On the Germans side there were Heer, SS, and Fallschirmjagers. Some of the German impressions are lacking, but for the most part the FJ impressions should be spot on (many of them do blank reenacting).
The German commander for this was Greg Hamilton, unit leader of FJR6 out of WA.
The event incorporate blank fire, and airsoft. The Germans had a quite a bit more blank fire than the Americans - about 1/3 blank fire.
Here was a review of the event written by Hamilton and posted on the FJ Yahoo usergroup:
Photographs by David 'GWAG' Hintze - gwagdesigns.comhere is a picture thread from a combined airsoft/BF event we did this
weekend. There were almost NO reenactors there (something we will fix
in the future) and for most the participants it was only their first
or second WWII event, so from that perspective the impressions were
good.
The Germans had one zug of 3 gruppe for about 20-22 total. One FJ
gruppe. one FJ/Heer gruppe, and one SS gruppe. We had both blank fire
MGs and airsoft MGs. We had about 1/3 total BF weapons vs 2/3
airsoft. A good ratio but we needed that ratio in every gruppe as
dritte gruppe had almost all airsoft.
http://www.battlesim.com/forums/viewtop ... 213&t=9410
We had Friday to set up, all day saturday was training. The fighting
started about 3am with a well simulated airborne drop. The fighting
was going to go until afternoon but the weather was hell and it ended
mid-morning with no one being upset by the early end. We had already
fought hard fro 6 hours with almost no sleep for two nights.
The FJs got to do two simulated training jumps, one Friday night and
one Saturday night. Fridays simulated a covert assembly and movement,
as if a small team had inserted alone. We dropped, rolled up the
stick and made a concealed night movement about 1-2 Km back to camp.
Saturdays was simulating we were parts of a large force overtly
dropping so we assembled on flares and conducted a hasty assault on a
gun postition with OPFOR.
For the battle we operated as gruppes and tried to hunt and kill the
pathfinders and then the sticks before they had time to assemble into
a fighting force. When our 8 man gruppes could find 1-3 men alone it
was quick work (all allied airborne who were killed had to go back to
the start and drop again)
these guys may be missing a lot of knowledge, and have a long ways to
go in a few areas but they are doing WAY better than us in other areas.
When they talk about a impression they really mean being in the first
person.
These guys had mail call, and then eveyone wrote letters home and had
to mail them.
I conducted myself in the first person, present tense, June 1944, most
of the time. I was pretty incredible. The downside is you don't get the
catch up on life with old friends, the up side is the event is 100X
better.
More info: http://www.battlesim.com
looks a real nice place to spend a few days or a lifetime. 