Paintball Magazine Paintball Magazine May 2020 Issue | Page 57
It’s more like playing airball in the woods
where lanes zones and the volume of paint
you shoot win you games: sounds familiar
doesn’t it? These greatly reduced field sizes
also mean you can be shot and hit on the
break out, and also get hit from boundary
tape to tape.
players to shoot at from start to finish of the
game you are continually going to be shooting
your guns.
Include into this equation the bunkers and
barricades are designed in a way that it’s
almost impossible to shoot the players out
from behind them unless you bunker them or
continually have to shoot a constant stream
of paint for a lucky ball to eliminate players.
Sounds very Familiar doesn’t it? Speedball
in the woods? Hence why a lot of the airball
players love playing on these small fields - it’s
not really too dissimilar to what they play.
All we have basically done in some instances,
not all, is replace the inflatables with man
made barricades and structures. The only way
to move is forwards because you no longer
have the room to manoeuvre and out flank
the other team or play real tactical woodsball
which is more reliant on the skill of the team
and playing to win a game.
So what’s the answer? Well it’s really simple-
most of us started back playing again to play
Why has this happened? In some cases it can woodsball again, not a watered down version
be down to the natural layout of a field, time of airball in the woods. We need to be playing
constraints in organizing and in the worst case on bigger fields where you can’t shoot out
I have my suspicions that some unscrupulous players on the break out and are big enough
event organizers are purposely designing the not to be able to shoot from tape to tape.
fields this way to make us shoot more paint to Because if we played on bigger fields once
generate more revenue through paint sales! again like we all did years ago the emphasis is
then back with the player’s skill and field craft
Let me explain why I feel like this. Firstly, if to out maneuver opposing players.
when playing on a small field of play you have
a higher chance to shoot multiple players on
the break out and can clearly see plenty of
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