Paintball Team Tactics: Lazy Defense

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Robert Stewart with Hill thirteen.com. We've just talked about a very strong offense and how that plays across time, in the engagement of capture the flag. The next thing we're going to talk about is the inverse of that and that's the lazy defense. What we have here, two flags, green and red, and we're talking about an eight man team, this is for illustration purposes but any size team can be broken down this way. It gets a lot harder to play lazy D, if you're working just a three man team on each side. What's going to happen is you're going to install twenty-five percent of the green team into a defensive position and the reason why will become apparent very soon. If at all possible, these players that are going to go on the defense, should be in well covered positions where, as the red team advances, they can't be seen until they open fire. What you're going to do, at this point, for illustration purposes, use fifty percent for the defense, in the form of these four players. These other four players will be in a hook, they will take their positions on the field, along a line such as this. What they are going to do is wait and be patient and wait for red team. The offense in the hook should not fire on the first players that come into their shooting lanes, they should wait and they should let them continue to come into the kill box. Once they are in outside defense or the very outside of the hook, should be the first person that fires and that is a judgment call. Once you have a large number of players moving into the area where you want to engage them, before the defense becomes overwhelmed, the trigger man that will signal the beginning of the ambush, will fire. At that point, you have them taking fire from the front and the rear. Once you have mopped up all of these players and eliminated them, then you can take your time moving out for their flag."