Sniper Nests..... say w00t?
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Topic: Sniper Nests..... say w00t?
Posted By: HITMAN 4 HIRE
Subject: Sniper Nests..... say w00t?
Date Posted: 01 April 2005 at 4:02pm
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We went out before the rain an managed to get about a few more sniper nest made. Question is: Do you guys ever use em'? If so how do you make yours?
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Posted By: bluemunky42
Date Posted: 01 April 2005 at 5:58pm
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no one uses towers, u get shot on the way up. unless u have a ginourmous field and u go up and wait and get shot later for being such an idiot ------------- 
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Posted By: HITMAN 4 HIRE
Date Posted: 01 April 2005 at 6:19pm
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maybe and you've tried it and just aren't any good. is that why your so angry?
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bluemunky42 wrote:Posted By: Klaus
Date Posted: 01 April 2005 at 9:55pm
| well, I kinda use them...kinda like a place to ambush someone, repetedly...but I only use positions that I can safely abandon if I'm outgunned (psh..like that ever happen) or outnumbered...buildings are great for this...I dislike being up in towers, because there seems to be little chance for escape |
Posted By: BullWinkle
Date Posted: 04 April 2005 at 5:01am
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You get shot on the way up? You really need to make some
friends and become a team player and use some tactics. Have your team
mates give you cover fire while you get in. You can pin people
down with the increased angle and give your team mates a better chance
to advance and take them out. If a couple of your team mates get taken out then move out while the remaining players can still cover you. Do not sit there till you are the only one left then you truly are a deadman and you deserve it. |
Posted By: MT. Vigilante
Date Posted: 04 April 2005 at 8:38am
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Sniper nests and towers can be useful if you know how to use them, the thing you have to remember is never just sit there and wait all alone thinking your cool because your acting like a sniper in the military, those tactics don’t work in paintball and don’t help your team because you may get one or two of the other teams players out, but sooner or later you will be taken out to and you will not have accomplished anything. I think Bullwinkle described how to best use a tower or snipers nest. -------------  Join the XP Re-Revolution!
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Posted By: brihard
Date Posted: 04 April 2005 at 12:22pm
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Yeah, towers can be tough to play properly. I find they actually work
better as an observation post than as a nest for shooting out of.
Generally if you can hit them, they can hit you- and somewhere like a
tower is generally pretty confined, so you don't have a lot of room to
move around. Also, getting down from one under fire can be a pain in
the ass. Vigilante pegged it- don't just sit there. Either sue the tower for observation, for HEAVY fire support (spray and pray, or get your favorite pet speedballer to park up there with his 17bps monster and go to town), or get out of it and fight up close. Paintballs don't work too effectively at long range, so while it can be a good place to observe from, as a shooting platform it's generally only very good when they start getting really close. That beig said, as we say in the infantry, time spent on recon is never wasted. That observer CAN make a big difference in the right circumstances, generally in guiding the troops on the ground in a mroe efective counterattack. ------------- "Abortion is not "choice" in America. It is forced and the democrats are behind it, with the goal of eugenics at its foundation." -FreeEnterprise, 21 April 2011. Yup, he actually said that. |