Generation Kill Paintball Scenario in North Carolina

Forget Murply's Law.   
This is Murphy's WAR!   

Paintball Scenario NC Generation Kill Team Tango Alpha2What the?!?!?

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Previously in Generation Kill...
In 2009,  The I.R.A. repelled the Marines incursion into Baghdad. Not exactly what happened in the real world, but hey! that's the way the paintball splatters! What really happened in the game?

The game started out relatively even, but the I.R.A. quickly started asserting themselves. They had a numerical and rule advantage. The Marines, led by Bill "Greenman" Ford, were handed the short end of the lollipop before the game even started and it was planned that way.

However, as the game progressed the I.R.A. took their parts a little too seriously and instead of playing for points, played their parts a little realistically and killed civilians like beers at a frat party. So through most of the game, the score was very closely tied. The margin was microscopic (due to all the innocent civilians killed) but David Thompson of Capitol Offense lead the I.R.A. to a narrow victory.

Q: Why did it go that way?
A: Morale - the single most likely factor that impacted the outcome was the Marines morale. It seemed like they were getting hammered. So by mid-day many were found in the parking lot making lunch instead of pushing back at the I.R.A.. The reality was, their counterparts were killing so many non-hostiles that they were pretty even in points.

Q: What did we do to change that in 2010?
A: We planned a short lunch break. By making it too realistic and ignoring lunch, we opened the door for people to leave the field and it was murder for Greenman to get his troops regrouped. In 2010, we planned for a short break to reload and grab a quick bite. We will have multiple food vendors to minimize lines.Paintball Scenario NC Generation Kill Team Tango Alpha2

A: We are also announcing the scores periodically throughout the day to keep armies aware of how close a battle can be.

A: We are going to try and balance the teams and cap certain sides as registration moves forward to keep things balanced. The sooner you register, the more certain, you will get on your preferred side.

Then in 2010, it was the Marines vs. the I.R.A. vs. the Pashtun Mafia (a 3 way war!) in Afghanistan. Who knew when we planned this thing in November of 2009 that Afghanistan would become a real world hotspot!? Kevin Shimwell of Adventure Beach Paintball lead the I.R.A., Eric "Lifer" Brooks of Team AFC, the Marines; and David Thompson of Capitol Offense lead the Pashtun Mafia. It was a make a deal, break a deal game and eventually nobody trusted anybody.

Q: Why are we doing this scenario?
A: For the money, of course. Like, duh!!! Our team needs money for equipment and events and travel and with my 25 years of marketing and a web site design business.... voila! You too can be a game producer. I don't think we could have even imagined pulling this off with out the help of Ferg and Lee Ann from CDWC. Our overall goal is to make sure everyone has a challenging and fun game and will look forward to coming to another sometime. We want everyone to walk off with a smile.

Some in the military see America cementing its role as the world's Dirty Harry.

The Marines joke, "After finishing here, we're going to invade North Korea, and we'll get there by invading Iran, Russia and China."

Evan Wright
Generation Kill

Q. Why Command Decisions?
A: We looked at various fields and while there were a lot of great fields to choose from, we opted to go with CDWC because of the outstanding job that they do producing REALLY BIG games.  Plus, aside from the marketing and role playing, Ferg was doing most of the field work, you gotta love that! That's not to say that other fields wouldn't help us throw a great scenario, but we need all the training wheels we can get! We also needed a field flexible enough for a large or small turnout and centrally located to large number of teams.

Q: Why Generation Kill?
A: In paintball scenarios, a great deal of the time there are SNAFUs (Situation Normal, All F*&%#d Up). Radios don't work, some guy is on the wrong frequency or on VOX, the supplies don't show up at the same place, guns fail, equipment goes screwy, the commander is an idiot, everybody didn't get the right orders, and of course, my perennial favorite, "those guys are cheating". Generation Kill exemplified all of that chaos in the real world military. All the while, when things go haywire, you can say to yourself, "Hey! that's just like in the mini-series!" War is not a perfect video game. War is full of mistakes. When we screw up something in this scenario, we can now just say, "We planned it that way!"

NEW QUESTIONS FOR 2011

Q: How do I get to be a Suicide Bomber?
A: One of the more fun roles in Generation Kill is determined by the I.R.A. commander. Contact him at I.R.A.@genkillpaintball.com to volunteer and get your name on the list. The role incorporates the aspects of a spy and killer. You get to sneak into an enemy camp, blow up and then hit the dead zone and your commander to let someone else do it. The role is passed continuously all day long so a great deal of people should get an opportunity. We will have a prize for the greatest number of kills by a suicide bomber (verifiable by a Role Playing Ref).

Q: Is there a Suicide Bomber for the Marines?
A: Yes. The bad guys don't all the fun. It's called a Smart Bomb. Pretty much same rules. Contact Marines@GenKillPaintball.com for details.

Q: Do I HAVE to wear a costume on the I.R.A. side?
A: No. you don't HAVE to, but one of the fastest ways to tell one side from the other is that the MArines will be wearing camo. So wearing camo on the I.R.A. side increases the likelihood of getting shot by friendly fire. There are some very affordable ways to create Iraqi wear, some with a simple pillow case. At the very least jeans and a shirt.

Q: Where does the money from Generation Kill raffle & auction go?
A: 100% of the money from the raffle and auctions at the need of the game go to a family in need. This year, the Ingram family of Team SoVa to help pay for Mrs. Ingram's cancer surgery.

Q: Where does the rest go?
A: Weirdly, we are the only game that we have ever heard asked this question. Command Decisions and Team Tango Alpha2 divide the net of the game and paint sales after expenses, (game refs, awards, prizes, insurance, air systems, props, printing, laminating, etc. - literally thousands of dollars in costs).

100% of the Team Tango proceeds go back into the sport. This is our way of raising money to enable our team to buy paintball equipment, uniforms, and attend events. Deposited into a team account to help subsidize uniforms, paying team members ways into events, diffusing travel costs to events, purchasing radios, team equipment and consumables such as smoke bombs.

Not one penny of the team's portion goes to ANY individual and the hundreds and hundreds of hours that go into producing, promoting and managing an event this size is done on a 100% voluntary basis. (Yes, boys and girls, Uncle Paul is doing this ALL for FREE!) Essentially, this is our bake sale that the customers get to shoot each other.

 

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