Registrations are Filling Fast!

With two and a half weeks until Generation Kill: A Bad Afternoon in Afghanistan, the registrations are coming in fast and furious. The Pashtun Mafia is already capped off at 80 players! The Taliban and U.S. Marines side are gaining ground quickly.  

TALIBAN: IT’S GOOD TO BE BAD!

The Taliban army is being commanded by Kevin Shimwell, owner of Adventure Beach Paintball in Tabor City, NC. Kevin is a very aggressive player and loves the action of paintball. His years and years experience and knowledge of the game will be a couple of major factors in the winning of this event. Kevin is as laid back a character as you would ever want to meet… until he needs to charge into battle and then it’s a different story! You can contact Kevin @ taliban@genkillpaintball.com. 
 
If Kevin’s years of experience weren’t enough of an advantage for the Taliban, the first thing he did was recruit (Larry) “Ironman” of Rogue Cell. Rogue Cell is one of the most respected teams in the region and Ironman is known for leading from the front. Picture Sgt. Rock, only taller. Much taller. Ironman is well known for his strategic tactics and use of communications to turn games around. Anyone thinking this game will be one sided, may need to wonder which side that will be!

MARINES: HOORAH!

The Marines First Recon Unit will be lead by Eric “Lifer” Brooks from Team AFC out of West Virginia. This last year, I had the privelege of commanding a core unit at Fulda Gap and having Lifer and Team AFC on my unit and they are “name takers and widow makers” You point these guys at a target and try to find a new target before they have decimated that last one! Eric and his group were our first choice to lead the Marines at Gen Kill simply because they exemplify duty, dedication, aggressiveness and commitment. He has already recruited a number of out of state teams to “bring it” to the Taliban and the Pashtun. The Marines could use a couple of action-oriented NC teams that know the opposition teams to act as a counter-strike force. If you are looking for a side that will do our military proud, contact Lifer and sign up for the Marines side.

Still A Great Deal for Great Cause!

You can still get $10 off the regular price (for a limited time) and $5 off a case of paint if you pre-register at ScenarioSupply.com. We are working with the USO to identify a military family impacted by the war in Afghanistan, so a portion of your registration goes to help someone who sacrificed for our country.

For More Information…

To learn more, go to our new web site, www.GenkillPaintball.com and to register, go to ScenarioSupply.com (to take advantage of the virgin/goat offer, register for The Taliban army) For questions, you can contact us at info@GenKillPaintball.com.

Adventure Beach Paintball in Tabor City, NC hosted another great game this weekend. The torrential rains on Friday made the field a little muddier than usual but still playable. Of the two armies, the Hidden and the Knowing, The Knowing ( lead by Chris Nienow of Port City Militia) dominated the field on the Saturday portion of the game. A number of pre-committed teams for The Hidden didn’t make it to make the game and that may have been enough to tip the scales. Unfortunately beyond their control, Capitol Offense got stuck in “Snowpocalypse” when Washington became inundated with snow. Billy “Greenman” Ford, the general for The Hidden, devised a great plan which actually worked against him after The Knowing divided and conquered the field on Saturday. Missions became harder and harder to accomplish when the yellow taped Knowing saturated an area where the mission props lay. The Myrtle Beach Sun News covered the story and have some great pictures of the event. About 200 players attended the game that ran from Friday evening to Sunday morning. The night game on Saturday was changed to an extended day game due to temperatures and wind conditions. The game Sunday was full of surpirses and twists as Greenman dressed as a speedballer to infiltrate the Knowings base and steal the main prize. Nienow retaliated by sneding a spy right into Greenman’s CP. Kudos to Turtle and Derek, XOs of the Hidden, for great comms work.  Jason “foolybear” Lineberger covered the event for Action Pursuit Games. Kevin Shimwell, owner of ABP summed it up best, ” That is one of the great things about paintball. Newcomers and experiences paint-slingers all have a chance to be the hero and have some fun. Skill level might have its benefits, but it really comes down to the willingness to get out there and get the job done.”  The Knowing  simply wanted it more. Congratulations to them all for a game well played!

On February 5th, Adventure Beach Paintball in Tabor City, NC will launch a “24 hour” paintball scenario, “The Road to No Ends“. The story line involves two armies questing for possession of the mystical oracle which… oh, who cares what the storyline is! The real story is that two armies are going to battle it out on the paintball field once again and Adventure Beach Paintball ALWAYS throws a great game! The sides are divided into The Knowing (lead by Port City Militia) and The Hidden (lead by Greenman of Team ODX). I don’t want to sound prejudiced and always want to present a clear and unbiased account, but anyone who does not sign for The Hidden is pretty much a sissy-merry! (Okay, Greenman, make that check out to “Paul Metheney”). Read more

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