{"id":66,"date":"2009-01-18T16:42:21","date_gmt":"2009-01-18T21:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikescombatgames.com\/laser-tag-blog\/?p=66"},"modified":"2012-10-19T11:23:32","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T16:23:32","slug":"game-summaries-for-players-battleball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mikescombatgames.com\/laser-tag-blog\/2009\/01\/game-summaries-for-players-battleball\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Summaries for Players: Battleball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Battleball is a crazy fusion of football and our characteristic lasertag on steroids. In many ways Battleball is a fusion of many other games, including <a title=\"Game Summaries for Players: Bulldog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mikescombatgames.com\/laser-tag-blog\/2009\/01\/game-summaries-for-players-bulldog\/\">Bulldog, <\/a><a title=\"Game Summaries for Players: VIP Escort\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mikescombatgames.com\/laser-tag-blog\/2009\/01\/game-summaries-for-players-vip-escort\/\">VIP Escort<\/a>, <a title=\"Game Summaries for Players: Bomb the Base\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mikescombatgames.com\/laser-tag-blog\/2009\/01\/game-summaries-for-players-bomb-the-base\/\">Bomb the Base<\/a> and <a title=\"Game Summaries for Players: Team Deathmatch\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mikescombatgames.com\/laser-tag-blog\/2009\/01\/game-summaries-for-players-team-deathmatch\/\">Team Deathmatch<\/a>. As you can imagine it&#8217;s crazy fun and it doesn&#8217;t matter whether you like or even understand American football. Battleball was conceived by another field owner, but Mike wrote the final rules for it. Battleball was debuted by multiple fields across the US for the first time on January 31, 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Strategy and Tactics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Winning requires moving the battleball from your end of the field to the far end of the field, into the opponents&#8217; endzone. Since only one player on your team can carry the battleball you obviously need to protect them. On the bright side, though, the defending team is unlikely to send out much in the way of a hunter team to kill your carrier.<\/li>\n<li>If you&#8217;re defending focus on making every step farther down the field more painful for the offense team. You don&#8217;t have to kill them off by the midfield, just before they get to the endzone. So to this end try to whittle down their health progressively. Make sure you&#8217;ve got defenders starting near their starting point and as they progress just concentrate your forces as much as possible. Ideally they&#8217;ll have been taking damage and will start to run out of respawns by the time they get to the endzone, making them more cautious, slower, and easier to ambush and stop.<\/li>\n<li>When you&#8217;re on offense the most valuable thing on the field (besides your ball carrier) is information. You need stealthy players to survey the field, identify where the defense has placed themselves, and figure out how you&#8217;re going to escort the ball carrier down the field.<\/li>\n<li>As the ball carrier you might have more health, but you only have one hand since you&#8217;re carrying the battleball. You should focus on stealth and keeping your head down, though don&#8217;t forget that you DO still have a laser tag gun. In a pinch you should feel free to use it. You won&#8217;t have any chance of hitting, though, if you don&#8217;t use the scope, especially since you&#8217;ve got to be holding onto the battleball the whole time. Use the ball to help support the front of your gun.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Battleball is a crazy fusion of football and our characteristic lasertag on steroids. In many ways Battleball is a fusion of many other games, including Bulldog, VIP Escort, Bomb the Base and Team Deathmatch. 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