Well, I got some feedback from some good experienced paintballers from a forum at specialopspaintball.com
I asked about my idea of using sectors. Has anyone tried anything like this before? If so, how did it work?
I got a good answer, and it has changed my plans for sectors.
Instead of dividing the field up into imaginary sectors, you overlay an imaginary football field over the paintball field in your mind. The actual field doesn't need to be one hundred yards long, as long as the fifty yard line is pretty close to the real center. And instead of the yards going like this: 10,20,30,40,50, and back down;l 40, 30, etc. You just keep adding up: 50, 60 , 70, and so on. Your home base is always at the one yard line. Basically you are dividing the field up into hundreths. There probably won't be any need to get anymore specific than five yard marks. Then you just refer to actual areas on the field like this; thirty left, or thirty mid, or thirty right. To get a little more specific you could go with mid-left and mid-right to name in between the middle of the field, and left or right.
So let's say your sniper is up field a ways, and runs into an adversary patrol. A radio exchange between him and his captain would go something like this, " Juliette, Charlie. Three bogies sixty right moving fast your way.
" Juliette copies. Charlie hold your fire. Bravo, and Lima. Set up a hasty ambush at thirty right. Charlie when they are in the trap you close the door on them from behind. "
" Charlie copies "
" Bravo copies "
" Lima copies "
This will be much easier to learn and use than my sector idea. I'm a little bummed cause I really liked my sector idea. But, part of being able to put together a good team is going to be having the ability to recognize when someone else's idea is better than yours, and being humble enough to admit it, and use that better idea.
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