Paintballing Game
Paintballing games are a fun way to organize your large group in some competition. It’s also a way for a smaller group of players to compete with other teams. Some playing fields have organized Paintballing games their staff will lead and referee. Its good to have one or two unbiased referees for paintballing games. Games start out to be just for fun but adrenaline combined with competitive spirits can turn a fun afternoon paintballing into serious confrontations. Airsoft gun games and paintballing games can be interchangeable.
Here are three paintballing games created exclusively for SmartPaintballing.com by Jan Pavis. Paintballing games are created as guidelines; they are just the beginning to a fun afternoon out in the field. These games can be played on outdoor or indoor fields. To get the most out of these games or any other paintballing games, be creative and use your group’s skills, experience, and ideas to customize these basic game types for your playing field and your teams.
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Village Guardians
In the paintballing game, Village Guardians, each team must defend their village from take over while at the same time, attack and take over the opposing team’s village. This game is ideal for large paintballing teams. This game requires defensive and offensive skills at the same time from both teams. This paintballing game requires team members to use advanced strategy skills to be able to defend the team’s village while attacking and taking over the opponent’s village.
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To play the game, designate each paintballing team a group of three or more bunkers, buildings, etc.
grouped together. This will be each team’s village. The villages should be separated enough to provide
cover for the paintballing team members during take over attacks and village defense. On paintball fields
where the designated villages may not be obvious, attach team flags/colors with clips or staples to each
building. A flag displayed on a pole, that can be attached to each or near each building, is ideal for
this paintballing game.
Winning
To win the game, all opposing paintballing team members must be eradicate from all buildings
in their designated village. To be officially declared the victor, the winning team’s village
may not have any of its buildings occupied by the opposing paintballing team members.
Drop Point 20
The scenario of the paintballing game, Drop Point 20, is that the team is dropped by helicopter is in an open area. During the drop an important package is left in the clearing. This is a great game if you are low on field playing time, it often goes fast.
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To play this paintball game, find an open area on the field. Place a box in the open area. Have
each paintball team line up with their backs towards each other and the box between the two teams.
At the first whistle, everyone runs for cover. At the second whistle-20 seconds, shooting is allowed
to begin. The 20 seconds can be altered to accommodate how far cover is from the clearing. The object
of the game is to return to the clearing and retrieve the package. Accurate shooting to provide
overage of team members attempting to retrieve the package will be an essential skill in this
paintball game.
Winning
To win this game, a paintball team member must grab the box before being shot.
Medic Mania
The paintballing game, Medic Mania, allows shot players to be “healed” by one or more (depending on team size) medics. The paintballing team medic should have strong evasive skills. The medic must be willing to be the focused target. Team members will need accurate paintballing shooting skills to protect the team medic.
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To play this paintballing game there should be a medic armband (white with a red cross) for each
medic, which is worn with the paintballing team armband color. Once shot, the medic is out. Once a
team member is shot, he will no longer be allowed to walk or run, he may crawl with gun raised, to
shelter. A shot team member should yell “medic”. The opposing team will not be allowed to further
shoot any paintballing team member who is calling for a medic and has their gun raised. If the medic
can get to the shot player and tag the injured team member, he is considered “healed” and may resume
playing in the game. The medic should yell “healed”.There are a couple strategies each team can choose
from for this paintballing game. One is to assign the most accurate shooters to cover the medic/s
at all times while the remainder of the team attempts to shoot the other team and its medic/s.
Another strategy is to assign an elite squad of a couple accurate shooters that will focus on
taking out the medic. Use your paintballing skills and experience to combine strategies and
come up with new ones.
Winning
To win this paintballing game, all opposing team members must be shot.