Paintball

[DigitalSushi]

What are the rules of paintball?

I've never really found out.

never ever take your goggles off
no point blank shooting (although that still happens, executions upon capturing their team captain when he runs out of ammo is much lulz)
no shooting the crotch

I once got shot in my butt at point blank range, I couldn't sit down for a week and my mother thought she wouldn't get grandkids.

this is what happens if you take your goggles off > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXeMontXSTI

 

[mackem]

Until very recently I did play a lot of tourney paintball over here in the UK in a league called the NSPL and played a few rounds in the Millenium league last season.
Unfortunately I have had to stop for the moment due to a lack of funds and lack of time due to because of my education.

I was a front man, generally playing snake because while I am far too tall for the position I am very very quick and so can generally get there off the break without getting shot out.
My best moment in paintball would be one of two:
First is not really a moment, more a season. Last year I played for 2 teams, one in the NSPL and one in the Milleniums. The NSPL team was new, only formed for last season, and we started off playing in division 2 against teams that had been around for 5 years plus. We were expected to come last in the divison however we managed to finish second despite having less experience than all the other teams by a country mile.
The other moment is again from last season, playing in the Milleniums, we ended up somehow being drawn against Joy Division in one match (they are one of the best teams in the world), and surprisingly we managed to last for most of the match despite being amateurs compared to them. My best moment in that match however was managing to shoot out Max Lundqvist and Magued Idris who were 2 of their best players at the time.

 

[Reokue]

this is what happens if you take your goggles off > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXeMontXSTI

That is just funny, bad funny but funny.

 

[implodingMan]

I generally go paintballing 3 times a summer. Its an expensive hobby, so any more would be financially bad for me.

Generally I really enjoy it, but there are a few problems. People are too afraid of being hit, and never move from cover to cover, preferring to simply camp at the starting point. There is also always some old guy trying to direct tactics (basically yelling at you to advance while he waits at the back). This guy also has the best equipment.

As for myself, I am a terrible shot at medium to long distances, so I group up with some other people and play as shock troops. Rapid advances, lots of sprinting, and an awesome adrenaline rush. All that track and field training comes in handy.

 

[Anton P. Nym]

I played paintball a few times one year, not enough to justify my own kit. I enjoyed it though it was literally a pain sometimes (especially the winterball session I played... not just from the semi-frozen paintballs, but also the damned thorn bushes that didn't have leaves...) but had to give it up when I lost my job the following year.

I think my favourite moment was holding off a 4-man enemy squad all alone, by faking them out with a loaner gun that wouldn't feed pellets half the time. No "kills", which was frustrating as hell, but I held them off a hill for a good two-three minutes with the sound of my dry shots coming from odd directions as I moved around. They kept casting around trying to find a flank... too nervous to risk running into a fire sack. By the time they figured out it was just me and that they could indeed rush the hill, the rest of my team (including my buddy, who'd been hit and was marking time with the umpires) came up behind me... I ran back down, shouting that the enemy was behind me, and they picked 'em off as they crested the hill.

I wish I'd had a camera.

(My least favourite moment was picking thorns out of my scalp for a week after that winterball session. Ecch.)

-- Steve

 

[letsnoobtehpwns]

I'm into airsofting but I airsoft at S.C. Village with is more of a paintball park.

 

[Howlingwolf214]

Mine would be last Friday. Ran and took cover behind a tree shooting at someone to my right. Suddenly, my gun runs out of ammo. Oh dear.

Then someone lobs a paint grenade. I run and dive behind cover.

It was tremendous fun, paintballing is awesome.

 

[Sion_Barzahd]

How much does an average game of paintball cost? I've never been and always been curious, so i might get some friends together.

 

[LoopyDood]

I play paintball regularly. I have a VSC Phantom, which is a stock class marker. That means it is a pump, has a 10-15 round feedtube instead of a hopper, and runs on 12 gram disposable CO2 tanks instead of a larger refillable tank. During the winter however I play modified stock class with a 3.5oz tank. It's a lot of fun, is much cheaper to play with, and with the fields around here full of renters it provides a much needed challenge. I only use around 200 paintballs a day; There is an excellent field near me that charges $15 for entry with 200 free paintballs.

I usually play woodsball, but I enjoy playing speedball more. The problem is the closest speedball field to me is an hour's drive away.

I think the pain of it is important. Without it, you may as well be playing laser tag. It acts as a deterrent to keep you from doing clearly stupid things, and when you get shot you get a huge burst of adrenaline. It doesn't even hurt to get shot after the first game.

Funniest story? Last summer, my brother's cocky friend was having a paintball birthday party, and he had just been paintballing the day before. Naturally, he acted as if he was better than everybody else. There was me, him, 4 of his friends and my brother. Not to sound cocky, but me and my brother were dominating the whole day so we started doing 2v5. One of the games, we were playing on a field that had a tower on a hill surrounded by lots of bunkers. The entire base is surrounded by woods. One team starts next to the tower, and the other starts in the woods.

