I like the idea, but with today's style of play, having to single load your marker won't be too popular with players who are used to firing a gazillion rounds a second.

Games like that used to be popular back in the 80's when there was a limitation on gear, and a lot of people were using pumps and low end semis...

You don't see many of them today though. Imagine someone showing up to your game with an impulse? I bet they don't hang around long.

and, its REALLY hard to single fire an A-5

Snake6 wrote: A vietnam game would be more popular. The style of play expressed by alot of players today is sorta like the attitude during vietnam of "spray and pray".

amen, and thats part of the problem.

Reb Cpl wrote: Snake6 wrote: A vietnam game would be more popular. The style of play expressed by alot of players today is sorta like the attitude during vietnam of "spray and pray". amen, and thats part of the problem.

We need to do a pump only scenerio, that would be fun!

silent-assasin wrote: Reb Cpl wrote: I'd definately play.   do any of you live near washington??

nope i live out here in the boondocks of missouri

sneaky_sniper wrote: silent-assasin wrote: Reb Cpl wrote: I'd definately play.   do any of you live near washington?? nope i live out here in the boondocks of missouri

VA

i actually saw something like this before. you can only carry paintballs in your pockets or in bags and load them individually. no bulk loaders. you would organize into firing lines like "lines 1 and 2." it would go like this:

Commander: "line 1, fire!"
line 1: *fires*
Commander: "line 1, load, line 2, fire!"

and repeat. just like the good old days!

monty_sniper wrote: sneaky_sniper wrote: silent-assasin wrote: Reb Cpl wrote: I'd definately play.   do any of you live near washington?? nope i live out here in the boondocks of missouri i'd play, yeah, make it pump only, i live in missouri 2, what part of missouri are you from, i'm about 50 miles south of Kansas City

dude thats awsome, ur not all that far from me, u know the town called Joplin? its south of where u live, i live right outside there, its about 2 hours to get to kansas city

DeTrevni wrote: i actually saw something like this before. you can only carry paintballs in your pockets or in bags and load them individually. no bulk loaders. you would organize into firing lines like "lines 1 and 2." it would go like this: Commander: "line 1, fire!" line 1: *fires* Commander: "line 1, load, line 2, fire!" and repeat. just like the good old days!

do i get to be one of them guys who lay in the grass beside the enemy lines and shoot at em and the enemy dont relize theyre there, they had those back then...

Well thats crap i made an idea and i wont be able to enjoy it...

if you guys do it could you send me a video of it??

lol well while im playing "ambush" i may be able to getcha some video, well if i had a camera

brihard wrote: sneaky_sniper wrote: do i get to be one of them guys who lay in the grass beside the enemy lines and shoot at em and the enemy dont relize theyre there, they had those back then... Yeah, they called them 'skirmishers', actually. Back in the 1700s they had companies of skirmishers who worked in pairs isntead of in big formations. They'd get out in front and harass them with random fire to confuse their formations. In the early 1800s the British got the Baker rifles and suddenly the skirmishers could engage out to 200 yards instead of at 50. It's really neat history to read about- the imperial era infantry battles...

sneaky knows... hes what you call a history nerd *sneaky feels like talking in third person during this post*

brihard wrote: Hey Sneaky, ever read the Sharpe books?

nope, what are they about?

brihard wrote: The Sharpe series is about a man named Richard Sharpe who joins the British infantry as a private in 1799.It's 20 books that follow his career through the British batles in India, and then through the Napoleonic Wars. The actual battles are basicaly the career history of General Sir Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington. He appears as a character in many fo the books. the series follows Sharpe as he makes his way up the ranks, and gets commissioned form the ranks as an infantry officer- except he runs into a LOT of trouble there, because he wasn't brought up as a gentleman. He ends up with the first British rifle regiment, the 95th rifles, and then from there goes all over the palce on all kinds of adventures, all absed more or less on real events, and with all the batles being real and fought almost exactly as theya ctually were. If you're a history nerd, as you describe, you'd love the series. They're just paperbacks; the first one, Sharpe's Tiger, can be picked up for under 10 bucks. It's a popular series, so you oughtn't have any trouble finding them.

sounds good, ill look into em, you ever read Carlos Hathcocks bio? i like both marine sniper and silent warrior, if you havnt already, you should check em out, and try to find the book "shooter" its about a lesser known sniper, Jack Coughlin, but its more our time... *but i like snipers if you havnt noticed* (and i never said anything about paintball snipers in here so no one have a hissy fit)