Paintball can be suitably termed as a physical and challenging sport which requires strategic and tactical thinking by the players. Numerous types of paintball games exist which attract audiences. It can be a very stimulating game to watch. To play paintball you will see it in areas such as woods, arenas and fields specially made for “rec paintball.” Paintball can be played in several ways.

A logical name of paintball is woodsball when it is played in the woods. Large woodsball fields may be used for scenario games or war-type games. Few woodsball fields are well prepared to avoid undergrowth. Numerous players might play woodsball at one time or the number of players can be small too. However this kind of paintball is more strategic and as a result slower than the paintbaal played in arenas or rec facilities.

Smaller fields are required for playing arena paintball. Such fields are surrounded by protective fences to save the spectators from being hit by stray and paintballs. Manmade structures may also be a part of these fields sometimes, such as empty utility line spools, bunkers, and inflatable structures. Speedball and xball are the two types of games played in arenas.

For playing Speedball what is required is a field that is empty except for inflatable obstacles and roofless bunkers that are distributed equally on each half of the field. Competitive for the players and exciting for the spectators such is the format of the speedball game.

There are multiple rounds of center flag played until the clock runs out in the Xball which is a team game. A team which wins a round gets one point. The team with greater total points at the end of the clock running out is the winner team. Matches which are played for 50 minutes, split into two halves are Professional Xball matches whereas Amateur Xball games have shorter duration.

Generally played in fairly open areas with man made structures or bunkers providing cover Rec style paintball is more free form than other types. Number of players can vary extensively in rec style paintball, it can be small at times and during re-enactment games it can go into hundreds.

Paintball needs teamwork regardless of the type of game being played. Teamwork is supported through effective communication. Some players give off cover shots when the other members are moving through the field and some other players are guarding.

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