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Post by Trapper on May 14, 2007 6:19:12 GMT -5
Will admit, I got into some extremely intense battles this weekend. Played a lot of defense and mop up, that was not, and is not my style of play. I usually dont' stick around and go toe to toe with a blue and green horde, but tend to move to the flank and take out players that way. Story #1 Poor Corndog is sitting inside the CP surrounded by 30+ Blue players ... they were everywhere, and as I and a group came in for insertion, I kept asking the refs if the insertion was HOT ... they kept saying no, so I elbowed my way through the blue players (Literally had to ask them to let me by), I walked right up to the CP, stripped my Barrel Sock, tagged in and began to rip ... the leg welts are part of the result. Now, I also admit, I did not ask anyone to surrender, and some of the players were closer than 10 feet, but they all just stood there and watched me tag in ... I did try to shoot as many as possible in the equipment, and not the body ... Anyway, I took as well as gave ... I took six hits to the inside of my leg during this one insertion. Needless to say, that type of play is not my style, but that is what I did most of the weekend ... Story #2 One of the few times I did manage to get into the woods and practice my style of play, I was down by the Blue base, and they had just finished an agreement with that SAD Green horde. Pimp and Company left the blue CP and almost literally walked right over top of me. I let three or four blue players get past me, then started ripping into the SAD Horde from behind and over top of the blue players shoulder. Needless to say, SAD turned around and tore up all the blue players. Boy, some of those guys were P.O.'d ... they didn't realize that a red player had started it, just thought that SAD accepted the deal, then turned on them right away. Anyway, they got things straightened out and started moving out again ... so naturally, I did the same thing ... Now some of the blue players are way beyond P.O.'d ... I was walking off and trailing a quad of them, and they was cussing SAD out with a "blue streak" (pun intended) ... Now, that is my style of play ... one man raising total havoc on the other team ... not this stand there and try to slug it out ... Counted sixty (60) welts on my poor old tired body ... I am pretty sure that that is a record for me. I cannot ever recall having so many pockmarks and bruises from a paintball game. Even when referreeing speedball games ...
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Post by Trapper on May 14, 2007 7:08:20 GMT -5
Another item ... who tried to bribe SAD with real booze ? ? ?
I claimed the bottle of Scotch Whiskey, because of course Donn and Ronn DID NOT[/i][/u][/size] want that left on the field ... guys, when we talk about bribing a team on a paintball field with booze, we figured it would be colored water in a booze bottle ... not real booze !! ...
Anyway, on a follow-up to that, with the storm coming in, I moved all my equipment to my car to keep it dry. When I left the park, I put the bottle of whiskey in the back with my equipment ... now, I was tired, beat up, sore, etc., and I totally forgot to break down my marker when I left. So here I am driving along, sort of in a daze, when I come across a sherrif's driver license checkpoint ...
Oh Boy ... one look in the car, and it was "Sir, please pull your car over to the side" ... "Step out of the car please" ... "May we search your vehicle" ... "How much of that whiskey have you had today?" ... What is with the gun fully charged (air tank on, paint in the hopper) doing in your vehicle?" ... etc, etc, etc, ...
Got off with no problem ... (Thank goodness the seal on the whiskey was intact!) ... Moral of the story ... hide the booze, and always, always break down your marker and carry it in a proper case when transporting it to and from the playing field.
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Post by Twister on May 14, 2007 7:20:49 GMT -5
Nice gams Trapper...LOL ;D
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Post by spudcrazy on May 14, 2007 7:24:02 GMT -5
Been there, done that. I always atleast remove the barrel and tank. Leaving the hopper on, atleast for one cop made them realize I was coming from a game, but even he said removing the barrel and tank was smart, otherwise I would have been in a BIT of trouble....
Oh, and yes, I have tons of welts too. Yesterday was the first time I ever got shot to the point of the welt drawing blood. I have no less than three blood drawn welts....
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Post by VooDoo on May 14, 2007 11:00:05 GMT -5
Wow...thanks Trapper. I had no idea that one could get in trouble for transporting an assembled marker. Traffic normally has his all set up, assembled, and ready to go before we head out to play. His tank does not come off the marker, but you can bet his barrel will NOT be on the marker in the future during a ride.
