Despite many different people claiming to be the man in charge of Tech Brigade it was all started by a man known affectionately as Mr T, aka Paul Thompson. This almost legendary and nowadays certainly totally retired person had a dream around the year 1993 to start up an airsoft wargames site. Mr T had a passion for things martial be it guns, knives, even bow and arrows therefore a progression into airsoft seemed the only way to go. With realistic weaponry, realistic gear and realistic military styled objectives this was almost as good as the real thing.
Over the next few years he built up a dedicated group of airsoft players, who by word of mouth and through friends and relatives began to gather once every two weeks to shoot each other with "little plastic balls".

As Tech-Brigade grew in size so did our fearsome reputation;
"they shoot each other with real airguns"
"they use guns that shoot through plywood"
"they use metal BB's"
Such was the playing skill of these regular players that many people felt that there had to be some other reason than superior playing ability, teamwork and of playing with a consistent group that surely they must be using these other alternatives?

Our first site became almost hallowed to the regulars it had a mixture of urban (a totally built up environment, not sheds) woodland and open fields.
Mr T ran the site without the need for marshals by using a system that we call "The Dead Zone" this was a timer of 30 seconds duration for both teams that when you were hit you returned to your timer and when your time was up you re-entered the game, this system virtually wiped out the cheating found at so many other sites that operate the one hit and out method, as originally used at paintball sites. It also insured that no matter your ability you were sure of getting a full days play (even the players who get shot in the first minute of a game.)

In 1996 I joined the Tech Brigade club as a newbie and over the next four years played at virtually every game, the bug had definitely bitten me. After becoming a regular and seeing what was happening to the club during the early part of 1999 I suggested to Mr T that perhaps as we were on our third site and some of the old hands had moved on that it was time for someone else to get involved and possibly stir up some new interest, so with this said I became partners with Mr T and a new era started for Tech-Brigade. We placed adverts in Gun Mart in conjunction with Jennings Model Shop initially and then with other airsoft retailers including Wolf Armouries and Zero One which offered people who purchased AEG's from them, a voucher to play for free at our site for one day. We organised day trips to other sites to see how they operated and we organised a Delta Force theme day all of which generated extra interest in us, our site and our team.

More recently we have unfortunately lost our playing site, thanks to some over zealous council officials and also have lost the influence of Mr T who has become involved in the military vehicle scene.
Since then or so I have been running (with the help of some close friends and members) the Tech-Brigade club.
We have been on more away day trips and are now playing on a paintball site at Newgate Street, Herts.
We would like to welcome anyone who wishes to play airsoft games to come along to a day at Tech-Brigade and see just what all the fuss is about.

Admiral Ackbar a.k.a. "The Laughing Sniper/Headshot Bob"