Ehasa Airsoft does an after action report on the biggest milsim event Finland... "TSTOS 22 was held in Juupajoki in the old ski resort Juupavaara. The game area had plenty of altitude differences, interesting terrain, decent road network and some lakes.

Originally, the event was supposed to be held in Finnish Lapland, but in the end the area was too expensive. In hindsight, with current fuel prices, the event in Lapland would have cost quite a lot money for us. However, we got a new game area at the beginning of the year, but all this confusion between changing game areas caused that some players had already arranged their vacations and so on. We believed that is partly the reason to why only about 500 people signed up for the event.

The reason we ended up seeking a new area was that the Padasjoki terrains had already become quite familiar to the players. Padasjoki was also challenging because of the large number of landowners and the fact that we were naturally among the last ones when requesting for the area from the Finnish Defense Forces.

Despite the challenges, the games went well in Juupajoki. The terrain was great for infantry, but the roads were very narrow, which again was not to the liking of mechanized troops."