Paintball: Tactics suggestions

So guys, this Tuesday I will join my class for a game of Paintball, and will bt return until Wednesday (One night. (Fuck, got tempted to write stand there))

I wonder if you guys have any suggestions for some great tactics, and some pro tips.

Katatonic717 wrote:

thank god i didnt spam this thread with useless crap

hurr

Play some Insurgency, you'll be surprised at just how intelligent of a shooter it really is.

Look up tactics and videos on the net, ffs.

Don't be worried if the mask makes you feel like you can't breathe, just calm down and breathe steady.

Stay down.

Move from cover to cover.

Do NOT waste your ammo.

Pay attention to the rules, and don't forget em.

Pray it's an actual arena, and not just a fucking forest.

Don't get pinned down. Tell your team to keep moving.

Use hand signals, if possible.

Lie and say you've played paintball before so people can take you seriously. Evidently, I have played it before, but you get taken so seriously if you say you have played it before that it's worth lying about it.

TheNewCity wrote:

Don't be worried if the mask makes you feel like you can't breathe, just calm down and breathe steady.

Thanks for the tip.

TheNewCity wrote:

Stay down.

When I'm assigned as a scout..?

TheNewCity wrote:

Move from cover to cover.

Sure.

TheNewCity wrote:

Pay attention to the rules, and don't forget em.

:C

TheNewCity wrote:

Pray it's an actual arena, and not just a fucking forest.

Probably gonna be both, as far as I know

TheNewCity wrote:

Don't get pinned down. Tell your team to keep moving.

My team is filled with MW2 wacko's.

TheNewCity wrote:

Use hand signals, if possible.

Again, thanks for t3h t1p

TheNewCity wrote:

Lie and say you've played paintball before so people can take you seriously. Evidently, I have played it before, but you get taken so seriously if you say you have played it before that it's worth lying about it.

I have done a CTF-thing, where two guys shoot on a unarmed guy runing for the flag with a timelimit on 1:30 minutes.
I have done both shooting and running, so I may have some experience on shootin' and hiding.


Thanks for the tips mate!

I got one for ya.

DO NOT BLIND FIRE, Make every shot count.

This is the most important tip of them all: Don't get shot.

JustBarney wrote:

This is the most important tip of them all: Don't get shot.

The second most important one: help your team to defeat the enemys

Murphy's Laws of Combat:

