Frequently asked questions

A directory of airsoft fields: find fields near you, see what they offer and how to get there, find other players, teams and the organisations that run fields, and share field reports, tips and questions in the community. We start with the fields in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg.

Yes. Finding fields, players, teams and organisations, having an account and creating an organisation are free.

We're building Airsoft Skirms in the open. Everything you see works, but features may still change and you'll find rough edges. The roadmap shows what's coming next, and we'd love to hear what you think.

An independent side project by one airsoft player, not a field or an association. We don't run fields or organise games: we list them, and bring players together.

English, Dutch, German, French, Ukrainian and Turkish: switch at the top of the page. Field descriptions, posts, comments, bios, and team and organisation descriptions are translated automatically into the page's language, with a button to show the original, and the search finds them in any of these languages. Proposals and photo titles are written in English, so every admin can review them.

No: Airsoft Skirms works in your phone's browser, no app needed.

Through the contact page. Check the roadmap first: it may already be on there.

When you're signed in, we measure from the location in your settings. Otherwise we estimate where you are from your IP address, roughly at the level of a city.

From the fields themselves and from players' proposals, and partly from Airsoft Skirms itself, which drafts a listing from a field's public website and other public pages about it. An admin reviews every listing and change before it's published, but the organisers of the organisation that runs a field edit it directly. Still, check prices, opening days and rules with the field before you go.

Featured fields near you come first when fields are sorted by Best, the default: they're our pick, or they pay to be featured. The others follow by distance, where a better reputation brings a field closer. When you search, the fields with every word you typed in their name come first, featured ones first among them and among the rest.

Players like or dislike fields on their pages, and press it again to take it back. Every like adds a point to the field's reputation, and every dislike takes one away. Sorted by Best, every ten points of reputation make a field count as half as far away, and every ten below zero as twice as far, so well-liked fields nearby come first. You need an account to like or dislike a field, and nobody sees which you picked.

A closed field no longer hosts games. It stays findable, so you know what happened to it, but comes last in search.

Sign in, then propose the field from the fields page, or use Suggest an edit on the field's page. An admin reviews every proposal, and you get an email with the outcome.

Yes. Signed in, add photos on a field's page or in its gallery; they show at once, with your username, and on your profile too. Under Settings > Photos you change a title, move a photo to another field, take it out of a field or delete it. Admins can take down a photo that doesn't belong and tell you why by email. A field's page can also have documents, such as its rules or a minimap.

A field's page has its address, a map, and a directions link that opens Google Maps.

Yes: every field's page and every photo has a share button that copies a link, or opens your phone's share sheet.

A feed where players share field reports, tips, gear reviews, videos, links, events and questions. Anyone can read it; with an account you write posts, comment, and vote posts and comments up or down.

Anything about airsoft, in any language. Pick what kind of post it is: a discussion (formatted text), images (one to ten), a link to another website or a YouTube video. Each has a title, one to three topics and the field it's about if any, and the last three take text too if you like. Your post is public at once, and you can change or delete it any time (its kind stays).

Hot puts the posts with the most upvotes in the past 30 days first, less their downvotes in that time, and Best those with the most comments in that time, however old the post is; New puts the latest first. Posts an admin pinned come first; when you search, Hot puts the posts with every word you typed in their title before all others, pinned ones first among them.

Upvote what you like and downvote what doesn't belong; press your vote again to take it back. A post's or comment's score is its upvotes less its downvotes, and every vote moves its player's reputation by a point. You can't vote on your own posts and comments.

Not yet: replies, mentions and polls are on the roadmap. For now, comment under the post.

Yes, when it doesn't belong: you get an email with the reason. The same goes for comments. If you think it's a mistake, reply to that email. An admin can also lock a post: it stays up, but takes no new comments.

In a chat, use Report on the message: pick a reason and, if you like, add a comment; the admins see that message, who wrote it and why, but nothing else of the chat. For a post or comment there's no report button yet: send us a message through the contact page with a link to it and what's wrong, and an admin takes a look.

Yes. Signed in, use New chat in Messages, Message on a player's profile, or Chat on the page of a team you're in: a team has one chat, which everyone in it reads, including players who join later. Your chats are under Messages in your menu, and the number on your menu counts the unread ones. You can react to a message with one of six emoji, archive a chat, delete a chat with a player for yourself, and block a player, which makes your chat read-only for you both. In a chat with a player, you see when they've read your message. A message can't be edited or deleted once it's sent. When a message is still unread two hours after it came in, we email you, at most once a day per chat; turn that off under Messages in your settings. Messages aren't translated.

A group of players who play together, with its own page: an emblem, a description, its home city, social media links, its members, a chat for them and a photo gallery any member adds to (a photo there can be in a field's gallery too). You can be in as many teams as you like.

