Ways to eliminate vehicles

These may vary, depending on the theme of the game/event:

Once a motorized vehicle/Paintball Assault Vehicle (PAV) has been eliminated, it must proceed to the hospital zone or insertion area and wait for the next insertion window before re-entering the field. The same insertion rules which apply to players may also apply to vehicles and will be announced at the pre-game meeting/briefing.

IMPORTANT NOTE TO PLAYERS: There is a safety space of 20-FOOT distance around all tanks. If a tank or a live player intentionally comes within 20 feet of each other, the aggressor(s) will be called eliminated. Furthermore, tanks and / or players who intentionally violate this 20-foot boundary are subject to ejection from the event. This is a serious safety issue. Tanks may not encroach within 20 feet of a live player behind a bunker (i.e. do not chase players around - or from - their cover). Players may not hide and use this rule to eliminate a tank.

Playing Tip: There is no reason for any player, live or dead, to be within 20 feet of a live tank!

PUGs and Walking Tanks:
All applicable rules within the "Tank & Vehicles" section of the GSRP carry over to non-motorized PUGs and "walking" tanks, as well as:

1) They must look like tanks.
2) They must have a main gun (as described above).
3) They are to serve as tanks (as described above); not ambulances; not mobile bunkers.

Players may NOT approach any tank, insert a marker barrel into an opening and shoot the occupants. You will be ejected from the field!

All tanks are the personal property of the owner.  It is considered the same as your marker, mask and pack. Players may not touch, take, disable and or in way intentionally damage or destroy the tank or its contents. If you do, you will be ejected from the event, field and subject to arrest by local law enforcement.

GHILLIE SUITS:
ALL ghillie suits must be inspected and approved by the game director prior to entering the field of play. If you are wearing a ghillie suit, ALL direct hits/impacts count during day and night play. No paint checks! One direct impact = you're gone.

BREAKABLE TRIP WIRE DEVICES (BTWDs) Defined:
All trip wire devices with offensive capabilities: i.e. the ability to eliminate players. BTWDs include paintball land mines.

BTWDs Rules:
All BTWDs must use breakable string. Under no circumstances can the string be of sufficient strength to trip a player while walking or running (cotton sewing thread is best).

BTWDs using explosives of any type are strictly PROHIBITED.

All BTWDs that are not perimeter warning devices (PWDs) can be air, CO2, or spring powered.

Each and every BTWD must be shown to, and approved by the event director prior to play and be approved.

PERIMETER WARNING DEVICES (PWDs) Defined:
All autonomous devices intended to notify you of interlopers into your area of operations. PWDs have NO offensive capabilities, i.e. the ability to eliminate players. Typically, a PWD is sound or light resultant - after tripping the device it sounds an alarm, emits light, or a combination of both. Motion sensors ARE allowed

PWDs Rules:
All PWDs must use breakable string. Under no circumstances can the string be of sufficient strength to trip a player while walking or running (cotton sewing thread is best).

PWDs using explosives of any type are strictly PROHIBITED.

Each and every PWD must be shown to, and approved by the event director prior to play and be approved.

GAME PLAY

TEAMS:
The teams will be split from the number of registered players according to skill level, equipment, fire power, experience and ability. All game planning and scoring will be done by the game operations director. Teamwork is an important factor in these events. Planning strategies will be carried out by commanders with the respective squad leaders. It is important to note that you should concern yourself with how to defend as well as how to attack an area. Objectives and missions will be assigned by the game operations director and relayed via coded radio messages to the commanders of each team. Objectives will be assigned and unit size will also be assigned. Referee Team will make the determinations of control of an area.

TEAM OBJECTIVES:
Maintain your base of operations: Protect and defend it at all times.
Complete assigned missions; hold the objectives.
Take action to harass and interdict the opposing team's objectives and missions.
Score as many points as possible in the allotted time frame.
Keep your commander alive.
Above all, have as much fun as possible and experience the friendship, camaraderie and good will that these types of events inspire among the players of your caliber.

SWITCHING SIDES:
Switching sides must be cleared through the scenario producer. If approved, anyone switching sides must give up their current character card and arm band tape. Under no circumstances can this (character card or ArmBand Tape) be passed off to another player.

VERBAL MISREPRESENTATION OF SIDES:
Is allowed. You are NOT required to tell the truth about which side you are playing for.

EXAMPLE: (Player 1 sees Player 2 in the bushes 20 yards in front of his position)
Player 1: "Hey, what color are you?"
Player 2: "I'm Red, what color are you?"
Player 1: "I'm Red too."
(Player 1 then steps out from behind cover and gets marked by Player 2.)
Player 1: "Hey buddy! You said you were Red!!!"
Player 2: "I lied...."
Player 1: "Good shot. Man, I should have read the rules of play better... they told me not to always trust what I hear. I should have gotten a visual on your arm band tape."

