Colorado: Dynamic Paintball Park

For those of you following my paintball adventures, you can now mark Colorado as being half way done.  I visited Dynamic Paintball Park in Aurora, Colorado on Oct. 16 and spent all day playing.  For this adventure, I took two of my cousins; Alex and Nathan Moss.  Also tagging along was my uncle Buck (Civilian Observer).  For this day of paintballing, I chose to shoot my DYE DM10 marker while Nathan used the Smart Parts Ion I also packed along for this trip.  Alex used the Smart Parts Ion XE that the field rents out to all its players using rentals.

Dynamic Paintball Park is located approximately 45 minutes east of Denver and near Buckland Air Force Base.  I would consider this field to be perfect for those just getting into paintball and small group gatherings (birthday, scouts, company, etc).  For those of you who paintball at SC Village in Chino, CA; the size of this field is about the same as the Bosnia map.  It’s one large field divided into quarters by imaginary lines in the dirt.  The park does have two speedball fields for those looking for a little faster paced game as well.  Entry is $10 for those with your own equipment and all day air is included.  Rentals cost $15 plus entry.  Included in the rentals are an electronic marker, so newbies can have nearly the same advantage as those with their own markers.  They are a Field Paint only field but the prices are decent ($60 for a case of 2000) compared to other FPO fields.  The paintballs sold are Draxxus Field Paint by Pro-Caps, of which I am not a big fan.  I broke about a dozen rounds in the barrel of the DM10 throughout the day.  Look on their website for monthly specials: www.dynamicpaintball.com to see when their next big game or tournament is scheduled.  When I went, entry was only $5 for all players (before 11:30am) and a case of paintballs was only $50.

Some people would think playing on one field would get a little boring after awhile, but I found that not to be so when I played.  They played your basic elimination game,  President, and Center Flag Capture.  A new game I was introduced to was Alamo.  Rules for this game are; 4 attackers to start and everybody else has to defend a pre-designated area and may not leave that area (the Alamo).  Once a defender is eliminated by an attacker, that player must reinsert as an attacker at the attackers start point.  The attacker must take the Alamo and is allowed to respawn as many times as needed in order to finish the game.  On a side note; I was an attacker during one of the Alamo games and may have inadvertently shot my Uncle as he was taking pictures of his grand kids.  Whoops, my bad.  In my defense, I was trying to shoot the opponent who took refuge near where he was standing.  Now my mom is mad at me after she heard what happened.

The paintball day ended with the President game.  The whole field was in play and both teams designated a President they had to protect.  The Presidents were armed this time around.  Goal is for either team to kill the other team’s President or get their President to the opposing team’s start point before the 20min time limit ran out.  I went solo along the left side of the field while everyone else on my team went to the right or center.  The other team sent two people to their right (opposite me) and the rest took defensive positions near their President.  Both the opponents engaged me and I was only able to eliminate one of them.  By some miracle, the second player who was trying to make a move on my position, was shot out by one of his own teammates who was a little trigger happy.  This left the whole left side unprotected and open for me to advance and pick off players as I came up behind them.  Lots of “where did that come from” and “What the???” could be heard from the eliminated players as they were hit.  Soon our team pulled in closer to where the opposing team’s President was hiding and kept pelting his hideout with paint.  Unfortunately for their President, his hideout had a big enough opening between the logs that I was able to rush the opening and yell for his surrender.  By this time, the rest of my side converged on the hideout as well and just kept firing at the log building so I could not hear if he had  surrendered.  So, as I have done before when offering a player a chance to surrender, I yell out “surrender, surrender”.  If that player made a move I perceived as a  threat, I would then give them a ball in their pod pack.  However, this player did not have a pod pack and started making a move from the prone position I found him in.  So I gave him a shot to his right butt cheek.  First time I ever heard anybody yelp from a shot to the butt.  After that the Ref called the game and I did apologize to the player for taking a close shot.  His friends however were laughing it up and offered me congratulations for making the kill.

I still feel bad for shooting the player from so close a range and for possibly shooting my Uncle on accident.  The staff at Dynamic Paintball were friendly and pretty cool to talk with.  One of the Ref’s, Aaron, moved out from Oceanside recently and returned home to Colorado a couple of months ago.  We got to chatting about what paintball fields in Southern California we liked and why.  Bob, one of the two owners of the store and field was pretty cool, complimented me on the way I play and liked my attitude.  He was a little surprised to see me play all day, seeing as groups of people showed up and left throughout the day.  James worked the back counter and helped with the air fills and taking players money for entry and paint.  He even diagnosed why one of my air tanks was leaking and fixed it for me.  “B”, was a cool Ref and kept the players happy with different ways of playing the game.  Thanks for introducing me to the Alamo game “B”.  So besides the sore feet and a few bruises I’ll be taking with me back to California via Oregon this week, I will also be taking back with me the fun experience I had at Dynamic Paintball Park.  Thanks to everyone at Dynamic Paintball and I hope to see you in the middle sometime soon.  Next stop is Lebanon, Oregon October 22 - 24.

