How Do You Play?

[MidgetFista]

depends....

I'm pretty much a frontline guy, but dependent on who i'm playing with i change positions.

I.E : if i'm playing with someone i can trust to hold the flag for a while when i'm in front i'll do so... its all about judging your own team, and your opposition. By the 3rd game i have a pretty good idea of my team and what skill level they are at. I play alot of walk-on's , quite often with the same bunch off people (small island), so the games are often quite heated and fun. We all know each others ways, and it calls for you to make a change in how u act, cus you know what the people predict you to do. Its very good training, and stops u becoming stale.

ermmmm, i feel i went off at a tangent there, so ermmm,, yeah, front player

Neil

[hitech]

Each game is different...

I would rather be a sniper, but almost never get the chance. I "usually" start the game in the back and end up in the front a few minutes after the start. Sprinting is for the young.

[paintdevil1]

front cause I like to run up front as fast as I can and bunker foos only prob is sometimes when I'm playin rec with a bunch of noobs I over extend myself and have no support from my team

[DarkPhoenix]

I am a fan of sniping, though it is very hard to play. On my team we use basic small group tactics, I prefer to shoot on the run, a very hard skill to master, I'm getting there. It is hard to run at full speed, keeping the marker in front of your face, pointed at the target while using your perpheral vision to not run into an obstacle, tree, bunker, etc. The best story I can use is during a rec game, myself and another player, strangely enough he was using an autococker, were the last members on our teams. It started out as a regular shoot-out, but I decided to take the game on the run. We eneded up, running parallel to each other, in the same direction. A little geographic information, FT Eustis, an Army base field that I play at, is 90 percent woods. Anyway, back to my story, we were running full bore, facing each other as we fire. As luck would have it, I tagged him out before he hit the oak tree. Unfortunately for him, his unfamiliar use of the tactic cost him a broken phase 01 autococker, a black eye, and alot of bruises, not to mention a busted face mask. It pays to practice before using any technique which might give you tunnel vision. But what the hey, it has worked great for me.

[Ov3rmind]

I always play the front. Takin' the left tapeline is always my strategy since I like to shoot out of the right side of my bunker. All the games I play usually get me stuck in repetative snap shooting, but that's when a bunker move comes in handy.

[Drizit]

I mostly play front or mid, I go as far as possible off the brake but since I'm 6'5" and about 275lbs I can't really get as far as our front guy. I used to be a back player and then I got a PT extreme even though it's a low quality gun it still does the job, and man does a 10 shot and reload limit get you moving. it also taught me how to play much tighter into my bunkers, and how to be much more aggressive. you really have to be in order to use it in a game of speedball with a bunch of guys shooting Angels, cockers, and bushmasters/defiants. and hey the 200 balls all day was nice on the pocket book.

[DrEvil]

it all depends on the type of field. if its a small speedball field then I run up too far scare a bunch of people and get tagged. if its on a woods field the I run up WAY TOO far and get picked off before I even see anyone. Its gotta be the shoes.

[Blennidae]

I agree with hitech, sprinting is for the young

I play rec, with no particular style. I basically let the kids run to wherever it is they feel the need to be, and wait to hear a firefight. I sorta meander over in the direction of the sound and shoot at anyone I think I can hit. I don't hose, and just play for fun.

For me personally I don't see the big thrill of flashy high ROF shooting in rec games. Most times I'm playing with a mix of players, from rentals to the flashy guys. Its usually the flashy guys who take things too seriously sometimes. If you can laugh and joke with the guy you got, or who got you, that makes for the most fun. Where is the fun in raining paint on a newbie, just so you can show off your new toy.

of course that is just my style (or lack there of) and opinion...

[LizzaRTgirl14]

Originally posted by nutz
front all the way... crazy runs... bunker moves... geting lit up (sometimes... definitly my spot on the field

/me points to him, points to self... me too. I love bunkering people, getting bunkered my a hot gun SUCKS (happened to me yesterday)

[Vegeta]

I dont get it. New players automatically say "ima be one of dose snipers!". Unless you play scenario, have a large barrel, ghuille, and are ASSINGED the card of a SNIPER, then you arent one. Someone in camo pants and a T-shirt with their stock spyder & 3 inch barrel isnt. It pisses me off.


I play front mostly, dont like back but it can be fun. I have a Model 98, and when im snappin off ball after ball as fast as I can, well, as most of you know, tippmanns make that hard metal 'ping' when htey shoot... and hte recoil starts piling up, its like im a heavy machine gunner in WWII.. i swear i need a tripod and a attached chair... its ****ing awesome.

[mitch]

our three manteam is like this.
mike couves: runs to the middle and gets the pull.
he runs pretty damn fast and has a good trigger finger.

me: i can shoot pretty damn fast and im really fast.
ill usually run to the middle shoot 2 people out on the break and then bunker someone or keep them down so mike can run the flag to the middle.

doug: stands at the back and shoots paint.
and i mean shoots paint.
he uses about 800 balls a game.
he almost shot me but then i accidentally did shoot him.
but mike lit me up in the tourney because he did not see me bunker a guy and when i told him to run he thought i was on their team and he shot at me like sick.
funny..i think not.

oh well kiddle or front is where i like to go.
usually i go right tape.

mike he just goes sick and runs half the feild.
crazy little thing he is.
and then he will run around the feild getting people to shoot and waste paint and then he jumps over bunkers and crazy **** happens when you play with him.
hahahah he is only like 4 10" so he is a hard target.

[hitech]

Unless you play scenario, have a large barrel, ghuille...

I guess that depends on your definition of being a sniper. I got two of what I would call "sniper kills" Saturday with my gun elevated at about a 45 degree angle. The "victim" didn't think I could reach him. Good for me, bad for him.

[KamikazePenguin]

hearing the "rush em all and bunker em off the break" technique i tend to disagree that such a thing is possible. I've played in a couple tourneys myself and any decent team has 2 sometimes 3 back players off the break that walk to their bunkers throwing paint, for that strategy to work ALL of the players would have to go straight to their bunkers without throwing any paint, and you'd have to be running fast enough that you bunkered em before they got a chance to pop up and shoot you. If you ever tried to pull that in any of the tourneys i've played, your whole team would be waxed by the time you were at the 50, especially with no back guys to keep their back guys in. Sorry, it just wouldn't work, and i don't believe your stories unless the team you played against was VERY new.

[KamikazePenguin]

also, if you lose 1 or 2 people, you didn't max...you lose points for that

[Mojojojo]

i ply front...even tho, i'm rather big....5'9" and about 250....but hell ever see a fat guy run? it could scare a guy poopless especially if he has on a neon orange shirt..and has guns a blazing