Archive for the 'Essentials' Category

Types of Paintball Games

Sunday, October 26th, 2008

Basic Variations
Capture the Flag is where a team is tasked to steal or take the flag from the rival’s flag station and bring this flag to their own station. The tea who first successfully takes or steals its opponent’s flag wins.

Elimination is another basic variation where the task of the team is to tag or [...]

Regulations or Rules of the Game

Sunday, October 26th, 2008

Below are basic and common rules of the game. The rules given below may be altered or may adapt variation depending on the organizers of a paintball tournament where a player is joining.

Equipments

Goggle System refers to the use of the mask which is the most important equipment for safety of the players. The [...]

What is Paintball?

Sunday, October 26th, 2008

Paintball is a sport played either indoors or outdoors. Paintball entails the players or combatants to use markers (term for compressed air guns) to shoot paintballs (a marble- sized, .68 caliber, gelatin capsules that contain colored polyethylene glycol paint) at their rival players. This in the same way a tag game because players [...]

Essential Strategy

Sunday, October 26th, 2008

The following are the strategies used only in friendly games of paintball. A lot of the strategies discussed here originated in basic military tactics.
Basic Shooting
Paintball markers hits approximately 100 m/s or 30 ft/s. It is indeed important to target an opponent and shoot him at the possible quickest and steadiest position. To best five the [...]

Automag Marker

Sunday, October 26th, 2008

The Automag is a paintball marker fashioned by Tom Kaye and manufactured by Airgun Designs Inc. (AGD).
History
The first Automag was produced and sold in 1990. Since it is the initial model of semi-automatic paintball makers, its blow forward design was different. Made of stainless steel, the valve system was the maiden marker to include a [...]

Bushmaster 2000

Sunday, October 26th, 2008

The Bushmaster 2000 is an electro-pneumatic paintball marker released by Indian Creek Designs. Designed for with tournament-style speedball, it can shoot more than 20 paintballs per second. This paintball marker utilizes two valves to monitor airflow; a high-pressure regulator which is averagely set at 200-275psi and a low pressure control device which is set to [...]