Known as a team not a clan - .-=(ADF-Team)=-.

Posted by ADF-Sniper on Monday, June 09 @ 11:29:08 EST

THE 2008 GTG PAINTBALL EXPERIENCE

Friday – Everyone finally got to the venue by about 1700hrs (5:00 pm to you uneducated people)

We had been briefed that we would need to assemble at ‘sparrow fart’ the next morning for the transport of troops to the battlefield the next morning. Alcohol was curtailed to maybe two or three drinks less than normal that evening.

The troops were mustered and allocated vehicles. Cable driving one vehicle, Sniper another and ADzam the third. Now we had to be at the area at 0830 hrs for a fund allocation (payment of the fees, etc) briefing and the march to the front.

We had to get some rations down prior to the campaign so the Golden Arches was visited at North Albury. Now this is where the trouble began.

1. Our fearless leader had not quite got the directions fixed in his head, so there was some discussion to where we were headed.

2. Some funds were needed by some of the troops due to the unknown availability of Eftpos machines.

So we now had two cars in Albury and one well its way to the Paintball Area, probably unaware of the location of the other two vehicles. The ADzam-Sniper combination then proceeded onto the paintball area (or so we thought). Being in tailend Charlie ADz’s car) the message comes through from CaptCC “don’t go over the overpass” there’s a blue sign showing the directions. No probs we’ll sought that out, so we take off after Sniper, get past him so we can lead the way (by this time its after 0830 hrs). We come to the Olympic Way hang a lefty and off we go, and go, and go. Adz. states this is not looking good, we turned off before the overpass, but no paintball park. We had noticed at this stage “no Sniper either”. At that moment the Mobile rings, Sniper “you took the wrong turn, I didn’t think it looked right, we were on the Olympic Highway before you turned off” – now this is from a guy that didn’t quite remember where we were headed – now I said to Adz we were on the Hume not the Olympic Hwy. So we headed back to the turn off and continued down the Hume Hwy. At this stage Maloo states that “I bet it’s the Wagga turnoff that we are after and we all tended to agree. So now we have three cars in three different locations – organization at its best.

Anyway to cut an even longer story shorter we all arrived at the correct location 30 min after we should have – this created a slight problem where we were split up because the actual group that we were supposed to go out and play against went out on time and split up into two groups so that they could at least get started – which meant we had to be split up as well.

We got kitted up and armed and had a few basics and safety requirements read out to us and, then we went out to the test range to have check that all weapons were working correctly.

We then met up with our fellow combatants and went into action – the first Map (for want of a better name) was quite a small area and we had to basically start at either end and work towards the other end and raise your team’s flag. Now this really didn’t quite work out this way because we all got close to the middle and it turned into one almighty fire fight (or should I say paint ball fight).

(I forgot to mention that if you got hit twice you were out – that was the basic rules – one hit you raised your hand and went back to base and restarted your move forward, second hit and you raised your hand and made your way off the battlefield). There was a fair amount of ammunition expended here as we were not quite sure of the flow of things to come. So there were two rounds of 2 min and we then moved on to the next map.

So the next one consisted of Bunker which one side initially started off in and could then move out after we started and the other side had to start in an area and fan out and try and take the bunker.

Two rounds of this also where the teams swapped roles. This again was a smallish area. Not quite as many rounds used here as people were beginning to run low and you then had to purchase more rounds if you wanted to continue.

Red team by this stage were well on top and it wasn’t looking good for Blue team.

I think the next round was similar to the previous one but included two bunkers which one team was split up into these and had to protect them both and the other side had to take them. This was a slightly larger area which enabled you more room to manoeuvre but red team were starting to get themselves organized and were starting to plan ahead. Blue team also ‘started’ to plan but it fell apart after about a 1 min. and turned into organized chaos, and then look after No. 1.

Two more rounds to Red team

Next one again was involving a bunker where one team had to stay in while the opposing team had to run around and try to turn three markers up to their colour. This again tended to somewhat organized chaos for the Blue team although there was some organization at my end of the field where we did get someone up to make a run for the flag marker which unfortunately failed but at least we tried, yours truly at this stage had run out of ammo and had to pull out of the round and fortunately one of the opposition who was getting quite brazen and had made a rush for my position, ‘cause he was “gone” because he did not know I was there. There was only one round here as the referee had noticed that we were running low on ammo and also at this stage time was also an issue.

So next round was a forest area of quite a reasonable size and as I was not competing I was dispatched to pick up cameras for a few of our guys from the cars and did not get to find out what the requirements were for this round. Maybe one of the other guys can fill in this area if they wish to.

EDIT Sniper: ADFTEAM ROCKS! I kicked all ya butts! Hooah!

Look it was great fun, we all thoroughly enjoyed it and we are aware of a few things that we can get better organized next year where I’m sure we will have a few more members come along.

It was fun and we were all pretty well exhausted and there was quite a few guys sporting bruises and someone a bruise that looked remarkably like a hickey on his neck, so I don’t know what he was up to???

I survived with been taken out in one round and surviving the rest. Knees were are tad sore and still are but I will be back again next year as I’m sure the rest of the guys who did this one will be also.

Dizz