Team Tango Alpha2 is having a Practice Day/Scrimmage and are calling for all interested teams/players to come out and play. The weather forecast from Weather.com is calling for rain and 49 degree temperatures for Saturday for Marshville, NC (home of Paintball Kingdom where we originally were going to play)…

So we are moving the Practice/Scrimmage to Black River Paintball’s Indoor field at 504 North McPherson Ch Rd Building B Fayetteville, NC 28303 (910-860-4469)

You must have the coupon below to get the Team/Scrimmage discount! Allen from Black River has offered us a great deal of NO AIR or ENTRY FEE! All you have to do is buy your paintballs from Black River that day (whether it’ a bag of 500 paintballs or cases). Black River is doing this to support the paintball community and we appreciate the help when the economy sucks as bad as it does. Let’s return the favor by showing up and shooting a ton of paintballs! Read more

This week is the second birthday of this blog. Due to the holidays, increased assignments for Action Pursuit Games magazine, and the work around getting Generation Kill organized, I have been a little remiss in writing blogging in the last month or so. Then there was that little thing called Fulda Gap.

In the last 24 months we have averaged nearly 7 articles per month for 164 articles, so even though we have slowed down a bit in the last month or two, we have been still putting out some information. Most of our articles this year have been about events and scenarios.

As we move into our third year, we invite everyone to submit articles that we would be happy to post and credit.

Only 57 days remain until the season opener, Generation Kill: A Bad Afternoon in Afghanistan, at Command Decision’s Wargame Center on March 6th. Next Friday is the last day players can take advantage of the EARLY Pre-registration discount pricing of $30 (saving $15 off the regular price). On Saturday, Jan. 16th, the price goes up to $35 until Feb. 28th when it becomes $45. Players can also save additionally by purchasing their paintballs online, saving an extra $5 (for a total of $20 off the regular price). With the economy being what it is, Team: Tango Alpha2 wanted to give players every opportunity possible to save as much money as they could and make it as affordable as possible to enjoy the game.

Commanders for Gen Kill 2010:

• Taliban: Kevin Shimwell, Adventure Beach Paintball - taliban@genkillpaintball.com
• Marines: Eric “Lifer” Brooks, Team AFC marines@genkillpaintball.com
• Pashtun Mafia: Dave Thompson, Team Capital Offense - pashtun@genkillpaintball.com

You can register for the event at ScenarioSupply.com

This March 6th, 2010, Team: Tango Alpha² and Command Decisions Wargames Center will co-produce “Generation Kill: A Bad Afternoon in Afghanistan” (www.GenKillPaintball.com) at CDWC’s Taylorsville, NC field. 2009’s “Generation Kill: A Bad Day in Baghdad” broke new ground by pitting mil-sim Marines against Big Game Feyadeen. In 2010, everyone will play by Big Game rules, BUT this time, there will be 3 ARMIES, and a fourth wild-card group of Afghani civilians who can be supporters, informants or suicide bombers. Any of the three armies can make temporary alliances with any of the others (though why you would want to deal with a terrorist is beyond me!). To make matters even more interesting, all three armies will have to deal with Murphy’s Law screwing up their well-laid plans.

On March 6, 2010, The Marines First Recon Unit will be taking on the Taliban and al Qaeda in Afghanistan (well, in Hickory actually). If that weren’t bad enough, the Pashtun Mafia is pissed that the Taliban has prohibited the production of opium/heroin, which Afghanistan is the biggest producer of in the world, cutting their profits by 90%. The Pashtun also want the US and their War on Drugs out of their country, but being creative little mercenaries, will make deals with either side to form temporary alliances to come out on top. The Marines want Osama, the Taliban want Afghanistan, the Pashtun want their drug business back, and the Afghani citizenry just wants to be left alone. They are willing to make deals to help, support or hinder whichever side they think will win.

The reason there haven’t been any articles lately (sorry) is that the Team and I have been focused 100% on developing Generation Kill. In 2009, we had 250+ players and in 2010, we hope to increase that number. To see photos of of the Bad Day in Baghdad game, go to… http://www.genkillpaintball.com We think we finally have it all set (of course there will be changes you silly monkey!) but we think you will really enjoy what have come up with. We realized that the economy is down, so we tried to make it easy to save money and lower the price (sorry no free patches this year!). We focused on how we could condense the action, minimize off field time,  and just make it more fun. See what you think… Read more

by Kevin Shimwell
In a land far, far away there were 2 great empires known as the Hidden and the Knowing. It was told that a little farm boy found an ancient piece of parchment with a coded message giving clues to the location of the oracle. The oracle was a tale handed down through the generations of empires from tribal kings of the Knowing.

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Team Tango Alpha2, at a recent team meeting, has decided to use some of the money it has generated over the past  year to directly benefit its current (and future) team members. Among those planned benefits are: paying for team members’ events for 2010, free entry and paintballs into Fulda Gap2010, a new rocket launcher and rockets for anti-tank/bunker busting, and new team shirts, banners and additional UHF radios. It’s good to be a Tango!

The economy sucks. Unemployment is at a record high and luxuries like playing paintball sometimes take a back seat to minor items like rent, gas and food. Attendance at some of the events this year was testimony to how much the economy has impacted paintball. Read more

On February 5- 7th, Adventure Beach Paintball in Tabor City, NC is hosting, “The Road to No Ends“, a 24 hour scenario. The sides will be “The Knowing” vs. “The Hidden”.  Billy “Greenman” Ford of ODX will generaling “The Hidden” and has started recruiting already, with a number of well known teams volunteering to follow his leadership. The general for “The Knowing” is yet to be announced, but should be shortly. Pre-registration rates are $45 and ends Feb 1st. After that, registration is $55. This is a field paint only event. For more information, you can email: info@abpaintball.com or call 843-222-9081. Read more

We have been working with the various fields and producers trying to compile a comprehensive list of paintball scenarios in our region and “as of right now” what we have, can be found at Updated 2010 Events (a regular page at the top of this blog). There is no question it will change every time the wind blows, but I think we have it fairly well down right now. We are still waiting on Boss Paintball to supply us with their schedule, as well as Paintball Kingdom. We tried to get everyone to spread the events out so they are not on top of each other, allowing players to not have to choose between major events and to budget appropriately. It didn’t always work out, but it’s better than it has been in the past. Hopefully, fields will adhere to this schedule. What you can do to help them out is register as far in advance as you can so they can assess what they need to make these great scenarios cost effective. With the schedule a year in advance, you should be able to budget so you know what you can afford  both in time and money. Note the conspicuous lack of events in the summer? Someone has been paying attention!

If you are a field owner or producer and do not see your schedule up here, please email me at paul@Tangoalpha2.com

This time of year, it seems like every paintball field is throwing a Toys for Tots game. As well they should. Moose from Wolf Creek is trying to get toys for 250 kids this year. The Toys for Tots people have informed him that in their area alone, there are that many kids that, due to family situations, economy, whatever, are going to be without presents this Christmas and Wolf Creek wants everyone to step up. The ages of the kids range from infant to teenager, and even though the paintball demopgraphic skews heavily to guys, Moose asked us to “don’t forget to bring presents for girls in those age brackets.” Read more