Capture the Flag Paintball Game Strategies

Video Transcript

"This is Robert Stewart with hill13.com. Now you've just seen in the previous clip the basic rules of capture the flag, sort of the great-granddaddy paintball game. Now we're going to talk about how that action looks on the map. This is a generalized representation of one of the fields here, not drawn to scale. And basically you have one bunker flag station on this side, we're going to call them the red team. And then we have another bunker station we're going to call the green team over here. Now we're only representing three players on each team, but this could be three players, or six players or as many players as you might be able to split evenly at a commercial walk on field. So we're going to have these three players represent three primary tactical objectives in order to capture the opposing team's flag and return it to red team's bunker. So when the game begins, in a lot of games you'll see that the players just rush out and just throwing a lot of paint as, hopefully, some sort of effective suppression fire so they can achieve their objective. We're going to call this guy is going to be the "back," this guy is going to be the "runner," make that a little better there. The "back", the "runner" and the "mid-field" guy. Mid-field guy, when everybody scrimmages and runs out, is going to run out and try to take a position somewhere in the middle of the field, closer to the green team than his own bunker. So he's going to come out and try to secure a place where he's somewhere, we're going to call this the line, he's somewhere close to the line and he's going to try to secure mid-field. The back may not stay in the bunker, he may come out this far, but he's basically going to try to cover this area and protect it from any sort of assault from the green team. The runner is going to come out past the back and he's going to go deep. He's going to get as deep in as he can. Now this is a dynamic situation and green team is going to be moving at the same time and may be executing the exact same tactics, so you would have a mirror image in that case and that does sometimes happen. Now what the function of each of these players once there on the field are generally speaking is that the back is to protect this area to keep the green team from assaulting that flag and taking it. The mid-field guy, working and communicating with the runner, is going to try to lay suppression fire on the green team. And suppression fire means he's suppressing their ability to return fire so that the runner can make his assault on the flag. Now if their successful in eliminating green players on this side and gaining the flag here, now they have to somehow get back over. This is when the mid-field player is still having to support the runner and the back is still protecting the flag. If they're successful in keeping the green team from ever touching their flag, their primary objective then becomes to support the runner as he makes it back to red team's flag station. Doing that, he's achieved victory. "