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The Fort game by Shoreline
13, 14 and 15th of June
Friday 14 June 2013
Valken corps team LimaBravo is on route to a
much promising Big game called “The Fort”
by Shoreline in Blenod les Touls, France.
Months before this game, shoreline teased
us with some awesome footage of this very
unique location in France. A historical fort
build during the days of good old Napoleon
complete with trenches, moulds, bunkers and
long dark, very dark hallways and corridors
promising fears and close quarter battles….
So you can understand we were eager to play
this game. This would be our first Shoreline
organized Big game and also our first Valken
sponsored Big game so we as a Valken corps
team had to show our best.
After 5 hours driving from the Netherlands we
arrived at the location. After being greeted
by the Shoreline staff we went to search for
a good place to put our camp up. There were
4 factions during this game. The UK, French,
German and Dutch players would battle
against each other so it’s obvious the
4 factions would prefer to camp together.
The introduction of the game was very noisy
and accompanied by a lot of smoke, music,
tough talk and the introduction of our
faction generals. After this we walked to
our starting point and we made ready to
play our first game against the French.
Finally the game started and we pushed t
owards the enemy but it took some time
before we encountered them, and when we
did, we blew them away with all the dutchies
together. We pushed them so far back that the
game Marshalls asked us to fall back and give
them the chance to come out of their respawn
point. So we did but they never really recovered from that first attack and with the thrill
and adrenaline we hoped for was gone as was
the motivation of our opponents.
Tim Barnett of Shoreline popped up in the
tent and introduced himself to us and told us
that because of the weather, the game would
start later the next day. So people had the
time to register the next day instead of doing
it now and be soaking wet…. A good call in our
opinion and for me it was a good sign that the
organizer rolls with the punches so to say…
The next morning the sun was smiling at us
and we made ready for our first game of the
day. The plan was that the 4 factions would
play on 2 fields at the same time. 2 factions
would battle in the fort and 2 would battle in
the woods next to the fort.
As a team play paintball every weekend and
we play a lot of Big games, for us a game is all
about quality and not quantity. So spray and
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