and veterans alike to hone their skills and sharpen their understanding of the art and science of MilSlim strategy and tactics. Written by a military analyst with experience of training combatants around the world, this paintball and Airsoft tactician s bible refresher and refocuses the military simulator, but does not stop there: it fosters, mentors, and challenges both the apprentice and maestro with basic individual leadership skills, team drills, and intermediate patrolling operations, covering all the necessities for waging paintball and Airsoft combat successfully at the team level. –Arnie’s Airsoft news

Product Description
The first credible tactical manual for an immensely popular sport among weekend warriors and military trainers Written by an experienced military instructor in a clear, practical manner Full of practical advice, guidance, tips, techniques Diagrams showing manoeuvres and tactics It can be as playful as party game, part of a business training course, or as dead serious as military training for a coming deployment. But whatever your approach to paintball or Airsoft, there is rules to learn, tactics to be considered, variations to learn, equipment, terrain, clothing to consider. In every instance, this book has the answers. The ultimate resource for this popular sport for weekend warriors and military simulators, this book helps novice players and veterans alike to hone their skills and sharpen their understanding of the art and science of MilSlim strategy and tactics. Written by a military analyst with experience of training combatants around the world, this paintball and Airsoft tactician s bible refresher and refocuses the military simulator, but does not stop there: it fosters, mentors, and challenges both the apprentice and maestro with basic individual leadership skills, team drills, and intermediate patrolling operations, covering all the necessities for waging paintball and Airsoft combat successfully at the team level.

Review
Paintball and Airsoft Battle tactics is Chrsitopher Larsen’s latest book that helps translate small unit battle tactics to paintball and airsoft, derived mainly from his previous book ‘Light Infantry Tactics: Small Teams’ The latter is already a must-read book for many airsoft players worldwide. This book covers many areas neede by the serious milsim ( military simulation ) player…Overall, the main sections of this book are developing individual skills, team battle drills, and team tactics. For 128 pages this book already covers more than enough topics for an airsoft team to follow in terms of participation in milsim events. Lrson writes that the individual skills that need to be developed are warrior skills and leadership ones. These should be taken seperatley and together as a leader withou warrior skills cannot motivate his team into action even with a sound battle plan. For most team members, warrior skills are important as these contain basic skills needed to survive and win in combat or in real life. Warrior skills cover camouflauge, hand signals, individual movment techniques, fighting positions, tactical communication, whilst leadership skills cover troop leading positions, pre-battle inspections, and after-cation review (AAR). My take on this is that the average airsofter developes the first four skills as he/she skirmishes along, with tactical communication being an afterthought.While the leadership skills in actual airsoft situations are on an impromptu basis.Only a tightly-integrated team with a chain of command can actually fully impliment these required warrior and leadership skills. In reality, many airsoft teams are informal orgonisations, gathering to play at weekends or days off and no practise is done to enhance battle tactics or skills….I will stress this again. This book is for the serious milism player and not for the casual airsoft player who just cares about doing the basic techniques of airsoft and not full blown field training exercises (FTE) where scenarios cover all the field trainig and battle plans the book covers. I totally agree with most of waht is written as these are validated tactics honed over thousnads of years of human conflict. But before one implements the elements of this book there are preconditions to be met: a cohesive and disciplined team; a clear chain of command and team responsibilities; a very regular team schedule;a commitment to practise all drills;a set of standarad operating procedures(SOP)….Any airsoftner who has had military experience will know having preconditions met leads towards a good team. However, with airsoft being mainly a recreational hobby for many players, this books searches for that niche of airsoft player who are heavily into milsim, a small but growing within the airsof community…this book shows that conflict, real or simulated, is won or lost by small units or larger groups in the form of platoons, companies,battalions,divisions, and armies…Easily understood by any reader who is intimidated by military doctrine or jargon, Larsen deals on the common-sense side of military battle tactics as applied to paintball and airsoft….read throguh the book, you will have flash backs of skirmishes in which you have developed tactcs and troop movements without realising that they are sound small team battle tactics such as flanking, hasty ambushes, movment to contact and group overwatches. But there is more to small team battle tactics and drills beside those.This book stresses the importance of security, tactical communications(not soley radio, but also verbal within and in between units)and one thing that is always ignored – reconnisance….I would recommend this book to all airsoft players since it contains almost everything you need to know to develope the skills to be an effective team or unit. –Popular Airsoft Magazine

