Radio Chatter: Effective or Irritation

There are two things that don't bode well with most airsofters, stupidity and confusion. Both have the potential to piss off captains, disrupt strategy and make you look foolish. Yet it's astonishing how often they play a large role in our communities. Well maybe not astonishing, I mean look at some of these guys, but at least it's significant. Whether on the field, on a forum or in everyday airsoft related conversation, they run rampant, like noobs fleeing an overwhelming opfor. Nowhere are these presentations of an airsofter's limited brain capacity more apparent that in radio chatter.

For those who are part of an organized team, staying in contact is essential in order to maintain strategic effectiveness. Having experience and the ability to work together cohesively helps keep radio chatter to a minimum, leaving channels open to relay important and relevant information. However, in games consisting of more than a few people, participants are often pooled together in mismatched groups. Guess what...your ability to work cohesively and stay effective just decreased as unfamiliar elements have entered the picture.
Under usual conditions, these elements must be quickly amalgamated into a hierarchical structure, otherwise anarchy will reign, tensions will rise and the opfor will win.

Radios become a key facet in game play in order to maintain consistency and familiarity with the movements and locations of each element of your team, as well as the opfor. This consistency cannot be attained unless certain guidelines are established in the form of acceptable radio chatter.

In Part 2 we will discuss the nature of these previously mentioned forms of radio chatter with much more hilarity and much less seriousness...