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Post by Severe on May 14, 2007 13:23:59 GMT -5
I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of players came away with some nice purple bruises. I think the humidity was making the paint be very bouncy. I managed to catch Trapper coming past the barn advancing on the ravine looking for blues and I tried to one-ball him and it bounced. When he picked up the pace, so did my rate of fire. I watched nearly 10-12 balls bounce off his back as he sought cover. I'm not sure if it was me or not but I think he was finally eliminated to a gun hit. I had almost an identical situation later in the afternoon when I was on point for a 6 player group moving from the maze to the red CP. We realized we were walking in to the back lines of the reds as they were advancing through the ravine. With all of the reds attention away from us, four players from our group broke off to run a mission on the red CP leaving Vicious, from Bebop, and myself to turn down hill to start picking off targets. After a couple of barrel tags and one-shot back shots, the reds got wind of us. When they did, they suddenly had the choice of engaging blues on the side of the blue CP and leave their backs to us, or visa verse. Gotta love confusion! I don't know who the red player was, but he was determined to eliminate me. He must have fired the better part of a hopper on me with a lot of them landing but nothing breaking. It was almost comical but definitely encouraged me to look for another route to attack from. I tried to flank to the left moving for the road and got picked off when a volley from another player finally landed a ball on my elbow. darn bony elbow. I look like I was on the receiving end of a bag of ball-ping hammers! ;D But nothing as nice as the mule kick Trapper has.
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Post by spudcrazy on May 14, 2007 13:44:23 GMT -5
I can't help but wonder if that wasn't me shooting at you. I shot at one blue player about 100 times. I was getting frustrated why he never called himself out, but I was too far away to see if anything actually broke on him, so I didn't question his integrity. A few minutes went by and both of us got eliminated, which allowed us to walk out together. I looked him over and sure enough, not a single break, except for the one that he called himself out on. He, too, said he was amazed at the number of MY paintballs that hit him, but none broke (bummer for me). (There is no way he wiped either, because he CLEARLY did not have a fresh break on him). I know for myself, I took some hard hits, called myself out thinking "that had to have broken", only to find out it was a bounce.
So, Severe probably hit the nail on the head...the humidity kept the balls plyable and they didn't break as easy. I know I have far more welts on me than my jersey had paint stains. Oh well, battle wounds. It was still a blast!!!
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Post by chowda on May 14, 2007 14:44:43 GMT -5
Well other than Ritchie playing civilian , which is destined to be a team classic we had a couple of highlights to our day. Being right behind Spud when he nuked the Blue CP with his LAW was awesome. I was glad I got to escort and be a spectator for that. The ref must have jumped 3 feet when he heard the impact. The general kill we got when they asked what color we were as we were running towards the CP was great too. Thankfully I'm less bruised than usual but no less sore. Maybe that's a sign of improvment but I doubt it. My apologies to both SplatBrothers and Trapper on the alcohol confusion. I didn't know we were faking that one. LOL. I should have known better. Lesson learned. Enjoy it or give it to someone who will Trap. It was a spare. What happened to the other bottle anyway? I guess I was just thinking that giving SAD fake booze would really tick them off.
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Post by spudcrazy on May 14, 2007 14:55:49 GMT -5
I guess I was just thinking that giving SAD fake booze would really tick them off. I'll bet it would have ticked them off, but lesson learned all around...
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Post by rickm on May 14, 2007 16:21:45 GMT -5
i got a ref story me and robin were doing a water run and had to enter at the spools feild only there was a big battle going on so we waited for it to stop and flew down the hill and a ball went right past my head and into the windsheild then on the way back we were at the main gate wen i saw a player get hit in the pack but no ref was around so i jumped out the golf cart jumped the fence thing and got the player out ealizing we stoped the carrt on a hil and leaving robin in it with out the brake on she rolled about ten feet from where i got out then l8er on wen we called game i was running down the road to the base to get the horn and ran through about 30 lanes of paint but it was all fun
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Post by Trapper on May 14, 2007 16:23:47 GMT -5
Actually Chowda, I got both, but I am a sippin whiskey type of guy, and the other bottle will end up either being a mixer or something ... if you want them back, speak quickly, as I haven't broken the seal(s) yet ;D
Both Ronn and Donn asked me in a sort of "WTF" way about the alcohol ... Now, it would have been really good, if SAD had camped out. Then you / the team could have bribed them the night before and they wouldn't have been in any shape to take the field until about 3:30 or 4:00 ;D
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Post by Ronn on May 14, 2007 16:27:53 GMT -5
While on the subject, let's officially state, "No alcohol is allowed in the SplatBrothers Park." This is ESPECIALLY TRUE regarding alcohol ON THE FREAKING PLAYING FIELDS!
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Post by chowda on May 14, 2007 16:32:28 GMT -5
While on the subject, let's officially state, "No alcohol is allowed in the SplatBrothers Park." This is ESPECIALLY TRUE regarding alcohol ON THE FREAKING PLAYING FIELDS! Chowda humbly begs forgiveness. . It will never happen again. I should have known better. A momentary lapse of reason. My apologies to the parc staff and the other players. No Trapper. I didn't want them. Please enjoy them with my compliments.
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Post by Baby Steak on May 14, 2007 16:38:44 GMT -5
Silly Yankee, HaHa
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Post by Trapper on May 14, 2007 17:01:13 GMT -5
While on the subject, let's officially state, "No alcohol is allowed in the SplatBrothers Park." This is ESPECIALLY TRUE regarding alcohol ON THE FREAKING PLAYING FIELDS! Um Subject? What Subject? We are telling stories Ronn ;D
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