“Is Necton still open?” or “We’ve booked to play paintball in Necton and just seen the news, what do we do!?”

Well, fear not paintballers! Although the damage done by the callous arsonist’s was extensive, and the cost is huge, the paintball venue is still open and still running.

We still have customer bays, where you will come back after playing paintball and have a drink and chill out before the next game and NONE of the amazing gamezones have been damaged in the attack.

Check out this video on the BBC website showing just what got caught in the fire at Necton

So, just to make sure there is no confusion:

Skirmish Paintball Necton is still up and running. No games have been affected and nothing has changed. All we ask, however, is for you to have a little patience when playing paintball in Necton as even though we’re trying to run as smoothly as possible to maximise your enjoyment, we’re having to change the way we book people in.

However, we’ve had absolutely not problems so far!

Thanks again for being amazing customers and being understand after this fire attack.

If you have any problems or questions then simply telephone our office on 0800 22 55 639

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Introducing Super Sunday, only available at Skirmish Paintball Nottingham and Paintball Sheffield.

Only available on the 3rd Sunday of every month. Pay just £20 booking fee, and you’ll get your first 100 paintballs absolutely free. You’ll also get all of the following:

• Entrance to an award-winning, top-of-the-range paintball venue,
• Use of the very latest Piranha Paintball Gun. Fire 7 paintballs a second at your mates.
• Tough-wearing, newly-brought and freshly-cleaned camo overalls, with battle pack holders and padded balaclavas.
• Anti-mist goggles, making sure you don’t miss a second of the all out battle.
• Use of constantly improving and innovative gamezones which will take your breath away.

Vintage film, which was taken in the 90′s down at the site:

Or how about this little gem? It’s a promo video from 1988. How things have changed, eh?

This is your chance to make a difference to Skirmish Paintball Games!

But this made me realize that, even though I’ve only seen one advert on TV for paintball (See Skirmish Paintballs advert), the paintball industry has done pretty well when being placed inside of adverts. Many of the larger companies pay insane amounts of money to create fast paced and cutting edge adverts, and when paintball is used as the back drop, then the industry benefits greatly without the cost.

There has been a fantastic array of adverts over the years that have used paintball as their main theme to sell their products, selling anything from cars, to energy drinks, to lottery tickets.

These videos aren’t posted in any order of preference, more a case of added when I found them.

(These links worked at the time of posting, so I do apologize if they don’t load properly in the future)

1. Nissan QASHQAI – Artistic Advert 60″

2. Powerade Energy Drink

3. Bud Light

4. Euro Millions

We just like to point out that some of the players may not be wearing masks, and that is something we do not accept at Skirmish Paintball Games. Everyone is given the latest in paintball safety equipment!

What is expected to be the largest scenario day in the UK, this fantastic event stretches over two days, each day packed with exciting events which aren’t to be missed!

Saturday

Saturday will be brimming full with activities and events. Although ‘ballers do not have to attend on Saturday, it is included in the player pack and is a fantastic way to have a look around the traders stalls, have access to FREE technical support and why not attend the pre-event meet up and have a few drinks with like-minded ‘ballers? A great way to kick-back and relax in preparation to what will be one of the best scenario events in the UK! Shoreline will also be running 2, two-hour paintball games, each with a fun theme and it is expected these will be closely contended!

Sunday

And now the details you’ve all been waiting for!

The full details for the game including the game map, scoring periods and all other relevant information will be released before the event in the form of a Player Pack.
As with most Shoreline events, the game itself will be multi-layered. There will be time based missions to complete, territory based missions and secret missions throughout the event. Players can choose to involve themselves on a highly tactical and strategic basis, or players can just walk onto the field and shoot up the opposition – either is good and there should be plenty in the game to keep the hardcore tactical scenario player amused as well as the guys who just love to run and gun.
The artifacts hidden around the field will be based on Alien Technology and Cat Food. If you’ve not seen the film, then the cat food reference will be lost on you – get down to BlockBuster and rent the movie!
Each faction will be allocated a HQ tent which will contain a computer, 42 inch LCD screen and network connection. Throughout the game, special missions will be transmitted to each factions HQ terminal including intel, maps and points details. Each faction will need to convert this intel into ‘points on the ground’ so good communications will be key.

The game will be open to any level of player, so if you’ve never played a Big Scenario Game before, don’t worry! It may seem complicated now, but just rock up with your gun and a smile on your face and you’ll fit right in. Shoreline games are renowned for being the safest and the best organised in the UK – that’s why we have players from all over the world travel to play at our games. So no matter what your experience level, you’ll be more than welcome!

