| There are over half a dozen kinds of ways to | | | | pallets or tires, are placed all over the field-players |
| play paintball. Woodsball, Tournament or | | | | use the bunkers to help them maneuver and |
| Tourneyball, Scenario Paintball, and Speedball, | | | | most importantly, to take cover. The bunkers are |
| which can be broken down into a couple of | | | | placed symmetrically, so that neither side has |
| sub-categories: Airball and Hyperball. | | | | more of an advantage than the other. |
| ·Woodsball: | | | | The paintball players shoot more rapidly and |
| Woodsball is the original method of playing paintball | | | | perhaps at closer range in speedball than in |
| and is generally played in a forest or wooded area | | | | woodsball, shooting way more paint this way. |
| that is large enough to allow room for dozens of | | | | Most paintball tournaments and competitions are |
| players. In this form of paintball, players tend to | | | | built around the speedball concept. Thus, leagues |
| stalk their opponents, and the game takes more | | | | will practice this style of paintballing, as opposed to |
| time altogether. | | | | other methods. |
| Accuracy is key when you are playing paintball | | | | Speedball can further be broken down into several |
| woodsball style. Stealth is an issue in this version | | | | popular different varieties. |
| of the game. The paintball players will do all they | | | | Airball, which is the most common and likely the |
| can to keep their locations unknown. Paintball | | | | most popular way to play, is played on a |
| markers are very loud when fired, and can | | | | rectangular field the bunkers are air inflated and |
| possibly reveal a player's location. So many | | | | made of Nylon. |
| woodsballers will try to purchase quiet markers so | | | | Hyperball is another popular form using |
| that there is less chance of giving away their | | | | Corrugated Piping of different sizes and shapes on |
| position to opponents when they fire. | | | | a Rectangular field. |
| Woodsball players also fire less, because it is | | | | ·Scenario paintball |
| harder to know where the other players are-and | | | | The last kind of paintball I will mention is scenario |
| therefore these paintballers do not waste as | | | | paintball, though there are many more kinds of |
| much ammo. Of course, when you fire less often | | | | paintball games. |
| and your targets are more hidden, a player | | | | Scenario paintball is essentially just what it sounds |
| requires more patience and better aim than those | | | | like it is, based on a specific scenario or |
| who fire rapidly. | | | | theme-determined by the teams playing. Typically |
| Many different versions of woodsball have | | | | these are historical, science fiction etc., and |
| emerged: such as center flag, capture the flag, | | | | scenario paintball can involve hundreds of players. |
| total elimination, protect the president, hopperball, | | | | Like woodsball, the paintball scenario games take |
| 21, civil war, and the list goes on and on, | | | | longer than speedball, they can last hours or even |
| woodsball players can literally invent their own | | | | days. Depending on the group and/or scenario set |
| game and custom design their own objectives. | | | | up for this kind of paintball, the teams may have |
| ·Speedball: | | | | to take certain breaks at intervals and continue |
| Speedball, as the name of the game would | | | | later. Scenario paintball may perhaps prove to be |
| indicate, is a much faster kind of paintball. | | | | a challenge to orchestrate, but once you get |
| Speedball is played in close quarters. The size of a | | | | going it is a game you can really enjoy-you get |
| speedball field is approximately the size of a large | | | | lost in the fantasy and with scenario paintball, |
| basketball court. Bunkers, which are often | | | | players can enjoy the most imaginative aspect of |
| inflatable rafting material, plastic tubing, wood | | | | the sport. |