As a strategic and tactical game to play paintball can be suitably termed as a physical and challenging sport. The players require to use tactics intelligently. A lot of paintball games invite audiences. Paintball can be a very exciting game to watch. Woods, arenas, and fields purposely carved out for playing “rec paintball” are used everyday.

Woodsball is a very logical name given to paintball when it is played in the woods. Large woodsball fields may be used for scenario games or war-type games. To minimize undergrowth some woodsball fields are groomed as such. Number of players can vary in playing woodsball at one time, it can be small or large. In comparison to paintball played in arenas and specially made rec fields this type of paintball is slower and strategic.

Surrounded by protective netting to protect spectators from getting hit by stray paintballs, are the smaller fields used to play arena paintball. Manmade structures like empty utility line spools, bunkers, and inflatable structures can be a part of these fields sometimes. Names of the two types of games played in arena paintball are speedball and xball.

A field that is empty except for inflatable obstacles and roofless bunkers that are distributed equally on each half of the field is used to play Speedball. For spectators the speedball format is more exciting and for players it is more challenging.

Professional Xball matches last 50 minutes, split into two halves. Amateur Xball games have shorter matches. Xball is a team game with multiple rounds of Center Flag played until the clock runs out. A team which wins a round gets one point. When the clock runs out the team leading with more points is declared as the winning team for the match.

In comparison to other types of paintball, Rec style is more freeform. Usually it is played in noticeably open areas with manmade structures or bunkers providing cover. Rec paintball is such a game that it can either be played by few people or by hundreds of players in re-enactment games.

As per the requirement of paintball, teamwork is absolutely essential regardless of the type of game being played. When some team members are moving through the field other players will guard and some will give off cover shots when it is needed. Teamwork is thoroughly supported by communication.

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