In Part One (”Against Recon1: A Moron’s Story”), I bored you to tears with one of several battles from when Recon 1 invited us to join their team holiday “practice”. Mostly, they just “practiced” slapping my squad around like Bobby does Whitney. But without doubt, it was one of the most enjoyable slapdowns we’ve had in a long time. (You have to pay extra for that in Vegas you know!) Read more

My squad had the three man sniper team pinned down in the gully we had backed them into. I was laying down a world of fire on them, targeting their heads in my scope and talking trash about their manhood. I capped one almost simultaneously as “Bones” popped up right behind them, shot my target and yelled “Surrender” to his partner. They both sat with their hands up as my squad encircled them as prisoners. The first blood was ours, but the third sniper had rabbited! Read more

 Tactical Diversions Productions (sometimes we just call him Ferg) and Wolf Creek Paintball in Star, NC presents Vietnam: Heat on Saturday July 19th.  Based on Operation: Cedar Falls in January 1967, when the U.S. and South Vietnamese forces attempted to root out Viet Cong base camps in the Iron Triangle. “The operation involved nearly 16,000 American and 14,000 South Vietnamese troops. The Viet Cong chose not to fight and melted away into a complex system of tunnels in the jungle. In response, tunnel rats were introduced to root them out. This was the first time they were used.” Read more

 The Platoon Leader Mil-Sim Invitational at Command Decisions Warfames Center in Taylorsville, NC has changed the date from August 2nd to November 7th to kick off the Fulda Gap scenario. The Mil-Sim Invitational will be combined with Fulda Gap to allow out of state teams to be able to travel and attend both events.

Another reason for the move is the summer heat in North Carolina. Randy Brown from Wolf Creek, commonly “the Top Sergeant” at the Mil-Sim events and a field medic, said that at a scenario last August, they had as many as 10 players succumb to the heat. With gas prices as high as they are now, teams were having to pick which event they were going to budget for. As Ferg says, “Now they don’t have to choose OR bake.” Read more

The paintball community is a very passionate crowd. Our emotions tend to be right out there for all to see. Joy. Frustration.  Anger.  Laughter. Compassion. When something strikes us close to home, we respond. This came to us from Joe from Wolf Creek Paintball… Read more

Yeah, yeah, I know the blog has an archive, search functions and even categories of articles, but we are getting a bunch of new subscribers and I wanted to feature some of the highlights of the past six months to make it easier for the newbies to find the good stuff. Besides, I’ve met some of these guys and they have a hard time finding their way out of their camo, let alone navigate a highly technical piece of editorial software such as this! So let the summer re-runs begin! Read more

 Black River Paintball is hosting Valor vs. Venom August 16th (Well, at least we THINK that’s the date) at their Fayetteville “Freedom Field“  Anyway, this scenario looks to be one of the most unusual I’ve ever heard of. For your $45 entry fee, you get your field fee, air, raffle entry,  AND an urban or woodland jerseyand pants AND the winning army gets a free paintball marker. Let me repeat that: Every player on the winning side gets a free marker!

Definitely not something you see every day!

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Boss Paintball in Locust, NC has decided to cancel (June 21st’s) Operation: Burning Sky,the sequel to Operation: Shining Shield (played in January).  The two day/night ops event was canceled due to lack of registration according to owner, Clyde Hartsell.  Read more

 In the first part of this a couple of days ago, we were telling you the joys and thrills of playing and practicing paintball in 100 plus degree temperatures. It’s not for the weak. It’s not necessarily for the overly-bright either. Below are more recommendations on how to not only thrive playing in the heat, but to live to brag about it later.

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