On April 18th Battlefront Paintball and ARC Troopers Paintball welcomed a record 470 people and paintball legend Greg Hastings to the 2nd annual World At War. The game pitted 4 seperate armies randomly allied together in an all out fight for domination of the "Oil Island" and the survival of their represented nations. The Australians, the Japanese, the Chinese and the Russians were all represented in fullforce by such teams as Total Resistance, The Cheyenne Dog Soldiers, BioHazard, Lightning, their Tank and many others, not to mention the nasty presence of Battlefronts Mercenary squad the 13th Demi-Brigade this year represented by 1st Strike and Greg Hastings. With over 1 Million paintballs fired throughout the day it was a game for all to remember.

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This spring the ARC Troopers produced our second scenario event at Battlefront Paintball. The World at War featured four teams on the field simultaneously, all competing for the same flags and fighting over gold. Japan was the overall points winner, and Germany held the most flags for the day.

The event was a great success with over 300 scenario paintballlers in attendance. Over one half million paintballs were fired in just 4.5 hours, making for some of the most intense firefights at Battlefront.

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On December 15th and 16th, the ARC Troopers representing the Tattaglia Family at Camp Blanding in Starke, Florida at Billy's Blanding Bash. ARC Troopers were recognized and awarded the Most Valuable Demo award for the Tattaglia family.

ARC Troopers at Billy's Blanding Bash • December 15-16, 2007 The Godfather of Paintball: (Left to Right: Bootman, Goose, Chappy, Ivan)

We had a great turnout and lots of positive comments for this event. The entire team staffed the field as refs and NPC's creating an truly unique experience. Props were placed throughout the field, and players had the chance to become one of many special roles including snipers, combat engineers and medics.

Game Format:
Each team had a General and XO who were responsible for coordinating their forces where the missions called for. Throughout the day, a total of six different missions were assigned to each general. All the missions were timed and located across the entire field. Additionally, each team had a Intel officer who had seperate missions with clues to decipher at each one.

Points Breakdown:
The TET Holiday caught the americans off guard, and they never managed to recover. After all the smoke cleared, the Americans had 8,760 points. The NVA troops were cleary victorious with their impressive 38,530 points. Although the Americans lost on points, it did not stop them from causing serious headaches at the NVA-HQ. An American sniper team managed to score 8 officer eliminations in a row and successfully demo'd the HQ too. The NVA were not as aggresive attacking the American base, but they did manage a sneaky 'execution' at the USA-HQ.

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ARC Troopers led the Americans on the attack. Little resistance was encountered at the first objective and that which was encountered quickly retreated after hearing Booty's new double A-5. Riptide grabbed the key at Heartbreak Ridge and on we went.The second objective was defended moderately and progress slowed as we were funneled into the choke point at Remagen Bridge. With a Skirmish Line stretched across the Skunk Works the enemy emplacements were eventually overwhelmed and Chappy grabbed the second key.After the first two objective had been taken a two pronged attack on the Reichstag began. The germans were stubborn but eventually Riptide grabbed this key and passed them off to Chappy. Forces were rearranged and moved towards the bank.With most of the team low on air and paint, the ARC Troopers helped successfully hold off a flanking force long enough for Chappy to open the bank and end the scenario with just under 20 minutes left on the clock.

ARC Troopers led the German Army across Crab Creek and took the Marine HQ footbridge. After working our way through the first two footbridges, reinforcements arrived at the final bridge just in time to help push the way through into the city. Following a speedy attack on through the city complex, defenders were left outnumbered badly and ARCs own Chaos and Ivan charged the flag station taking advantage of the window of opportunity to end the game quickly.

Utilizing precision artillery assaults, coordinated reinforcements and point defense spearheaded by ARC troopers the Red Army was able to successfully hold ALL 3 Objectives for the whole one and a half hours. Teams broke for lunch and returned on opposite sides.For the swing game it took the Red team only 36 minutes to capture all the objectives, with two in a row falling to the ARCs own Riptide, and the third fell during a charge led by Bootman.

The ARC troopers assumed the role of confused French forces during Operation Torch, trusting allies and cautious enemies didn’t know whether to shoot or stay when French forces appeared on their flanks, turns out they should have shot, because the ARCs assumed control of a key building on the field and caused havoc and destruction to both opposing armies.

Using the strategy concocted by Captain Chappy, and with the assistance of ARC allies, the American Marines successfully defended Wake Island and insured the Japanese Army would not change history that day.

The original 5 man team of ARC troopers goes 3 and 0, and wins the Battlefront hosted portion of the Real Action Scenario tournament series. So began the legacy we know as The ARC Troopers.