Maps

Gauntlet is a great little field. It’s extremely fast-paced, but has just enough cover to allow you to take a quick breather.

Play this field like you would an airball field… communicate with your teammates, watch the angles, and you should come out on top.

Surrounded by rhododendrons, wooden pallets, and people shooting paintballs at you… what do you do next? Politely ask them to stop. If this doesn’t work, use necessary force (hint: 5 grams @ 280 fps). This map is crawling with surprise and a strong sense of misdirection. Enjoy!

A classic Skirmish paintball field relatively unchanged since the heydays of the Tracer. This field is large and heavily wooded. One side of the field is thick with rhododendron where your only way through is to crawl or enter the maze of deer trails. The other side is open with big hemlock trees to hide behind and a few man made bunkers.

Imagine breaking out of prison, running from tree to tree all the while pondering how long you’re going to make it before you get caught. Jailbreak is kind of like that, but you’re equipped with a paintball gun and all the guards are your friends! Doesn’t that sound way more fun?

Unfortunately, no one can be told what Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself. You won’t be bending time or traveling through separate realities, but you will be running through bunkers that (very) loosely resemble the scrolling text displayed in the movie made famous by the Wachowski brothers.

This map is very similar to cages, but on a smaller, faster-paced scale!

This paintball field is perfect for classic king-of-the-hill style games. With rock foxholes and bunkers, this field is designed for the patient sniper. Make sure you look twice before making your move.

Named after its African counterpart, Congo is a densely wooded map that has a variety of natural cover. Between Rhododendrons, Hemlock trees, and rock bunkers, you’ll always be able to find a place to hide.

While not nearly as vicious as the Australian version, Pennsylvania still has its fair share of extreme wildlife. Butterflies, deer, groundhogs, and swallows are nothing to joke about. I mean, what kind of an animal smells with its feet?! Anyways… you’ll love the many dirt walls made from uprooted trees on this map!

Missile Silo was built and designed by our crazy grounds keeper Mr. Gould. The center flag is the missile on this field and it plays a role in the Invasion of Normandy as well as in several airsoft games. If you’re out by the hood or the pentagon tell your ref you want to change it up a bit and give it a go.

UPDATE: After Hurricane Sandy, several huge trees became uprooted to create some awesome bunkers for the taller players to hide behind!

If all this talk of castle, cargo containers, missile silos and human activity is overwhelming, Skirmish has just the thing. For our purists out there, Brookside is a map covered in nothing but nature. Tall Oak trees, pine saplings, thick underbrush with grass trails through natural clearings; this is for the paintball enthusiast that enjoys the irony of showing off his ghillie suit to others or thrives on the thought of an ambush.

Careful here… these partially uprooted trees provide an incredibly attractive crevasse of darkness, perfectly suited to hide anything that waits within.

Wide open spaces, lots of room to move, and sparse bunkers scattered among an exceptionally silent patch of woods. This map reminds me of the kind of place the headless horseman comes to get away from all the confounded attention he gets from the kids.

Similar to the huge forest in England made popular by the Legend of Robin Hood, this area has been wooded since the end of the Ice Age (according to Wikipedia). Lots of ferns, downed trees, patches of light surrounded by swaths of darkness; Sherwood forest has it all!

The ground is soft here, perfect for sneaking. Sneak up on your friends before they do it to you!

Claustrophobic players find a different map! Renegade is  perfect for those that like crawling through tangled rhododendrons, creeping over streams via downed trees, and shuffling under scraggly pine trees. You never know what you’ll find around that pile of leaves.

Shrouded in mystery, you’ll find yourself asking “Where am I?” on a regular basis. The trees are knotted, the ground is sparse, and the thick forest canopy creates a dark atmosphere to this Skirmish Map.

Although there are few animals at Skirmish Paintball, Coyote Run is one of the few places you might actually see one. The open forest, filled with Oak trees and lack of underbrush creates solid visibility within the woods. You won’t have to worry about an enemy popping up right in front of you on this map!

Don’t let the name scare you, this map is very similar to coyote run and that name didn’t scare you off did it? Open woods, hemlock trees, and clear visibility are perfect for those that enjoy simplicity.

According to the internet, tyranny is a synonym for domination. This is perfect, because on this map a tyrant is what you have to be in order to beat the competition. There are upturned trees, tightly knit rhododendrons, and even a swamp that runs through the middle of it all. Come prepared with your war elephants, your chariots, and your cannons to take control of this thick, terrain-heavy battlefield!

The edge of your seat! This map is full of suspense… suspended leaves, suspended branches, and suspended students that decided to come play paintball instead of sitting in their rooms!

If your fear of feeling alone in the woods doesn’t eliminate you, your more mentally hardened friends will. Crawl from root masses to fern clusters in this especially ground-based map Skirmish has to offer.

Lots of Rhododendrons, lots of forest, and lots of open space, Good Luck is an appropriately named field due to its chaotic nature. You never know where the battle will take place, and it will be different every time.

Who knows, but this is the place to be! Very similar to Far Side, this map has fields of ferns to sneak through and a ton of oak trees, some with strange deformities that are perfect to hide behind!

Now you see it, now you don’t. The enemy will appear and disappear among the knotted roots above the ground. Careful looking away, you might just lose track of the guy with a paintball gun.

The tool that this map is named after is exactly how sharp your senses will need to be in order to win. This dimly lit, half-dead patch of forest will creep you out and make it easy for your enemy to make their move, which means you can’t afford to miss a beat.

Guys… was all this stuff broken before or after you named this map? Anyways, there are plenty of downed trees, broken rocks, and shattered things to hide behind here!

Don’t worry, this field isn’t toxic to your bloodstream; It won’t coagulate your blood or make you nauseous, but it is incredibly green, like venom. Thick Beech Tree forests make it hard to see far distances and diffuse the sunlight to create a brightly lit environment.