Moral of the Story: If they are not wearing your color arm band tape, consider them the opposition, or at the minimum, be leery of them. Always use caution until you get a visual ID on their ABT. As in the real world (a real world conflict) seeing is believing, or, believe half of what you see and a third of what you hear. Not everything is always as it appears in a scenario game.

ARM BAND TAPE:
Arm band tape (ABT) is to help all players identify who is playing on their team, NOT to identify who is on the other team. All players must wear their own team's arm band for the entire event.

Special Role characters must wear specially designated arm bands or tape - in conjunction with their team tape - on the arm above the elbow, in plain view.

The following are Strictly Prohibited:
Picking tape up off the ground and using it.
Purchasing or bringing tape and putting it on yourself or others.
Any Velcro or other ABT over the original to deceive the other side.
Any type of arm band or tape over a Special Role character arm band or tape with the intent to deceive.
Falsifying role cards (color copy) to get the other team to tape you.

COMMANDERS & COMMANDER ELIMINATIONS:
Each team will have a commander and team leadership structure. The commander is in complete control of the side. Follow your commanders; they have the overall picture and information of how the game is going and what is happening. Check in with them often and let them know what you did, saw or completed. This information is valuable and vital to your team. Rotate out and pull base security for an hour; you never know, you may find yourself in an awesome firefight. :) The commander can also assign Medics, Demolitions, Engineers and Pilots, so if you need to play one of these roles, immediately notify your commander if you have not been given one of these roles. The commanders will get a new mission radioed in to them every 15 minutes during the day.

Playing Tip: These missions are what earn points and wins or loses the game for your team. Go out on them... they're fun. Most of the time you will get into some very good action, and remember, at the end of the game if your team wins and you didn't go out on any missions, how much did you contribute to the win? If your team loses, then how much did you contribute to this loss?

The commander may be worth bonus points each time he/she is eliminated. Thus, you can earn your team bonus points by eliminating the opposition's commander and save your team points by keeping your commander alive. This is not a one-time objective! Each time the commander is eliminated, all rules pertaining to players pertain to him: he must walk and await the next insertion window, then he/she can reinsert into the game and is a free agent to resume play in any fashion they choose. Side note: the commanders can go anywhere on the field they choose. They are not required to stay in their command bunker, but it's a good idea to keep an eye on your troops.

Any time a commander will be off the field for longer than one insertion window, the commander must appoint another to act in his/her stead which can be eliminated for points just as if eliminating the original commander. Every commander on the field must be taped on both arms!

Do not bring paint markers into the command bunker!

Do not point a paint marker into or out of the command bunker!

To eliminate the commander inside the command bunker, just touch the CP and notify the players inside. This does NOT destroy the structure! It only eliminates all persons inside on the ground floor only. Also, a demolitions characters can blow the bunker with a satchel charge or LAW rocket. A referee must verify the commander elimination and call this into to the game operations director immediately.

Playing Tip: Commanders, stay alive.

COMMAND POST SECURITY ZONE:
There can be no same ABT eliminations of any kind scored while the victim is within 50 feet of his team's command bunker. This 50' represents a secure zone within which all players enjoy the peace of total security from same ABT eliminations. This is to promote more interaction between all players, whether they be security, command staff or role players.

Any player wearing your ABT color within 50 feet of the command bunker is safe from elimination by any other player wearing your ABT color. They may only be eliminated by players wearing the enemy ABT.

If a player is wearing enemy ABT... well then, they are most likely the enemy. Treat them with extreme caution.

SPECIAL ROLES DEFINED:
During the course of this event you will notice individuals on the field who have special abilities and are identified by unique arm band tape. These individuals requested in advance to the event director to play the special roles described below. Only players carrying the appropriate credentials for their assigned Special Role characters may carry, utilize or display associated game props / operations equipment (bombs, aircraft, etc).

DEMOLITIONS EXPERT:
These players have the ability to use LAW rocket launchers and special demolitions satchel charges. LAWs can be used to blow up command posts, bunkers, and groups of people within or on structures, and to down helicopters. For multi-room or multi-level structures, LAWs only eliminate players within the room the LAW round struck. Demolitions players are not required to use Demo Tape on any structure hit by a LAW round, since the LAW only eliminates the players and does not destroy the structure. LAWs rockets eliminate players within 10' radius of a successful strike on a structure or bunker (exeception see room rules above). For example, player A is hiding behind a bunker when it is struck with a LAWs rocket. Player A is eliminated because he is within 10' of the bunker. Player B runs up to fill the bunker but was not within 10' radius when the LAWs rocket struck the bunker so player B is not eliminated. LAWs rockets that strike the ground "detonate" harmlessly and do not eliminate players, even players within a 10' radius of ground impact.