I received this book 1 months ago. When I knew this book is written by Christopher Larsen, I know that this indeed would be the definitive guide to any airsoft or paintball player. If you don’t understand what I mean, Chris Larsen is also the author of the book “Light Infantry Tactics: Small Teams”, which already is a reference book for many airsoft players (..and quite possible, for real soldiers too). Many materials in “Paintball and Airsoft Battle Tactics” are derived from “Light Infantry Tactics…”, but adjusted with airsoft & paintball players in mind. Nevertheless, the tactics and the battle-drills are the same regardless of whether you are fighting a real battle or just a wargame. The only difference are: the range of the weapons (and “weapons”) and the lethality (and “lethality”) involved are of course incomparable. Some of the materials in the book include: why and how to camouflage, handsignals techniques, leadership skills, infantry movement techniques, and battledrills for offensive, defensive and special operations. The methods explained typically apply to unit size from fireteam to platoon level. What this book differs from “Light Infantry Tactics” is on the emphasis to airsoft & paintball, taking into account the characteristics of both games. It also has a lot more schemes and color photographs which is very helpful in understanding the concepts. One of the many things I like very much from this book, is that it’s written in an easily understood language to explain technical military concepts (if you ever read military references such as US Army Field Manuals etc, they usually tends to be heavily conceptual or technical AND voluminious- which can be quite intimidating to some). However there is some areas in this book that needs an improvement: a discussion about “human factor”. I wish it had another chapter which discusses the human factor such as: morale, overcoming hesitation and fear, how to motivate teammates – a very critical element to mission success. Nonetheless, this book surely enhances our understanding on how to fight and how to fight as a team. Discuss and practice the materials with your teammates, and your team will benefit in battle. –Nanung Indonesia

It can be as playful as party game, part of a business training course, or as dead serious as military training for a coming deployment. But whatever your approach to paintball or Airsoft, there is rules to learn, tactics to be considered, variations to learn, equipment, terrain, clothing to consider. In every instance, this book has the answers. The ultimate resource for this popular sport for weekend warriors and military simulators, this book helps novice players and veterans alike to hone their skills and sharpen their understanding of the art and science of MilSlim strategy and tactics. Written by a military analyst with experience of training combatants around the world, this paintball and Airsoft tactician s bible refresher and refocuses the military simulator, but does not stop there: it fosters, mentors, and challenges both the apprentice and maestro with basic individual leadership skills, team drills, and intermediate patrolling operations, covering all the necessities for waging paintball and Airsoft combat successfully at the team level. –Arnie’s Airsoft news

Product Description
The first credible tactical manual for an immensely popular sport among weekend warriors and military trainers Written by an experienced military instructor in a clear, practical manner Full of practical advice, guidance, tips, techniques Diagrams showing manoeuvres and tactics It can be as playful as party game, part of a business training course, or as dead serious as military training for a coming deployment. But whatever your approach to paintball or Airsoft, there is rules to learn, tactics to be considered, variations to learn, equipment, terrain, clothing to consider. In every instance, this book has the answers. The ultimate resource for this popular sport for weekend warriors and military simulators, this book helps novice players and veterans alike to hone their skills and sharpen their understanding of the art and science of MilSlim strategy and tactics. Written by a military analyst with experience of training combatants around the world, this paintball and Airsoft tactician s bible refresher and refocuses the military simulator, but does not stop there: it fosters, mentors, and challenges both the apprentice and maestro with basic individual leadership skills, team drills, and intermediate patrolling operations, covering all the necessities for waging paintball and Airsoft combat successfully at the team level.

Review
In the Illustrated Manual of Sniper Skills, Mark Spicer draws on his extensive experience to reveal the secrets of his craft. Spicer s credentials are too vast to list here in their entirety, but suffice it to say that when it comes to combat, he s seen it all, and when it comes to snipers operating today, he likely had a hand in training them all –Military Book club

Written by former British Army officer and sniper expert Mark Spicer, this is a masterclass in the deadly art of sniping, and encompasses technique, evaluation, screening processes, survival skills, teamwork, spotting, ballistics, and logistical marksmanship and camouflage, plus of course weapons. Highly recommended. –Soldier Magazine

Few Sporting Shooter readers have any connection with military sniping – but many of the skills in this excellent manual by sniper instructor Mark Spicer are useful for deer and pest control too –Sporting Shooter

