Paintball

[Tallen702]

So, now I have the full specs for a "Natural Newbie" E-bolt Ram, a Matrix LCD board, I've got an M-98 on the way, and will soon have an extra LPR come the end of winter. All I need is a 4-way 'noid, some eyes and covers, some wire and wiring harnesses, and to figure out where I'm going to put the battery in my 98 when all is said and done, and I'll be good to go with the M98trix. Sure... I'll have my Race MQ Merlin by then, but will probably never use it when I've got this thing to spank people with.

[pinesftw]

Don't forget to upload picture! :P

[Tallen702]

I won't I won't! It'll be a little while before it's all done though.

[Yomillio]

Of course...


Anyways, good luck with it all. By the way, feel free to send me your Merlin when you finish the 98

[Tallen702]

Originally Posted by Yomillio

Of course...


Anyways, good luck with it all. By the way, feel free to send me your Merlin when you finish the 98

DeTrevni may make you fight over it with him. Thunderdome style baby!

[pinesftw]

I always regarded lowly of 98's but the ones i've used are very badly cleaned up(Field markers). But I tried my friend's with A.C.T/R.T and a PPS barrel, The gun's performance was ridiculous, something still bugs me though, Why the 98 over the A-5 and X-7, is it because the 98 is much simpler in terms of design and more lightweight?

[Tallen702]

More choices, that's what it comes down to. The A-5 and X-7 you're just paying for the cyclone and the mil-sim look. You can e-bolt/e-grip/lpk/rt/centerfeed/whatever you want to a '98 with little to no effort. They're an amazing marker in all reality. They're just regarded so basely because of their use as rentals for so long.

[Chappy]

Originally Posted by Tallen702

They're an amazing marker in all reality. They're just regarded so basely because of their use as rentals for so long.

Its sad that a well known rental marker would be associated with being entry level, when it in fact should be associated with rugged reliability.

[Tallen702]

I completely agree Chappy. I always love getting out there with an e-bolt and wailing on some punk kid with an Upgraded ion or the latest Ego/DM/Shocker just to have them realize after the game that they were decimated by a "noob marker".

What I find amazing is that a marker that scared the pants off of every high-end mech owner out there when the R/T kit came out is now considered something the agg kiddies would be ashamed of using on the field. True story, when the RT kit came out, we had a huge group of rec-players that got together and played a big "outlaw" game in Poughkeepsie, NY every sunday. Sometimes we'd have over 100 people show for these things. It was a BYOP deal and the shop I worked for organized them each week at one of several places we played. We'd have paint and air out there for those who wanted it, the only guideline to playing was that you could bring your own stuff, but don't sell it to anyone, that's how we made our money off the game. Anyway. The first weekend someone had an RT out there, it was a whole different ball game. one 12 year old kid with a 98 RT and half a case in pods held off 20 people on the flank by himself. Not even the speedball guys wanted to go in there. It was just a wall of paint as far as we were concerned! Now days, it isn't anything, you can walk an electro as fast as an RT shoots, but back then, and this was just at the turn of the decade, you'd have thought we were against a machine gun emplacement.

[Marauder_Pilot]

There's just something about a nicely kitted-out Tippmann that everybody loves. I mean, every time I see a nice A-5, I want a new one, and I'm building an E-Bolted BT-4 right now as well. I mean, I know that, in terms of a performance-price ratio, Tippmanns are pretty low on the ladder, but still.

Although an E-bolted Tippmann with a Stab can run really well, though. And it's the ultimate sleeper gun, to boot.