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Paintball and Airsoft Battle Tactics | 
 enlarge | Author: Christopher E. Larsen
Creators: John T. Gordon, Hae-jung Larsen
Publisher: Voyageur Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 84233
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 10.5 x 8.2 x 0.4
ISBN: 0760330638
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.2
EAN: 9780760330630
ASIN: 0760330638
Publication Date: February 15, 2008
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Product Description
It can be as playful as a party game, or as dead serious as military training for a coming deployment. But whatever your approach to paintball or Airsoft, there are rules to learn, tactics to master, variations to discover, and equipment to consider. And in every instance, Paintball and Airsoft Battle Tactics has the answers.
The ultimate resource for these sports so popular among weekend warriors and military simulators, this book helps novice players and veterans alike to hone their skills and sharpen their understanding of the art and science of MilSim strategy and tactics.
Written by a military analyst with real-world experience training combatants around the world, this paintball and Airsoft tacticians bible refreshes and refocuses the military simulator, but it doesnt stop there. It also fosters, mentors, and challenges both the apprentice and the maestro with basic individual and leadership skills, team drills, and intermediate patrolling operations, covering all the necessities for waging paintball and Airsoft combat successfully at the small-team level.
Book Description
The ultimate resource for paintball and Airsoft combat, this book helps novice players and veterans alike to hone their skills and sharpen their understanding of the art and science of MilSim strategy and tactics. Written by a military analyst with real-world experience training combatants around the world, this tactician's bible refreshes and refocuses the military simulator, even as it fosters, mentors, and challenges both the apprentice and the maestro with basic individual and leadership skills, team drills, and intermediate patrolling operations.
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 Somewhat good info, but a VERY misleading title July 26, 2008
This book is for hardcore scenario teams ... ONLY. The book claims it will teach both the "novice" and the "maestro," but the novices need not apply. The book is written by a military trainer, and the only adaption he makes from true military tactics is to add the phrase "...keeping in mind the maximum range for most paintball and airsoft systems is sixty meters" four or five times throughout the book. There is not even a single picture of someone using paintball equipment in the book - and there are a lot of pictures, all of people armed with what looks to be true weapons or very good facsimiles.
If you are new to paintball, this book will go WAY over your head with acronyms you will not understand without flipping to the glossary every few sentences and information you don't need.
If you are a regular player like me, the hand signals and basic attack patterns will come in handy, but the book takes itself way too seriously for your tastes. Unless you have a dedicated scenario or woodsball team, 90 percent of the pages in this book will be useless to you (as well as pretty boring).
If you are, however, that rare class of scenario player who lives for this stuff, it's a good book to pick up. It covers tactics thoroughly at the squad level, with appropriate nods to the next two or three levels up, with plenty of descriptive pictures, diagrams and walkthroughs.
Not what I was expecting. June 4, 2008
let me make this clear for anyone that doesn't know this already,ITS MILSIM TO THE MAX. Now don't get me wrong milsim is great and if you like milsim GET THIS BOOK NOW, but if you don't like milsim or don't play milsim (like me) find another book. now if you think you will get into milsim, GET THIS BOOK NOW, but if you wont you pretty much won't get anything out of this book ( maybe a little but nothing you can't get off the Internet). it's a great book for any milsimer but if your not, please don't get this book. it goes over hand signals and thats about it for regular airsoft/paintball play. to leave on a happy note this book is very informative and well organized ( for the right person that is ) it also has a glossary/ army dictionary in the back that I thought was very cool. thanks for reading!!
 Real Word vs make believe May 1, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
After reading the book I knew I'd found what I'd been longing to
see someone take the time to put out. This book transforms those
need to know concepts and tactics which have taken the military
hundreds of years to perfect into terms just about any dedicated
MIL-SIMer can relate to. Topics like how to create your own SOI,
to what to do when things don't work as planned add up to a book
that's sure to have a very positive impact on your performance at
that next scenario or FTX.
Excellent addition to your library! March 28, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I received this book 1 months ago. When I knew this book is written by Christopher Larsen, I know that this indeed would be the definitive guide to any airsoft or paintball player. If you don't understand what I mean, Chris Larsen is also the author of the book "Light Infantry Tactics: Small Teams", which already is a reference book for many airsoft players (..and quite possible, for real soldiers too).
Many materials in "Paintball and Airsoft Battle Tactics" are derived from "Light Infantry Tactics...", but adjusted with airsoft & paintball players in mind. Nevertheless, the tactics and the battle-drills are the same regardless of whether you are fighting a real battle or just a wargame. The only difference are: the range of the weapons (and "weapons") and the lethality (and "lethality") involved are of course incomparable.
Some of the materials in the book include: why and how to camouflage, handsignals techniques, leadership skills, infantry movement techniques, and battledrills for offensive, defensive and special operations. The methods explained typically apply to unit size from fireteam to platoon level. What this book differs from "Light Infantry Tactics" is on the emphasis to airsoft & paintball, taking into account the characteristics of both games. It also has a lot more schemes and color photographs which is very helpful in understanding the concepts.
One of the many things I like very much from this book, is that it's written in an easily understood language to explain technical military concepts (if you ever read military references such as US Army Field Manuals etc, they usually tends to be heavily conceptual or technical AND voluminious- which can be quite intimidating to some). However there is some areas in this book that needs an improvement: a discussion about "human factor". I wish it had another chapter which discusses the human factor such as: morale, overcoming hesitation and fear, how to motivate teammates - a very critical element to mission success.
Nonetheless, this book surely enhances our understanding on how to fight and how to fight as a team. Discuss and practice the materials with your teammates, and your team will benefit in battle.
Verdict: an excellent addition to your library.
Good information, but a tad disappointing March 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I also bought the book, Light Infantry Tactics: For Small Teams, by the same author. I found his Infantry book to be very good, but I found that this book leaves something to be desired. It's all about the promise and delivery.
The book is supposed to be for paintball and airsoft, yet it seems to do little more than re-package military tactics with a different cover.
No don't get me wrong. It's good information, and can be VERY well used, with some adaptation. But the pictures show regular LCE/LBE harnesses, not paintball vests. No pictures show airsoft or paintball safety masks in use, and a great deal of tactics are not applicable in most scenario paintball or airsoft games. They're simply too complicated for players who don't train week after week. For the players who DO, however, this information can go a LOOOONG way.
If the book had discussed the tactical differences between the military doctrine and paintball/airsoft, I think the book's value could have been tripled, if not more.
For the team leader who can adapt such things without much outside direction, this book goes miles. For those who cannot, this book may not do much without outside help.
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