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paintballimpact.com / Glossary / Friendly Fire
Friendly Fire
Friendly fire is the unintentional act of hitting your own teammate with paintball fire. While some instances of friendly fire are unavoidable, there are many steps that can be taken so that you can avoid tagging your own teammates. Friendly fire paintball shots have cost many teams their key players in tournament style play. On most paintball fields and in most tournaments, a friendly fire shot results in the elimination of the player hit.
The friendly fire rule affects the game in many ways and really contributes to the quality of paintball games. This forces players to take quality shots instead of blasting out paintballs in all directions every time you see something move. This rule encourages teammates to keep good lines of communication between each other, so that they know where each other are and know who not to hit. This also forces playe5rs to take intelligent shots rather than blast away whenever they see the bushes move. Listed below are a few situations of elevated risk of paintball fire and how to avoid them.
Never shoot at rounds gong through the bushes. Your fellow teammate may be the one rustling the foliage back and forth. If you feel an inevitable need to take a shot, callout first before taking the shot and wait for a response.
Let your teammates know where you are. You should travel with one teammate close enough to provide cover and vice versa, at all times so you should be close enough to provide cover quickly in case one of you are in need of help.
If you or one of your teammates has found a great bunker, rock, or shed to launch an ambush from, let your teammate know about it. You don't want to go into that bunker and exchange friendly fire with one of your teammates.
If your playing in fields late in the ay and are in heavily wooded conditions where the fields are very dark, wear clothing that will amplify what light is available so that you can recognize your opponent. Any lowered visibility conditions make you more likely to blast your mate in a friendly fire accident.
Wear colors or uniforms that will make you able to easily distinguish friends from enemy. In traditional capture the flag games, players will wear a solid colored arm band that contrast greatly with the colors on their enemies arms. These armbands work nicely unless that section of clothing is blocked from your vantage point. The left side of the players body may be looking around the corner while the armband on the right side is obscured from view. Keep a check on that trigger finger so that you don't ambush your own teammate. Some ways to avoid this problem is to wear colored bands over multiple areas of your uniform. Other ways to easily identify your own teammates to avoid friendly fire is to wear standardized uniforms with your teams patter and team colors all over them.
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