{"id":6122,"date":"2017-07-11T17:05:39","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T16:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/go-ballistic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6122"},"modified":"2018-06-19T09:28:59","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T08:28:59","slug":"what-type-of-player-are-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-ballistic.co.uk\/blog\/what-type-of-player-are-you\/","title":{"rendered":"What type of player are you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Team games don&#8217;t come much tougher than paintball, why is why it&#8217;s essential you assemble a team that&#8217;s ready to do whatever it takes to win. Picking the perfect team isn&#8217;t as easy as chucking a few mates together though. You need a mix of paintball personalities to battle your way to victory against the best teams, but which type of player are you?<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6116\" src=\"https:\/\/go-ballistic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Driver-Wood-APR-2015-WEB-921-1160x774.jpg\" alt=\"Driver-Wood-APR-2015-WEB-921-1160x774\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/go-ballistic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Driver-Wood-APR-2015-WEB-921-1160x774.jpg 1160w, https:\/\/go-ballistic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Driver-Wood-APR-2015-WEB-921-1160x774-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/go-ballistic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Driver-Wood-APR-2015-WEB-921-1160x774-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/go-ballistic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Driver-Wood-APR-2015-WEB-921-1160x774-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>The General<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some people are born to lead and others just love an excuse be bossy. We&#8217;re not sure which camp The General falls in to, but you can&#8217;t help but admire their enthusiasm. OK, so you might not understand all The General&#8217;s secret hand signals, and it&#8217;s probably not necessary to mark every elimination with a moments silence, but when the chips are down and all else is lost, it&#8217;s The General who will rally the troops and lead the charge.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6127\" src=\"https:\/\/go-ballistic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/paintballassassin.jpeg\" alt=\"paintballassassin\" width=\"355\" height=\"236\" \/>The Assassin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Assassin&#8217;s ability to eliminate opponents with deadly accuracy makes them the MVP in any paintball team. When they&#8217;re not pinging players from range they&#8217;re taking names and ending games with the kind of efficiency most players can only ever dream of, and their ninja-like movement means you can never be sure where exactly they are. They could be up a tree, they could be in the undergrowth &#8211; we just don&#8217;t know! What we do know is we pray to the paintball gods that The Assassins on our team.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Rookie<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Not everybody&#8217;s a natural when it comes to playing paintball and for every Assassin there&#8217;s always a Rookie. In a straight choice between fight and flight The Rookie always chooses the later, and once they&#8217;ve found a decent hiding <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6125\" src=\"https:\/\/go-ballistic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/rookiepaintballer.jpg\" alt=\"rookiepaintballer\" width=\"236\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/go-ballistic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/rookiepaintballer.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/go-ballistic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/rookiepaintballer-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/go-ballistic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/rookiepaintballer-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/>place that&#8217;s usually the last you see of them. Rookies do have their uses though. If you&#8217;re playing a game of capture the flag they&#8217;re the perfect candidate to hang back and guard the base. There&#8217;s no danger of The Rookie eliminating anybody, but their relentless blind fire might just be enough to hold off the opposition until reinforcements arrive.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6133 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/go-ballistic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/rambo.jpg\" alt=\"rambo\" width=\"245\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/go-ballistic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/rambo.jpg 579w, https:\/\/go-ballistic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/rambo-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Rambo\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Rambo likes to take things to the next level. Not only have they seen all the movies they&#8217;ve memorised all the lines, and despite their age andcrumbling physique they genuinely believe they&#8217;re Sly Stallone. After kitting up with enough paintballs and pyrotechnics to wage war with a small army, The Rambo charges into battle with the sole intention of eliminating anything that moves.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Statistician<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In life and in paintball The Statistician doesn&#8217;t leave anything to chance. Days before heading into battle they will have spent hours studying detailed maps of the different game zones and formulating a plan of action. The Statistician&#8217;s research will also encompass a detailed look at the weather forecast, a thorough search of all paintball forums and probably a look at this blog. Chances are they won&#8217;t like the next bit though.. 94% of statisticians are eliminated within 60 seconds of the marshal&#8217;s first whistle. Ouch.<\/p>\n<p>Recognise anybody? Tag your mates in the comments below to let them know what type of player they are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team games don&#8217;t come much tougher than paintball, why is why it&#8217;s essential you assemble a team that&#8217;s ready to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,3,14],"tags":[3,256,257],"class_list":["post-6122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","category-paintball","category-paintball-games","tag-paintball","tag-playlikeapro","tag-typicalpaintballer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-ballistic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-ballistic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-ballistic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-ballistic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-ballistic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6122"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/go-ballistic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6874,"href":"https:\/\/go-ballistic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6122\/revisions\/6874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-ballistic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-ballistic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-ballistic.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}