Delta Force Paintball

It can be difficult to keep the children entertained throughout the school holidays and especially in middle of February when the weather is never great. To try out something a little different I booked the boys and two of their friends on their first ever paint-balling day at DeltaForce in Billericay. Fortunately the weather held off despite all the rain earlier in the week, however it was very wet and muddy under foot.

I think the boys enjoyed the day and will hopefully be tired after 11 games on the battle field. They all came away with a few souvenir war wounds despite wearing gloves, body armour and camo overalls. Overall the blue team that the boys were on was pretty useless losing most of their games. Despite all the time they have spent on first person tactical shooter games, such as Fortnite and Call of Duty, they seemed to have absolutely zero tactical strategy and also seemed a bit scared of being hit.

Brandon did well in the very first game and managed to grab the flag from the enemy camp. After the 10 main games everyone else had left and the boys still had a little ammunition left, so their instructor let the four of them have a bonus last man standing game which was won by Joshua's mate, Tom. Brandon enjoyed the paint-balling, but I don't think he is too keen to go again as he had a nasty fall in the woods on one game and then in the final game Joshua blatantly shot him in the shoulder when he was out of ammo, raised his hand and was walking off to the safe zone.

Josh, Tom, Ethan and Brandon with their body armour and overalls ready to start battle at DeltaForce. 

The old army helicopter is in the main camp area. 

Masks and a big box of ammo, let the games begin.

The boys masked up and ready, just need a gun.

Practice on the firing range, except Joshua who was aiming at me.

On this game both teams had a bus at opposite ends and had to attack the other team to capture their bus.

Brandon seeking cover behind some barrels.

Josh advancing forward in a very muddy battlefield.

Joshua, Ethan, Brandon and Tom readying up for the next round.

Chilling in the helicopter between rounds.

Captain Brandon. Hopefully this doesn't end like Coby Bryant!

Josh messing around in the helicopter.

In the Zombie church zone the teams had to battle to capture this gruesome looking zombie head from the chapel.

The chapel deep in the woods.

Waiting for the reds to attack instead of pressing (this was the story of the blue's).

Joshua's mate Tom taking cover behind a tree.

On this game I managed to hide out at the top of the castle and view the battle from above.

Brandon covering anyone flanking from the sides.

Another action shot of Brandon.

The battle zones were extremely muddy even though the weather was nice today.

Ready for the final last man standing round, The chap in the yellow top was Nathan who was their Marshall for the day.

Never a good sign to see when walking through the woods!

Brandon battling it out in the final round.

One of the boys darting for cover. I think this is Tom who eventually won the battle.