The satchel usually contains an explosives card to be operational. An explosives card alone will not work - it must be inside a satchel. The explosives card defines what type of explosive it is and how it may be used. The satchel must be approved or provided by the scenario producer. Satchel charges are used to destroy entire structures, (Towers, bridges, buildings, etc) and when used, the Demolitions player must use the Demo Tape to completely tape the structure or entrances to the structure. Demo Players are neutral while taping a blown structure. All players inside a structure when it is blown are eliminated and cannot be healed by medics.

ENGINEER:
These players have the ability to rebuild structures which have been previously blown up. To rebuild a structure, the Engineer must remove ALL the Demo Tape from a structure and carry the tape off of the playing field to dispose of it. Ripping through, tearing a piece off, or removing and throwing the tape on the ground are incorrect. An Engineer is considered a LIVE player while removing the tape and is subject to all applicable rules.

Engineers may tow a downed aircraft back to their command bunker. The Engineer is not flying the craft and no passengers may "ride" the craft while it is beign towed. Aircraft are considered props.

Engineers may also be called upon to build structures such as bridges or mechanical devices.

MEDIC:
Able to heal players on the field. They must reach the player within one minute, wipe the paint from the player and write down the player's ID badge number or name on their Bandage Card and wrap a game bandage around the player's right arm. At this point, the player is again a live player and can resume play. A player may only be healed twice per insertion. HEAD SHOTS are NOT able to be healed! A head shot means you're eliminated, no matter what - this is specific for daytime play. All hits are fatal at night! Medics do not work at night.

When a wounded player is eliminated they are to wear their bandages off the playing field and deposit them in the bandage containers at their insertion point. Medics may retrieve the bandages during normal insertion times and take them back to their Commanders for re-use.

PILOT:
Has the ability to fly a simulated aircraft (helicopter, plane, etc.) for up to a 30-minute time period each flight. Should an aircraft stay out longer than its allotted time before returning to base to refuel, it will crash. The aircraft can carry one pilot and normally up to four additional passengers.
Players cannot be shot at or shoot from a flying aircraft until at such time it lands and the troops disembark. To land an aircraft, the pilot must place the simulated aircraft on the ground and release it for a 10-second count, minimum, before the aircraft can take off again. Pilot and passengers are live once the aircraft lands. Should a passenger let go of the aircraft's rope (or pilot) while in flight, he is eliminated. Passengers can only disembark when the aircraft has landed properly. Aircraft are not to land closer than 20 feet to any other live player.

A LAW rocket can take out a flying aircraft! Flying aircraft can fire on other aircraft while in flight -- regular hit rules apply. NOTE: An aircraft may land and drop you off in the middle of a swarm of enemy troops just itching to shoot someone!

FURTHERMORE: A Demolitions character with a loaded LAW can also Barrel Tag the aircraft with the LAW, if they can ambush it! Players may NOT AT ANY TIME use aircraft as cover for shooting people. Players may not follow within 20 feet of an aircraft.

SPY:
Spies are legal only when previously announced for the event by the game producers. In games where the prescence of Spies are announced by the game promoters, each team will generally have one or more spies who can be inserted into the opposition's team. It is up to the team leadership to ferret out and eliminate these spies, while it will be the spies' job to gather information and report back to their base. Any spy who has BLOWN their cover and been identified as such by the opposition MUST hand over their character card and ABT from the opposing team. For more info see playing tips for spies.

INTELLIGENCE OPERATIVE:
Perhaps the hardest role to play, but one of the most rewarding. Your job is generally defined as to flush out the spies in your midst and acquire special game props for your side. There are meetings scheduled throughout the game which you're highly encouraged to be at, thus helping you figure out who is who. If you complete a meeting, have a ref sign the card with the time the meeting ended. Turn your meeting card in for points at the end of the game! For more info see playing tips for spies.

PLAYING TIPS FOR SPIES:
First, your most valuable skill as a spy is being covert, unnoticed - a fly on the wall - not attracting attention to yourself. Yet, as you try and infiltrate a base and the command structure, you begin to fly closer to the flame and stand a better chance of getting burned (put in the open or busted).

Second, two of the most valuable assets that you have as a spy are the ability to do the following:

BUSTING MISSIONS:

GATHERING INTELLIGENCE:
How helpful is it? Incredibly so.

