AirSoft vs Paintball

phobicsquirrel

Anyone here do either? My friend and I are wanting to get a few people together and do some airsoft wars and I'm wondering how do players handle "what happens when you get shot". Meaning is there a respawn time, a complete out or what. I know paintball makes it a bit easier but it's messier and more expensive thus we figure airsoft is more to our budget.

Russ55

PsychoSJG

One2gofst

Russ55

phobicsquirrel

Thanks guys. I've played a bit with them, but nothing too fancy. Mainly when I go camping. I'm wondering how many people one needs to have a good game. I have 4 lined up for sure but can get 6. Do I need more?

Russ55

It's really just a matter of opinion, but it sounds fine to me.

PsychoSJG

phobicsquirrel:

Thanks guys. I've played a bit with them, but nothing too fancy. Mainly when I go camping. I'm wondering how many people one needs to have a good game. I have 4 lined up for sure but can get 6. Do I need more?

Those numbers to play while camping? It could still be fun playing in the woods or an abandoned barn, the paintball or airsoft. Going to a paintball place would be diff. Youd want more people so you can have fun with just your friends.

Jetmech_63

Russ, I agree with you bro. I played a LOT in the mid-late 90's. I had a Tippmann pro-lite with a dye barrell(bullet proof gun that thing was) and the most high tech you could get was an autococker....and those were brokedick most of the time. You had to have skill, communication and teamwork. And it was FUN, any kid cold do it with just a couple hundred bucks worth of starter kit from the ads in the back of an APG. Then came nitro systems, closed bolts, electric guns, vibrating hoppers, thousand dollar barrels, high tech expansion chambers....and on and on. I equate it to stock car racing. Back in the day, it was "run whatch brung" and as long as you had some mechanical ability and driving skill, you could compete. Now its who has the most money invested in their rigs. It's not all about the money....but i feel ya Russ. I'll never go back to it.

DeadBoxJD

I realize this is an old post...and maybe necroposting isn't the best thing to do but this one was right up my alley. I am an avid paintball player. Been doing it for years. My best friend and I even started a company supplying fields, teams, and players with custom shirts... You'd be surprised that the game has changed...sure those $1000 guns are out there, but most of the people shooting them don't have the skills really worthy of a gun like that. I cam regularly shoot them with my old school pump gun. Anybody that wants to is more than welcome to PM me and we can meet up and play some good games. I've got plenty of guns to go around. I'm sure I could even dig up some airsoft guns too.