Boss Company is producing “an-Naksah” on June 12th. This will be the  first official scenario production for the Boss Paintball field team, however these guys have been helping put together games forever as part of the Boss Paintball machine and the artists formerly known as E.P.I.C. Unit. From what I have read on the various forums, “an-Naksah” is what the Arabs refer to when talking about The Six Day War. It means “the set back”". Kind of says it all. From Wikipedia: The Six-Day War of June 5-10, 1967 was a war between Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. The Arab states of Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria also contributed troops and arms. At the war’s end, Israel had gained control of the Sinai Peninsula, the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights. The results of the war affect the geopolitics of the region to this day. Read more

Red Fox Games isn’t one of the most well known scenario fields in the Carolina pantheon of paintball fields. And the reason is the owner, Vaughn Smith, doesn’t do a lot of scenarios. He doesn’t have to. As one of the few paintball fields nestled in between Greenville and Spartanburg, he gets a ton of weekend traffic and doesn’t have to produce big scenarios.  We received a note that he will be producing “Vietnam: A Total War Perspective” on June 5th. This is a great field with a variety of different types of venues: tunnels, junkyards, towns, woods and a straight up frigging hill. I would suggest showing up early as he doesn’t take credit cards, pre-registration or checks, cash only. Vaughn has been doing this for a lot of years. It will be interesting to see how the lines are and how smoothly it flows.   Read more

There’s a few games that have built up momentum over time and you have to play them every year in the Carolinas: Fulda Gap, Gen Kill, Clear and Present Danger, and… Vietnam Patrol in May. On May 15-16th, Command Decisions War Games Center presents “Vietnam Patrol: Tet“, once again bringing the Tet Offensive back to life, nearly 42 years after teh original battle was fought. You can register as one of the three U.S. sides or as the Viet Cong. Read more

, Wolf Creek Paintball presents their 3rd Annual “Clear and Present Danger” scenario on Saturday, May1st, 2010 at their field in Troy , NC. Loosely based on the Tom Clancy novel and movie with Harrison Ford and Willem DaFoe. This is always one of the most fun games we play. In fact, the multi-army concept that we used in this year’s Generation Kill came directly from the game two years ago.  There’s not tons of back story behind this game. Watch the movie. But it gets right down to hitting the field and shooting the other guys.

Pricing:

• Pre-Registration: $30 through www.scenariosupply.com or call 910-220-7184
• Registration, day of game: $40 – after April 25th
• Field paint only starting at $45 per case
• Field opens at 8:30am and game on at 10:30am
• Directions

Okay, I am much better now. We took about a month off after Generation Kill (and from pretty much all things paintball) just to get our batteries recharged and we are back and ready to rumble. Thanks to foolybear for picking up some of my slack (welcome aboard by the way!)

There’s lots of news, so where to start? How about game schedules? Since we posted the annual schedule, a lot of things have changed.  In the following  days to come, we will post the details about each of these events. Hopefully I will get the blog event schedule updated as well.

• April 17th – Battle of Khe Sanh -  Adventure Beach Paintball  – $30-40
• May 1st – Clear and Present Danger – Wolf Creek Paintball   – $30-40
• May 15-16th – Vietnam Patrol – Command Decisions War Games Center – $45 – $55
• June 5th – Vietnam: A Total War Perspective – Red Fox Games – $55
• June 12th – an-Naksah – Boss Paintball- $25 – $35

Battle of Khe Sanh –  April 17th- Adventure Beach Paintball

What is about summer time that brings the Vietnam scenarios out in abundance? Must be the mosquitoes! Adventure Beach is udsting off one of the most publicized and controversial battles of the war that began winter of 1968 at Khe Sanh, 14 miles below the DMZ and six miles from the Laotian border. I’ve never been to a bad ABP event and this will be no exception.

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Check out the lastest episode of Blast Radius Woodsball Podcast for a field report on Generation Kill.

Ah, the new media. Blogs. Twitter. Web shows. Paintball Live is a live, streaming, paintball talk show. Tonight, Wednesday April 7, I’ll be on as a guest to talk about new media (like the Tango Alpha2 blog), the 2010 line of digi camo gear from Eclipse, some cool news from Pinokio, and playing a ton of scenario paintball. Tune in – 7PM PST.

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