Still undecided if you want to attend? Cast your eyes over this long list of just some of the things to expect!

• Minimum 300 players
• Played at a site that nobody has ever played before (they do not host walk-ons or scenario games). The site is fantastic and the facilities amongst the best we’ve seen in the UK
• Hard standing, heated flushing toilets. Permanently manned and cleaned continuously
• Fast Track registration system
• Tiberius First Strike Shooting Competition – free
• Traders Tech classes – free
• Super6 Academy classroom session – free
• Super6 Academy field based session – free
• Air Safety Training and pass cards – free
• Tech gun tech support (multiple manufacturers) – free
• 4500psi HPA fills from HPAC (that’s right folks, Super6 have sorted it – 4.5k is back for authorised Super6 events only!!!!)
• Multiple Traders
• Multiple manufacturers
• Shooting Range
• Super6 girls
• Super6 Golden Gun will be on display
• Super6 TV crew will be in attendance making their 30 minute Super6 TV show
• BraNewbs Photography will cover D10 and photo sets will be available for only £3.50!
• Scores of overseas players from all over Europe are already committed to attending D10
• HUGE PRIZE GIVE AWAY!!! More than you’ve ever seen before at a scenario event.
• Pre Big Game drinks meet up at local hotel
• Minimum of 4 hours play on Saturday including special games (more about those in the Player Pack)
• 6 hour Scenario Big Game on the Sunday
• 4 Command HQ Tent complete with networked PC’s and 42 inch plasma screens
• On site Super6 cafe from RAM Training with the usual fare plus healthy options at capped prices. All diners will be able to sit down and enjoy their meal.

Want some more information? Head on over to Shorelines District 10 website!

Over the last few weeks, we have been slowly updating all our local websites to ensure they give you guys the best online experience possible. Many of them, if not all, will be under-going a full facelift to make them more exciting, user-friendly and giving you easy access to all the vital pieces of information you’ll want to know.

The first website that we started on was paintball Thetford, and we’re pleased to announce that this week it went live.

With a fantastic range of offers and discounts available through this website, we really hope it’s useful to those living in the Thetford area. Paintballing in Thetford  is exciting, action-packed and with over 14 maps, it is quiet possible the most varied site within the East Anglia region.

Things are moving thick and fast on the other websites, and as soon as they’re live, you’ll be the first to know! Let us know what you think

Enjoy.

The history of paintball is rather brief, but very interesting. Compared to other sports, paintball is relatively new. It’s origins only go back as far as 1980 when James Hale of Daisy Manufacturing invented and patented what would become the first paintball gun.

However, Hale did not invent the paintball gun with the idea of fun and games in mind. The original paintball gun was used for marking trees and livestock in the field. It was not long before the history of paintball took a more interesting turn.

The history of paintball as a recreational sport began only a year later. In 1981 the first game was played by twelve competitors in New Hampshire. This game was played with paintball pistols that were usually used by the foresting industry for marketing trees and was a game of  ”capture the flag.” This first game was the brainchild of Bob Gumsey, a sporting goods retailer, Hayes Noel,a stockbroker, and Charles Gaines, a writer. The winner of that first game was an initiate named Ritchie White who apparently captured all of the flags without firing a single shot!

The next big development in the history of paintball was the opening of the first outdoor paintball field in Rochester, New York by a developer named Caleb Strong. He later became the head of PMI Northeast along with Charles Gaines. This company now pretty owns the paintball industry in America.

Chapter two to follow..

Each gamezone provides you with different scenarios, scenary and a fantastic array of buildings and obstacles to make our paintball games challenging and exciting. Here is a run down of our top 3 paintball games that we play at Skirmish Paintball Games:

Capture the flag

A paintball classic, capture the flag is simply that; capture the enemies flag and return it to your base before the opposition does. Two flags are located at opposite sides of the paintball field, and the objective is for each team to capture the others flag and return it back to base. This is a versatile game, and can be played in anyone of our gamezones.

Attack and defend

One team occupy a castle/fort structure and most defend it from the onslaught of the opposition, who’s task it is to attack the structure and raise the flag that is located within. Game scenarios vary throughout our our network of paintball sites.

Team death match

A simple team-based game in which the objective is to take out every member of the oppositions team. This total annihilation game is popular and constantly requested as the first game to play. An excellent way to get used to playing paintball, and get the adrenaline pumping.

These aren’t the only game’s that we run at Skirmish Paintball Games, but are the 3 most popular game’s that we run at paintball Sheffield.

Interested in finding out more? Call our booking office on 0870 22 55 639