General Rules
When you are playing airsoft, especially if you are hosting or started the event, you get to make the rules. Keep in mind ridiculous rules will keep players from ever accepting invites from you again, but it’s up to you. There are some general rules that are found pretty much throughout the airsfoting community.
Blind Man
The “blind man” rule is one of extreme importance because it is the safety word for everyone no matter what to stop shooting. The phrase stems from the occurrence of when a civilian without eye protection is walking close to the match, but now covers a plethora of different events depending on who you talk to. In essence though “blind man” means to pause the game.
Honor System
Usually in an airsoft match, especially a casual airsoft match, you aren’t going to be able to have a bunch of referees monitoring players to see if they get hit. Airsoft is by and large based on an honor system in which the victim calls him or herself out. Occasionally there are people who blatantly do not call themselves out and that’s fine because they just won’t get invited back.
Knife Kills
Often times if you are stealthy and your opponent is not you may find yourself sneaking up on his back. In this case it is encouraged that you tap your opponent to signify that he is out so that you don’t have to fire on him at point blank range.
Mercy
Mercy rules are allowing another player to become out without getting shot. This can happen in a variety of way such as their gun breaking, if they trip and fall, or even sometimes if they are in a compromised position and don’t want to get shot.
Specialized Rules
Specialized rules are those that are enacted for a specific type of game that you are playing. These serve to make the airsoft game last longer or to be more challenging.
Medic
The medic is a exciting rule that you establish if you want the game to last longer. While following a “if your shot your out” policy the medic can resurrect the “dead” players so that they can participate in the game again. This can be achieved in a couple of different ways.
- Safe Zone
Safe zones are basically where “dead” people come after they are shot to wait out the game. One of the way you can implement a medic rule is to have a shot players wait a certain amount of time in the safe zone before being allowed to re-enter the game.
- Bandaging
If you want to have a person become the medic then another way to have them resurrect people is the bandage. You can give them a few cloth ties and require a knot be tied around the deceased players arm in order to resurrect them. This makes the medic a highly targeted player in the ensuing match.
Multi Shot Kill
The multi shot kill a rule where you have to be shot X amount of times before you’re dead. This enables players to keep playing even if they get hit by a lucky shot. The advantage is quickly negated when playing with fully automatic weapons.
Types of Game Play
Like we talked about before there are many different types of ways that you can play airsoft. However there are few mainstream types that are more popular than other.
Team Deathmatch
Team Deathmatch is by far the most popular type of airsoft game played. Basically all of the airsofters present separate into two evenly matched teams and then proceed to eliminate each other.
Free For All
Free for all is pretty self-explanatory. Every person for themselves. Kill or be killed. Eat or be eaten. These are usually very short games followed by a longer stint at the end when it’s 1v1.
Capture the Flag
This is a very popular game to play when you have a group of 10 – 15 players. Each team has a flag they can hide and the objective is to capture the opposing team’s flag.
Protect the President
This game follows the idea that one team is a secret service team and the opposing team being terrorists. 1 player, the president, is supposed to be escorted to a zone by the secret service team to win. The terrorists must kill the president before he reaches the zone.
Bomb
Bomb is pretty much the exact opposite of capture the flag. There is a single “bomb” or flag on the field that each team tries to hold. To win they must bring the bomb to the enemies fort to simulate destroying it.
Zombies
The zombie game is really a awesomely fun game. There is a single zombie vs the rest of the players. Any player the zombie eliminates automatically becomes a member of the zombie team. Any zombie eliminated is out of the game for good. Some tweaking to this concept such as zombie invincibility for the first 5 minutes are necessary if your original zombie isn’t very good at getting kills.
Siege
Siege is basically a team deathmatch but with one team holding down a fortified position with the other team assaulting their position. The winning team being whoever holds the fort after a certain amount of time has gone by.
A Disclaimer: Airsoft is a sport that is played all across the world. There isn’t a standard set of rules that I can list here verbatim, however there are a few rules and game types that are pretty common. If there is a certain rule or game type you think should be added by all means leave me a comment.
Photos: These are all pictures that are taken at the Queen Creek Wash(Except the Med Kit). It's a fairly popular place to play airsoft.
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