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General information

The ultimate combat game, Modern Combat Sports (MCS) draws upon real military tactics and close quarters battle doctrine to create an authentic force-on-force combat experience.

Modern Combat Sports developed from military and police training that utilizes hyper-realistic—but safe-for-training—compressed air powered, training guns for tactical exercises. Players employ the latest close quarters battle tactics and techniques to complete missions and overcome adversaries. They deploy with load bearing vests or plate carriers containing spare magazines, tactical radios, maps, hydration packs, and other tactical gear. Teamwork and the proper deployment of real support equipment is crucial to completing missions—just like completing missions in a combat theater requires more than just firepower.

Modern Combat Sports requires a focus on tactical and practical skills: marksmanship, communication, coordination, maneuvers, and teamwork under fire. Together with real equipment, battle simulation devices that safely simulate IEDs and mines, and guns that exactly replicate battle rifles, MCS creates a tactical environment unlike any format ever experienced before.

That’s why military and law enforcement units use Modern Combat Sports for their professional force-on-force training, and that’s why players around the world are scrambling to organize Modern Combat Sports games. It’s unlike anything else you’ll experience as a civilian. For professionals, it teaches and reinforces the skills that will save their lives.

And at the end of the day, Modern Combat Sports are more fun than you can imagine.

Equipment:
Modern Combat Sports utilizes real military equipment alongside safe—and impressively realistic—reproductions of IEDs, mines, razor wire, and other elements of the modern battlefield.

At the heart of Modern Combat Sports, you’ll find the guns that players carry into action. Generally designed to replicate the M4/M16 family of battle rifles, these guns are exact reproductions of real duty-issue firearms. They function, look, fit, and feel the same, and optics and will accept the optics and other accessories that personnel have on their duty-issue weapons…making MCS guns the most authentic reproductions of battle rifles ever designed.

Their magazine capacity is similar to duty-issue firearms, meaning that using MCS guns—requires the shooter to employ the same marksmanship and teamwork they would with their battle rifle.

The rest of a competitor’s duty gear can include any real equipment that does not pose a threat to others’ safety—so they may use authentic radios and night vision gear, distraction devices like flashbang and smoke grenades, but of course not explosives.

Players generally wear their duty-issue load bearing vests filled with training-munitions magazines. Some wear their duty-issue body armor for authenticity, while others slip reproduction armor plates into their vests for the simulation without the expense and weight.

Tactical radios are very popular, and players often carry maps in MOLLE map pouches so they can coordinate maneuvers on vast and challenging terrain. Authentic military apparel protects players, helping them to blend into their environment as well…and morale patches keep it fun.

Tactics:
The nature of modern warfare finds most personnel engaging in close quarters battle, often in urban environments. Given the concerns of CQB, the real-world ammunition capacity of the guns, and the abundance of urban-style facilities for maneuvers, Modern Combat Games has a decided focus on this sort of close-in combat. That makes it perfect for use in force-on-force training by military and law enforcement units…who use it frequently.

When a .68 caliber disintegrating marking round strikes a participant, they take immediate notice…and experience a big disincentive to being shot again. Shooting actual projectiles adds a level of realism that can only be topped by getting hit with those same actual projectiles, which makes MCS training more immediate, relevant, and realistic than any other option.

The tactics which evolve from MCS maneuvers are perfectly translatable to the real battlefield…and real battlefield experience makes participants dominant in MCS. There is nothing more authentic than MCS, except actual combat itself.

Combat Zone:
Military Operations on Urban Terrain (MOUT) facilities are increasingly hosting Modern Combat Sports maneuvers. The buildings, ramps, debris fields, vehicles, and other elements of these expensive facilities combine to make the most authentic environments available—crucial for personnel receiving training ahead of deployment, and unparalleled for those MCS players invited to join the action.

Some facilities open their MOUT areas to civilians for special engagements; others sometimes invite civilians, like those organized into dedicated Operational Detachments of MCS players, to portray armed opposing forces during actual military training.

MCS events are also held on premier paintball and airsoft facilities, where fields designed like functional movie sets require players to adapt their tactics to challenging terrain.

As conflicts erupt in all manner of environments, from cities to jungles and deserts, so too can MCS maneuvers take place anywhere the participants are authorized to train. That includes wilderness and borrowed training facilities, abandoned buildings and industrial sites. With the ability to use water-based non-marking projectiles, Modern Combat Sports maneuvers can happen anywhere…just like combat.

Training:
The original Modern Combat Sports players are soldiers, sailors, Marines, and police officers—armed professionals who utilize the unique force-on-force training aspect of Modern Combat Sports to drill in the tactics required to survive in the field.

They continue to be the strongest supporters of MCS, using MCS to develop cutting-edge tactics, techniques, and maneuvers for war fighters and emergency personnel.

Even medical teams receive training through MCS maneuvers, as they practice extracting wounded comrades and civilians under incoming fire, administering first aid in combat zones, and navigating the many threats present on the modern battlefield as they fulfill their roles. These skills directly result in saved lives in combat, as training based on Modern Combat Sports becomes standard preparation before deployment.

The Future of Combat Sports:
Combat sports in general have evolved towards ever-more-realistic game formats, with increasingly authentic equipment. They’ve come a long way in just the past few decades.

But their ultimate incarnation is found in Modern Combat Sports—the hyper-realistic format that transcends being just a game, and crosses into the realm of authentic recreations of combat.

The equipment is a mix of authentic gear and safe-for-combat recreations of firearms, IEDs, mines, and other tools.

The tactics required and encouraged are real, as are the tactical challenges players face in completing their missions.

The excitement is unparalleled. This is the future of serious combat gaming. Of tactical training. Of preparing to wage wars, fight crime, and survive urban conflict.

This is Modern Combat Sports…and it’s as real as it gets.

Are you ready for Modern Combat Sports?