Product Description
This heavily illustrated manual provides a timely, in-depth review of the art of sniping in war and anti-terrorist environments. Drawing on a vast, firsthand knowledge of sniper skills, former British Army sniper and sniper instructor Mark Spicer describes the role of the sniper in peace and in war, in reconnaissance and counter-surveillance, in cities, in vehicles, at night and by day. He presents crucial information about training and equipment, judgment and positioning, details of great relevance to professional marksmen, both military and law enforcement. This comprehensive manual will also be of interest to hunters, weapons enthusiasts, competition shooters, and paintball participants. Illustrations, diagrams, and related information throughout

Review
Another testosterone-laced memoir of an elite unit kicking butt in Iraq, this one with a cheerful, politically incorrect British twist.Having missed out on Operation Iraqi Freedom a year earlier, the author’s 15-man sniper platoon in the Princess of Wales Royal Regiment was thrilled to learn in April 2004 that it was finally shipping overseas on a “peacekeeping” mission. Soldiers whose enlistment was expiring eagerly signed up again. Arriving in Iraq, Mills and his men cringed at the heat, loathed the poor sanitation, pitied the poverty, despised Iraqi police, Iraqi soldiers and all civilian superiors, but loved the American forces’ vast arsenal and luxurious amenities. Their assignment took them to a large city – lacking, the author repeats, sewage and trash collection – where they quickly walked into an ambush and found themselves enmeshed in a vicious insurgency. Mostly, they defended their base in the city center and fought as infantry, but circumstances often required their specialty, so readers looking for technical details about sniping will not be disappointed. Mills, an 18-year veteran of tours in Northern Ireland, Kosovo and Bosnia, never conceals his and his men’s love of fighting. While American career soldiers have been known to admit this in their memoirs, they usually feel obliged to justify it by proclaiming their love of country and reminding readers of the sacrifices our troops make to protect us from hordes of suicidal maniacs. Mills has no interest in defending America’s invasion of Iraq, and he adopts the traditional British soldier’s view of the enemy as wacky foreigners, genuinely dangerous but terrible shots.A military memoir refreshingly devoid of the usual patriotic overlay. (Kirkus Reviews)

Sunday Telegraph
‘A highly-charged, action filled, adrenalin-pumped, page-turning read that, frankly, knocks the socks off all previous British accounts in this genre’

Daily Express
‘Full-on graphic detail … you can practically taste the dust and the cordite’

The Sun
‘The most vivid account ever of total combat on Iraq’s frontline’

Andy McNab
‘One of the best first-hand accounts of combat that I’ve ever read’

Product Description
We all saw it at once. Half a dozen voices screamed ‘Grenade!’ simultaneously. Then everything went into slow motion. The grenade took an age to travel through its 20 metre arc. A dark, small oval-shaped package of misery the size of a peach … April 2004: Sgt Dan Mills and his platoon of snipers fly into southern Iraq, part of an infantry battalion sent to win hearts and minds. They were soon fighting for their lives. Back home we were told they were peacekeeping. But there was no peace to keep. Because within days of arriving in theatre, Mills and his men were caught up in the longest, most sustained firefight British troops had faced for over fifty years. This awe-inspiring account tells of total war in throat-burning winds and fifty-degree heat, blasted by mortars and surrounded by heavily armed militias. For six months, they fought alone: isolated, besieged and under constant enemy fire. Their heroic stand a modern-day Rorke’s Drift.

From the Back Cover
‘Contact front! Contact front!’ Immediately we were down on our
knees and aggressively returning fire. Then we slipped away into pairs.
While one bloke got up and sprinted 10 feet back up the alleyway, the other
emptied all the rounds he could in the direction of the gunmen. Then the
pair swapped roles. Fire and Manouevre, fire and manouevre.

It was like the bank robbery scene in ‘Heat’. It’s amazing how well you
remember it all when you need to. But still the RPK poured lead at us. A
whole burst went straight between Smudge’s legs as he was stopping to turn
and cover me.

‘Average?!’ I said as we looked at each other in amazement. Then we
carried on … –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author
Sgt Dan Mills was decorated for his command of an 18 man sniper platoon during the siege of Al Amarah. During a long army career he has served in Bosnia, Kosovo, Northern Ireland and the Falkland Islands. Sniper One is his first book.