In the sport of paintball there are many different types of games and styles of courses.  You will never get bored with the constant changing of the games.  Courses are aplenty, so there is always a new objective and seen.  This page will give you a run-down of the basic games and courses for paintball.

 

The games in paintball vary.  Some of the most easy ones are elimination, capture the flag, center flag and predator.  Most games have the standard setup.  Usually there are 10-20 people on each side of the field.  When shot you must be taken out of the game.  To make sure time is kept to a minimum there are usually set time intervals.  Elimination is when each side plays until one side loses all players or the time runs-out.  Capture the flag is a more tactical game which involves a flag on each side and then each side must try to "capture the flag" and take it back to their side.  Center flag is when each team fights for the flag in the center of the field.  The team that gets it must then take it back to there side.  The game predator is a bit more complex.  This game asks for one person to wear a vest with a single target in the middle.  fifteen people then try to find the predator and shoot him.  The humor is that anyone may shoot him as many times as they want until they hit him in the target.  Those are the basic games used in paintball.

 

 

 

 

There are two types of main courses, indoor and outdoor.  Indoor gives the people the option to go paintballing in the winter and also to play most games.  The indoor arenas usually consist of barrier filled rooms with plywood, barrels, catwalks, and shelters.  Once in a while you may find air balloons.  Theses are huge blown up barriers that make the experience even more better.  In the summer most people play in the outdoor fields.  Outdoor fields consist of many different areas with just woods.  Lakes, creeks, hills, and trees are basically your setting.  Other fields are castle fields, Lego fields, air fields, and bunker fields.  Castle fields are well constructed castles made out of wood.  Lego fields are chipped and chopped barriers staked on one another to make the game more interesting.  Air fields are fields with air barriers.  Finally, bunker fields are man made hills and ditches used for barriers.  That is basically what the different courses are.

 

 

 

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