NOTE: Any time you're dead or eliminated, YOU'RE DEAD. Shut up at this point; zip the lip. No matter how bad you want to talk to your commander or other players - no passing of information while you're eliminated. Dead men don't talk, period!!! Only thing a dead man says is, "Dead man walking." Once you have re-inserted onto the field of play, then it's game-on again.

HOW TO ACQUIRE ENEMY ABT LEGALLY:

In games where the prescence of Spies are announced by the game promoters, you must be taped by a player on the team whose ABT you're trying to get. You cannot pick up ABT off the ground or get it from any other source other than at the team's base.

Example: Player 1: Comes into the opposition's base without ABT
Player 2: "Let me see your ID card!"
Player 1: "Hey buddy, I lost it, but it's ok. I'm on your side, you know me, I'm cool."
Player 2: "Oh, ok" (P2 then tapes up P1's arm)
Player 1: Thinking to himself: "That was way too easy. I'm on the other team. Well, now I can't blow up the command bunker, but I can lead missions astray and gather intel and report it to my commander. I can still do a lot of damage to this team; just have to do it the smart way. They really should have checked my card."

BUSTING THE SPY:
If you are ACCURATELY accused/made as a "spy" character by the command/security of the opposing team (by using a second character card, OR are observed being "paid" by the other team to spy for them), you must immediately and without argument turn over the second character card and/or the arm band tape you used to infiltrate the base with - no matter what color it is - upon being ACCURATELY "made." You must then be re-taped by your actual team upon next re-insertion to your own base.

The bust has to be made on FACTS. The security forces can not just accuse everyone as they walk into the base - i.e. they can not play a hunt-and-peck type of "accuse the spy" until they find one. They must have verifiable information before they can accuse a spy.

EXAMPLE:
Base 1 Security: "You are a spy! Take the hit and produce your true character card! We have verifiable information that you were reporting intelligence to the enemy commander."
Spy: "Oh MAN! Busted!" (Produces both character cards - one from each team - and covers his barrel).
Base 1 Security: Taking THIS team's character card and removes arm band tape from Spy. "Referee! This player has been made as a spy and is being removed from our base. Please advise Command Central you now possess his bogus character card and assist this player off-field."

OR

Base 1 Security: "You are a spy! You have been observed receiving payment from the enemy! Take the hit and produce your true character card."
Spy: (Hangs head because he was not covert enough; does not have another character card OR "personal mission" card as he was working for himself; covers his barrel and keeps his mouth shut).
Base 1 Security: (removes arm band tape from spy). "Referee! This player has been made as a spy and is being removed from our base. Please advise Command Central and assist this player off-field."

AND JUST IN CASE:

Base 1 Security: "You are a spy! You have been observed receiving payment from the enemy! Take the hit and produce your true identity card."
Spy: "I'm a spy for OUR team and I gave my goods to OUR general! Please verify!" (shows he has but one character card which indicates he is a spy for this team - as well as a "personal mission" card indicating meeting times with players from opposing team).
Base 1 Security: "Stand down." (verifies information with his commander who acknowledges the spy is working for him - his decision to allow spy to continue playing for him).
Base 1 Security: "Our commander has verified your loyalty. You may continue play at this time. Try to be a little more covert in your transactions."

MISSION TYPES:
The teams will start the game occupying their respective bases. Many objectives will be strategically located throughout the playing field. Missions will normally be called in every fifteen (15) to twenty (20) minutes during the day and every half hour at night, via radio to your commander or leader. Missions may require a specific unit or numbers of troops to go out to a specific location. At each mission objective a referee will be in the vicinity. The referee staff will validate the mission once you reach and complete your objective with your assigned force. To earn points you must complete the mission at its designated area. Some missions will require you to HOLD a specific area for a period of time, others will require an action to be taken within a specified time period (Example: "Snipe the enemy base," i.e. put a paintball on the enemy's command bunker). Referee must sign the completed mission card and return it to the game operations director for you to receive points.

ASSAULT:
Means just that - to assault the objective for the length of time specified. Whether all your troops are eliminated does not matter, but you must mount an assault on the objective. At least one player must remain alive to present the completed mission card to a referee. This is the exact opposite from snipe. Generally, this mission will be allotted a specific troop strength to be sent out. Example: Send 15 players to assault the enemy base camp. One player must live to turn in the mission card to a referee.

DEFEND:
Means to defend the objective from enemy troops for the duration of the mission. At the end of the time specified, you must still be in control of the objective to have defended it. Example: Defend your base of operations (command bunker) for 1 hour.

