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We announced in our post last week that Okto Eight MilSim would be organising Operation Skylight in September 2014. As an experienced British MilSim company and events organiser, they have launched the concept of these 8-hour military simulations with a twist in the tail.
The concept of MilSim has been with us for some time - "a military simulation conducted by civilians for entertainment purposes, using Airsoft weapons to simulate military scenarios and tactics".
We also have Filmsim, which is a form of role play or re-enactment, where the contributing players can use Airsoft weapons to 'act out' pre-organised and dynamic military scenarios, creating an involvement and experience similar to participating in a movie storyline.
What Octo Eight appear to be offering is a modern day immersive story which revolves around the sleepy fictional former soviet republic of Moldistan and its discovery of a huge concentration of Titanium-bearing Limenite rock.
The initial background was laid out in the form of a "newspaper report" carrying the headline "Moldistan Teeters on The Edge" published on March 22nd. Since then, the story has started to take twists and turns as the updates are published on their Facebook page in an almost serialised thriller-like fashion.
Okto Eight advise that their intention is to continue with the storyline and "leaked" intelligence reports until booking for the game opens up next month. After that time, the public version of the story (what the public might read in their newspapers) will continue on the Facebook page for all to see, but the undercover intelligence (reports, sightings and other insider information similar to the sample shown above) will only be available to those who have booked to play the weekend in September.
We suppose it could be described as a 5-month on-line cyber thriller where you can take part in a real world action finale at the end ?
Okto have already said that if this first event is successful, the outcome of the finale will be carried across into the second serialised chapter with another game prospect at the end of that.
More information can be found on the Okto Eight Facebook page here:
Okto Eight Milsim
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| Member of Peoples Front of Moldistan |
