It’s bad enough when the bad guys beat you, it worse when you have to sing the Star Spangled Banner in front of 120 people on a bet, it’s a frigging nightmare when the stupid bet was your idea in the first place! That’s exactly what happened at Wolf Creek’s Vietnam Heat: Operation Cedar Falls recently!

The producer of the game, Andrew “Ferg” Ferguson of Tactical Diversions (otherwise known as Command Decision’s Wargame Center), asked me if I would like to general at July 19th event and after checking with my team to make sure they were up for the challenge, we agreed.  I have to admit I had a couple of late nights worrying about the score possibly ending up at 2000 - 0. I had never generaled a scenario before, but was pretty sure we (the team) could handle it. That’s what I get for thinking! Read more

 If the road to Hell is paved with good intentions, the road to success is paved with planning, marketing and hard work. Saturday, July 28th saw the kick off (punt?) of X-treme Tactical Paintball and Carolina Panther’s DeAngelo Williams’ “Army of Ten“, a ten-man team woodsball tournament at the Waxhaw, NC field. The tournament had every INTENTION of being a phenomenal event for scenario paintball. Blend a world class athlete and NFL football star who loves to play paintball, mix in $5,000 out of his own pocket as prize money, toss in a naturally, wooded scenario paintball field, throw in a dash of testosterone and competition and you should have a helluva tournament, right?       Right?  Is this microphone on?  (Where does that road lead again?) Read more

 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

Clyde Hartsell didn’t set out to make one of the best paintball fields in the Charlotte area, he wanted to sell the land to property developers. The way property values have grown, he would have made a fortune. He purchased the 75 acres that now includes the Boss Paintball field (http://bossproshops.com/golddiggers/index.htm) as a quick land investment. That was eight years ago. Lucky for us, it didn’t work out that way. Today, Boss Paintball, formerly known as GoldDiggers (very close to the historical Reed Gold Mine) is one of the best wooded scenario fields in the area.  There may come a time at some point in the far distant future where a land developer will offer Clyde the right number of zeroes for the land, but until then, Carolina paintballers have struck gold again in Locust, NC, about 20 miles of east of Charlotte.

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Some paintball teams seem like military organizations and some seem like extended families. I’ve run across the team that seems like both. If you’ve been to any major scenarios in the Carolinas in the past few years, you have more than more likely seen the banner of a bulldog on the shield. Welcome to Team Boxer. I interviewed their captain, Wendell “Runaway” McInnis, and one of their senior officers, Kent “X-Man”Jones, recently to find out what makes this such a popular and outstanding team.

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 The day started of like any good paintball scenario, we got up at O-Dawn thirty! What’s the “O” stand for? “Oh my gawd! Is this a meat grinder or WHAT!” Viet Nam Patrol 2008: The Siege of Khe Sahn was one of the better scenario events I have attended in the last year, but contrary to popular theories in physics, you CAN have hills that go up BOTH ways! Command Decisions Wargames Center in Taylorsville, is one of the best fields I have played at, but it is not for the weak of heart… or leg… or lung! But if you were looking for plenty of paintball action on April 26th, and weren’t afraid of a teeny tiny little cardio infarction, then this was the place to be! Click Read More for the details…

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On May 1st, the Pineville NC location of Paintball Central moves to 2233 Matthews Township Parkway, Suite J, Matthews,NC 28105 from its current location at 8700 Pineville-Matthews Road (Hwy 51) in Pineville (near Bally’s Total Fitness.) The store is promoting a Moving Sale where they are advertising everything 10% - 50% off. The sale ends April 24th. Click Read More for details…

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Just to prove that we are completely unbiased in our reviews, we will go so far as to shine the bright light criticism at our own team’s performance at Wolf Creek’s recent Clear and Present Dangerpaintball scenario.  As an unofficial, ‘non-team’ we decided to throw together a number of weekend warriors, who had played together before on various fields, for a common, unified goal, you know…   protecting my old, fat ass. Our ad hoc little team had suffered some last minute cancellations due to the game landing on the Easter holiday weekend. We lost about two thirds of our non-team due to family and travel obligations, as if family and religion were more important than paintball! Some people just need to get their priorities on straight! Clear and presently accounted for was Jason “Foolybear” Lineberger, “Camo Ken” Helfing, Paul “Bubbaloo” Metheney, and Daniel “Radio” Amos (see photo from left to right), all of which had traveled from 80 - 230 miles to be there. Read more

 We played at Children of Men at Wolf Creek  (located 1 mile east of I-73/US Hwy 220, in Star, NC) last year and then again at Clear and Present Danger this year and it’s one of the best fields I have seen.. It’s 80 some acres, heavily wooded, has one of the best forts I’ve ever seen, a house to clear and a village. But it’s the woods that make it. When the leaves are out, the camouflage is killer.

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 Mix 220+ testosterone-filled combatants, high tech weapons and a drug-running, politically-charged scenario and what do you get? Well, it ain’t exactly an episode of American Idol! You get a fun-filled day of role playing paintball at Wolf Creek Paintball field for their first independent scenario, Clear and Present Danger. Based on the Harrison Ford movie and Tom Clancy book, Saturday, March 22nd, saw most of the North Carolina paintball teams descend on Star, NC for one of the best local area games around. Click “Read More” below to read a review of the scenario, a recap of Temporary Team Tango Alpha2’s experience, and suggestions on how we would have improved this already great day of paintball.

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