Speedball Tactics and Tips

Peeking-Depending on where you peek out from your bunker is really important you have 3 choices: top, left and right. when peeking out from the left or right you have a limited amount of opponents in your sight and vice versa, but when peeking out from the top you make yourself available for the whole field to see, and you can’t look at everybody at once so chances are your going to be eliminated.

Sliding- When running long distances from bunker A to bunker B can be very difficult, sliding allows you to make a less chance of paint to hit you, by getting low and not standing up straight.

Crawling-Crawling is very effective in lowering the chance of getting eliminated, try hitting someone while they’re flat on the ground its extremely hard, and be sure not to do it at a certain angle if your crawling sideways and they’ve got you’re whole body in sight your about to be eliminated.

Less weight-Always remember the less weight you have to carry helps you run faster, try running from paint going up to 300 feet per second while carrying 10 pounds of equipment in your hands, it’ll be hard.) This is why fast players prefer stock markers and pumps, less weight= more speed.

Taking care of your Marker-Please respect your marker and oil it very frequently and check it for problems between games, oil gives the bolt and hammer more sliding ability so it will make the bolt move more smoothly, instead of grinding solid metal to metal.

Covering Fire-Covering Fire helps when running from point A to point B. You ask your teammates to provide covering fire and what they do it fire their Marker at their opponents not actually trying to hit them.) so they can stay in their bunkers while you can run where you please.

Trixy-Move bunkers Frequently When your opponents aren’t looking, if they think your in a bunker in front of them and you are in a bunker behind them they have no chance this is one of my favorite tactics)

Flank- when you have one opponent on the other side of the bunker, and you have more than one teammate’s), attack from both sides and at the same time. 99% of the time it will work. very rarely have I seen it not work.

Blind fire-Blind fire promotes nothing, there is almost no chance of hitting anyone, it’s careless, makes you open to hopper shots, and you have a chance of a running teammate in front of you which makes a possibility for you to eliminate your own teammate.

Bunkering-Bunkering is a high risk move in speedball, first of all before you do it you need to think “how many people are left on both teams” when its a low number on your opponents team ex: 1 or maybe 2, you can do it but first of all you need to let your opponents know that your going to do it using a code-word really helps because you don’t want to yell out “IM GONNA BUNKER THAT GUY IN THE LEFT CORNER!!” its a big mistake letting them know) when going up have your opponents fire at them and draw their attention from one side of the bunker so you can come around the other side and shoot them from behind.

Look alike-If your whole team dresses and look identical it would be confusing for your opponents to identify who their shooting at. Imagine shooting at a guy in a bunker in front of you and all of a sudden you see a guy from the other side of the field shooting at you and looks exactly the same! it would be hard to tell your teammates where they all are.

Cant see-If you cannot see your opponents lenses that usually means he can’t see you which makes a perfect opportunity to fire at them without seeing you.

Communication-Communication is a very important aspect of playing with your teammates it makes the game easier saying things like Where your opponents are at, who they are directing their attention to, if one opponent is trying to bunker you and when one has moved or is moving.

Specific jobs- if you give your teammates specific jobs like back player or front player it will help the organization of the team, front players basically do a large majority of shooting while back players provide paint for the front players (that’s why they carry more pods than other players.)

poking out-be sure not to poke out your body out of a bunker when shooting at more than one person Ex: if your shooting at a guy in a bunker to your right and your BUTT or SHOE is sticking out for your other opponent there’s a simple game for you right there.

Carry squeegee-When in a game be sure to carry a squeegee with you if you have a broken shell in your barrel and paint everywhere, It’ll make your paint go wicked crazy you’ll never be on target. so carry that barrel cleaner so you can get back in the game.

GOGGLES ON-ALWAYS keep your goggles on during a game or even leaving the field you can lose an eye or have a concussion, you will get yelled at by ref’s I am just saving you the trouble.

Remember-Paintball is all about fun so just go out there and have as much fun as possible.

Streams-when on the break of a game you can shoot many paintballs in one lane and eventually someone will run into it and get eliminated, there’s one guy right there