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Bongos
01-24-2003, 09:41 AM
Well, it started last Saturday, after accepting the fact that due to the marker you own puts you in the advanced games. I'm in my early 30's and thought that if I am to invest in this sport, I might as well buy what I can affor, instead of starting with something new and pore money into upgrades. I ended up buying a 2002 Angel LCD with Cobra Mods. This is my second time out, the first time wasn't pretty, had many marks to prove it and this time I tried a different tactics.

I met some new friends, so we met up at Jungle-Islang in So. Corona, CA. It was a cool morning roughly in the mid 60's and high humidity. The games started at about 9:15 and my friends and I were ready, my group of three included my Angel, a Timmy , and an E-99. We started in Trenches and these were advanced games. It was about 15 on 15, both teams had mostly cockers, bushy, and even a couple of pumps.

The game was capture the flag, to me in trenches it would probably be total elimination. Anyway we worked up the trench, eliminations were few, both Teams were pretty good, I find my angel to be very accurate with the helpful info on this board with the paint to barrel match. I was able to eliminate one player for sure (evidence on his mask). As we advanced, I find myself going through a lot of paint, I had three pods, my prior experiences, 3 pods would have lasted 3 games and you can refill during a break, I am half way up, about 10 minutes into this game and I had one 150rd pod left with half a hopper. After emptying the hopper and eliminate another player (hit him on the foot). I loaded the last pod. As the games progress, I'm getting sprayed all over my goggles and can barely see. Then the refs said 5 minutes left. There were at least 7-8 players left for both sides. I'm surprise my friends and I are still alive, but before we can decide if we can rush the other team, the other team overtran the trenches, I was able to pick off two before I got splat on tke mask(yes paint is bitter). In the end, Our team won and one of my friends survived the ordeal. It turns out, the other team thought there was only a few left and not expect there was so many left.

I didn't play the second game because I was very low on paint (half a hopper, 0 in pods), so we decided to go back for reload.

As the day progress, and we went to field of tanks, helicopters, cities and barrels, I find that team work with flanking manuever work bests, my old strategies of making barriars larger by being further back (woods tactics of 15 years ago) doesn't wook too well in todays arena. Working a squad of 6 is best with cover fire and out flanking. By the end of the day, I personally went through a case of paint. But the day was a different day, I ended up with very few bruises and a lot more experience..confidence. It's all coming together. Well, thanks for your attention, I just wanted to share.:|

bobalis
01-24-2003, 11:20 AM
Man i wish i could afford an angel my second time playing PB! I just got the Impulse in my sig and i have been playing for a year. Well anyway, good luck to ya and I hope that you will like PB more and more you play.

Bongos
01-24-2003, 12:00 PM
Thanks Bobalis, well when you are old like I am, I'm not as fast as some of the 15 and 17 yr olds, I'd figured I get the best I can afford. My finding is that, the quality marker does help but, it's 90% the player which gets the job done. I find that you have to get down and dirty, not to get splat and get a shot.

Ebonclaw
01-24-2003, 01:14 PM
Congrads...hope you're enjoying your new Angel....now I'll just throw this over into stories, take your Angel as compensation for the work I had to do to move it, and we're done!

AK47
01-24-2003, 01:49 PM
I started with a high end, I feel I could learn about it fast enough not to screw anything up. Most guystake the low route. Well congrads on ur nice marker, but I think half a hopper should be enough, I can play a whole day of rec with 200 rounds

N00bPaintBaller
01-24-2003, 05:51 PM
:laugh:


i waste a lot more paint than I ever did now. Kinda sad, instead of $30 an outing, its like $60.

-=ReD-hAzE=-
01-24-2003, 10:30 PM
Originally posted by AK47
I started with a high end, I feel I could learn about it fast enough not to screw anything up. Most guystake the low route. Well congrads on ur nice marker, but I think half a hopper should be enough, I can play a whole day of rec with 200 rounds

a whole day on a hopper full.?! crazy...:crazy:
i go through about 100-150 a game when i play(front)...

nordic
01-25-2003, 06:37 AM
what the heck are you playing? rec or target practice?!

cocker kid 2k2
01-25-2003, 06:44 AM
Get a bigger harness dude, with an angel. Your going to need it.

Lopez17
01-25-2003, 08:00 AM
Heh...Bongo...you sound like me. I got back into paintball after a major rehab on my knee and like 10 years off. I started out with an E-99 and within a month bought a decked out Timmy. I went from shooting 1000-1500 rounds a weekend to somewhere in the neighborhood of 3000. The accuracy is scary...I can skim paint right over the tops of bunkers and scary speeds. It's nice having the disposable income to kick around on the fields and enjoy the game.

BOB_IS_COOL
02-06-2003, 12:19 PM
I have never shot more than a 800 in a day and I play speed ball. Oh and I also hit quite a few people each day. Look at my sig and you will see that I also don't shoot the best gun in the world(although I thinks it works as good as an angel).

NoFXHead
02-08-2003, 07:11 AM
Yeah the most i shoot at tournies is 500-600rnds and i play front.

ahopkins16
02-09-2003, 09:40 PM
wow, i must shoot a lot then, cuz i generally blow through around 200 a game......i need to work on my self control, dont it...but then again, w/ my setup you hafta hope and pray you get lucky and have the ball do wut you want, generally thats one out of about 50 or so.....

BOB_IS_COOL
02-14-2003, 07:25 AM
kind of a waste.