Anybody interested in a paintball day. I played it years ago and it was a great day out.
I was thinking about going February/march time and it would be good to get some dMw boys together and have a beer :)
I guess the Cambridge area is good for most people because of the LAN. This place seems ok (http://www.apocalypsepaintball.co.uk/)
Paintballings good fun. Doesn't hurt as much as people say it does. But you'll get the pansy who comes with 5 layers of clothes anyway. (wheres the fun in that?)
Just noticed you said february/march...lol you'll need 5 layers of clothes then. If the paintballs dont hurt the frost bite will. :narnar:
QuoteOriginally posted by Hippy@Nov 30 2005, 08:01 PM
Paintballings good fun. Doesn't hurt as much as people say it does. [post=103475]Quoted post[/post]
Like hell it doesn't
B"black and blue"B
i been paintballing twice, it doesn't hurt when the adrenaline is pumping, its great fun!
and the people who bring 5 layers would be cooking cause you're gonna need to run your ass off
i used to paintballl quite a lot, then i got asked to start marshaling at games so that experianced players could help keep things safe.
1) they gave me a nice yaellow coat which was a f**king paint magnet :sad:
2) marshaling 2 teams of 10 kids against each other and we had a bright idea "why dont you all for thew last game play against us 4 marshalls", bad idea ran round a corner staright into a load of them, counted the paint splatter afterwards, 41 paint splats on me, with 14 of them on my helmet and googles
and a few in the balls :sad:
bloody good fun thou :woot:
QuoteOriginally posted by sulky_uk@Nov 30 2005, 09:17 PM
i used to paintballl quite a lot, then i got asked to start marshaling at games so that experianced players could help keep things safe.
1) they gave me a nice yaellow coat which was a f**king paint magnet :sad:
2) marshaling 2 teams of 10 kids against each other and we had a bright idea "why dont you all for thew last game play against us 4 marshalls", bad idea ran round a corner staright into a load of them, counted the paint splatter afterwards, 41 paint splats on me, with 14 of them on my helmet and googles
and a few in the balls :sad:
bloody good fun thou :woot:
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i love the marshalls, they're such good targets, if they realise they're in the way of a firefight they drop face first to the ground, i love their reactions :P
I've got turps...
can I be a medic? :P
I am up for this and I think you will find Dewey is very keen as he used to do paintballing rather competitively. Make it a nice time of year though as Cambridge is a bit of a slog for bad weather.
QuoteOriginally posted by Blunt@Nov 30 2005, 11:13 PM
I've got turps...
can I be a medic? :P
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I'm ok with water based paints too btw :P
I'm very tempted! Although if its a day trip there will be problems of that old clash between beer and driving...
Doesn't hurt?
I had Scaramanga's 3rd nipple on my forehead for a day or two.
It bloody hurt :(
Day or two!?! It was more like a week or two :doh:
QuoteOriginally posted by Thulsa Doom@Dec 1 2005, 04:13 PM
Doesn't hurt?
I had Scaramanga's 3rd nipple on my forehead for a day or two.
It bloody hurt :(
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forehead? its not meant to touch your face, you're supposed to be wearing full face protection :S
and i'd like to add that it DOESN'T hurt, you little girls. ;)
Yea it doesn't hurt unless someones 3 ft behind u and shoots repeatedly into your spine. I should know, i did it to my cousin... (Salvatore Buttafacio - You might remember him, played on dMw quite a bit a few years ago)
Never heard him squeel like that before :D
Yeah, buttface! What happened to him!?
I used to love paintballing, I played quite a bit but my modesty prevents me from telling you of my paintballing exploits :whistle:
Competition guns fire at 300 fps and can fire at over 20 balls a second, and when someone mugs you over a barricade from a metre away it bloody hurts, but not until after the day is over - too much adrenaline running to notice.
Interestingingly theres a famous Paintballing tactic that was deployed in the early paintball competition days around late 80's called - Dead Mans Walk.
