Readers Respond: What's the Most Exciting Form of Paintball

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Woodsball and Recball

For me, speedball is great but puts too much paint to waste. I love woodsball for the tactics and teamwork side, but i put recball over all for the close quarters combat and real-life scenarios, its faster paced than woodsball but maintains the element of stealth, even in close quarters

—Guest HazMatMan

what better speed ball/woodsball

well in my opinion i like woodsball because its more like real action. going to attack your opponent without knowing where they are at. this game you dont fire unless you have to. when you fire you hit your target. in speed ball in my opinion its also fun but its more of who has a better/faster and more upgraded gun then they pretty much wins. you shot continously and the game doesnt last that long. well back to woodsball. it doesn't matter if you have a high-end marker or low-end marker. its all about stealth and the way you think. stratagy is what it is. in woodsball you have to go out pretty much not knowing where they are and gots to know that they can fire from any angle. you have to have good vision also because people usually wear camo flouge. so you need to know how to communicate with one another without speaking. teamwork a lot of teamwork will win the game. experience or not if you have a teamwork then you'll win most of the time.

—Guest w00dsball3r

Both of them

I enjoy every type of paintball. My marker is made for speedball, but it does well in all areas of the game.

—Guest MINI MURDERA

Woodsball

Woodsball is my preference for paintball, as I use an upgraded Tac 5m Recon, a semi-auto gun that sports a 12" barrel, JT official stock butt and a close-quarters red dot laser scope with a 1.5x zoom. My hopper is a Halo, and ech piece has woodland camo. As such, I can eliminate any targets at close and medium range with a high accuracy rate and "kill" rate. Woodsball is great for me because I like to bury myself deep in the brush, and flank the opposing team. On the flip side, I can click on the zoom and snipe targets hiding in the forestry. All in all, it all really depends on preferece and how you've built your gun.

—Guest Reaver

SPEEDBALL

ok, first off, im a big big fan of speedball, because you have 1000's of rounds flying at you constantly, then, if you are good enough, while there is a break in the firing, you run to another bunker, and if you are fast and good enough go for the run by. Woodsball, on the other hand, you are just walking through the woods and then you hear a couple rounds go off, so you duck and run to a tree, then a couple more rounds are shot off, its just all a very slow type of paintball, as you can see, woodsball doesn't really do it for me.

—Guest paintcrazy of PbNation

BOTH

i think both is awsome. woodsball is cool because you can have a big nice looken milsim gun and throw grenades and plant trip mines and stuff and speedball you run and shoot very fast and play all kinds of games like capture the flag, elimination, etc and run real fast and slide. and in both games adrenaline is pumping. thats why i like both

—Guest paintkid

Woodsball!!!

I would love to play Speedball...but I'm 38 and have a screwed up right knee.A lot of running and sliding is just not for me.I love to watch it though.Put me in the woods and i can play with the best of them.I just wish woodsball and spedball players would come together and stop being at odds with each other.Its all good, just different.

—Guest D3ATHS H3AD

competitive woodsball

I've played every type of paintball there is; and the most exciting games I have played are the competitive woodsball games such as the SPPL and UWL style tournaments. For recreational play; my favorite is pump or stock class games. Super fun, very intense, and amazingly inexpensive.

—Guest Bob

Less is More

Lots of paint flying is a bigger test of the equipment than the player. A game where you only go through a handful of paintballs is by far the best test of skill and is the most exciting.

—Guest Beatrix

Affinity for woodsball

I haven't ever played speedball - only watched it on TV and of course that's pretty different from playing! I like woodsball because each field could be different. I like being out in nature too! I think it would be really cool to do a big scenario game - that would be exciting. I'd also like to play an outdoor game with pumps and limited paint. I think that might be the most exciting form of paintball.

—Guest Raptor

Small Group of Friends in the Woods

While it might not exactly fit the definition of "exciting", enjoying a small group of friends for a few hours in the woods is what I consider the "best" form of paintball. I love to just enjoy friends and fun without worrying too much about cheaters, over-competitive players and over-confident, over-armed, under-mannered jerks.

—Guest miser