Ok let me quote what you said over here:
@balungaloaf:
airsoft is really better than paintball? I enjoy my welts with dignified pride, and i like creating welts on people. Does it hurt with airsoft? how do you know when you are hit? paintball may be expensive and airsoft guns can shoot fast, but some paintball guns can shoot real fast too. They have paint grenades, land mines- either pressure or trip wire, new guns coming out with paint grenade launchers-sounds cool, and there are some heavy machinge guns that use three barrels in kind of a triangle with three huge hoppers, you can make a machine gun crew with crewmembers armed for defense. We dont have any of those nifty things but its nice to dream. Imperious, maybe your paintballs weren’t so great, or your barrel. Its terrible hearing about someone giving up the greatest sport ever, if its outside somewhere.
#1, I wouldn’t mind giving or taking welts… That to me isn’t the issue… If you have some pride issue with getting welts or giving them, go to Japan and play airsoft… No Safety limits, 600 FPS+ weapons, no hit calls (they can empty there mag on you if they want)…
#2, Yes it hurts, especially if you have an uber elite gun that is 500 fps+… Do stock guns hurt compared to Paintball? Read #1…
#3, I don’t doubt the speed or velocity of paintball guns, I just would rather shoot a 1:1 replica weapon, and mod up based on the MilSim… Yeah, we got our line of weapons too… 2 types of Grenades (refillable bursts BB’s, or inexpensive Water-Pressured ones that explode there outer core like shrapnel), M249’s, M60’s Vulcans (I have heard this thing at a distance during a night op, and it is the total beast on the battlefield! Our boys coming into respawn were complaining about this sucker) Mg-42’s… Last op we had here the ANG donated a AFV for the fight, and in Op Irene in Kentucky the Airsofters there had several per team… And if you can’t find it, but don’t mind affording it, anyone with some metal shop skills and knowledge of AS guns can mod you just about any weapon…
#4, Forget water bottle heaters, I play Bulge free of anything baby…
Paintball is a great sport, I can attest personally that it is faster then most skirmish AS Games, and you usually get more trigger time… We are milsims, we like our field tactics…
GG