If you've ever played in a tower, you'd understand how bad of a spot it is. Two of them went into the bunkers around the tower, and the other three including the birthday boy crammed into the top of the tiny tower. The game starts, I sprint unnoticed for a good position close to the tower with lots of tree cover from it, and my brother runs to the closest bunker of the base. Every single player starts shooting at my brother who is able to keep their heads down. I crawl quietly toward the tower, eventually getting underneath it.

The two players in the bunkers get eliminated by my brother, who is now pinned down by the three players in the tower. I stand up looking to see if the cracks in the tower's floor are large enough to shoot through, and prepare to walk up the stairs for an easy group surrender. The fattest player on their team notices me pointing up at him through a crack, and his eyes widened tremendously. He started to panic, then hilariously yelled "THEY'RE BELOW US, THEY'RE BELOW US!!! I SURRENDER!" while dancing around trying to avoid being shot, followed by the other two looking down, yelling "AH!" and then surrendering.

I still bug birthday boy to this day.

I'm into airsofting but I airsoft at S.C. Village with is more of a paintball park.

Lucky bastard. That's one of the most famous paintball fields in the US.

How much does an average game of paintball cost? I've never been and always been curious, so i might get some friends together.

It depends. Find a local field with good reviews here, [http://www.pbreview.com/] find out how much paint and entry costs. Most first timers use 500-1000 paintballs each (1-2 bags) so plan around that, and bring about $10 each for food. Try to buy paint a case at a time (2000 paintballs, 4 bags) because it's usually cheaper that way.

 

[MoganFreeman]

Mine would have to be in a 3-man local tourney. I'm in back-left and both my teammates get shot out. I shoot down the left hand tape and take their back left out. Quickly bump up to the left 30 dorrito. Peak out right side and take out the back right. Bump up to center dorrito, peak out the left side and take out the back center. Greatest moment in my life.

That sounds really cool, but could you what happened in a way that someone who doesn't know paintball jargon could understand?

 

[Doc Theta Sigma]

Is pistol-whipping allowed?
Is gun-butting allowed?

While not explicitly prohibited, it's considered unsporting. I've only ever been paintballing a couple of times, but I've gotten some pretty good 'kills' in. I was leaning against a door for cover, peeked around the side and saw somebody crawling on their stomach towards me on the other side, so I shot him a couple of times for good measure. The funniest one I've ever seen was three of the older members of a team throwing down some smoke grenades, then charging the other team using the smoke as cover.

 

[Limasol]

Heya, i play on the Birmingham University Team, here in the UK its a struggling sport but i love it loads. Hit me up if you wanna talk more.

 

[Reokue]

Mine would have to be in a 3-man local tourney. I'm in back-left and both my teammates get shot out. I shoot down the left hand tape and take their back left out. Quickly bump up to the left 30 dorrito. Peak out right side and take out their back right. Bump up to center dorrito, peak out the left side and take out the back center. Greatest moment in my life.

That sounds really cool, but could you what happened in a way that someone who doesn't know paintball jargon could understand?

Sure.

Example Field:

Spoiler

-So a speed ball field is a long rectangle with starting positions on both sides at the long ends and bunkers or obstacles interspersed throughout the field.
-The field is mirrored at the halway point.
-The back left position is the bunker that is farthest left and nearest your end of the field.
-The left hand tape is the line of sight from your back left bunker to your opponents back left bunker.
-Bumping is moving foward.
-The left 30 dorrito is a triangle shaped bunker that is further up the field but still on the left hand side of the field.
-Their back right is the bunker farthest away from where you started on the right hand side of the field.
-Center dorrito is the dorrito bunker at the center line of the field.
-Back center is the bunker farthest from where you started but in the center of the back line of bunkers.

Hope that helps a little bit. It's kind of hard to explain a speedball field if you haven't seen one so I included that picture of an example field.

The funniest one I've ever seen was three of the older members of a team throwing down some smoke grenades, then charging the other team using the smoke as cover.

The funniest story that I have involving smoke grenades is this guy was playing at this outdoor field and this smoke grenade gets thrown right by him so he gets down on his knees and crawls up to the grenade and tosses it foward. He then shoots the people he can see and then tosses the grenade foward again. He shoots the people he can see and then tosses it one more time and then as soon as he gets up to the grenade it fades and he gets shot so many times.

EDIT: Long ADD post is loooong.

 

[MRMIdAS2k]

My story involves what has been christened "the hell game"

large field, barrel in the middle, to score a point, sit on the barrel for 10 seconds, you can only be eliminated if you're shot in the front, first to 3 wins.

WORLD

OF

PAIN!

 

[LoopyDood]

About a month ago I attended an Xball clinic hosted by Bart Blonski from Russian Legion. He's a very cool guy, he even let me borrow his cleats for the slippery turf.

Anyways, with my Phantom I was the only person there who didn't need batteries out of 30 people. The limit was 15bps as well. Bart was fascinated with my Phantom. He used to use one back in the nineties when pump was the norm.

With this being one of my first Xball experiences with experienced players I surprised myself when I was able to make it to the snake consistently off the break as well as successfully diving for the first time in my life - right under their lanes. I also got the best chrono results I've ever had that day - 237, 236, 235, 237, 236. (The limit was 250) That's with unregulated CO2, too. Ahmazin.

