Paintball: any players out there?

[Hallofo]

One of my favorite pastimes is paintball, woodsball to be specific. I was just wondering if anyone else out there had the same hobby and what your favorite playstyles were.

I like to play up at the front and coordinate; my combination of military training and a loud voice seem to be favorable traits for a leadership role! If not that, then I tend to sneak around and "snipe". I bracket that in quotes 'cause there really are no long-range shots in paintball, but if you pick off a few of their skirmishers/ stragglers you can slow down an entire team as they check every bush, tree and leaf for you! (while calling you all sorts of dirty names afterwords).

[AzLoneRider]

We went to a field this summer... and played all day. My son liked it so much I bought him and I each a paintball gun for Christmas. We live in the desert so we are going to do a lot of woods ball (desert ball??) against each other. We have friends with pb guns so we will see if we can arrange to play with them in the desert.

I tended to get up in front on one of the flanks where I could see the rest of the field and yell out positions and instructions for other team mates... Playing one on one with my son I think we're going to have some fun with stalk and shoot situations.

[Rimfire_Red]

When my daughter was in about 4th grade we had a bunch (5?) kids out for an afternoon of paintball for her birthday.. Things were dryer then and we watched over them loose on about 30-40 acres of pasture (now soggy below our big dam). We were on a little rise and on top of a frozen manure pile so we had an "eagle eye view".This is prairie so cover was bumps, rises and long grass. It was really comical. Kids have no war strategy ideas at all. They had a ball and it was a really great party.

[macgeoghagen]

I used to play, but haven't since things got so fast with so much paint flying through the air. We used to go out in the woods at night in the snow and creep around trying to be snipers.