| It has come to our attention that there are a lot | | | | ways. One of the most obvious differences is the |
| of people out there that don't really know that | | | | look and size of the field. As opposed to the large |
| there are different types of paintball. Our mission | | | | and natural landscape of woodsball, speedball is |
| is to help those poor lost souls and open their | | | | played usually on artifical turf with artificial bunkers |
| eyes to what awaits them in the world of | | | | on a field that is typically no larger than half of a |
| paintball. Although there are many variations of | | | | football field in size. The artifical obstacles and |
| the game of paintball we don't want to | | | | bunkers have evolved over the years, in the old |
| overwhelm you so we will stick to the main three. | | | | days of paintball they were made of anything |
| Now these may arguably be the main three but | | | | that was laying around mainly larger wooden |
| for the sake of this article we will say that they | | | | spools and crates, they then moved onto |
| are the main three variations of paintball and they | | | | corrugated sewer piping and eventually evolved |
| are Woodsball, Speedball, and Scenario Paintball. | | | | into the more costeffective and asthetically |
| Woodsball is oldschool paintball at its heart. Paintball | | | | pleasing inflatable bunkers that are more popular |
| started off for the most part being played in | | | | today. |
| wooded areas which lent themselves to the | | | | Scenario paintball games are based on a storyline |
| "capture the flag" and | | | | or theme. Scenario games allow for a wide range |
| "elimination" type paintball games to be | | | | of player skill levels and an even larger amount of |
| played. Because woodsball can be played over | | | | participants. These games can span a period as |
| several acres and there are usually not many | | | | short as 12 hours or last for days. Objectives |
| areas where large portions of the field can be | | | | vary based on the storyline but cooperation is a |
| viewed at one time, woodsball games tend to run | | | | major theme in these games. The largest game |
| longer than other types of paintball play. Wooded | | | | to date was Skirmish's Invasion of Normandy, |
| areas also give players the ability to take part in | | | | held annually in Jim Thorpe, PA, which drew 4,007 |
| some more realistic wartime situations such as | | | | players in 2006. The summer of 2007 should be |
| ambushes, assualts on fortified positions and | | | | another record breaking season for paintball, it |
| protecting VIP's etc.. | | | | should be fun to see. |
| Speedball differs from woodsball in a number of | | | | |