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04-01-2005, 09:52 AM
http://paintball.about.com/cs/strategy/a/assaulttactics_p.htm
From Isaac Kennen
Successful paintball assaults require that teammates take on two very different roles suppression and invasion to accomplish one goal.
Suppression
Suppression is not a tactic meant to eliminate the enemy, but instead to distract them and shake them up, so they fail to notice your sides invading team. Paintballers must be very good at concentrating and controlling their fire if they are to be good at suppression.
A suppression team should consist of more than one person. They should realize that their job is not to get the other teams players out. (That is just an occasional bonus.) Their job is to make the other team keep their heads down when the invading team is trying to move past them. Suppression fire should be concentrated on one target at a time, it must be accurate, it must be steady, and suppressing team players must be willing to move around in order to keep the enemy feeling trapped. Two or three suppression players constantly harassing one enemy position will make the people hiding there so flustered that they wont even have the chance to see the invading team sneak past. Dont get so distracted by carrying out this tactic that you fail to see the enemys invasion teams come down your flanks!
Once your invading team is out of danger from one position, forget it and move forward. Either the enemy will retreat or they will be eliminated as your suppression team gets behind them.
Invasion
A paintball invasion team should focus first and foremost on concealment. The team should be made up of a pretty small number of players that are good at being quiet, playing tight, and have patience to pass up shots that will give away their position. This tactic requires you to get to a position where maximum damage can be done, rather than to get a nice shot on one enemy player that didnt see you coming.
Once the invasion team has made its way downfield and is in a position to take out multiple targets, or get the flag, or whatever the objective is, they should do it with full intensity. Paintball guns are not a quiet way to do anything. Once you fire, people will know where you are and it is up to you to do as much damage as possible before getting taken out yourself. If your damage is bad enough, you may find that the other team is too shocked to mount a counter-attack, and you can make a hasty retreat. But, that option will only present itself if first you unload a bunch of paint into the other team.
From Isaac Kennen
Successful paintball assaults require that teammates take on two very different roles suppression and invasion to accomplish one goal.
Suppression
Suppression is not a tactic meant to eliminate the enemy, but instead to distract them and shake them up, so they fail to notice your sides invading team. Paintballers must be very good at concentrating and controlling their fire if they are to be good at suppression.
A suppression team should consist of more than one person. They should realize that their job is not to get the other teams players out. (That is just an occasional bonus.) Their job is to make the other team keep their heads down when the invading team is trying to move past them. Suppression fire should be concentrated on one target at a time, it must be accurate, it must be steady, and suppressing team players must be willing to move around in order to keep the enemy feeling trapped. Two or three suppression players constantly harassing one enemy position will make the people hiding there so flustered that they wont even have the chance to see the invading team sneak past. Dont get so distracted by carrying out this tactic that you fail to see the enemys invasion teams come down your flanks!
Once your invading team is out of danger from one position, forget it and move forward. Either the enemy will retreat or they will be eliminated as your suppression team gets behind them.
Invasion
A paintball invasion team should focus first and foremost on concealment. The team should be made up of a pretty small number of players that are good at being quiet, playing tight, and have patience to pass up shots that will give away their position. This tactic requires you to get to a position where maximum damage can be done, rather than to get a nice shot on one enemy player that didnt see you coming.
Once the invasion team has made its way downfield and is in a position to take out multiple targets, or get the flag, or whatever the objective is, they should do it with full intensity. Paintball guns are not a quiet way to do anything. Once you fire, people will know where you are and it is up to you to do as much damage as possible before getting taken out yourself. If your damage is bad enough, you may find that the other team is too shocked to mount a counter-attack, and you can make a hasty retreat. But, that option will only present itself if first you unload a bunch of paint into the other team.