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Let me take you on a strange journey, to a bowling alley with a difference.
You load a lightweight inflated ball (No more than 2.2lb 1kg) into a cannon with a 220mm bore. Aim the barrel and pull the trigger, releasing a blast of compressed air that propels the ball at very high speed toward a set
of ten pins, standing on top of your opponents' bunker, about 50 metres away.
They may choose to stay out of the bunker, in order to collect and set their ten pins up again, hence the body armour and helmets. If they are hit by the ball they must retire from the game. Wet paint on the ball will give away who's been hit and where, if they are still able to walk around after being hit.
First team to have all of their pins down or all of their players retired loses that round.
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Is it a foul to:
1. use a pin to bat the ball back at the other team?
2. load a player into the cannon after the ball, for more effective pin-knocking-over-ness?
3. load pins into the cannon for even greater effect?
4. have players hold the pins in place so they can never fall over?
5. smear the pins in paint and then club the opposing team with them? (I assume the basketball-cannon is slow to aim and reload)
etc. |
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I could have used one of these a few times today.
I am going to be SO sore tomorrow. |
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I once played paintball with some bastards who captured me and stood on my wrists and ankles while a couple of their mates shot me in the back, buttocks and thighs about 70 times. It hurt to even think about sitting down, for about a week after that. |
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Jeez, did you let them live? |
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There are twenty or so of us all working on the same site that play painball every few weekends. |
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After I'd been shot in the first game this morning I took about fifteen shots trying to walk off the field with my gun over my head before losing it. I charged the five guys shooting at me in a trench and didn't stop firing until they were all squirming and trying to get behind one another so I'm more welt than skin right now... |
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...my ass is fine though. |
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I was pretty bloody angry when I got up. The one I caught got a bit of a touch-up. They weren't people I knew. I haven't been to paintball since then. |
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That's a shame. I find it very cathartic and damned good exercise. |
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I hope the same applies to the guy I shot twice in the mouth. Like I said, I was mightily shat when I finally got up. I was trying to hit him in the throat but he managed to cover up. |
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I've only gone paintballing once, at which I discovered I was basically a sniper. I was the first of our lot to get down to the ground and muddy and to keep very still and quiet. I only used about a handful of paintballs all day, but most of them hit the target, and those that were my target had no idea where the hit came from (usually quite close). |
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That's the sort of soldier who stays alive. |
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Is it like dodgeball and if you catch the ball the other team is out. :-) |
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So the lesson I'm taking away from this read is don't play paintball with people you don't know. |
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