Has anyone ever played nightball???

[Broodling88]

Has anyone ever played nightball????
I played a couple of days ago and it was awesome. The neighbors did get agitated after 10 p.m. though. If you have any funny or interesting stories about your experience, please post.

[Infiltrator]

I have written a bunch of stories a long time ago about my night games. They were intense fun. Especially in scenario games when there is a critical mission to finish.

[Infiltrator]

From another thread. All this was done at night with no moon or nightvision.

I was at the 5th Element Scenario game at waynes world. My captain was training me to be a night scout for these 20-30 man teams to guide them to the area that accomplishes thier mission. The first team we were scouting for was a group of total newbies. They were freaking out at how dark it was. It wasn't regular darkness, it was cave like darkness (you could BARELY see the path). The newbies kept talking because they were scared. My captain and my other friend kept telling them to shutup. They kept turning on thier flashlights stupidly (flashlights attract attention to everyone in the forest) even after we told them to turn them off. Finally my captain says to them, "If anyone does not want to SHUTUP, then come up front with me and take our position. Our position is extremely dangerous, the scouts are going to be the first to be lit up so SHUT THE HECK UP." It was so quiet after that, that you could here the crickets chirping. Well anyways my captain and I continued walking into the blackness toward our objective 30 people behind us. All of a sudden my captain stops and kneels down. I do the same and look ahead. It seemed like there was shadows moving around in front of us on the path. There was 3 minutes of silence. All of a sudden this flashlight in front of us peirces the darkness into our faces 20 feet away. Instantly this explosion of paintguns discharging molded into one big roar (it sounded like an explosion). 30 on 30 20 feet away. I instantly got out because of my in experience to move off the trail when getting in an engagement. My captain though rolled off the trail and took cover behind a big tree trunk. I watches as they fought. It would be total blackness for 10 seconds, then a spot light would turn on and shine on anyone that was not taking cover. Whoever got caught in the spotlight was very unfortunate. It was intense. My captain survived though. He told me our team got annhilated and he just stole away behind the team that took us out and eliminated the rest of them one by one. He trained me well because we would each individually get eliminated but somehow we kept meeting in the pitch dark blackness after we respawned without radios or nightvison. We wised up after that and ambushed a couple of squads.

After I met up with my captain again in the dark, he told me that they were on the second part of the mission; which was patroling the trail in front of the pyramid. We were walking up and down the trail when this stream of glow in the dark paintballs flys across the trail. (I read later on that this is a distraction technique to get us off the trail so they can ambush us.) Well it was a group of red guys equiped with a spotlight in the woods behind some solid bunkers. They kept shining it and people from our team would dive out of the light just as it shone at them. I got stepped on by my own team a couple of times. Apparently the strategy didn't work. One of my teamates was super relentless. He ran just to the left of the spotlight and bunkered both of the players. Unfortunately my friend had major vertigo problems. After he bunkered them, it was total blackness because there was no spotlights anymore. He managed to find the trail but didn't know where we were (in the woods 30 feet away from him). This red group of 10 guys that was supposed to ambush us ran up and only saw my friend crawling on the ground. They decided to take him prisioner. They didn't know that 10 of us were all around them. This spotlight from our side peirced the darkness and lit up the ENTIRE squad as bright as day. All of us lit them all up and their entire team was annhilated. Most of them curled up into a ball and hugged the fence. It was like an old testament picture of people getting stoned. Strange and funny sight.
(The reason for my teamate bunkering them so fast was that the glow in the dark paint showed us where the guy was shooting from exactly.)

My captain has been playing for 15 years. He had this bag of patches from different scenario games, It looked like he had like 50 or more of them, he gave me one he claimed was from the first scenario game it says TET 68.

Anyways after that awesome ambush my captain (nickname for scenario games was weasel.) told me that we better be moving fast. We ran down the trail toward our base in blackness. Seeing lights up the trail he told me to start chanting "Coming down the trail, coming down the trail". It was a ploy that made the opposite team think that we were out and were heading to the hospital. The lights got closer. As they started shining at us my captain said "GET THOSE LIGHTS OUT OF OUR EYES, IT RUINS NIGHTVISION." As soon as we came up to the team with the flashlights my captain stuck his gun in the scout (leading a 15 man team) for the team and said he better be on the green team or he's going to shoot. The guy was on the red team! The scout whispered to my captain "You know it's not a good thing to shoot this close, not a good thing." My captain just kept his gun pointed at the scout and walked away toward our base passed the team, me with him. I didn't overhear what the scout said to him until later, but my captain told me to run for it after we passed the team.

