Who's into paintballing?

by **Sabres** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 11:01 am

Originally posted by Conscious*
I personally like playing in the woods regular capture the flag scenario the best. I've only played speedball once, and although it was fun I liked the longer more stealthy woods game.

Agreed. I like the stealthy games that require more sneaking around.

by **Evan** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 1:09 pm

I prefer speedball because for me it's much more of an adrenaline rush. Scenario and woodsball games are great too.

by **ferret963** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 7:45 pm

Speedball is to much a waste of paint, I like woods ball because of tactics, once the fighting starts it seems to get the adrenalin flowing

by **jfmaday** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 11:38 pm

got my Tippmann 98 customs and ready to go. I will see how much I like it.

by **Gen. Ouch** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 12:46 am

i think the best part of woodsball is the full tilt diving to prone alot. once that adreniline is pumpin you cant feel shit, but the next day man of man does it catch up to you.

the last time i play it was for close to 7 hours strait. never been so sore in my life.

by **Evan** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 2:06 am

Originally posted by ferret963
Speedball is to much a waste of paint, I like woods ball because of tactics, once the fighting starts it seems to get the adrenalin flowing

It's only a waste of paint if your aim sucks, seriously. I can make a whole case last the entire day.

by **Evan** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 2:07 am

Originally posted by Gen. Ouch
i think the best part of woodsball is the full tilt diving to prone alot. once that adreniline is pumpin you cant feel shit, but the next day man of man does it catch up to you.

the last time i play it was for close to 7 hours strait. never been so sore in my life.

You should see the stuff people pull of for speedball. Much more than just diving full tilt into prone. These guys slide, dive, roll, jump, and lots of other crazy shit in speedball to win.

by **Bromsin** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 8:20 am

IMO speedball is more of a challenge because its almost all strategy. You have to be able to shoot the lanes, memorize all the bunker codes, know the angles of every part of the field.

Its a lot more indepth than most people realise.

by **Gen. Ouch** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 8:27 am

Originally posted by Evan
You should see the stuff people pull of for speedball. Much more than just diving full tilt into prone. These guys slide, dive, roll, jump, and lots of other crazy shit in speedball to win.

i didn't mean just diving to prone, that was just an example. but i have whatched speedball before and they do pull some crazy shit.

by **ferret963** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 8:51 am

Originally posted by Bromsin
IMO speedball is more of a challenge because its almost all strategy. You have to be able to shoot the lanes, memorize all the bunker codes, know the angles of every part of the field.

Its a lot more indepth than most people realise.

Speedball though is a constant volley of fire from the getgo, it seems like they are just constantly firing to keep people pinned down and going through pods of paint like no tomorrow. I think speedball was mostly invented by fields to sell paint, not to mention you don't need acers of land for it. Sure all paintball games take tactics, you have to know your field your playing at exc in woodsball. You still have bunkers exc, but you are going out into a area that you have no idea where people are at and can be ambushed or flanked if you aren’t very careful. You have to have camouflage and blend in with the woods, move slowly and try to spot people out. It’s some tough stuff, and I like the realism behind it, like playing war when your kids but you have guns that shoot. Where I used to play we would play something like speedball in the open field out front, their where bushes exc, but it was a smaller area and more confined. But, we would also use like a big area of woods behind this field with trails through it and a sniper tower in the open area in the middle of the woods. Unlike speedball you can be stealthy and sneak around behind the enemy lines, and to me nothing is cooler then hearing a paintball battle in the woods and your looking to get into the action lol Most the time we would do search and destroy missions, and what ever team lost all their men first lost. It’s still fun though to play capture the flag if you can cycle through people, or play find the watermelon when one is hidden out in the woods and both teams try to bring it back but if your shot with it you have to lay it down where u are at heh fun stuff like that seems more interesting then going to a field and just playing speedball with your bright colored clothes, 30bps electro gun shooting inflatable bunkers on really small fields.

Glider, if your serious about getting a feild set up, we can come over and start working, id like to see your land. Clear some brush and get some trails and build some bunkers

by **Bromsin** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 9:05 am

Throwing paint is nothing new to woodsball. Any tournament whether its woods or sppedball becomes a paint throwing match. I have played in both types of tourneys and while strategy is a bit differnet the amount of paint used is the same.

Even for recreational play I will go through a case or two of paint for the day.

In all honesty I am semi agaist the electric guns. 30bps does take away some skill from the game.

by **Evan** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 11:13 am

Originally posted by Bromsin
Throwing paint is nothing new to woodsball. Any tournament whether its woods or sppedball becomes a paint throwing match. I have played in both types of tourneys and while strategy is a bit differnet the amount of paint used is the same.

Even for recreational play I will go through a case or two of paint for the day.

In all honesty I am semi agaist the electric guns. 30bps does take away some skill from the game.

That's why I cap my ROF for my Ion to about 12 balls per second. If the first 11 won't hit, chances are the 12th won't either.

I'm leaning towards getting a third gun, an autococker. For some reason those things just feel so nice and the mechanical pull feels great.

by **ferret963** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 11:46 am

IDK about paintuse, I imagine it just depends on A how many people you play with, B the ROF of your marker, and C just how many crackpot shots you take. I go through under 1,000 rnds in a day

If your thinking about getting a Cocker id think again, id suggest checking out the Palmer Blazer, PPS Link

Matters to how much $$ you want to spend

The nasty typhoon scares me!

by **Evan** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 3:29 pm

Originally posted by ferret963
IDK about paintuse, I imagine it just depends on A how many people you play with, B the ROF of your marker, and C just how many crackpot shots you take. I go through under 1,000 rnds in a day

If your thinking about getting a Cocker id think again, id suggest checking out the Palmer Blazer, PPS Link

Matters to how much $$ you want to spend The nasty typhoon scares me!

Why think again? I've used Cocker's for years, but never owned one. I know how they work, how to clean them, how to time them, etc.

by **ferret963** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 5:50 pm

Glen Palmer invented cockers! In the early 1990s, Glen Palmer figured out how to redirect part of the pressure coming from these larger CO2 tanks to help re-pump the gun automatically. Palmer started using these on all of his brand of markers like the Typhoon. Eventually, Bud Orr and Palmer figured out a way to make the popular pump gun, the Sniper, also recock using nifty pneumatics. That’s when the Autococker was born. It became an instant hit.

hmm and the way he designs them they don't need to have their timing messed with and only a person like yourself who has extensive knowledge about a cocker can actually tinker with it on their own. Many believe for this it is a superior product, being so well versed in paintball guns I would imagine you would have some knowledge of Glenn Palmer!

Cockers are a great gun, when they are working. For someone who dosn't know them (i'v seen it) you can really mess up and $$$ for tinkering.

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