Pain in balls
Went to play paintball again yesterday with my fellow colleagues. Finally our wish to play the jungle assault was realised. The “escort the VIP” scenario was great too.
Basically two new scenario we played yesterday. The earlier games we played yesterday were the same like those we played many times ago. It was to get the newbies accustomed to the gameplay. The newbies: Roy, Khong, Adrian Leong and Kah Mun (Khong’s friend) .
There was another group of players already there playing when we reached. They are sort of “experts” alongside the director of the paintball facility, CJ Ong.
We joined them for the jungle assault but too bad, we don’t have a “war photographer” to capture the drama. Psycoacid refused to be one… as he like to take picture with camera phone. The pictures took for the day can be viewed from his blog.
Scenario 1: Escort the VIP
Our gang was split to 2 groups by 4:6 ratio and the group with 6 people (excluding VIP) have to protect the VIP (Alan in his brother’s National Service blue camo shirt).
The VIP escorting team is “immortal”. By that I mean they can be shot at continuously but once the VIP is shot, they lose. They must be in the range between 3 ft. distance from the VIP. Once a person moves away from the VIP.. will be disqualified. They have to escort the VIP from their starting point to the opponent’s starting point. No paint marker (the fucking gun, duh) for the VIP. Not even a knife…. or a briefcase to shield from the pellets fest.
Meanwhile, the atacking team is “mortal”. Once shot, the person goes out the field.. “dead”. The main objective is to shoot the VIP…. not the escorts. Once the VIP is shot, the attacking team wins.
Scenario 2: Jungle Assault
At first we thought the jungle terrain is like real thick secondary bushes but it turned out to be the opposite and not much trees to hide from. There’s a makeshift hut with only 3 sides of wall. You can shoot straight into the hut. The defending team defend their territory of a 15-20 metres radius around the hut. They can’t go outside the boundary. There was a trap which was set to trigger an orange coloured smoke bomb to indicate someone from the attacking team have breached and signals the red alert. They must not let the attacking team to take the flag situated on their defense boundary line.
On the other hand, the attacking team can come from all angles. 360 degrees. It was like real combat ambush we saw on tv and war films though minus the gun shell sound. Either the flag is captured or the defence team all dead, you win.
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http://endroo.blogspot.com/2006/05/kiasi.html
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