DEMO:
You will have a specific mission where you need to destroy the objective within a time frame. Either blow it up with a SRP LAW or a satchel charge. A Demo expert must complete this mission. Example: Destroy the bridge/building/tower/bunker located at coordinates XYZ. Once this is done, a mission player gets the card signed off and handed into a referee.

REPAIR:
You will have a specific objective which you need to rebuild within a specific time frame. An Engineer must go on this mission and rebuild the specified structure at the given coordinates by removing all the Demo tape from the destroyed objective. Example: Rebuild the bridge at ZZXY. Once the objective has been rebuilt, hand in the mission card to a referee.

PATROL:
In these missions two (2) objectives will be given. Your troops are to actively patrol from location A to location B for the designated period of time. They can not go out and lay down in an area; they must be patrolling from point A to point B to complete the mission.

AMBUSH:
Usually, but not always the counter mission to a Patrol mission. You are to go out and set up a static ambush at the coordinates specified and wait the prescribed time period, while eliminating as many enemy troops as possible.

SWEEP:
Similar to a Patrol in that you move between two locations for a designated period of time - as well as actively engaging to eliminate any and all enemy forces.

TAKE & HOLD:
To gain control of the objective and hold it for the amount of time specified. If it's a building, it means to actually have a player inside the building in complete control of it. Example: Take and Hold the enemy's base of operations for 1/2 hour.

LISTENING POST:
Much like a Recon mission with the addition of inserting personnel into an area to remain undetected for the duration of the mission while obtaining intelligence information.

RECON & REPORT:
For your players to physically go out and VIEW the area in question for the specified amount of time and obtain the intelligence. They must report back to the base commander with the information (what they viewed) before they will receive the requisite mission point. This can be done in person or by radio. Example: Recon the enemy's base of operations.

PHOTO RECON:
Exactly the same as a Recon & Report with the addition that the intelligence you gather must be done in a photograph, which is given to the mission referee. Instamatic Cameras are provided to the commanders. The better the picture(s) (showing players or bases, etc.) will increase the point bonus on this mission! Pictures needing a magnifying glass to view anything or showing a big tree will be worth much less in points! The event director may specify the number of pictures to be taken. Example: Photo Recon the enemy's base. Walk down and take a picture or two of the opposing commander in his base & return these pictures to your commander. Easy enough :).

RETRIEVE:
Locate, secure and return the object (the mission objective) to your commander within the time frame specified. Example: Go to the center of the field and retrieve the object (an orange drop box) and return this box to your commander.

SNIPE:
To snipe or, in simplest terms, have a player infiltrate the area and fire a paintball ONTO the assigned objective within the specified amount of time. (Opposite of horseshoes, close does not count.) Example: Send X players to snipe the enemy base. Eliminate the opposition's commander for bonus points!

MEET & GREET:
Sometimes during scenario games, there are missions where you don't want to kill the objective, but would rather talk and see what you can find out, or maybe, if you're lucky, get a valuable game prop or information. Example: Meet the peasant at the east end of the field. Gather intell. OR... Meet and greet the farmer and retrieve the object he found in his corn patch. OR... Greet the shadowy figure, which will soon be approaching your base of operations.

PROPS:
All game props (helicopters, toys, money, etc.) must remain IN PLAY (on the field of play) during the game. You can not take them out to your car and STASH them, nor lock them up in your commander's box!

We have gone to the extremes to find, develop, build and incorporate inventive, interesting props into the story line. These props will be inserted into the event at various intervals and locations during the game. Their value? Some will be worth big points. Others? Well, they will look good, anyway. :)

Many people find it interesting or amusing to design, make or bring props from home to these events - we welcome it. If you can sell it or trade it to the opposition, then go for it. All props should be cleared with game management, who will make a determination whether or not it will be of value, but either way the opposition will not know until the game is over. :)

Playing Tip: All props must be turned in prior to game's end to be counted as points for your team!

SCORING & WINNING:
Missions are how each team accumulates points for their side. The harder type of mission, and the further away it is, the greater the point value. Eliminating the opposing team's leadership may be worth points. Game currency and props may be worth points as well. At the end of the event, all completed mission cards will be tallied and scored, all props and/ or items that may be worth extra points must be collected and handed into game management prior to the ending of the event. The team with the highest point total will be declared the winner.

Playing Tip: Do not neglect the props! This could be the margin between victory and defeat.

THE FINAL WORD

If it's unclear;

If it's not covered in orientation;

If it's in a "grey" area;

If it's not written in the GSRP, game-specific addendums, or on a game-specific card:

It Does Not Exist.

Ask the Event Director First!

MOST OF ALL, HAVE FUN! ENJOY THE EVENT!

BE ALL YOU CAN BE, AND SOMEONE ELSE!

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