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Paintball Tactics
While in sports such as football speed and strength give players an overwhelming advantage, paintball is a game where winners are reliant on strategy and game planning. Good paintball tactics are important in game play and tournaments. Good paintball tactics include knowing the lay of the land, knowing whether your teammates are, and maintaining formations that will provide cover for y our teammates. Using all the right paintball tactics will put you in a better position to have success on the paintball field.
The most important tactic or strategy is that you must stay close to your teammates and provide cover for one another. Know that your partner has your back if you come under attack and vice versa. Also know that while proximity to your teammates is important, it is also important that you do not stray too close to eachother. Don't bunch up, meaning don't coagulate to within two feet of eachother. A bunched up group creates a nice big juicy target for your opponents. Bunched up groups can be surrounded on all sides, and opponents can just tee off on them.
A will executed defense tactic involves the creation of a skirmish line for groups moving down the paintball field. A skirmish line is a group of players proceeding in a line down the field while separated by 10-12 feet. This makes your group better protected from getting flanked. The execution of a skirmish line gives you protection on your left and right as you proceed down the filed. Any opponents in the path of the skirmish line usually get snuffed out. While your skirmish line is advancing, maintain a line of communication with your teammates.
Command Your Real Estate
Move down the field as quickly as you can when the paintball game starts. Paintball tactics such as this give you an obvious advantage on the field. The faster you move down the field to start the game, the closer you get to your opponent's side of the field. In a flag style paintball game, it makes it that much harder for opponents to capture your flag. Then you may control access to defense posts such as trees, rocks, and shelters to attack from later.
Game Plan
Go over a game plan with your teammates prior to the start of a game. Decide on attack formations, skirmish lines, and the side of the field where you plan to focus your resources. Decide if you and your team are going to attack from the right, from the left, or from a full on center attack right down the middle. Lean on veterans who have had experience playing on this field or on ones with similar terrain/dimensions. What formations and moves work the best on this type of course? Are there any members of your team that have had success on the field in the past?
Espouse the Virtue of Patience
If you decide to come out of the gate blasting away, you are going to waste a lot of paintballs, and you will most likely meet a splattering end. You will not be doing yourself or your teammates any favors and you are likely to end up hitting one of your own comrades. Sometimes sitting, waiting, and thinking are the best strategy at any given moment. You may have a great stakeout point for blasting someone that wanders into your shooting range.
Good paintball tactic are essential for victory on the field.
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