It was a bit embarrassing doing the laning exercises with a stock class pump, but in the breaking and snapshooting drills I excelled.

The clinic was 6h long, cost $100 and came with a free case (2000) of paint. Excellent deal

Is pistol-whipping allowed?
Is gun-butting allowed?

Any activity that can injure or otherwise put a player in harm's way is prohibited. Bludgeoning someone with your marker is not only stupid, unsafe and pointless, but by definition disallowed. Why on earth would you want to do that any way? If you're just trying to fulfill your video game fantasies you shouldn't be playing paintball. Besides, unless you get the drop on them I seriously doubt you'd be able to get close enough to another player to perform such an act...

 

[DigitalSushi]

I remember heckling the paintball tutor cos he was from Alabama, playing President, where the way to win the match was to capture the teams un armed president, so I was asking him if the president was apppointed democratically or the Alabama way, where the winner of NASCAR gets to be president. So he made me president, and I got my shit fucked up.

in the next round my friend twisted his ankle, so I got his gun, duel wielding harper paintball guns oh yeah. RAMBO.

 

[chumpzilla_69]

These storys are fantastic!

I have a few now......

My first ever experience of paintballing was possibly the most badass feeling ever, our team had to take a "fort", so me and my mate ran up around the side of the fort, and picked people off from the side. Suddenly, we ran out of ammo (we'd forgot to get more rounds in the break), so my mate, in an inspired moment of bad-assery, jumped down the slope and screamed SURRENDER!. We won the entire match single handedly.

My favorite was going on a Kamikaze run through the middle of the forrest, I scored EVERY point for our team that day untill i ran into a compound or "kill house" and got a bright pink stripe painted up from my crotch to the top of my vizor. From point blank range. Little did I know the guy's gun was on RAPID FIRE. The Marshalls didnt appreciate my war cry as I ran into the base.

Lastly
A slightly older, possibly insane guy who was in my team gave us all smoke grenades and told us to do EXACTLY AS HE DID, the crazy old dude then strikes his grenade and puts it in the front of his AMMO BELT thingy and charged down the middle of the forrest. Acording to the marchalls all you could see were 15 coloured clouds screaming down the center with paintballs flying out of them. We were awarded 100 style points


I tend to get a lot of style points

 

[Reokue]

I also got the best chrono results I've ever had that day - 237, 236, 235, 237, 236. (The limit was 250) That's with unregulated CO2, too. Ahmazin.

You know when that happens you're gonna have a good day.

 

[mhitman]

One of the funnest things ever

 

[wewontdie11]

This just happened today. I haven't been in a while and I forgot about wonderful moments like this:

We were playing a game of VIP where my team had to escort one person to a rendezvous point through a western style town. My team essentially split up into two, a few taking the VIP down the right and me and a couple others moving down the left through the heavier cover, where the highest concentration of enemies was.

My "squad" of about 4 people made it to the half-way point of the area before we encountered any resistance, but the chorus of paintballs thudding against our thin softwood house signalled the resistance we had encountered was fairly substantial. 2 nearby members of my team were taken down almost immediately before we had a chance to assess where they were and return fire, leaving two of us trapped in a tiny flimsy house. At this point I had no idea where the VIP was or what was going on over the other side of the area.

I decided to attempt to cover my friend as he made a dash across a small patch of open ground to the next house as the barrage continued outside. I popped up out of a window, nailed one man in the face with my first shot and continued suppressing his comrades as my friend made a dash for better cover. He just barely made it when some total dick head popped unexpectedly round the corner from him and point blanked him in the chest. The worst part was he got away with it as well as only 2 marshals were present and they were focussed elsewhere.

Being the only one left in my little post, the exact words which ran through my head were "...Fuck it!" as I ran from the relative safety of my newly re-painted house across to where my friend had been dispatched. The same rule-flouting bell end had not moved and attempted to pull the same trick on me as I neared his spot but before he could get a shot away I put one in his visor so he missed his shot, then put a couple in his chest for good measure.

As he walked off I threw caution to the wind and continued running towards the next house without stopping to take cover, which probably would have been a better decision in retrospect as somebody in the adjacent house put one square on the jugular vein in my neck. That one hurt like a ***** but the rules we were playing said head and neck shots didn't count so I continued. From my new abode I shot another 3 people in the shins through a broken wall before they even knew what was happening, taking them out, and made life difficult for another by putting two into his mask, all in the space of about 30 seconds.

That was most of the team down now, only a couple left and I could hear them firing just to my left in the next building. Because of the layout I couldn't get a shot on them from my current position and remain in cover so I broke for their hideout hammering the trigger at them as quickly as possible. It dawned on me, that as the two remaining opponents turned to face me, that I had not hit either of them once, in fact there wasn't even anything coming out the end of my gun. Without doubt the greatest time to run out of paintballs. They both turned and opened up into me as I was standing out in the open. Those two alone shot me 9 times in the chest and thighs and I got some hefty bruises from that encounter. I felt a bit like Willem Defoe in Platoon.