Monday, February 14, 2011

Paintball Bunkers: Creating a Homemade Field

By Reed Garcia


If you love playing war games, you may want to take your games to the next level. Now, that does not mean that you want to go out and buy a real gun and start shooting people left right and center. It means that you may want to introduce yourself to a game called paintball. There are many things in a game of paintball; the guns are just one of them. If you are not playing in an open forest or field, and are, instead setting up a combat zone in your back yard, you may want to consider getting paintball bunkers.

These are there to make sure the game goes on for a longer time and so that it is not boring. Just image you had not bunkers to hide behind. This would make the game very dull and short lived. You have to hide and attack from the bunkers. They provide you with protection and support when you are shooting your opponents.

Playing on a paintball field that has one side with all the bunkers is no fun (unless your into the whole underdog thing). If you've ever played on a field that has holes in bunkers then you know how frustrating that can be too. The key is to make the field as consistent as you can, so that way both sides are balanced and no side has the upper advantage.

This is why it is important for you to have paintball bunkers. Now, there is a way for you to have a game of paintball without the bunkers, and that is to set the game up in an open forest where the trees are you barriers. The advantage to this is there is literally no building on your part. The disadvantage is of course you don't get that battlefield feel as you would with tree forts and ditches.

When building your own paintball field the possibilities are endless. You can build a speedball field or woodsball field. The key to making a woodsball field is to work with the features of your property, and balance both sides of the playing field. To make the games shorter it is important to section of the field too, so there is a limited playing ground (that way you don't spend hours finding the last player).

Remember, balance is key in making a paintball field. Try to make both sides balanced and leave no advantages for one side. You can either make your field symmetrical - both sides are exactly the same, or you can make it assymetrical - both sides are different. Whichever option you go with be sure to balance each side.




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