Paintball Armored Tanks
The paintball tanks can be defined as mechanized vehicles, similar to other paintball games. The game of paintball armored tanks is also known as woods-ball. In each of these games the props are often referred to as PAV or “Paintball Armored Vehicles”, also known as “mechs”.
Categorization of paintball tanks
There are basically three divisions of the paintball armored tanks and these are categorized into heavy tanks, medium tanks, and the light tanks. The heavy tanks consist of automobile machines; which may also consist of a military armored automobile that has been decommissioned, and these are the bulkiest tanks in these series. The unique feature that heavy tank supports infantry with the movement coordination as a shield against hostile attacks is unavailable in the other two categories. The medium tanks are the most common type of paintball tanks and these mainly consist of smaller vehicles like golf cart. The third category of the paintball tanks includes the light tanks; which can be for a single player built on a metal mounting also known as a chassis. This tank can also be made on a layer of personal machinery and this is the lightest tank in this category. The light tanks have a distinctive advantage over the medium or heavy tanks of moving over the whole field without any worry of running over players hiding under leaves.
Tankball, a variation of paintball tanks
The typical paintball tanks are also known as the tankball; which is a variation of paintball where players drive modified full-size tanks. These paintball tanks have fire paint filled ping pong balls where each tankball battle has two tanks pitting against one another. Paintball markers include each tank containing about three or more teammates. However, the major difference here is that the tankball is a much more expensive game than paintball, and thus it is also less common.
Specifications of paintball tanks
The paintball tanks can be equipped with various markers ranging from a single to many markers. These can consist of rocket launchers, cannons powered by carbon dioxide, grenade launchers and other forms of armor. The markers used in this reference are trained upon and challenge the opponents. In these games cannons compete with the paintball tanks of the opponents. The air cannons used, need not be standard and they may also be home-built for suiting their specific use. Over the years, different kinds of projectiles have found there use under diverse circumstances. In early years, the cannon had been a simple PVC cannon; which had the capacity to shoot many paintballs at a time. These were rightfully referred to as Buckshot; which had a typically special color. This color had been used for indicating that they were a cannon load.
Decline of Buckshot and rise of Nerf rockets as a projectile
Over the years paintball tanks have witnessed a decline and the Buckshot and Nerf Rockets have replaced it as the most popular projectile for tank cannons. Nerf cannons are just one of the main cannons of the tanks and there various field owners and scenario game producers, who permit Paintball or Mortar, or Nerf firing cannons to fire indirectly. In this reference Hostess Twinkies also had been in use as ammunition. A newer concept to this game has been the cannons based on markers. Paintball tanks of these kinds uses unique color paint; which is similar to early paintball cannons. Unlike their older counterparts, these new tanks are simply a regular paintball marker; which can shoot a paintball with any odd color. And since these markers are relatively safe in nature, they may be regarded as the safest kind of tank canons available.
Rules of Paintball
The paintball tanks have unique rules; these rules keep changing from one field to another and one game to another. These rules also differ from one scenario producer to the other. For instance, there are some places that do not permit personal armor or tanks that are of PUG type. Then there are also some places; which would not allow heavy tanks. There are different speed limits; which are very important rules designed for paintball tanks.
