Paintball Strategy

These new people need to learn a few things bout
paintball. Anyone with strategy suggestions please
tell them. We have to spread paintball around and
keeping the secrets is not the way to do it.

ultimatetrooper wrote: Well if I let out my secret then I would get shot!(don't look the bushes, you wont see me)

The Monty Python guide to hiding? Dang, I use that too. :)

The prevailing attitude is to work alone. Drives me nuts.

Use Squad tactics, support each other, talk to each other, use this teamwork to provide covering fire for each other in order to advance.

dont be afraid to make a big move

There is no one way to be strategic. Paintball is all
about different strategies, and choosing the right one
for the type of game you are playing. For example,
when you are playing speedball, you want to move,
shoot, move shoot, and eventually bunker, or just hit
them while they are moving... all in all its mostly
shooting, and not stealth. Woodsball on the other
hand is ALL about strategy and stealth. If you choose
to work alone, its mostly the hiding and stealth tactic.
You have to be really sneaky not to get ambushed. If
you are rollin with you're squad, then its simple... all
you have to do is support you teammates, and play
smart. Its easy to ambush and dominate in any
game against anybody, all it takes is
communication. Go ahead and tell me im wrong, but
in doing so, you'll show that either you are a newbie,
or you are just horrible. Peace playas!!!!

^^^lmao

heres a whole list of things that are useful in speedball i have alot on this list but if you have anything else you want to add you can just PM me and let me know.

1) In speedball you need speed. without speed your just a slow moving target.

2)Movent

-when you  decide where your going to run to have your teamates give you cover fire and run as fast as you can.

-decide where your going to run to then have your teamates give you cover fire. *have your teamates fire at the people who are the greatest threat to you.  

-once you get to the bunker again check your angles to make sure your safe on all sides of your bunker. if there is someone who has an angle on you and is a threat to you try to either eliminate them or have a team mate eliminate them.

3)Movent

-before you make a move to the bunker take a look at all your angles

-have a teamate cover you while you move

4) Bunkering

bunkering an opposing player.

-Before making a bunkering move tell your teamates that your going to make a bunker move.

-once they understand tell them to give you cover fire. have some of your teamates shoot at other enemies on the field while one or two shoot at the guy your going to bunker. this will hopefully keep his head down so he won't know your coming.

-when they give you cover fire run to the bunker and shoot the guy.

being bunkered

-When your the one being bunkerd the last thing you want to do is stand up behind your bunker and start shooting at the guy charging you. its a better idea to try to find out where he is coming from,wait until he gets almost behind you, then run out from the opposite side  . heres what i mean. lets say the guy is charging from the left wait until he gets almost behind you, then run out from the right side of the bunker and get him from the back. this takes practice and spped but if you practice this with your teamates it will really help. its a good idea to practice both bunkering and getting bunkered 1on1 with your teamates

5) Tactics on moving after the break and Using tapelines to flank

(your behind the dead box...the ref says 10 seconds...3..2...1 go go go!)

-on the break is a good idea to have your back players shoot as fast as they can and shoot as many lanes for you as possible. when the front players are moving up try to get as far as you can which will most likley be the 50 mark.

-Once you get as far as you can try to use the tapelines to move up farther and flank the opposing team. this might take awhile and the going might be slow at first but DONT rush. rushing will only send you back to the dead box.

-once your on the field and the game has started watch your sides and angles at all times. getting tunnel vision is a players death sentence and it will most likley send you back to the dead back saying "i never saw that guy there."

6)Snapshooting amd other tactics on shooting

-snapshooting-popping out of your bunker, shooting a burst quickly then ducking back behind your bunker 

try this with your teamates during practice. if you can master this it will be a huge advantage in tourneys

-shoot in "X"s. what i mean is people on the right side shoot to the left and people on the left side shoot to the right. also if each person covers 2 bunkers you double your effectiveness on the field. 

7)playing bunkers tight

-this is something that you definitly want to work on. you only have to lean out just a little bit to far and POP! shot right in the loader.

-the tighter you play a bunker the harder it is for the other team to hit you. the only problem with playing tight is that the tighter you play a bunker the hard it is to see all angles.

-try to keep your body as much behind the bunker as possible. get your gun and also place that as tight as you can to the bunker.

-when you are shooting from the side of a bunker remember to tilt your loader in so the only thing your opponent has to shot is your barrel and the bottom of your Co2 tank.  Also make sure if you play snake to always have someone cover you. 

8) Communication

before a tourney take a look at the field where you will be playing. with your teamates name the different types of bunkers. heres some examples

small round sup air bunker-piccahou

large sup air triangle-well my team just calls it the triangle

small triangle sup air bunker-dorrito

large cylinder sup air bunker-shotgun barrel

small cylinder sup air bunker- beer can

these are some examples of naming bunkers. there will most likely be more then one of these types of barrels so you need name them by where they are (center, right left) color, and name. so when you on the field you'll probably here something like this...

"enemy behind front center orange beercan"

"enemy behind yellow center dorrito"

"enemy behind left blue piccahou"

you also might want to make names for other things like when your reloading. one example would be something like this "steve im on hangover cover me"

also you should make code names for bunkering - "tim im goin in for the move cover me"

-always know where your teamates are and talk to them at all times. this is EXTREAMLY important.

Rico's Revenge wrote: Strategy #1... Duck.

Strategy #2 and #3....dont get hit and dont get too cocky.

A few mentioned squad tactics, but they're leaving out a very important factor.

KNOW the PLAYERS on BOTH teams. You need to know if you send those guys over there to guard the right, will they be able to defend from those two tourney guys that always come from the right side? Will this guy listen to me if I tell him to watch left? Will my buddy Bill shoot out all his paint halfway through the game, and if he will should I let him sneak up the left? Or should I ask him to Rambo forward through the middle blasting everything that moves?

It comes in handy, especially in open plays. It also helps to look like you know what you're doing. If you have to, SCREAM at the top of your lungs to communicate. Sure, everyone within a mile radius can hear you tell your team mate to get the guy on the left, but it IS better than letting it go and getting screwed. If worse comes to worse, pray your aim is good, and pop a few rounds near the guy you're trying to SCREAM to if he doesn't hear you. I've had people not even 20 feet away claim they couldn't hear me screaming to them, but they sure paid attention when paint was hitting their bunker from behind them.