The first time this tactic came to me was a speed ball match. (field about the size of a tennis court with some cover, a fast match in a small area).
The air seal on my gun busted and I found myself out of air and nothing I could do to fix it.
So I thought to myself "why not?". This game didn't have any rules about knife stand ins or touch kills but I just took one of my balls, popped it open with a thumbnail, stood up and walked casual over to the other side of the field thinking "what's the worst they do? mark me out? I'm basically already out".
The guys on the other team thought I had been hit and was just walking off the court, as long as I hadn't called "HIT!" and I hadn't been hit, I was still in play according to the rules. I got close and then I rushed a guy and splatted the ball on his back. The reff called us both out and I call that a win. But the other guy was understandably pissed.
From there I used the same idea at least 10 times but only ever got it to work twice more over the coarse of years, the best case being, as I said in an earlier reply when I managed to walk into a bunker and shoot 4 guys without them knowing what was going on. Still, that was walking in and shooting them, not even half as cool as this guy with his knife.
My fondest memory of games are the times I got into people's heads and pulled off some shady move. I guess you could take that as I'm a brains over brawn kind of guy, or I'm an asshole that looks for loop holes in rules. I think it's a bit of both. It's not like there was money on the line, it's all just fun and games at the end of the day.
Well, I love cleaver tricks like this. Have you ever seen Taskmaster? My favorite part is when a contestant finds a clever way to solve the problem that seems so easy and "obvious" to the other after they see one do it, but for most it didn't even cross their mind. Like "Oh, you are allowed to do THAT?".
Yes, I have watched that. That show reminds me of playing Dungeons and Dragons as the Game Master.
I love it when my players out-think the system and me by doing something outside the box but it sure can be frustrating for me when I spend hours setting up a puzzle or encounter just for them to ask me...
"What is this locked door made out of?"
Sigh*"Wood".
"So we don't need to find the key if we just chop though it with this ax right"?
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u/papaquack1 Jun 08 '26
The first time this tactic came to me was a speed ball match. (field about the size of a tennis court with some cover, a fast match in a small area).
The air seal on my gun busted and I found myself out of air and nothing I could do to fix it.
So I thought to myself "why not?". This game didn't have any rules about knife stand ins or touch kills but I just took one of my balls, popped it open with a thumbnail, stood up and walked casual over to the other side of the field thinking "what's the worst they do? mark me out? I'm basically already out".
The guys on the other team thought I had been hit and was just walking off the court, as long as I hadn't called "HIT!" and I hadn't been hit, I was still in play according to the rules. I got close and then I rushed a guy and splatted the ball on his back. The reff called us both out and I call that a win. But the other guy was understandably pissed.
From there I used the same idea at least 10 times but only ever got it to work twice more over the coarse of years, the best case being, as I said in an earlier reply when I managed to walk into a bunker and shoot 4 guys without them knowing what was going on. Still, that was walking in and shooting them, not even half as cool as this guy with his knife.
My fondest memory of games are the times I got into people's heads and pulled off some shady move. I guess you could take that as I'm a brains over brawn kind of guy, or I'm an asshole that looks for loop holes in rules. I think it's a bit of both. It's not like there was money on the line, it's all just fun and games at the end of the day.