Paintball games have become a very popular extreme sport with small and large groups organizing to participate in some competition. Most of these games involve referees to prevent any cheating. Basic paintballing game types are Capture The Flag, Manhunt, Hostage Rescue, Drop Point 20, Medic Mania, and Village Guardians with each game normally lasting between 15 to 60 minutes. Use the following as guidelines and be creative by customizing these paintball games for your friends and fields.
As a paintball player, you can use these basic games to have an exciting afternoon paintball with competition and adrenaline. With over 9,640,00 people participating in this extreme sport, you should have no problem finding others to play these games.
As one of the most popular paintball games, it has two teams and two flag with only one-team victories. Capture the flag was the original game played in the sport of paintballing and still in this day very popular basic game type.
Description
The main goal is to retrieve the opposing team’s flag and return it to your base without getting hit
and being eliminated. Each team normally has different player roles such as, flag guarders, attackers,
and scouts.
Winning
Return the opponent’s flag to your base.
Your heart is rushing. Your body is sweating! The sounds of stomping footsteps are getting closer and closer. You must run faster to escape without being hit and captured… You realize your playing the paintball game, Manhunt, and your being hunted.
Description
The excitement begins! A selected player is hunted and the rest of players become the hunters. The hunted
player is normally supplied with a paintballing pistol and ammo. The hunters are given any weapon they
want. The hunted most reach a particular area within a timeframe to win. The hunters must shoot the
selected player to win. The hunters cannot shoot each other.
Winning
Hunted: Survive
Hunters: Eliminate the hunted
In a very disturbing moment, innocent people have be captured by terrorists therefore counter-terrorists must rescue the hostages without anyone getting harmed. Choose your role in this exciting paintball game. Will you be the bad or good person?
Description
A group of paintballing players are divided into two separate teams. The blue team is “Hostages” and
“Rescuers”, while the red team is “Terrorists”. With a five-minute head start, the terrorists lead
the hostages to the holding areas. After the five minutes the rescuers, begin their search and prevent
any casualties.
Winning
Rescuers: retrieve the hostages to a save area.
Terrorists: Prevent any hostages from escaping.
The scenario of the paintball game, Drop Point 20, is that the team is dropped by helicopter is in an open area. During the drop an important package is left in the clearing. This is a great game if you are low on field playing time. it often goes fast.
Description
playing this paintball game, find an open area on the field. Place a box in the open area. Have each
paintball team line up with their backs towards each other and the box between the two teams. At the
first whistle, everyone runs for cover. At the second whistle-20 seconds, shooting is allowed to begin.
The 20 seconds can be altered to accommodate how far cover is from the clearing. The object of the
game is to return to the clearing and retrieve the package. Accurate shooting to provide overage of
team members attempting to retrieve the package will be an essential skill in this paintball game.
Winning
To win this game, a paintball team member must grab the box before being shot.
The paintball game, Medic Mania, allows shot players to be “healed” by one or more (depending on team size) medics. The paintball team medic should have strong evasive skills. The medic must be willing to be the focused target. Team members will need accurate paintball shooting skills to protect the team medic.
Description
To play this paintballing game there should be a medic armband (white with a red cross) for each medic,
which is worn with the paintballing team armband color. Once shot, the medic is out. Once a team member
is shot, he will no longer be allowed to walk or run, he may crawl with gun raised, to shelter. A shot
team member should yell “medic”. The opposing team will not be allowed to further shoot any paintball
team member who is calling for a medic and has their gun raised. If the medic can get to the shot player
and tag the injured team member, ge is considered “healed” and may resume playing in the game. The medic
should yell, “healed”. There are a couple strategies each team can choose from for this paintball game.
One is to assign the most accurate shooters to cover the medic/s at all times while the remainder of the
team attempts to shoot the other team and its medic/s. Another strategy is to assign an elite squad of a
couple accurate shooters that will focus on taking out the medic. Use your paintball skills and
experience to combine strategies and come up with new ones.
Winning
To win this paintball game, all opposing team members must be shot.
In the paintball game, Village Guardians, each team must defend their village from take over while at the same time, attack and take over the opposing team’s village. This game is ideal for large paintball teams. This game requires defensive and offensive skills at the same time from both teams. This paintball game requires team members to use advanced strategy skills to be able to defend the team’s village while attacking and taking over the opponent’s village.
Description
To play the game, designate each paintball team a group of three or more bunkers, buildings, etc.
grouped together. This will be each team’s village. The villages should be separated enough to provide
cover for the paintball team members during take over attacks and village defense. On paintball fields
where the designated villages may not be obvious, attach team flags/colors with clips or staples to
each building. A flag displayed on a pole that can be attached to each or near each building is ideal
for this paintballing game.
Winning
To win the game, all opposing paintball team members must be eradicate from all buildings in their
designated village. To be officially declared the victor, the winning team’s village may not have any
of its buildings occupied by the opposing paintball team members.
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