Internet Link:
http://www.dynamicpaintball.com/

Herbies Paintball Park

On September 10, I traveled to Fernley, Nevada for a TAW Scenarios game at Herbies Paintball Park titled Starship Troopers: Always Bet on Aces.  This trip had me catching a Southwest flight from LAX to Reno and crossing my fingers that I would not have to pay an overweight bag fee.  The NXE paintball gear bag came in at 47lbs (50lbs pays $25) with all my gear that was neatly packed.  Once in Reno, I had to cross my fingers again because Thrifty Car Rentals had a rule of not taking my bank issued temporary bank card.  With a BofA rep on the phone, the Thrifty manager was able to complete the transaction after getting confirmation that the card was good and not stolen.  After that adventure, I found my way to Herbies to walk the field.

Herbies Paintball Park, about 5 minutes south of Fernley almost looked like Planet P from the movie Starship Troopers; high desert region with hills and no brush for cover.  This paintball fight was going to be an uphill for battle for both teams both Saturday and Sunday.  One CP was located up top and the other was located down bottom.  The elevation difference between the two was 180ft.  The terrain allowed both teams to see where each army was going due to the unobstructed view.  Areas of the field were split with 5ft berms that consisted of soft fine dirt (not great for high end markers) and the legendary attack rocks mentioned on the forums.

The Generals for this game were Fridaddy of Team Lockdown (Ace’s Army) and Shadow of Team Shadow Path (Rico’s Roughnecks).  Ace’s Army started at the bottom CP and Rico’s had the top CP.  The game brought a couple of changes that Damien of Taw Scenarios decided to throw into the mix.  Our lone player from Oregon, Spike, was given the role of a Bug and he was immortal.  This meant he could fight both armies and not have to tag back in at a flag station when hit and could keep playing until he ran out of paintballs, air, or couldn’t take anymore hits; whichever came first.  Damien also selected a few players to play the part of the Federation and initially play with Rico’s Roughnecks but switch sides when Damien gave the order.  3 armies, 1 with no allegiance to either, and a lone Bug on a paintball field made for a fun two day affair.  The Saturday night game saw about 40 participants go out into the night while some of us watched the movie Starship Troopers that The B-Team setup at the staging area.

Sunday was the last day of battle.  This time our army (Ace’s) was on top of the hill and Rico’s army was on the bottom.  The Bug was still giving both teams a huge hassle and the Federation army joined back with Rico’s Roughnecks after shooting a few of us in the back.  The strangest activity some of us saw, were both Generals and Damien held a Tea party in the middle of the field while players were still shooting at each other.  When asked why they chose to hold a tea party in the middle of the field they replied, "just to have fun and see what the players would do, shoot at them or around them."  Before the final battle, Ace’s army held the advantage in points but it was still anybody’s game.  This battle saw Spike join Ace’s army and still carry his immortal role.  Damien then had a player dressed as Waldo be the immortal for Rico’s army.  During the final battle, a Stonecutterz member of Rico’s army took cover in a tire that was just beyond the 50yrd mark and flattened himself inside waiting for time to expire.  This move allowed Rico’s army to gain the points needed to snatch victory away from Fridaddy’s hand for the weekend.

Shhhh!  Don't wake Alpha

Gosh darn it I had a lot of fun that weekend.  It was awesome for Alpha and his lovely wife Ladi Di to allow Spike and I to use their area as our staging center.  All it cost us was a jar of Cheese Puffs from Walmart and two coffees from McDonalds.  As usual the Stonecutterz played a great game and went home with Team MVP for Rico's army and The B-Team took the same MVP award representing Ace's army.  So that's what took place Sept. 10 through the 12 in lovely Fernley.  I can't wait for next years game but I have to get ready for October where I'll be in Colorado paintballing and then Oregon for another TAW Scenarios event.  So to everyone out there reading this, I'll see you in the middle.

Internet Link:
http://www.herbiespaintball.com/


Sorry this entry is soooo late!
Chrisassin