We ran down the trail until we met up with our own team after doing the same ploy. We setup another ambush. We went off the trail. I took position behind a nice tree trunk. We waited for 5 minutes as the red team got closer. Just as they got right in the middle of us, the scout for the red team says "Snap! We only have 3 minutes left to finish the mission." Right after he said that we opened up all the paint we could throw at them. I aimed for the flashlight, but mysteriously the player stayed in the game the entire firefight. I emptied all my pods on that stupid flashlight and he never went out. Anyways after I ran out of paint I stopped shooting and leaned up against the tree. My team and my captain got out and I was the only one left. Two red team players walk right past my tree on both sides and sit down 3 feet away from me. The third guy steps on me and falls down. I tell him to take the hit, but he doesn't go out. So I scream out, I am on the GREEN TEAM. His own team from the trail unleashes a volley of paint at me eliminating me and thier teamates around me.

After I got eliminated my captain and I met at the base after we respawned at the hospital. We were sitting around waiting for the next mission, when the captain of the team we just scouted for asked my captain(weasel) a question. Are you weasel? Weasel said yes he was. The captain said take the hit! Weasel said, "What are you doing! We just helped you finish 3 missions and you are eliminateing me for being a spy?!!!" (Wayne Dollack was playing a joke on my captain, because he knew him well and my captain always calibrated the radio frequencies for the scenario games as well as providing them. They also talked alot in the radio shack) Well weasel said that he might as well eliminate him so the green team can get points for it. All this time I was thinking of taking out the guy eliminating my friend weasel, but I couldn't come up with a solution until after he eliminated weasel and was back in the midst of his 20 man squad. I went up to him and stuck my barrel in his chest in the midst of his team and said take the hit. His teamate immediately stuck his barrel in my kidney and said "You take the hit." The guy's behind him knew all the things I and weasel did and stuck thier barrel in the guy's side who's barrel was in my side. There was a mutiny and was starting to look like it was going to be a nasty gang battle to the end. I said, "Well then in order to save bruises, I'll go out if your captain goes out. He agreed so I walked away and the ref come over and says, "Ok you guys are all out." Five guys walked out with me that mutinied each other. Unfortunately I didn't see the captain of the other team walk out. Next time I'll pull the trigger.

[Broodling88]

That was a great story. When you say nightvision, do you mean glowsticks???
That's what I played with....;)

[drinkerofblood]

nigthvission is just letttin your eye adjust to get any light around you, so if you got you eye fully adjusted you wont use flashlights or glowsticks or any light source because it causes your eye to undilluate hurtin your abillity to see


great story man
sounds like it was an absulte blast to play

[Broodling88]

OHH...OK. :D Thanks and that was a great story. When I played, it was regular woods ball at night. The moon wasn't shining through the trees so we decided to glow sticks so we wouldn't shoot something that would get us into trouble (maybe a house or fence).

[erickillebrew]

i played night game at hollywood sports while it was raining and my thermal lenses fogged up then the glare from the lights they had on made it impossible to see

[Broodling88]

hah that sux
I hate when my googles fog up!!!!:pissed:

[Mongoose87]

i've played night games a few times. It is usually a waste of paint unless you have lots of people and/or a small marked off area of play. But ne time we went to my friends farm and played. He has one of those real high wall things that they have on ropes courses that you have to help eachother get over and we had one or two guys up there while the rest charged them, it was pretty fun.

[Broodling88]

Nice...I might have to try that one time....We played civil war style where you have like 15 paintballs and no hopper. Load em in one at a time.....Very paint efficient:laugh:

[pbdevil]

i played nightball at westpoint and we did the civil war thing where you just line up in a row and load the paint in one at a time.

[Broodling88]

it takes a lot of courage to line up thirty feet apart and fire paintballs at each other standing still...........:crazy:

[spyder freek]

Originally posted by Broodling88
it takes a lot of courage to line up thirty feet apart and fire paintballs at each other standing still...........:crazy:

Fun though...until you take that low shot....and then your like:eyes: and their like:laugh: an then your like:bawling: ...ya....

[ViperXT]

Playing at night can be alot of fun. Just make sure you play with people that are very safety-conscious. You'd feel pretty bad if you shot someone who took of their mask but you didn't see them even if it was their fault.

Playing at night is very different in that you play almost completely by sound but it is very intense if you play in a small confined area.

[firekow]

My first time was at night, I managed to sneak around the left flank of the other team and scored 3 eliminations :D. Fun times, fun times.