Open a public team's page and join it there. A private team is invite-only: its owner shares an invite link with you. Either way, you need an account.

The team that shows with your name on your player card and profile. Your first team becomes it; you pick another in your settings, under Teams, or on the team's page.

It's the average reputation of its members, so it moves with theirs.

On its page, or in your settings under Teams. You leave its chat with it; what you wrote there stays. A team's owner hands it over to another member first; a team you're alone in, you can also delete.

Yes: its owner can remove you, after which you can join again, or ban you, which keeps you out until they lift the ban. Admins can also change, hand over or delete a team that doesn't belong.

No: you can find fields, players, teams and organisations, and read the community feed, without one. With an account, you get a profile, can create or join teams, create an organisation, can propose fields and edits, and can post, comment and vote.

At least 16 to have an account. Playing airsoft and owning replicas have their own rules where you live: many fields and countries ask for 18, and in the Netherlands a replica requires membership of the NABV. Check the field's rules before you go.

With a code we email you, or with Google, Discord, Microsoft or Facebook. Under Settings > Account, you can add a passkey or a password, and connect more of those accounts.

Under Settings > Account. Add a passkey, which signs you in with your fingerprint, face or screen lock, and turn on two-factor authentication, which asks for a code from an authenticator app when you sign in with an email code, a password or a connected account. We email you whenever how you sign in changes.

Sign in with one of the backup codes you saved, or with a passkey, then set up two-factor authentication again under Settings > Account. If you have neither, contact us from your account's email address.

Yes, in your settings: your username under Profile, your email address under Account, where you confirm the new address with a code we send to it.

Your profile: your username, avatar, bio, the country (or city and country) of your location if you choose to show it, your social media links, your reputation, your teams and organisations and when you joined. The pin on the map stays private, and nobody sees your email address. The photos you add to fields, teams and organisations are public too, with your username, and your profile shows them. The posts and comments you write in the community are public as well, with your username and their scores; how you vote stays private.

No: when you upload a photo, an avatar or any other image, we remove its metadata, including the place a photo was taken if your camera saved it. We also keep only the part you crop it to: 4:3, or square for an avatar or an emblem. Only that picture is public.

Your standing on Airsoft Skirms. Every proposal of yours that an admin approves adds a point, and so does every upvote on your posts and comments; every downvote takes one away. Other players can like or dislike you on your profile as well, a point either way, and nobody sees who did. Fields have a reputation too, from players' likes and dislikes.

As little as we can: our privacy policy spells it out. We don't show ads, don't sell data and don't use tracking cookies, and you can delete your account at any time.

You got an email with the reason and how long the ban lasts. A ban keeps you from signing in; your pending proposals are denied and your photos, posts and comments are removed. If you think it's a mistake, reply to that email or contact us.

In your settings, under Account. For your security, you need to have signed in within the last day. If you own a team with other members, or an organisation others run with you, hand it over first: a team to another member, an organisation to one of its other organisers. Your photos, posts, comments and messages are deleted with it, and so are the teams you're alone in and the organisations only you run. Field changes an admin approved from your proposals stay, without your name.

A club or business that runs fields, with its own page: a logo, a description, its address on a map and its contact details, the fields it runs and the posts about them, its organisers and a gallery of its own photos and its fields'. It has no members: its owner invites the people who run it with them as organisers, through an invite link on its dashboard, and an organiser can leave again on its page or under Organisations in the settings. Its reputation is the average of its fields' and its organisers'.

Propose it on the fields page, as your organisation's if you have one, or send us a message with a link to your website: we draft the listing from it, and an admin reviews it before it's published.

Yes, through an organisation, free for now. Create one under Organisations (a player owns one at most), then open your field's page and use Claim it under Do you run this field?: an admin checks your claim, and once it's approved your organisation's organisers edit the field on its dashboard, at once and without a review. A field that isn't listed yet, you propose as your organisation's.

Contact us with a link. We correct listings, take down photos, and remove fields that have closed or were never one.

Yes: once your organisation runs the field, add them on its dashboard, a PDF or an image each, and players find them on your field's page next to the photos. Or send them to us, and we add them.

Featured fields and organisations come first for players nearby. They're our pick, or pay to be featured: contact us to talk about it. Tools for organisers, such as skirmish scheduling and bookings, are on our roadmap.

No. We list fields and bring players together; the fields and organisers run the games. Check the details with them, and follow their rules and the law on replicas and protective gear where you play.

Send us a message through the contact page with a link and what's wrong. We act on reports quickly, tell the person who posted it why it was removed, and they can object. The same goes for a photo of you that you didn't agree to.

You do. You keep the rights to your photos, posts and comments, and let us show them on Airsoft Skirms. The terms and conditions have the details.