Speed ball?

I was not sure where to put this so i put it here. Will Airsoft guns pop speedball bunkers (the blow up kind)? I think it would be a lot of fun to speed ball with airsoft guns. If they don't pop I would like to have someone organize an event to play speed ball somewhere.

I actually have shot one with my sniper when at 700fps and it blew but it will not even get close to blowing with anything below 400fps, so for a fast speedball battle snipers are obsolete in that kind of battle anyway so that would be something to look into.

ha ha! Sounds like a gametype to bring out my SHORTY M4 SAW to!

Airdog do you think you could convince a paintball field to let us play speed ball?

With speed ball i think we should limit it to semi auto only, be a little more speedbally

I think a speedball airsoft event would be awesome. Although I agree that it would have to be limited to semi-auto, otherwise somebody with a crazy RoF could tie people down and sorta ruin it. So perhaps no SAW...

lol yeah

hahah that sounds tight.... i think you should still play full auto though! cuz with paintball everybody trigger walks anyway so its almost just as fast

I don't think anybody but pros can shoot at 20 bps in paintball without some sort of trigger bounce or stuff like that. Most people who are really good at walking the trigger cap out at about 15. And some people have airsoft guns that can shoot upwards of 30 rps, so it wouldn't really be the same. Even so, I see your point. I just think that it would allow for a bit more movement, making it a more enjoyable game rather than a game won by spraying and praying all over the place at 30 rps or something.

Don't forget about limiting FPS, as I believe most of us don't want to be shot multiple times in the face by a gun shooting 420 lol, might be having to pick some bbs out of your skin later on haha. I think that full auto should be allowed as long as its not sustained 3+seconds.

Players,
Speed ball is my kind of game play.We can put our minds together and I'm sure that we can work out this game.Does it have to be inflatable bunkers?Because if not then we can tweak some bunkers in an open area an shoot'em up.Great idea!!

I would really love inflatables but I am up for tweaking some bunkers. Zartan do you think you could find us an inflatable field. In the mean time we should most definitely do what you said.

Zartan72 wrote:Players,
Speed ball is my kind of game play.We can put our minds together and I'm sure that we can work out this game.Does it have to be inflatable bunkers?Because if not then we can tweak some bunkers in an open area an shoot'em up.Great idea!!

How about a mounds/sppedball area? Mounds fields are awesome.

Too bad the Fat City field shutdown.
We can certainly modify the layout of AREA-13 to accomodate a speed ball type game.
It may be interesting to also change the format to require low or mid caps.
A pistol only event would also be interesting in a speed ball format.
Hmm. Let us put some thought to it.

Maybe semi only for highcaps and burst for midcaps? like no more than 3-4 shots at a time

Speedball is one reason why I got out of paintball. It seemed like the majority of the games were short, and not tatical at all (atleast my opponents weren't!).

And that blow up cover is kinda cheesey. Now if you had like some bunkers/barrels and things of that nature set up, and set it to a 15 min game time, that'd be awesome, but speedball kinda takes the realism out of airsoft(I'm talking about the blow up cover).

But the idea of "speedball" brings back bad memories, and a lot of people getting shot way to close.

I mean I enjoy running and gunning as much as the next person, but I don't think I'd play a carbon copy of paintball speedball, just with airsoft guns.

The game can be modified and tweaked to our airsoft likings.Let us know your thoughts on changes to a speedball type game and we will certainly put something together at one of our OPS.

I don't know if you want people to "bunker" other people.With 350+ that would hurt a little bit.

|337 wrote:Maybe semi only for highcaps and burst for midcaps? like no more than 3-4 shots at a time

Eh, I think that that would be kind of hard to enforce. Also, speedball games are over so quickly that mids/standards wouldn't limit you.

THEMANatwar wrote:I don't know if you want people to "bunker" other people.With 350+ that would hurt a little bit.

Yeah, we would have to have CQB-like limits, say 330 FPS? Also, I'm going to be wearing gloves and a mask, as well as some sort of scarf/cloth around my neck.

That would definetly be required(wearing added protective equip)Pistol only could be a hot ticket?!?!

Man if you guys are worried about fps and full auto there is a simple answer. Make the game pistols only. Most pistols only fire semi only and most pistols don't run hot. Realize I'm making a broad statement when I say most here so don't reply with what about the MP7 or whatever gun that shoots hot and full auto. The added bonus of this is all you have to carry is your mags and pistol you can lose most of the extra gear and move faster making the game faster. Make things simpler not super complicated with midcaps this and hicaps that.

Pistols only=Win!

I believe that would be a extremely fun game. I love to use pistols, but the accuacy of them isn't to good at long ranges (thats what the AEGs are for lol)

^Yeah, a pistols only speedball field would be awesome. Especially if we're using spools/barrels and the like.
I've been waiting for a reason to justify buying one of the new KWA USP's with the NS2 blowback system.

Now I wish i had a glock...lol. THATS SOUNDS AWESOME!! Airdog should do glock rentals...lol

Admin wrote:^Yeah, a pistols only speedball field would be awesome. Especially if we're using spools/barrels and the like.
I've been waiting for a reason to justify buying one of the new KWA USP's with the NS2 blowback system.

If it's anything like my KWA M9 PTP (and I'm sure it is) then your going to love it.