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Woodsball Player Positions
Woodsball games played today resemble the paintball games that were played when the sport took hold in the 70s and 80sl. Woodsball games are played in natural environments, over lands that are unturfed and un-manicured. Rather than using inflatable bunkers to dodge enemy projectiles, players use the natural objects that are available to them, such as trees, rocks, and thick brush. Woodsball is popular because it really helps players get in touch with their innate survival instincts, and its fields can be set up almost anywhere. While speedball paintball players wear bright colors and favor matches where thousands of paintballs may be shot in a single game, woodsball players like to wear stealth clothing and work more quietly. Like in the discipline of speedball, woodsball players have different sets of player positions, with each position player having his own set of skills and responsibilities on the field. Woodsball player positions are generally more specialized than in speedball, due to the size of the field and the number of players involved. For instance, in woodsball there are players such as the sniper, who will take all of his shots from a long range and may stay in the same location for the duration of the game. This type of strategy cannot possibly work in the sport of speedball, since the field is much smaller, and all players will need to move to avoid becoming a sitting duck.
Woodsball Player Positions. In general, there are four main Woodsball player positions in all games: the Woodsball scout, woodsball rifleman, woodsball specialists, and Woodsball marksman. The woodsball marksman is more famously known as the Woodsball sniper. Though these positions are much more specialized than in other paintball disciplines, all players need to be somewhat flexible and have a variety of skills, since they may need to take up the position of a fallen teammate. Unlike in other sports that have the same number of players on the field for the whole game, in paintball players get eliminated and cannot be substituted for within games. If the Woodsball scout is marked, the Woodsball rifleman may need to move up to take his place.
The Woodsball scout are the most daring and physically fit players, as they will be doing the most moving on the field and will spend the most time on the enemy side of the field. The scouts are often called the Daredevils or the adrenaline jockeys because they relish this position despite being in danger for most of the game. Scouts are physically fit and fast, and they carry the lightest load since they will be doing the most moving on the field.
The woodsball rifleman are also called the basic infantry. The rifleman make up the majority of a Woodsball team, playing in back of the scouts and in front of the back players. The Woodsball scouts are the long distance shooters on the team and the players who operate the specialized weapons such as the tanks or the armored personnel carriers.
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