Basically if your team was looking like you where going to lose, you would wait until an opponent called a paintcheck on you, you stand up as though you have been hit and walk towards the opposition (Dead Mans Walk) - though you haven't been hit. Then with arms down by your side looking annoyed, you walk past the oppositions skirmish line and then turn and shoot them in the back - obviously this only works if the deadzone is in the direction your pretending to walk too :D But can decimate a team if pulled off :narnar:
QuoteOriginally posted by BIG-Dewey@Dec 4 2005, 05:13 PM
I used to love paintballing, I played quite a bit but my modesty prevents me from telling you of my paintballing exploits :whistle:
Competition guns fire at 300 fps and can fire at over 20 balls a second, and when someone mugs you over a barricade from a metre away it bloody hurts, but not until after the day is over - too much adrenaline running to notice.
Interestingingly theres a famous Paintballing tactic that was deployed in the early paintball competition days around late 80's called - Dead Mans Walk.
Basically if your team was looking like you where going to lose, you would wait until an opponent called a paintcheck on you, you stand up as though you have been hit and walk towards the opposition (Dead Mans Walk) - though you haven't been hit. Then with arms down by your side looking annoyed, you walk past the oppositions skirmish line and then turn and shoot them in the back - obviously this only works if the deadzone is in the direction your pretending to walk too :D But can decimate a team if pulled off :narnar:
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thats a nasty tactic, just to be sure to shoot em again if their hand isn't up,
you can't get in trouble for that can you? :P
(those who didn't know.. fps is feet per second)
Lol, i remember popping a few extra shots at someone because they didn't have thier hand up. :whistle:
QuoteOriginally posted by BlastUK@Dec 4 2005, 08:32 PM
thats a nasty tactic, just to be sure to shoot em again if their hand isn't up,
you can't get in trouble for that can you? :P
(those who didn't know.. fps is feet per second)
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Well you can get into trouble if the opposition wait until your close, realise your arm isn't up in the air and then use you for target practice :D
Well up for it m8 i regually play airsoft with my m8's :)
I dug out this old photo of the team I used to play for, we where playing in a 5 man competition - we won this one and appeared in a paintball magazine :D
(http://www.relaxnet.co.uk/bf2/paintball.jpg)
Bah not paintballing!! being 6ft 6 , u cant miss me and the protection doesnt fit in the right places! actually i seem to always get hit on the weak point, ankles, wrist, neck, knee caps even with knee pads..... might as well play in shorts and tee shirt, I aint complaining , its good fun really :rolleyes:
QuoteOriginally posted by BLOOD_THIRSTY@Dec 20 2005, 07:12 PM
Bah not paintballing!! being 6ft 6 , u cant miss me and the protection doesnt fit in the right places! actually i seem to always get hit on the weak point, ankles, wrist, neck, knee caps even with knee pads..... might as well play in shorts and tee shirt, I aint complaining , its good fun really :rolleyes:
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One of the best teams on the Pro-ball circuit about 10 year ago was a team called the Nam-Wreckin-Crew later to become Shockwave, very aggressive side, one of the best in the UK - they had a couple of guys on their side who where about your size, big blokes, not fat either brick sh*t houses I think is the scientific term! They where fast.
I had the delight of marshalling them once at the European masters, the highlight being in the quarter finals when they where playing a grudge match versus the American Ironmen team.
At the start of the game one of the big guys turns to me and says,
'don't f*ck up a call marshall, I don't want you pulling me for spray'
- the whistle goes, the team breakout at speed, and I'm following this big fella and some of his mates. I see the big fella, get shot twice in the chest one bounced the other broke - he knew he'd been hit so he dives on to his front behind a barricade, trying to wipe of the paint on the ground ie trying to cheat.
I called him neutral stood him up - before I say a word he's saying thats not a hit marshall its just spray- after I told him he was out, his body language and colourful language suggested he was going to rip my head off after the game ended! :blink:
Sorry I digressed there didn't I :lol: