Game on!

So my adventure of traveling to 100 paintball fields in the 50 States has officially started with Decay of Nations 4: World Pandemic, at SC Village in Chino, California. The biggest scenario game on the West Coast happened August 22-23 and consisted of over 750 paintballers playing for either the Ekron Corporation or UNA Army. Also running with the paintball players were 5 tanks that could either carry troops or fire on enemy positions with their own guns. The game organizers had invited Charles Allen of TAW Scenarios (UNA Army) and Ben Torecelli of Millennium Paintball Productions (Ekron Army) to be the Generals for this event.

The storyline for the game was Ekron was looking to build WMD’s and unleash it on the UNA army. UNA’s job was to find the WMD’s before Ekron and beat back the Ekron army once again. My team Foxhound Ops was running with the UNA army that weekend. With more than half of the paintball fields reserved for the game and their boundary tapes lowered, we found ourselves going into areas that were unfamiliar to us because some of the fields had not been used in a long time. These areas were filled with overgrown plants and small pathways in which to maneuver. This offered plenty of cover for both armies to launch ambushes and to also get lost within each other’s lines of advance. Occasionally we would find ourselves going in circles if we weren’t careful. The Generals had us run missions ranging from patrolling certain areas, retrieving intel, finding props and bringing them back, holding flag stations, to the fun mission of blowing up the opposing team’s CP (Command Post) with their General inside.

Both days ended with a Blender/Bloodbath type battle with both teams on one single field with the main objective of overrunning the opposing teams start point. Saturdays Blender saw the UNA push hard and taking the field away from Ekron after a 20 minute fire fight. Sundays Blender had both armies shooting it out in the city of Beirut. For every building gained by either team, another was lost. This game lasted more than 30 minutes with no team having the advantage. In the end, as both teams came off the field and waited for the results of the game; Team UNA was able to pull out a win by having the advantage of having blown up Ekron’s CP one more time than Ekron.

Although the game started on Saturday later than I like, I did have fun both days. I got to sleep at a teammate’s house and eat some awesome food. Bartered with the same teammate with our gear (1yr old Rotor for a 48/4500 air tank). My new Dye DM10 was called sexy by a handful of people who saw it. It also fired flawlessly. First time in a while that our whole team showed up and played together, it was great to see them and catch up. All in all, it was an awesome paintball filled weekend even if I did have to come home with a few bruises and sore muscles. So as I write this, I now have to get ready to pack and fly out to Reno in September for another scenario game that Charles is producing at Herbie’s Paintball Park in Fernley, NV. Starship Trooper: Always bet on Aces, ready or not here I come!