1.If the enemy is in range, so are you.
2.Incoming fire has the right of way.
3.Don't look conspicuous, it draws fire.
4.There is always a way, and it usually doesn't work.
5.The problem with the easy way out is that it has already been mined.
6.Try to look unimportant, they may be low on ammo.
7.Professionals are predictable, it's the amateurs that are dangerous.
8.The enemy invariably attacks on two occasions:
1.when you're ready for them.
2.when you're not ready for them.
9.Teamwork is essential, it gives them someone else to shoot at.
10.If you can't remember, then the claymore IS pointed at you.
11.The enemy diversion you have been ignoring will be the main attack.
12.A "sucking chest wound" is nature's way of telling you to slow down.
13.If your attack is going well, then it's an ambush.
14.Never draw fire, it irritates everyone around you.
15.Anything you do can get you shot, including nothing.
16.If you build yourself a bunker that's tough for the enemy to get into quickly, then you won't be able to get out of it quickly either.
17.Never share a foxhole with anyone braver than yourself.
18.If you're short of everything but the enemy, you're in a combat zone.
19.When you've secured the area, don't forget to tell the enemy.
20.Never forget that your weapon is made by the lowest bidder.
21.Friendly fire isn't.
22.If the sergeant can see you, so can the enemy.
23.Never stand when you can sit, never sit when you can lie down, never stay awake when you can sleep.
24.The most dangerous thing in the world is a second lieutenant with a map and a compass.
25.There is no such thing as an atheist in a foxhole.
26.A grenade with a seven second fuse will always burn down in four seconds.
27.Remember, a retreating enemy is probably just falling back and regrouping.
28.If at first you don't succeed call in an air-strike.
29.Exceptions prove the rule, and destroy the battle plan.
30.Everything always works in your HQ, everything always fails in the colonel's HQ.
31.The enemy never watches until you make a mistake.
32.One enemy soldier is never enough, but two is entirely too many.
33.A clean (and dry) set of BDU's is a magnet for mud and rain.
34.Whenever you have plenty of ammo, you never miss. Whenever you are low on ammo, you can't hit the broad side of a barn.
35.The more a weapon costs, the farther you will have to send it away to be repaired.
36.Field experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
37.Interchangeable parts aren't.
38.No matter which way you have to march, its always uphill.
39.If enough data is collected, a board of inquiry can prove ANYTHING.
40.For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism. (in boot camp)
41.The one item you need is always in short supply.
42.The worse the weather, the more you are required to be out in it.
43.The complexity of a weapon is inversely proportional to the IQ of the weapon's operator.
44.Airstrikes always overshoot the target, artillery always falls short.
45.When reviewing the radio frequencies that you just wrote down, the most important ones are always illegible.
46.Those who hesitate under fire usually do not end up KIA or WIA.
47.The tough part about being an officer is that the troops don't know what they want, but they know for certain what they DON'T want.
48.To steal information from a person is called plagiarism. To steal information from the enemy is called gathering intelligence.
49.The weapon that usually jams when you need it the most is the M60.
50.The perfect officer for the job will transfer in the day after that billet is filled by someone else.
51.When you have sufficient supplies & ammo, the enemy takes 2 weeks to attack. When you are low on supplies & ammo the enemy decides to attack that night.
52.The newest and least experienced soldier will usually win the Congressional Medal Of Honor.
53.A Purple Heart just goes to prove that were you smart enough to think of a plan, stupid enough to try it, and lucky enough to survive.
54.Murphy was a grunt.

learn them all and you'll survive

Airstrikes in paintball, it made me laugh
"SHIT! OUR MEN HAS GOTTEN YELLOW!"
"Quick! Call in the painterpilot!"

Emild00d wrote:

TheNewCity wrote:

Don't be worried if the mask makes you feel like you can't breathe, just calm down and breathe steady.

Thanks for the tip.

TheNewCity wrote:

Stay down.

When I'm assigned as a scout..?

So running forward madly is a good strategy?

TheNewCity wrote:

Move from cover to cover.

Sure.

TheNewCity wrote:

Pay attention to the rules, and don't forget em.

:C

yus

TheNewCity wrote:

Pray it's an actual arena, and not just a fucking forest.

Probably gonna be both, as far as I know

Then you're screwed. It might be a bullshit "this team goes first, you guys get to get fucked up" game.

TheNewCity wrote:

Don't get pinned down. Tell your team to keep moving.

My team is filled with MW2 wacko's.

View the "lie about experience" tip.

TheNewCity wrote:

Use hand signals, if possible.

Again, thanks for t3h t1p

TheNewCity wrote:

Lie and say you've played paintball before so people can take you seriously. Evidently, I have played it before, but you get taken so seriously if you say you have played it before that it's worth lying about it.

I have done a CTF-thing, where two guys shoot on a unarmed guy runing for the flag with a timelimit on 1:30 minutes.
I have done both shooting and running, so I may have some experience on shootin' and hiding.

Excellent.


Thanks for the tips mate!

Replies are in bold.

Here is the last one I can give you.

You CAN eat the Paintballs, Its sugar based paint.

Play CS:S paint-ball mod for over 10 hours straight, and you'll get it.

No, Lime.

Play Insurgency, fuck anything else.

or just shoot people IRL.

My 5 major rules in paintball match:
1. Keep your head!
2. Watch your back!
3. Move faster!
4. Help teammates to kill all bastards!
5. Never forget about ammo limits!

someone3333 wrote:

You CAN eat the Paintballs, Its sugar based paint.

Nope, paintballs contains gelatin, its taste like shit.