Text: Revival Events Photos: Anatoly Shenfeld, Alex Berger.
What makes Revival games unique, is that point where airsoft meets role play. In that way we can bring it to a whole new level, unite two communities which are very alike but different in the same time. It adds a lot of elements, and allows the players to control the flow of the game completely, so every decision counts and may be decisive. Revival is drawing attention of people that are far from airsoft, everyone can come and play his role in the game, its like taking a part in a movie production. Besides that Revival format allows to “reproduce” every possible time period, it can be WW2 with partisan villages, or any other historical event, because in any war there are civilians involved, here is where the role play comes in, its huge!
Revival-Events is a group of game masters with a leader, Vadim Askotsky captain of Israeli airsoft team ” Southerners ” that makes his games from 2013 year and plays airsoft since 2008 .
Main idea of Revival games its to revive games in Israel – make it with higher level from past games with a scenario based on Berget games in Sweden . Vadim Askotsky was on Berget games 6 times from 2011 to 2019 year and take his expirience from games to Israel . Games with LARP element that take it to another world – role play, however it still remains 85% of an airsoft game and 15% LARP . All role players are members of the ” Nortman ” club that reconstructs Viking life from 10-12 century .
This is the 4th game in the series and had 7 sides : 1) NATO Forces , 2) CIA , 3) UN Forces , 4) Local Army Force , 5) Taliban Force , 6) Local people (Civilians) , 7) Smugglers (Related to the Pakistani intelligence ) . Main idea was to take control on all poppy fields and diamond mines by the Taliban forces, but sell all goods they get from the fields and the mines to the CIA trough local merchants in the village . The main goal of the Coalition was to prevent the Taliban forces to rise in the region, prevent them from capturing the fields, mines and establish democracy.
The game had two phases – ” Night Phase ” from 19:00 until 22:00 and “Day Phase” from 09:40 until 14:00, because it was required for all sides to negotiate with local people about exact location of poppy fields and diamond mines and in the ” Day Phase ” process it into finished goods ( heroine and diamonds ) . Also at ” Night ” phase had a firefight with tracer nozzels/flash simulators for a ” broken military convoy ” with bags of goods . In the end of ” night ” phase all sides took their advances to ” day ” phase . It was bewitchingly to see all 7 sides playing their roles and in the end of ” day ” phase, a total winning of the Taliban, that has succeded to sieze the whole territory .
223 players had participated in the game , 10 game masters from 6 teams , 14 LARP players from ” Nortman ” club . The 10 best commanders/players have recieved medals from us . The game enter costs were 150 NIS because the logistic costs were right around 30000 NIS in the end . All players have a personal number on a handband and as well as their side color . The commander of the Taliban after have recieved his victory cup .
On game site we build 3 villages but only middle was the best with the mosque . It was epic game that not regular for Israel airsoft after 4 years of pause form end of 2017 year.
