Paintball

[BrotherSidious]

Any paintball players out there?

 

Four of us in my office (based in Wolverhampton). We try and play once a month at a nearby site in Rugeley or at Warped (near RAF Cosford).

[pscott]

We had moved from paintball to laserwars, less painful and much much much cheaper!!!

[ICT_GUY]

I played recently in Southampton, it was one of the cheap entry we provide everything venues. Unfortunately the balls were priced at £7 per 100 (online they are £27 per 2000) so the games were very expensive and spoilt the fun.

 

However, what a blast and boy did I ache after all the exercise. The ball hits did not hurt as much as I had been led to believe. Most of the games were spoilt by a small group of cheating chavs who refused to play by the rules, even ending up cancelling a game by shooting at players from the dead zone.

[BrotherSidious]

We use a relatively new site that we are helping to get off the ground. A whole days play with a burger for lunch costs £25 if you got all your own gear and £35 if you need to rent it all. You then need to buy balls in bags of 500 but these cost £5 (1p per ball). Cheapest place I have every played and been playing for 20 years. Edited July 14, 2010 by BrotherSidious

[sister_annex]

Most of the games were spoilt by a small group of cheating chavs who refused to play by the rules, even ending up cancelling a game by shooting at players from the dead zone.

 

Typical.... but it does mean you can shoot the crap out of them more

[ICT_GUY]

Typical.... but it does mean you can shoot the crap out of them more

 

I was getting very annoyed at them, shame I was out of balls.

[alextreadwell]

Its bit out of the way but national paintball games sheffield is a great day great staff and nice and it cheap if you book through their shop Dangerzone I play there on their walk on days one a month (much cheaper If you have your own gear!) but I have taken a group up from work last month and they loved it!

[apeo]

We had moved from paintball to laserwars, less painful and much much much cheaper!!!

 

didnt know places still did this.. last time i played laserquest (as it use to be called) i ran straight in a wall LOL. Alot of fun tho.

[alextreadwell]

danger zone sheffield do laser tag as well but its for girls lol men play paintball and take the pain

[korifugi]

Airsofter here: Get to really 'play soldier' as you get kit that looks real (real enough that they're illegal in public - but not at proper designated sites), full auto plus with some kit you get a good bit of recoil. (A friend of mine almost dropped one of my sidearm rifs due to the recoil!).

 

And its cheaper.

[apeo]

Sounds like fun.

[Sephiroth]

I'm also an airsofter. IMO, much better than paintballing due to the realism. The ability to customise the weapons is brilliant. I use a scoped AUG and an HK416 with grenade launcher (fantastic fun to fire into a building ) and red dot site.

 

I go to a site in Layer Marney just outside of Colchester. £20 walk on fee and £15 for equipment hire including gun with 2 mags, cammo, mask and 2000 bbs. Not a bad price

[alextreadwell]

you just like dressing up lol "airsoft first step to be coming a tranny" ;-)

[Sephiroth]

"airsoft first step to be coming a tranny" ;-)

 

Well, it's all in the spirit of the thing. Besides, What's wrong with being a tranny?!

 

Still, I'd be interested to see just how many of us there are that do either paintballing or airsoft.

[sister_annex]

Paintball here - beacuse I can handle the pain

[BrotherSidious]

I was getting very annoyed at them, shame I was out of balls.

 

I always make sure I have a spare pot for cheaters. Nothing like 20 hits in a couple of seconds to make them reconsider

[Guest TheLibrarian]

<>Airsoft, for airheads and softies.

 

Paintball, will cause pain and you have t' have b:censored:

[Theblacksheep]

Played paintball a bit, but much prefere airsoft....